By Kit Bowen and Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff
Good thing we waited to release our fall movie preview or we would have had the same issue as Entertainment Weekly: It would have been all about Harry. While we are lamenting the fact we have to wait until next summer for the next Harry Potter installment, here are the fall releases still on the slate we are most looking forward to.
Burn After Reading
When: Sept. 12
Who: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich; directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
What: Two not-so-sharp gym employees (Pitt, McDormand) try and extort a former CIA agent (Malkovich) after he leaves a disc containing his memoirs in a bathroom locker.
Brian Says: There’s never any extra incentive necessary to get excited for a Coen brothers movie, but it doesn’t hurt to have the world’s two biggest movie stars (Pitt and Clooney, neither of whom, lest we forget, is a stranger to indies) appear in your follow-up to last year’s Best Picture (No Country for Old Men). And Burn, an offbeat crime-com, is right up the Coens’ alley--perhaps even more so than No Country was.
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