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Summer isn\u2019t over quite yet\u2014but with the Venice Film Festival just around the corner, we\u2019re already thinking ahead to the biggest and most exciting movies that will debut this fall. Our list includes a little bit of everything, from high-concept horror to 2025\u2019s most likely best-picture contenders\u2014including new work from Oscar favorites like Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos, James Cameron, Paul Thomas Anderson,<\/strong> and Kathryn Bigelow<\/strong>. Kelly Reichardt<\/strong> has a new movie! So does Noah Baumbach<\/strong>! Richard Linklater,<\/strong> bless him, has two<\/em>! Read on for a full preview of the best cinemas have to offer this fall, including our most anticipated movies being released from Labor Day to December 31.<\/p>\n Premiere Date:<\/strong> September 12 Those mourning the end of The Gilded Age<\/em>\u2019s most recent season<\/a> won\u2019t have to stagger on, lost and abandoned, without Julian Fellowes<\/strong>\u2019s particular brand of prim social drama for too long. He\u2019s jumped back across the pond to write one final film, closing out the Downton Abbey<\/em> saga that began with the TV series\u2019s premiere 15 years ago. We can expect some minor scandal to ripple through the lords and ladies of upstairs society, while quainter matters occupy those toiling away in the kitchens and sculleries downstairs. There will be corny jokes (dearly departed Maggie Smith<\/a> will be missed on that front) and cozy sentiment, and it will all feel good and silly. We\u2019ll maybe even cry a bit. Y\u2019know, Downton<\/em> stuff. We can\u2019t wait. \u2014Richard Lawson<\/em><\/p>\n Premiere Date:<\/strong> September 12 \u201cI was writing a kind of a brutal thing. It was hopeless, and just what you write when you\u2019re 19 years old, man,\u201d says Stephen King<\/strong> of this film\u2019s source material, the very first novel he ever wrote. As Anthony Breznican<\/strong> noted in his first look at the film<\/a>, King started the novel when American men were being killed in the Vietnam War at a rapid clip. Today, the story\u2014about a group of young men who sign up for an endless marathon in hopes of winning untold riches and the fulfillment of a single wish\u2014has a different resonance. \u201cIt\u2019s a metaphor for any sort of hard thing you\u2019re going through, whether it\u2019s depression or anxiety or heartbreak or whatever,\u201d Hoffman tells Breznican. \u201cSometimes in life, you want to stop walking, and that\u2019s a really dark thought. But the second you acknowledge that and come to terms with it\u2014and then<\/em> keep going\u2014that\u2019s a really beautiful thing.\u201d \u2014Hillary Busis<\/em><\/p>\n Premiere Date:<\/strong> September 12 Mescal, O\u2019Connor, and Hermanus had to wait years to make this swoony drama\u2014which all three signed on for before Mescal and O\u2019Connor became movie stars, thanks to Aftersun<\/em> (which also earned Mescal an Oscar nomination) and Gladiator II<\/em> in the former\u2019s case, and Challengers<\/em> in the latter\u2019s. The movie follows Mescal\u2019s Lionel and O\u2019Connor\u2019s David, a pair of music conservatory students in the 19-teens who find themselves embroiled in a passionate romance. \u201cDavid is vocal, David has ideas, David is wealthy. And Lionel is kind of just being overwhelmed by this person, but in a very slow-drip way\u2014taking a long time to quantify the impact of this moment in his life and this relationship,\u201d Hermanus told David Canfield<\/strong> for VF<\/em>\u2019s first look at the film<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s just relatable to me, I guess. We all have people who define us, but we don\u2019t realize they defined us until it\u2019s too late.\u201d \u2014HB<\/em><\/p>\n Premiere Date:<\/strong> September 19 That\u2019s a very all-over-the-place cast list, making for a film that\u2019s even more interest-piquing when you learn it\u2019s produced by Jordan Peele<\/strong>\u2014but not directed by him, even if the one-word title and creepy premise seems to align the film with Peele\u2019s features Us<\/em> and Nope<\/em>. This horror tale is set in the world of professional sports (its original title was GOAT<\/em>) and directed by TV vet Justin<\/strong> Tipping.<\/strong> Wayans plays an aging NFL quarterback; Withers is his perhaps unwitting prot\u00e9g\u00e9. \u2014HB<\/em><\/p>\n Premiere Date:<\/strong> September 19 A lot of people you\u2019ve heard of are involved in the Bourne<\/em> series director\u2019s latest project: it\u2019s also produced by Jamie Lee Curtis<\/strong> and Jason Blum<\/strong>, and written by Greengrass and Mare of Easttown<\/em> scribe Brad Ingelsby<\/strong>. Most of them also feel a close connection to the story, which is based on Washington Post<\/em> writer Lizzie Johnson<\/strong>\u2019s book about the deadly 2018 Camp Fire. Greengrass told Rebecca Ford<\/strong> about editing the film as new fires swept through Los Angeles: \u201cIt was distressing,\u201d he said in VF<\/em>\u2019s first look at the film<\/a>. \u201cWe were looking at what we’d created, and then seeing what was going on, and they were the same images, really.\u201d \u2014HB<\/em><\/p>\nDownton Abbey: The Grand Finale<\/em><\/h2>\n
Director:<\/strong> Simon Curtis
Noteworthy Cast:<\/strong> Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Paul Giamatti<\/p>\nThe Long Walk<\/em><\/h2>\n
Director:<\/strong> Francis Lawrence
Noteworthy Cast:<\/strong> Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Judy Greer, Mark Hamill<\/p>\nThe History of Sound<\/em><\/h2>\n
Director:<\/strong> Oliver Hermanus
Noteworthy Cast:<\/strong> Paul Mescal, Josh O\u2019Connor, Chris Cooper<\/p>\nHim<\/em><\/h2>\n
Director:<\/strong> Justin Tipping
Noteworthy Cast:<\/strong> Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker<\/p>\nThe Lost Bus<\/em><\/h2>\n
Director:<\/strong> Paul Greengrass
Noteworthy Cast:<\/strong> Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera<\/p>\nOne Battle After Another<\/em><\/h2>\n