The blockbuster summer may still be in full swing with the likes of Wall-E, The Dark Knight and Hellboy II:The Golden Army still to come but it's time to look a little bit further forward to see what we will be watching this Autumn.
And there is a real mixture of big budget blockbusters, Geek Chic, comedy, animation and the new film from the newly crowed Best Director at the Oscars the Coen brothers.
Quantum of Solace
Bond 22, which sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as 007, is one of the most anticipated movies of the autumn and is directed by The Kite Runner and Finding Neverland filmmaker Marc Foster.
The film picks up where Casino Royale left off betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate Mr White (Jesper Christensen) who reveals the organisation which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Forensic intelligence links an MI6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a woman who has her own vendetta.
Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a ruthless business man and major force within the mysterious organisation.
On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world’s most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio).
Using his associates in the organisation, and manipulating his powerful contacts within the CIA and the British government, Greene promises to overthrow the existing regime in a Latin American country, giving the General control of the country in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land.
In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel Greene’s sinister plan and stop his organisation.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Mathieu Amalric.
View 007 images.
Quantum of Solace is released October 31.
House of Lies
House of Lies, based on the novel Body of Lies, sees Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe team up for the second time after The Quick and the Dead as well as reuniting Crowe with director Ridley Scott.
Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.
When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe) and the collegial, but perhaps suspect, head of Jordanian intelligence.
Although ostensibly his allies, Ferris questions how far he can really trust these men without putting his entire operation - and his life - on the line.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Carice Van Houten, Vince Colosimo
House of Lies is released October 10.
Eagle Eye
Shia LaBeouf is the current king of Hollywood with hits under his belt such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Transformers in October he returns with Eagle Eye as he reunites with "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso.
LaBeouf is in the role of a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously.
When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother, who's child is missing, find they have been framed as terrorists.
They must work together to extricate themselves while being led by a mysterious voice of a mysterious woman they have never met,.
But who seems to know their every move. By the time they discover her frightening identity, they have become her unwitting accomplices in a diabolical assassination plot.
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Azizi, Anthony Mackie, Lynn Cohen
View the first look Eagle Eye images.
Eagle Eye is released October 17
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
All the loveable characters are back -- Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins -- in "Madagascar: The Crate Escape."
Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane -- sort of.
Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all -- the vast plains of Africa itself -- where our zoo-raised crew encounters species of their own kind for the very first time. While discovering their roots, they quickly realize the differences between the concrete jungle and the heart of Africa.
Despite long-lost relatives, romantic rivals and scheming hunters, Africa seems like a "crack-a-lackin" great place...but is it better than their Central Park home?
Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is released December 5
Pineapple Express
The success of the Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow partnership, which brought up Superbad and Knocked Up, took a bit of a knock with Drillbit Taylor but the pair return to work together on new Geek Chic flick Pineapple Express.
Dale Denton (Seth Rogen is a process server who buys marijuana from a drug dealer named Saul (James Franco) because Saul sells him a new type of pot known as "Pineapple Express.
Saul wants to be close friends with Dale, but Dale is only interested in purchasing weed from him.
But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him.
Dale and Saul go on the run from the gangsters and discover that sometimes the motivation you need to make something of your life is a mob of fugitives hunting you down.
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Rosie Perez, Gary Cole.
The Pineapple Express is released 5th September
In part two of Autumn preview the boy wizard is back, and Pitt and Clooney reunite in the Coen Brother's new picture Burn After Reading.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
The blockbuster summer may still be in full swing with the likes of Wall-E, The Dark Knight and Hellboy II:The Golden Army still to come but it's time to look a little bit further forward to see what we will be watching this Autumn.
And there is a real mixture of big budget blockbusters, Geek Chic, comedy, animation and the new film from the newly crowed Best Director at the Oscars the Coen brothers.
Quantum of Solace
Bond 22, which sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as 007, is one of the most anticipated movies of the autumn and is directed by The Kite Runner and Finding Neverland filmmaker Marc Foster.
The film picks up where Casino Royale left off betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate Mr White (Jesper Christensen) who reveals the organisation which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Forensic intelligence links an MI6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a woman who has her own vendetta.
Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a ruthless business man and major force within the mysterious organisation.
On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world’s most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio).
Using his associates in the organisation, and manipulating his powerful contacts within the CIA and the British government, Greene promises to overthrow the existing regime in a Latin American country, giving the General control of the country in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land.
In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel Greene’s sinister plan and stop his organisation.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Mathieu Amalric.
View 007 images.
Quantum of Solace is released October 31.
House of Lies
House of Lies, based on the novel Body of Lies, sees Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe team up for the second time after The Quick and the Dead as well as reuniting Crowe with director Ridley Scott.
Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.
When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe) and the collegial, but perhaps suspect, head of Jordanian intelligence.
Although ostensibly his allies, Ferris questions how far he can really trust these men without putting his entire operation - and his life - on the line.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Carice Van Houten, Vince Colosimo
House of Lies is released October 10.
Eagle Eye
Shia LaBeouf is the current king of Hollywood with hits under his belt such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Transformers in October he returns with Eagle Eye as he reunites with "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso.
LaBeouf is in the role of a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously.
When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother, who's child is missing, find they have been framed as terrorists.
They must work together to extricate themselves while being led by a mysterious voice of a mysterious woman they have never met,.
But who seems to know their every move. By the time they discover her frightening identity, they have become her unwitting accomplices in a diabolical assassination plot.
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Azizi, Anthony Mackie, Lynn Cohen