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Alex Zane,

Your guide to Autumn's upcoming film releases with release dates, posters and trailers

Summer is definitely over and with it, the mega blockbuster season as we slowly move into the part of the year that is all about Festivals and gearing up for the forthcoming awards season or as I like to call it the start of the really good films season. The UK Film Distributors Association launched their Autumn preview a little while back I was away for the launch but am steadily getting back into the swing of things and with over 150 films coming up I won't be the only film watcher who'll be spoilt for choice.

Autumn releases typically are a big draw and expectations are that over 40 Million film tickets will be bought over the months of October, November and December. But upcoming releases are going to have to work hard to break previous box office record holders earnings - with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone pulling in £66.1 m, Avatar coining £94.0 m and king of the box office Skyfall pulling in £102.8 million.

Alex Zane Launches the FDA & Movie Preview Network's Autumn Line-Up in UK Cinemas at Yahoo in London UK. (Photo by Stuart Wilson - ImageNet) ZOOM

150+ films to open in UK cinemas, with 40+ million admissions anticipated, in autumn 2013

The exciting and eclectic range of films for release in cinemas this autumn was recently launched by Film Distributors’ Association (FDA). Autumn is an important season for cinemagoing: ten of the UK’s twenty top-grossing cinema releases of all time were released in the three months October – December. As well as accommodating a half-term holiday, Halloween and the run-up to Christmas, it is also the season when many of the following year’s film award contenders open for UK cinemagoers.


The trailer comprises clips from the following 56 films: All is Lost, American Hustle, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, August: Osage County, Austenland, Bad Grandpa, Baggage Claim, Battle of the Year, Besharam, Black Nativity, Blue Jasmine, Captain Phillips, Carrie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Cold Comes the Night, The Conspiracy, The Counsellor, Delivery Man, Don Jon, Emperor, Ender’s Game, Enough Said, The Fifth Estate, Filth, 47 Ronin, Free Birds, Frozen, The Girl Most Likely, Gravity, The Harry Hill Movie, The Haunting 2, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, In A World, In Fear, Last Vegas, Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom, The Nun, Oldboy, One Chance, Philomena, Powder Room, Prince Avalanche, Prisoners, Romeo & Juliet, Runner Runner, Saving Mr Banks, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Sunshine on Leith, The Taste of Money, Thor: The Dark World, The To Do List, Turbo, Walking with Dinosaurs, Le Week-end and The Wolf of Wall Street.



This autumn’s vast selection includes many ambitious British-made films, while British filmmakers also populate high-profile international productions. For example, between now and January 2014, Benedict Cumberbatch will appear in three strikingly different roles in The Fifth Estate, August: Osage County and 12 Years A Slave (set for a January 10 release ).



Friday 10 January 2014: 12 Years A Slave
Friday 11 October 2013: The Fifth Estate
Friday 17 January 2014: August: Osage County




The latest works by some of the world’s most highly acclaimed filmmakers are released to UK cinema audiences this autumn, including:  Kenneth Branagh, directing Jack Ryan which has been pushed back to a January 2014 release, Ridley Scott's The Counsellor.

Stephen Frears - Philomena, Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips, Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, Spike Lee's Oldboy and Alexander Payne's Nebraska.

Among the British directors whose first feature films are released this autumn are:  Jeremy Lovering with the chiller - In Fear.



Paul Wright with a striking Scottish-set mystery - For Those in Peril and Kieran Evans directing Antonia Campbell-Hughes in Kelly + Victor.


The line-up offers much cinematic spectacle and larger-than-life adventure. From Marvel’s Thor 2: The Dark World to Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and 47 Ronin with Keanu Reeves, audiences will be transported to fantasy lands by cutting-edge digital effects – in the company of extraordinary characters facing dilemmas that are only too human.


Friday 20 September 2013: Kelly + Victor
Friday 4 October 2013: For Those in Peril
Friday 18 October 2013: Captain Phillips
Wednesday 30 October 2013: Thor 2: The Dark World
Friday 1 November 2013: Philomena
Friday 15 November 2013: The Counsellor
Friday 15 November 2013: In Fear
Friday 6 December 2013: Oldboy
Friday 6 December 2013: Nebraska
Friday 13 December 2013: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Thursday 26 December 2013: 47 Ronin

Friday 24 January 2014: Inside Llewyn Davis
Friday 31 January 2014: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit


A ‘who’s who’ of British comic talent visits cinema screens this autumn in films including: The Harry Hill Movie with Harry Hill, Sheridan Smith, Matt Lucas and Simon Bird, One Chance with James Corden as Paul Potts, Julie Walters and Colm Meaney, and Powder Room with Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone.


Many favourite US comic talents return to cinemas, too. There’s The Delivery Man with Vince Vaughn and Cobie Smulders,  Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues with Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd.
Girl Most Likely with Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening and Matt Dillon;  Bad Grandpa, the latest from the Jackass stable; and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, with Kristen Wiig and Sean Penn.


The choice of comedies is very wide. Some are laced with romance such as Love Punch starring Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson and Timothy Spall; and Austenland starring Keri Russell, JJ Feild and Jane Seymour, while others are laced with crime like Filth, starring James McAvoy, Jamie Bell and Imogen Poots; and The Family starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.


Friday 27 September 2013: Austenland
Friday 27 September 2013: Filth
Friday 27 September 2013: Girl Most LIkely
Wednesday 23 October 2013: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Friday 25 October 2013: One Chance
Friday 22 November 2013: The Family
Friday 6 December 2013: Powder Room
Friday 20 December 2013: The Harry Hill Movie
Friday 20 December 2013: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Thursday 26 December 2013: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Friday 10 January 2014: The Delivery Man
Friday 18 April 2014: Love Punch



Anxieties that are part and parcel of today’s shady world emerge in a range of films, such as: Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks as the captain of a cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates.



Closed Circuit, a modern-day thriller in which lawyers involved in a terrorist case in London find their own lives at risk; and The Fifth Estate, the biographical thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange that explores the costs of keeping as well as exposing secrets. The dystopian world of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire reflects our obsessions with celebrity, wealth, outer beauty and reality TV.


Friday 11 October 2013: The Fifth Estate
Friday 18 October 2013: Captain Phillips
Friday 25 October 2013: Closed Circuit
Thursday 21 November 2013: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire



More than 30 British film productions and co-productions will be launched in cinemas this autumn. UK-wide locations range from the Cornish moors for In Fear and Brecon Beacons for How I Live Now to Sheffield in The Selfish Giant and the Isle of Skye for 47 Ronin.


Cinemagoers will see an A–Z of London and south-east locations on the big screen. The Counsellor, starring Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender, was shot in Canary Wharf, Shoreditch and Heathrow Airport; and Jack Ryan made use of University College London’s Senate House.


Closed Circuit, with Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall, shot in Westminster and Borough Market. One Chance takes in Sutton, Bromley and St. Albans.


Dom Hemingway, with Jude Law in the title role, Philomena, Powder Room, Love Tomorrow and the documentary - In Real Life, were all filmed partly on the streets of London.


London’s sound stages also accommodated some of the world’s biggest films out this autumn – for example, Thor: The Dark World with Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins, and Gravity starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, were both shot at Shepperton Studios. Meanwhile, the huge sets for Jack Ryan were built at Pinewood Studios.


Friday 20 September 2013: InRealLife
Friday 4 October 2013: How I Live Now
Friday 25 October 2013: The Selfish Giant
Friday 25 October 2013: One Chance
Wednesday 30 October 2013: Thor 2: The Dark World
Friday 1 November 2013: Philomena
Friday 8 November 2013: Love Tomorrow
Friday 8 November 2013: Gravity
Friday 15 November 2013: In Fear
Friday 15 November 2013: Dom Hemingway
Friday 15 November 2013: The Counsellor
Friday 6 December 2013: Powder Room
Thursday 26 December 2013: 47 Ronin

Friday 31 January 2014: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

FDA President, Lord (David) Puttnam of Queensgate CBE, said:  “Audiences have a truly thrilling line-up of cinematic experiences to enjoy this autumn. I sincerely hope that people of all ages will seize the day and come out to share their choices in the way the filmmakers intended – on the big screen.”

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Craig is a retired superhero, an obsessive hobbyist, comics fan, gadget lover & flâneur who knows an unhealthy amount about Ian Fleming's James Bond. When not watching or making films he takes pictures, eats, drinks, dives, mentally storyboards the greatest film ever made & sometimes utilises owl-themed gadgets to fight crime.  A list of his 133 favourite films can be found here! If you would still like to contact Craig please use any of the buttons below: