COMING SOON: The Oscar Slate (lots of new trailers!)

Well, we are over the hump of the summer movies and now we get down to the "nitty-gritty". It's Oscar season and with the 10-nominee format it's as busy as ever. Just to illustrate how important the timing of movies is, "Wall Street 2" was all set to be released in April, but after it got good reviews at Cannes, it got moved to September. I've already seen 2 of the big players (Toy Story 3 and Inception) and they are looking pretty solid. Also, "The Kids Are All Right" and Winter's Bone have already opened to rave reviews. Still not convinced Shutter Island will make the cut, but it's also one to watch Here's the full smorgasbord of what's to come in the following months(in order of release date):

THE TOWN (Sep 10)

Director: Ben Affleck
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Chris Cooper
Plot: As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.

NEVER LET ME GO (Sep 15)

Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins
Plot: As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school.

LET ME IN (Oct 1)

Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Plot: A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (Oct 1)

Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield
Plot: A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook

HEREAFTER (Oct 22)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr
Plot: A supernatural thriller centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways

WELCOME TO THE RILEYS (Oct 29)

Director: Jake Scott
Starring: Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo
Plot: On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.

127 HOURS (Nov 5)

Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Treat Williams
Plot: A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive

FAIR GAME (Nov 5)

Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Ty Burrell
Plot: Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: Part 1 (Nov 19)

Director: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Plot: Voldemort's power is growing stronger.

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS (Nov 24)

Director: Ed Zwick
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Judy Greer
Plot: Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down.

THE KING'S SPEECH (Nov 26)

Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
Plot: Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II.

BLACK SWAN (Dec 1)

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Mila Kunis
Plot: A thriller that hones in on the relationship between a veteran ballet dancer and a rival

THE FIGHTER (Dec 10)

Director: David O'Russell
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams
Plot: A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

THE TEMPEST (Dec 10)

Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Cooper
Plot: In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the gender of Prospero has been switched to Prospera.

THE TOURIST (Dec 10)

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany
Plot: Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart

RABBIT HOLE (Dec 17)

Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhard, Sandra Oh
Plot: Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident

SOMEWHERE (Dec 22)

Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Elle Fanning, Stephen Dorff, Benicio Del Toro
Plot: A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

TRUE GRIT (Dec 25)

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin
Plot: A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer

BIUTIFUL (Dec 29)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib
Plot: This is a story of a man in free fall

BLUE VALENTINE (Dec 31)

Director: Derek Cianfrance
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel
Plot: The film centers on a contempo married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods

ANOTHER YEAR (Dec 31)

Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen
Plot: A bittersweet salute to the pleasures and the terrors of late middle age.

THE WAY BACK (No Release Date)

Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Ed Harris
Plot: A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940

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