Although there are technically a couple of weeks of summer left, the films of fall are upon us. Now is when movies get serious, when Hollywood starts thinking about Oscar. You'll still find plenty of zombies and ninjas at the multiplex in the coming weeks, just not quite as many as you would have found in July.

Here is a list of movies scheduled for release between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Dates are subject to change.

SEPT. 4

All About Steve: Sandra Bullock is a lonely oddball who goes on a blind date with a TV cameraman (Bradley Cooper) and decides he's The One. Unfortunately, he does not return her enthusiasm. Much wackiness is followed by a dramatic plot twist, culminating in a feel-good finale. Because that's the way these movies always go.

Extract: Writer-director Mike Judge (Office Space) returns to the workplace with this comedy about a flavor-extracts factory owner (Jason Bateman) with the hots for his new employee (Mila Kunis). Ben Affleck and Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig co-star. The trailers look hilarious, but the Labor Day release date -- traditionally a dumping ground -- gives pause.

Gamer: The Crank co-directing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor explores a near future in which multi-player, online gaming has become a little too sophisticated. Gerard Butler stars as the hero of a violent game who seeks to wreak havoc on its real-world creator (Michael C. Hall).

Lorna's Silence: Filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (L'enfant, Rosetta, La Promesse) center on an Albanian immigrant (Arta Dobroshi) living in Belgium and her drug-addict husband (Jeremie Renier) who starts to clean up his act just as she decides to get rid of him.

World's Greatest Dad: Bobcat Goldthwait wrote and directed this dark satire about a single father (Robin Williams) who has failed utterly at raising his insufferable brat (Daryl Sabara). Then fate provides an unusual opportunity for Dad to improve the way the world views his son.

SEPT. 9

9: Not to be confused with the new musical Nine, this collaboration between co-producers Tim Burton and Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) is a PG-13 computer-animated fantasy about the last human survivors of the apocalypse who wage war against the machines trying to exterminate them. Like The Terminator, only not.

SEPT. 11

It Might Get Loud: Davis Guggenheim directs this documentary about three of the all-time greatest artists of the electric guitar: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and The White Stripes' Jack White.

The September Issue: A film crew follows Vogue editor Anna Wintour as she prepares the magazine's 2007, biggest-ever fall fashion issue.

Sorority Row: The sisters of a sorority house (including Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes and Rumer Willis) start getting picked off by the ghost of their past sins, who comes wielding lots of sharp implements.

Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself: In the latest seriocomic adventures of the formerly mad black woman, Madea (Tyler Perry) entrusts three young delinquents to their aunt (Taraji P. Henson), who has enough problems and doesn't want to inherit three more.

Whiteout: Kate Beckinsale stars as a U.S. marshal investigating Antarctica's first murder case, trying to catch the perp responsible before the sun sets, not to return for six months.

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