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 movie theatres in October:
Dirty Girl
Opens: October 7
Danielle (Juno Temple) is a troubled and promiscuous Oklahoma high school student in the 1980s. She argues with her mother (Milla Jovovich) who is about to marry a Mormon, and amidst the chaos she befriends Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), a shy, gay classmate. Together they flee in Clarke’s homophobic father’s car and embark on a road trip to Los Angeles, where Danielle expects to find her birth father.
Ides of March
Opens: October 7
The film is about an idealistic young media strategist working for a governor who is the rising Democratic star battling for his party’s Presidential nomination. The cast includes Ryan Gosling, George Clooney (who also directed the film), Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti.
Johnny English Reborn
Opens: October 7
Johnny English, a clumsy British MI7 Special Agent, becomes embroiled in a plot by a band of assassins to kill the Chinese Premier. The cast includes Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Gillian Anderson, Dominic West and Rosamund Pike.
Real Steel
Opens: October 7
A near future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centering on a struggling promoter (Jackman) who thinks he’s found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an eleven-year-old son who wants to know his father. The cast includes Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Kevin Durand, Anthony Mackie and Hope Davis.
Wanderlust
Opens: October 7
After an urban couple purchases a place in New York, the husband loses his job. With no other options, the couple leaves for Georgia to live with family. Along the way, they stay at a bed and breakfast hotel that turns out to be a hippie commune. The film stars Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston.
Footloose
Opens: October 14
A remake of the 1984 movie in which a rebellious teenager moves into a town where dancing has been banned. The film stars Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid and Miles Teller.
The Big Year
Opens: October 14
Based on the award-winning non-fiction book by Mark Obmascik the film chronicles an annual contest in which bird-watchers travel across North America for 12 months to attempt to spot the greatest number of rare birds. The cast includes Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin.
The Thing
Opens: October 14
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd and her two aides join a Norwegian scientific team in the Antarctic that has stumbled across a crashed alien spaceship. When an experiment frees one of the beings from its frozen prison, a being with the ability to perfectly mimic any life form it touches, they must stop it reaching civilization. The cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and Eric Christian Olsen.
Father of Invention
Opens: October 21
Millionaire infomercial guru, Robert Axle (Kevin Spacey) loses everything when one of his inventions has a design flaw that accidentally chops off the fingers of thousands of customers. After serving eight years in prison, a disgraced Axle is released, and ready to redeem his name and rebuild his empire with a new innovation.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Opens: October 21
All four names belong to one girl (Elizabeth Olsen). She is Marcy May to fellow members of her religious cult; she’s Marlene to prying outsiders and she’s Martha to her estranged sister (Sarah Paulson) who helps her re-enter normal life after she leaves the “family”.
The Three Musketeers
Opens: October 21
The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) along with three formerly legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers (Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans and Christoph Waltz) must unite and prevent a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war. The film co-stars Milla Jovovich and Orlando Bloom.
Anonymous
Opens: October 28
This film claims that Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans), the Earl of Oxford, was the actual author of the stories by William Shakespeare and that he was the center of a power struggle within Queen Elizabeth’s court. The cast includes Vanessa Redgrave and David Thewlis.
In Time
Opens: October 28
In a future where aging has stopped and people must pay to stay alive, a man is accused of murder when he inherits a fortune and he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage in tow. The film stars Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde and Matthew Bomer.
Like Crazy
Opens: October 28
This is a love story about a London girl (Felicity Jones) and an LA guy (Anton Yelchin) who fall madly for each other in college, then try to sustain that passion on opposite sides of the world despite work, immigration law and their own misplaced hesitation. The film also stars Jennifer Lawrence.
The Rum Diary
Opens: October 28
Johnny Depp stars in the tale about an expat American newspaperman down and out in Puerto Rico. The film also stars Amber Heard and Aaron Eckhart.
NOTE: Any of the opening dates for the above movies can be changed at the last minute so please check your local theatres for confirmation.
Movies coming out in November will be posted at the end of October.
Enjoy!
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