Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons site and internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in October.
Butter
Opens: October 5
Jennifer Garner stars as a small-town, conservative Iowan housewife hell-bent on keeping an adopted young orphan (Yara Shahidi) from winning gold at a Midwestern butter-sculpting competition. The cast includes Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Alicia Silverstone and Rod Corddry.
Frankenweenie
Opens: October 5
This 3D stop motion animated film comes from Tim Burton and pays homage to “Frankenstein” and 1950’s suburbia. It follows a boy who loses his dog and uses the power of science to bring it back to life. Voices will be provided by Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Landau and Martin Short.
Pitch Perfect
Opens: October 5
This is a comedy set in the competitive world of college a cappella singing, focusing on a lackluster all-female group. The cast includes Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp and Elizabeth Banks.
Taken 2
Opens: October 5
Liam Neeson returns as retired CIA operative Bryan Mills in a story set in Istanbul where Mills and his wife (Famke Janssen) are taken hostage by the father of Marko Hoxha, the man whom Bryan left to die in a makeshift electric chair in the original film. The cast includes Maggie Grace, Rade Serbedzija and Luke Grimes.
Argo
Opens: October 12
This true story looks at the plan by the CIA to rescue six U.S. diplomats held hostage at their embassy in Iran in 1979 by convincing officials they were members of a camera crew scouting the area for a Hollywood movie. The cast includes Ben Affleck, Clea DuVall, John Goodman and Alan Arkin.
Here Comes the Boom
Opens: October 12
Kevin James plays a high school biology teacher who moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to save the school’s music program. The cast includes Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg Germann and Reggie Lee.
Alex Cross
Opens: October 19
In this outing, Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) is now retired from the FBI but is drawn back in to find a killer only to learn it may be the same man responsible for the murder of his wife 12 years ago. The cast includes Matthew Fox, Edward Burns, Rachel Nichols and Jean Reno.
Chasing Mavericks
Opens: October 26
This biopic is about American surfing legend Jay Moriarty, a young Santa Cruz surfer who famously conquered a stretch of treacherous Northern California waves, but later perished in a free-diving accident in the Maldives one day before he was to turn twenty-three. Gerard Butler will play Rick ‘Frosty’ Hesson, a fellow surfing legend and mentor character to the young man. The cast includes Jonny Weston, Elisabeth Shue, Leven Rambin and Abigail Spencer.
Cloud Atlas
Opens: October 26
Based on the six interwoven tales in the 2004 David Mitchell novel, the film explores the consequences of courage and betrayals across continents, time periods and genres. The cast includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, Keith David, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant.
Fun Size
October 26
Victoria Justice plays a whip-smart teen girl who accidentally loses her oddball little brother after being forced to take him out for trick-or-treating on Halloween. The cast includes Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler, Jane Levy and Josh Pence.
The Big Wedding
Opens: October 26
This comedy is about a long-divorced couple (Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton) who fake being still married when their family unites for a wedding of their adopted son (Ben Barnes). The cast includes Amanda Seyfried, Robin Williams and Katherine Heigl.
Movies coming out in November will be posted at the end of October.
Enjoy!
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