Entertainment Weekly has unveiled their “Fall Movies We Can’t Wait To See” photo feature and of course it comes with a plethora of new images and first looks at the films under that umbrella.
First up is Spike Jonze’s much-anticipated “Where The Wild Things Are” with a look at lead Max (coincidentally played by Max Records) with two of the titular Wild Things and Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones” with Saoirse Ronan who plays protagonist Susie Salmon. Both recently saw the release of new trailers in the form of the Karen O backed trailer for ‘Wild Things’ and the debut trailer of Jackson’s ‘Bones’ which gave us our first look at the film including the ‘in-between’ world shown here with Ronan.
Next up is one of the first looks at Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The film is set to debut at this year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and is sure to stir up controversy with its look at the global economic crisis between the Bush and Obama’s administrations. Along with that is a glimpse at Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley and Mark Ruffalo in what is a supernatural and psychological thriller.
Also featured in the preview is a double dose of Penelope Cruz. The Spanish actress will be seen in both Pedro Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces” and Rob Marshall’s re-envisioning of Federico Fellini’s “8 ½,” “Nine.” “Nine” in particular features a stellar cast with the likes of Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Stacey Ferguson, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren and Daniel Day-Lewis and is expected to fare heavily during awards season.
The preview also exhibits the likes of Ruben Fleischer’s “Zombieland” featuring a banjo-carrying, zombie-killing Woody Harrelson; Karyn Kusama’s “Jennifer’s Body” with a temporarily-studious Megan Fox and her bookworm best friend played by Amanda Seyfried; and Robert Zemeckis’ “A Christmas Carol” with a CGI-Jim Carrey in one of his 142 (we’re exaggerating) roles in the film.
Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams also make an appearance in the feature as the titular detective and his female match, Irene Adler, in Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes,” — also starring Jude Law — along with the trio of Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman and Vince Vaughn in their ensemble relationship comedy “Couples Retreat” co-starring too many names to mention.
Last and definitely least, we have Roland Emmerich’s “2012” featuring the first look at Woody Harrelson as some sort of monk or prophet looking intense with John Cusack’s protagonist as they are presumably figuring out how to end the apocalypse. And then we have some film called “New Moon” that Kristen Stewart completed before “The Runaways.”