Bachelorette
Kirsten Dunst is a control freak executive who reunites with two pals (Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan) for the wedding of a friend (Rebel Wilson) they used to make fun of in high school. The flick is so raunchy, Ms. Dunst won't let her father see it. Says her sex scene partner James Marsden, "It's probably a good idea he doesn't see the movie." (Sept. 6)
The Words
Here's your chance to see the chemistry that sparked the Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana's romance. The hunky actor plays a writer who gains fame after he finds a lost manuscript and has it published as his own. But his ink well of good fortune could run dry when the original author (Jeremy Irons) tracks him down. (Sept. 7)
The Master
After much speculation, director and writer Paul Thomas Anderson finally confirmed Philip Seymour Hoffman's character—a 1950s writer who is also the leader of a spiritual movement—is based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Anderson even screened the pic for his Magnolia star Tom Cruise. That aside, Joaquin Phoenix is actually the film's lead, starring as an alcoholic WWII vet. (Sept. 14)
10 Years
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan reunite for the first time on screen since making Step Up for this all-star ensemble about the highs and lows of a high school reunion. Rounding out the cast are Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Anthony Mackie, Ari Graynor, Aubrey Plaza and more. All hail funny man Chris Pratt for his works as a sometimes hilarious, but sometimes pathetic drunken buffoon. (Sept. 14)
Arbitrage
Richard Gere is already getting Oscar buzz for his work as a New York businessman trying to to save his company from financial collapse while covering up a deadly secret. Susan Sarandon is his lady-who-lunches wife who shows she has a much bigger bite than her hubby could have ever imagined. (Sept. 14)
Perks of Being a Wallflower
In her first major role since Harry Potter, Emma Watson costars alongside Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller in the movie adaptation of the hit coming-of-age novel of the same name. "I feel like it's the perfect transition from Harry Potter to kind of a more adolescent movie," Watson told us earlier this year. "It's a little bit of an older tone. It's darker." And it includes her in skimpy Rocky Horror Picture Show lingerie! (Sept. 21)
End of Watch
In this gritty indie, a drug cartel puts hits out on two young Los Angeles cops (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña). It's a powerful portrait of police life that will make you laugh and cry. Twilight's Anna Kendrick plays Gyllenhaal's girlfriend, but it's the bromance with Peña that will steal your heart. (Sept. 21)
Dredd 3D
Sylvester Stallone first played the comic-book superhero cop in 1995's Judge Dredd, but this time it's Star Trek's Karl Urban wearing the iconic helmet and coming at ya in 3-D. Hopes are high that the new incarnation kicks off—what else?—a Dredd franchise. (Sept. 21)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Before there was Anna Wintour, there was Diana Vreeland. If you loved The Devil Wears Prada and totally died for The September Issue, slip into your fave Louboutins and run to see this remarkable look at the famously eccentric late Harper's Bazaar and Vogue editor. "Style is everything," Vreeland once said. No arguing with that. (Sept. 21)
Looper
Joseph Gordon-Levitt reteams with his Brick director, Rian Johnson for this time-travel thriller about assasins in 2044 called "loopers" who kill people sent to them from the future. Gordon-Levitt is a looper trying to kill his 30-year older self, played by Bruce Willis. Emily Blunt costars as a young mother of a 10-year-old boy with deadly powers. (Sept. 28)
Trouble With the Curve
Directed by longtime Clint Eastwood producer Robert Lorenz, a retiring baseball scout (Eastwood) makes his last trip to find new players with his daughter (Amy Adams) in tow. Justin Timberlake is a fellow scout who's interested in the redheaded beauty. (Sept. 28)
Won't Back Down
Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal play two moms determined to transform their children's failing public school. "It's a film about two women doing the best for their children," Davis tells us. "They won't back down. It's a testament to the power of motherhood and what we do as mothers and what we have to do as mothers." (Sept. 28)
Hotel Transylvania
Adam Sandler plays Dracula in this animated movie with Selena Gomez as Mavis, his teen daughter who, much to his disapproval, is crushing on a human (Andy Samberg). The former Disney darling even sings a song in the movie with Sandler and Samberg. "It's a cute rap pop song," Gomez tells us. (Sept. 28)
Taken 2
CIA assassin Bryan Mills is back! In the first Taken, Mills (Liam Neeson) kicked some serious butt to rescue his daughter (Maggie Grace) from Albanian mobsters. The sequel now finds Mills trying to save his ex-wife (Famke Janssen) after she is taken hostage during a trip to Istanbul by some rather pissed off—you guessed it—Albanians. (Oct. 5)
Butter
We can't believe it's about butter—but it is! Jennifer Garner stars as an ambitious Sarah Palin-esque Iowa woman who battles it out with a young girl in their town's annual butter carving contest. (Oct. 5)
Pitch Perfect
Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow and our new fave funny lady Rebel Wilson star in this musical movie about competitive college a cappella singing. And no, it's not some sort of Glee ripoff. "There are a lot of similarities but we hope that our movie stands on its own when it comes to being about a group of girls that are misfits just trying to get along," Snow tells us. "It's very different." (Oct. 5)
Frankenweenie
The name of the movie alone has us giggling. Winona Ryder reteams with her Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands director Tim Burton for this animated comedy about a young boy who brings his dog back to life. (Oct. 5)
The Paperboy
Yes, this is the movie that has Nicole Kidman peeing on Zac Efron. But it's a lot more than that. Kidman is a small town floozy who charms a journalist (Matthew McConaughey) and his brother (Efron) to help get her prison pen pal (John Cusack) off death row. "The Paperboy is fun," says director Lee Daniels. "It's an erotic thriller who-done-it." (Oct. 5)
Argo
It's the movie that has everyone talking about Ben Affleck's hair. The Oscar winner not only directs, but also stars in this drama about the real-life, but little known, story of a CIA operation to free six Americans trapped in Iran in the 1970s. Affleck heads up the mission, which includes staging the filming of a fake movie in the Middle East. (Oct. 12)
Seven Psychopaths
Colin Farrell is a struggling screenwriter who finds himself in trouble when his best friend (Sam Rockwell) kidnaps a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) Shih Tzu—yes, as in the small fluffy dog. Directed by Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh, the film also includes Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish and Precious star Gabourey Sidibe. (Oct. 12)
Alex Cross
Matthew Fox never looked so, well, absolutely terrifying in this crime thriller about a detective (Tyler Perry) on the hunt for a sadistic assassin (yes, that would be Fox). The big question is if audiences will accept Perry in a non-Madea role that Morgan Freeman originated in movies like Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls. (Oct. 19)
Killing Them Softly
The adaptation of George V. Higgins' 1974 novel Cogan's Trade stars Brad Pitt as an enforcer looking into a heist that takes place during a mob-controlled poker game. Pitt's The Assassination of Jesse James director Andrew Dominik directs with a cast that also includes James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins and Ray Liotta. (Oct. 19)
The Sessions
It's the true story of Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes), a poet paralyzed from the neck down who hired a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity after getting the go-ahead from his priest (William H. Macy). O'Brien spent most of his life breathing with the support of an iron lung before dieing at age 49 in 1999. Get ready to see a lot of of this cast come awards season. (Oct. 26)
Fun Size
Victoria Justice stars as a high school student who has to babysit her young brother on the same night she's supposed to go to her crush's Halloween party. Directed by Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz, the comedy also includes E!'s own Chelsea Handler, Johnny Knoxville and Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer. (Oct. 26)