W.: Director Oliver Stone promises this biopic about the life of President George W. Bush (played by Josh Brolin) will be a compassionate look at the man. Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott Glenn and Richard Dreyfuss make up Bush's cabinet, while James Cromwell is his dad.

OCT. 24

Crossing Over: Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Sean Penn and Ray Liotta co-star in this multicharacter drama about illegal immigrants who risk their lives to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Directed by Wayne Kramer (The Cooler).

High School Musical 3: Senior Year: The Disney Channel TV-movie phenomenon makes the leap to the big screen. Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel return to sing and dance their way through graduation -- and pave the way for a new class of song-happy students.

Pride and Glory: Edward Norton is a New York City police officer investigating a case of corruption that points toward his brother-in-law (Colin Farrell).

Saw V: Like death and taxes, there's no avoiding them.

OCT. 31

Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Writer-director Kevin Smith pushes the R-rating to its limits with this foul-mouthed comedy about a pair of longtime friends (Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks) who decide to make an adult film in order to raise some quick cash. During filming, though, the pals discover feelings for each other they never knew they had.

NOV. 7

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: The former Central Park zoo dwellers (voiced by Ben Stiller, Bernie Mac, Sasha Baron Cohen, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer) hook up with their multi-generational families in the wilds of Africa.

Role Models: Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott are two wild men ordered by a judge to do community service as mentors for troubled teenagers. The blind lead the blind in this comedy from director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer).

NOV. 14

Nothing Like the Holidays: Luis Guzman, Freddy Rodriguez, Jay Hernandez and Melonie Diaz are the members of an extended family who come together for a holiday reunion in the Chicago suburb of Humboldt Park.

Quantum of Solace: Daniel Craig returns for his second outing as 007, this time taking an environmentalist slant as he battles a business man (Mathieu Almaric) trying to take over the world's water supply.

The Road: Cormac McCarthy's award-winning (and relentlessly grim) novel comes to the screen, with Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the father and son traveling across a post-apocalyptic America covered in nothing but gray ash and populated by thiefs, scavengers and cannibals.

Soul Men: Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac are two estranged former backup singers who get reacquainted in order to perform at a 20-year anniversary concert.

NOV. 21

Bolt: Computer-animated tale of a TV-star dog (voiced by John Travolta) unaware that the superpowers he enjoys on the program don't translate into the real world. Miley Cyrus and Malcolm McDowell round out the voice cast.

The Soloist: The true story of Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a musical prodigy who developed schizophrenia while studying at Julliard and wound up playing violin on the streets of L.A. Robert Downey Jr. co-stars for director Joe Wright (Atonement).

Twilight: A legion of fans of Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful series of books about the romance between a high school girl and a vampire is already lining up for tickets to this adaptation of the first book in the series. Kristen Stewart stars as the new girl in school who falls for a mysterious boy (Robert Pattinson) who may or may not be a bloodsucker. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), who faces the wrath of millions if she screws it up.

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