In the second part of our Autumn preview we look at the new Harry Potter movie as well as Tropic Thunder, the new comedy from Ben Stiller and Simon Pegg's return to the big screen.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Along with 007 Harry Potter is also the other big film that many will be looking forward to this autumn as the boy wizard moves into his sixth year in Hogwarts.
Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was.
Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching.
Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defences and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information.
Meanwhile, the students are under attack from a very different adversary as teenage hormones rage across the ramparts.
Harry finds himself more and more drawn to Ginny, but so is Dean Thomas. And Lavender Brown has decided that Ron is the one for her, only she hadn't counted on Romilda Vane's chocolates! And then there's Hermione, simmering] with jealousy but determined not to show her feelings.
As romance blossoms, one student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one. Love is in the air, but tragedy lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Julie Walters
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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is released November 21
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People sees funnyman Simon Pegg return to the silver screen and with the likes of Jeff Bridges on the cast list he has some big named company.
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour.
His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock!
It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe.
Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges
How to lose Friends and Alienate People is released October 3
Tropic Thunder
Comedy Tropic Thunder sees Ben Stiller return to the other side of the camera as well as penning the script and starring in the film. He has brought together an impressive comic cast of Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr and Steve Coogan.
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Ben Stiller says "Tropic Thunder" is a "a comedy about five actors who go on location and find themselves relying on their boot camp experiences when they get stuck in a real war-like situation."
Black will play Jeff "Fats" Portnoy, an overweight gross-out comedian, who's forced to kick his drug addiction while filming on location in the jungle. Downey Jr. will play Kirk Lazarus, the greatest actor of his generation and a four-time Oscar winner.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader.
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Tropic Thunder is released September 19
City of Ember
After her breakthrough role in Joe Wright's Atonement, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination, Saoirse Ronan returns to the big screen this Autumn with City of Ember.
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights.
But Ember's once powerful generator is failing... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.
Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.
Starring: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Toby Jones.
City of Ember is released October 10.
Burn After Reading
Burn After Reading is the first picture from the Coen Brother after their multi Oscar success of No Country for Old Men which re-unites George Clooney and Brad Pitt on the big screen.
Ozzie Cox (John Malkovich), a CIA vet, writes a damning memoir after being fired for being an alcoholic.
Cox's soon-to-be ex-wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) steals the disc containing his memoirs and accidentally leaves it at the gym where it is found by a trainer, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) and the gym's owner, Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand).
The believe that they can make money from the disc by blackmailing Cox.
Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) is an oversexed, fanatically fit, lactose-intolerant federal marshal who is sleeping with Cox's wife.
He meets Linda at an online dating service and becomes involved in the blackmail plot.
This is the first film from the Coen brothers since their Oscar winning No Country for Old Men and with reunite them with George Clooney for the first time since O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Starring: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand.
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Burn After Reading is released 17th October
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In the second part of our Autumn preview we look at the new Harry Potter movie as well as Tropic Thunder, the new comedy from Ben Stiller and Simon Pegg's return to the big screen.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Along with 007 Harry Potter is also the other big film that many will be looking forward to this autumn as the boy wizard moves into his sixth year in Hogwarts.
Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was.
Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching.
Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defences and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information.
Meanwhile, the students are under attack from a very different adversary as teenage hormones rage across the ramparts.
Harry finds himself more and more drawn to Ginny, but so is Dean Thomas. And Lavender Brown has decided that Ron is the one for her, only she hadn't counted on Romilda Vane's chocolates! And then there's Hermione, simmering] with jealousy but determined not to show her feelings.
As romance blossoms, one student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one. Love is in the air, but tragedy lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Julie Walters
View the first Harry Potter and the Half Blood Princeimages
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is released November 21
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People sees funnyman Simon Pegg return to the silver screen and with the likes of Jeff Bridges on the cast list he has some big named company.
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour.
His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock!
It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe.
Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges
How to lose Friends and Alienate People is released October 3
Tropic Thunder
Comedy Tropic Thunder sees Ben Stiller return to the other side of the camera as well as penning the script and starring in the film. He has brought together an impressive comic cast of Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr and Steve Coogan.
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Ben Stiller says "Tropic Thunder" is a "a comedy about five actors who go on location and find themselves relying on their boot camp experiences when they get stuck in a real war-like situation."
Black will play Jeff "Fats" Portnoy, an overweight gross-out comedian, who's forced to kick his drug addiction while filming on location in the jungle. Downey Jr. will play Kirk Lazarus, the greatest actor of his generation and a four-time Oscar winner.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader.
View the Tropic Thunder images.
Tropic Thunder is released September 19
City of Ember
After her breakthrough role in Joe Wright's Atonement, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination, Saoirse Ronan returns to the big screen this Autumn with City of Ember.