Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons website and some internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in October:
Gravity
Opens: October 4
The story follows brilliant medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) on her first shuttle mission, along with a veteran astronaut (George Clooney). The pair are the sole survivors when debris destroys their space station. Their only chance of survival is to reach rescue before they run out of air. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong, with one left alone and having to essentially hopscotch from satellites to vessels to floating debris – all the time facing hazards of all sorts.
Runner, Runner
Opens: October 4
Singer turned actor Justin Timberlake stars as a Princeton student cheated of his tuition money by playing online poker. He flies to Costa Rica in the hope of reclaiming his losses from the site’s billionaire owner (Ben Affleck). Unexpectedly he ends up becoming the deceptive and corrupt CEO’s right-hand man. At the same time, an FBI agent (Anthony Mackie from The Hurt Locker) sees the student’s proximity as a way into the world of this criminal CEO whom he has spent years trying to bring down. The cast includes Gemma Arterton (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Sam Palladio (Nashville).
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Opens: October 4
The four stories in this sequel takes place before, during and after events in the first film. In “A Dame to Kill For”, Dwight (Josh Brolin) is called by his former lover, Ava Lord, who wants his help to escape her abusive billionaire husband. “Just Another Saturday Night” has Marv (Mickey Rourke) awakening on a highway overlooking the Projects and surrounded by dead young guys. “The Long Bad Night” is an original story about a cocky gambler (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) out to destroy the town’s biggest villain, and a currently untitled story picks up after “That Yellow Bastard”, following Jessica Alba’s Nancy. The cast includes Bruce Willis, Jamie Chung, Dennis Haysbert, Rosario Dawson, Ray Liotta, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven and Juno Temple.
Captain Phillips
Opens: October 11
While it was the sixth vessel in a week to be attacked by the Somali pirates that roam the Gulf of Aden, the takeover of the Maersk Alabama was the first successful pirate seizure of a ship registered under the American flag since the early 19th century. Using Captain Richard Phillips’ memoir “A Captain’s Duty” as the basis for the script, the film deals with the tense five-day stand-off between the four armed invaders and the crew, a stand-off that saw Phillips offer himself as hostage in exchange for the safety of his crew. Ultimately a daring high-seas rescue saw U.S. Navy SEALs take down three of the captors. The cast includes Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini and Chris Mulkey.
Oldboy
Opens: October 11
An advertising executive (Josh Brolin) is kidnapped and held hostage for over a decade in solitary confinement without any indication of his captor’s motive. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover just who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment, only to learn he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. His quest leads him into an ill-fated relationship with a young social worker (Elizabeth Olsen) and an elusive man (Sharlto Copley) who allegedly holds the key to his salvation. The cast also includes Samuel L. Jackson
Romeo and Juliet
Opens: October 11
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) takes on the female lead in the Shakespearean adaptation with Douglas Booth in the male lead. The cast includes Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl), Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
12 Years a Slave
Opens: October 18
Set in the mid-19th century, the film tells the true story of New Yorker Solomon Northrup
(Chiwetel Ejiofor), a married and educated free black man living in New York when two men approach him with a job offer in Washington. When he shows up in D.C., he is kidnapped and put in a slave pen, paving the way to his grueling life under numerous owners. Northup secures his freedom when a white carpenter from Canada smuggles out letters to Northup’s wife. She contacts a lawyer (Brad Pitt) who initiated legal proceedings that saw him set free. The cast includes Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Garret Dillahunt, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard and Quvenzhane Wallis.
Carrie
Opens: October 18
Actress Chloe Moretz takes on the title role of the classic novel by Stephen King with Julianne Moore as her mother, telling the story of a sheltered high school girl with an abusive fundamentalist mother. The cast includes Judy Greer and Portia Doubleday.
Escape Plan
Opens: October 18
Sylvester Stallone plays Ray Breslin, a well-regarded structural engineer who has designed numerous high-tech buildings. Wrongly convicted of a crime, he is sent to serve out his sentence in an escape-proof maximum security prison of his own design. He now faces the challenge of breaking out with the help of his cell mate, the complicated Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger). The cast includes Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest) as the ruthless warden, Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) as the prison’s deputy director, Vinnie Jones (The Cape) as a corrupt guard, rapper-turned-actor Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson as a cybercriminal who plans to escape with the other two, Sam Neill (Alcatraz) as the prison’s sympathetic doctor, and Amy Ryan as Stallone’s business partner and potential love interest.
Movies coming out in November will be posted at the end of October.
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