2013 Preview: September

The summer season may be coming to a close, but we’re only just two-thirds of the way through 2013 and now we’re heading into the ‘Oscar season’. Welcome back to Rhode Island Movie Corner’s year-long preview for the films that are set to come out during 2013. This is Part 9 and today we’re going to be looking at the films that will be hitting theaters during the month of September. This month, we have a few sequels, some original films, and even a re-release of a timeless classic.

SEPTEMBER 6- Only one release is set to open during the first weekend of the month

*Following 2000’s ‘Pitch Black’ and 2004’s ‘The Chronicles of Riddick’, Vin Diesel returns to the role of convict Richard B. Riddick for ‘Riddick’, the third entry in director David Twohy’s sci-fi series. In this film, Riddick finds himself abandoned on a desolate planet where he must fight for survival against the predators of the planet.

SEPTEMBER 13- This weekend will see the release of a horror sequel and the latest film from the director of ‘Leon: The Professional’ and ‘The Fifth Element’.

 

*When it was released in 2011, director James Wan’s ‘Insidious’ was a huge success at the box office, grossing nearly $100 million on only a $1.5 million budget. Fresh off of ‘The Conjuring’, James Wan returns along with writer Leigh Whannell and most of the main cast for ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’. After the events of the first movie, the Lambert family looks to find out the reason why they have been connected to the spirit world.

 

*While known for directing films like ‘Leon: The Professional’ and ‘The Fifth Element’, director Luc Besson has spent most of this last decade producing films like the ‘Taken’ and ‘Transporter’ series. His newest directorial effort, ‘The Family’ (aka ‘Malavita’ outside of the U.S.) will hit theaters this weekend. Robert De Niro stars as a mafia boss who is forced to relocate his family (his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer), his daughter (Dianna Agron), and his son (John D’Leo)), with the help of a CIA agent (Tommy Lee Jones), to France after snitching on the mob.

SEPTEMBER 20- One crime thriller and a special 3-D re-release this weekend.

 

*Back in March, Disney released ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’, a sort-of ‘prequel’ to the 1939 classic from MGM, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, based off of author L. Frank Baum’s famous book of the same name. The 1939 classic hits theaters once again in 3-D, celebrating the film’s 75^th anniversary (even though, technically speaking, that is supposed to be in 2014).

 

*An all-star cast headlines the crime thriller ‘Prisoners’. Hugh Jackman stars as a father who desperately searches for his daughter and her best friend after they are kidnapped on Thanksgiving. The film also stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard, Maria Bello, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, and Melissa Leo.

SEPTEMBER 27- There’s a lot to talk about this week, with four new releases; this includes an IMAX exclusive and a film that expands to a nationwide release.

 

*After opening in LA and NY markets the previous week, Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ will expand nationwide this weekend. The film focuses on the rivalry between Formula One drivers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) during the 1976 Formula One season, a year where Lauda nearly lost his life in a crash at the German Grand Prix.

 

*After the original ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ became both a critical and commercial hit in 2009, ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2’ will hit theaters. While Phil Lord and Chris Miller are not directing the film, they are still involved with it, serving as executive producers while Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn take over directing duties. After stopping the disastrous food storm that forced them to leave the town of Swallow Falls, inventor Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) and his friends return to the town in order to clean up the food mess caused by his invention, the FLDSMDFR. However, when they return, Flint discovers that the machine is still operating and has now created food ‘animals’.

 

*Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes his directorial debut with ‘Don Jon’, where he stars as a modern-day ‘Don Juan’ who is addicted to porn but soon looks to change his ways after meeting the ‘love of his life’ (Scarlett Johansson). Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, and Brie Larson co-star.

 

*The final film this month is an IMAX exclusive, ‘Metallica: Through the Never’ (it will be released in theaters everywhere the following week). Directed by Nimrod Antal (‘Predators’), the ‘concert’ film stars Dane Dehaan as a roadie for Metallica who is tasked with an urgent mission during one of the band’s shows but this soon turns into a surreal adventure.