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HOLY MOTORS<br />
AN AUTEUR RESTARTS HIS ENGINE<br />
Leos Carax made the mini masterpiece The<br />
Lovers on the Bridge, and all of French film<br />
bowed and gave him nicknames like “L’enfant<br />
terrible,” a moniker not given lightly. But then<br />
he followed it up with the underwhelming<br />
Pola X and was just as quickly cast aside as a<br />
lesser talent—a flash in the pan. Holy Motors<br />
isn’t his first film after Pola, but it is his first<br />
highly praised one. A Cannes Palme d’Or winner<br />
with an unlikely but impressive cast that<br />
includes pop star Kylie Minogue, this tricky<br />
drama about parallel lives is precisely the sort<br />
of provocation that’ll get the world chanting<br />
“Carax”—or at least get more people pronouncing<br />
it right.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Indomina CAST Denis Lavant,<br />
Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue,<br />
Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Disson DIRECTOR/<br />
SCREENWRITER Leos Carax PRODUCERS<br />
Maurice Tinchant, Albert Prévost, Martine<br />
Marignac GENRE Drama; French- and<br />
Chinese-languages, subtitled RATING TBD<br />
RUNNING TIME 115 min. RELEASE DATE Oct.<br />
19 NY<br />
PARANORMAL<br />
ACTIVITY 4<br />
SPOOKED BY SKYPE<br />
The premise for this franchise is straightforward<br />
ghouls haunted two girls in the ’80s, and<br />
they’ve never left. We’ve seen them through<br />
security cameras and then VHS. In this latest,<br />
the heroines are in social-media-fueled peril—<br />
the ghosts are most visible when the Skype cam<br />
is on. It’s a logical development for the guys in<br />
charge who made their name with the invasive<br />
doc Catfish. Do we turn into something scary<br />
when the camera’s on us? Maybe, but I’d hardly<br />
blame the webcam.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Paramount CAST Katie<br />
Featherston, Matt Shively, Brady Allen<br />
DIRECTORS Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman<br />
SCREENWRITER Zack Estrin PRODUCERS Jason<br />
Blum, Oren Peli GENRE Horror RATING<br />
TBD RUNNING TIME 95 min. RELEASE DATE<br />
Oct. 19, <strong>2012</strong><br />
KILLING THEM<br />
SOFTLY<br />
BRAD PITT TAKES NO PRISONERS<br />
Andrew Dominik, a New Zealand native with a<br />
penchant for intelligently stylized violence and<br />
stories about complex male bonds, directed Brad<br />
Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James and now<br />
drags the movie star to the ’70s to play a mob<br />
enforcer who investigates a heist gone wrong.<br />
The high pedigree on this title was enormous<br />
when it hit Cannes, which only suggests this is<br />
one of the early Oscar-bait titles in the Weinsteins’<br />
reliably heavy list of considerables.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR The Weinstein Company<br />
CAST Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, James<br />
Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins DIRECTOR/<br />
SCREENWRITER Andrew Dominik PRODUC-<br />
ERS Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas,<br />
Brad Pitt, Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve<br />
Schwartz GENRE Crime/Thriller RATING R<br />
for violence, sexual references, pervasive<br />
language, and some drug use RUNNING<br />
TIME 95 min. RELEASE DATE Oct. 19, <strong>2012</strong><br />
CHASING MAVERICKS<br />
KARATE KID IN THE SURF<br />
Gerard Butler plays a rogue surfer worshiped by<br />
young Jonny Weston—he claims the man saved<br />
him from drowning when he was eight. Now<br />
a teen, Jonny is even more reliant on turning<br />
the guy into a father figure, and like him,<br />
he’s determined to surf the occasionally fatal<br />
major waves, or Mavericks, coming in when<br />
the weather changes. Butler’s beach dweller<br />
takes pity and plays Mr. Miyagi to Weston’s<br />
Ralph Macchio. This one was in distribution<br />
limbo for months, but its final location on the<br />
calendar suggests the support of Fox.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Twentieth Century Fox CAST<br />
Jonny Weston, Gerard Butler, Abigail<br />
Spencer, Elisabeth Shue DIRECTORS Michael<br />
Apted, Curtis Hanson SCREENWRIT-<br />
ER Kario Salem PRODUCERS Curtis Hanson,<br />
Brandon Hooper, Jim Meenaghan GENRE<br />
Drama/Sports RATING PG for thematic<br />
elements and some perilous action RUN-<br />
NING TIME TBD RELEASE DATE Oct. 26, <strong>2012</strong><br />
FUN SIZE<br />
HE’S GOT BUTTERFINGERS<br />
If you read only “Chelsea Handler” and “Johnny<br />
Knoxville” among the credits, you’d think this teen<br />
comedy was pure R, but this Paramount/Nickelodeon<br />
co-production instead flings a beautiful (if<br />
eerily shiny) cast of up-and-comers into a basically<br />
G-rated premise, albeit with a few naughty jokes.<br />
Wren (Victoria Justice) was just invited to the Halloween<br />
party of the year, hosted by the hottest boy<br />
in high school. Mom (Chelsea Handler) has her<br />
own party to attend so she assigns Wren’s younger<br />
brother to play chaperone. The chubby bro gets<br />
into endless hijinks a la Adventures in Babysitting<br />
while Wren scours the hood with two nerds, her<br />
BFF and a shaggin’ wagon—there’s a light connotation<br />
of sex, but it’s so breezily handled that kids<br />
might miss it altogether.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Paramount CAST Victoria<br />
Justice, Jane Levy, Johnny Knoxville,<br />
Chelsea Handler, Thomas Middleditch,<br />
Josh Pence DIRECTOR Josh Schwartz<br />
SCREENWRITER Max Werner PRODUCERS<br />
Bard Dorros, David Kanter, Stephanie<br />
Savage, Josh Schwartz GENRE Comedy<br />
RATING TBD RUNNING TIME TDB RELEASE<br />
DATE Oct. 26, <strong>2012</strong><br />
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