This fall at the multiplex, Bradley Cooper becomes a director, Jamie Lee Curtis revisits her slasher-movie past, Queen’s Freddie Mercury gets the biopic treatment, Tiffany Haddish schools Kevin Hart and Neil Armstrong goes back to the moon.
The fall season usually means a flood of Oscar-bait titles and so-called grown-up films, but we’ll also have more from Marvel comics (“Venom”), animated fare (the return of “Wreck-It Ralph”), comedies (“Second Act,” “Johnny English Strikes Again”) and even a western (“The Sisters Brothers”).
Here’s a sneak peek at nearly 50 new films heading our way in the next three months.
September
• Sept. 14: Matthew McConaughey spent months in Northeast Ohio last year shooting “White Boy Rick.” The based-on-a-true-story tale charts the life of Ricky Wershe (Richie Merritt) who, as a teenager, became an FBI informant and later a drug trafficker. McConaughey plays his father, and Cleveland stands in for Detroit. … Writer-director Shane Black, who actually appeared in the original “Predator” alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987, is back to reboot the bloody action-adventure about attacking aliens who are expert hunters. … 19th century ax murderer Lizzie Borden (Chloe Sevigny) finds a friend (Kristen Stewart) in “Lizzie.”