(Above: "Fred Claus," with Kevin Spacey, left, Paul Giamatti and Miranda Richardson, opens Nov. 9)

Here is the list of each and every fall film we know about, with a selected list going through the end of the year. As always, release dates, titles, even the very existence of these films is subject to change without notice -- not even a little blurb in Variety, so filmgoer beware. Otherwise, mark your calendar and get ready to leave butt prints in the seats at many a movie theater:

>Sept. 21

ANTONIA: Poor Sao Paulo women struggle to get music careers going. (Anywhere Road/Red Envelope)

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD: Brad Pitt is the famous outlaw and Casey Affleck his infamous cohort-turned-killer in this contemplative, painterly Western. (Warner Bros.)

GOOD LUCK CHUCK: Dane Cook. Jessica Alba. Comedy. Which one of the three elements does not belong? (Lionsgate)

INTO THE WILD: Young seeker takes to the road and finds more than he bargained for in Alaska. Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's best seller. (Paramount Vantage)

THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB: Literature fans in modern-day Sacramento find their lives paralleling their favorite author's themes. Classy cast includes Maria Bello, Emily Blunt and Amy Brenneman. (Sony Classics)

THE LAST WINTER: Something weird is coming out of the melting permafrost under an Alaskan oil exploration camp. Eco-horror at its finest from "Wendigo" director Larry Fessenden. With Ron Perlman, James LeGros. (IFC First Take)

OVER THE GW: Teens are brainwashed at a New Jersey rehab center. (Seventh Art)

RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION: More Milla Jovovich video-game-like butt-kicking. Will the title prove prophetic? (Screen Gems)

SEA OF DREAMS: Forbidden love in some foreign place. (Success Films)

SYDNEY WHITE: Amanda Bynes hooks up with college nerds. (Universal)

TRANSFORMERS IN IMAX: Because space robots that turn into cars look so much better that way. Additional footage is threatened. (Paramount/DreamWorks)

>Sept. 28

ANGELS IN THE DUST: Documentary about a white South African woman who helps black children. (Cinema Libre)

FEAST OF LOVE: Romantic roundelay with Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Selma Blair, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander and a high percentage of shirtless starlets. "Kramer vs. Kramer's" venerable Robert Benton directed. (MGM)

THE GAME PLAN: Pro quarterback is tackled for a loss when he learns he has a 7-year-old daughter. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars. (Disney)

GREAT WORLD OF SOUND: Neat indie about a music recording scam operation. (Magnolia)

HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS: Mumblecore moping in Chicago. (IFC First Take)

ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE: They're lesbians. (Pocket)

THE KINGDOM: FBI team investigates a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia in this political thriller from Peter Berg. Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner star. (Universal)

THE RAPE OF EUROPA: Joan Allen narrates this documentary about efforts to save artworks from Nazi thievery during World War II. (Menemsha)

TRADE: Mexican teen tries to rescue kid sister from sex traffickers. (Roadside Attractions)

YOUR MOMMY KILLS ANIMALS: Documentary about violent animal rights activists. (Indie Genius)

>Oct. 5

BEYOND HATRED: Documentary about the 2002 slaying of a gay man by skinheads and his parents' remarkable forgiveness.. (First Run)

BLADE RUNNER: Director Ridley Scott's definitive cut #87, we think. (Warner Bros.)

THE DARJEELING LIMITED: Estranged brothers -- played by Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman -- take a "spiritual journey" through India following the death of their father. Wes Anderson directs. (Fox Searchlight)

FEEL THE NOISE: Puerto Rican kids dream of better things while grooving to reggaeton music. (Sony BMG)

THE GOOD NIGHT: One-time pop star copes with new career as a jingle writer and the sudden success of his best friend and former bandmate. Jake Paltrow wrote and directs; sister Gwyneth stars, along with Martin Freeman and Simon Pegg. (Yari)

GRACE IS GONE: John Cusack just can't break the news to his daughters that their mother has been killed in Iraq. So he takes them to a theme park. (Weinstein)

THE HEARTBREAK KID: Remake of the 1972 Neil Simon/Elaine May comedy has Ben Stiller realizing the woman of his dreams is actually a walking nightmare. (Paramount)

IN BETWEEN DAYS: Lesbian love finds a Korean immigrant. (Kino)

KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON: Biopic of the Nirvana casualty told entirely in the dead rock star's own words. (Sidetrack)

LUST, CAUTION: Ang Lee directs this NC-17-rated World War II espionage thriller that has won more attention for its sex than for the spy story. Tang Wei, Tony Leung and Joan Chen star. (Focus)

THE MAN WHO SOULED THE WORLD: Documentary about skateboard entrepreneur Steve Rocco. (Ally)

MICHAEL CLAYTON: George Clooney "fixes" problems for a high-powered New York law firm - until problems of his own inspire self-examination. (Warner Bros.)

MY KID COULD PAINT THAT: When their 4-year-old's artistic genius is questioned, parents ask a documentary filmmaker to clear the family name. (Sony Classics)

NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS: In case you're wondering, it's curry. (Regent)

OUTSOURCED: Customer call center manager in (where else?) India finds renewal while training his replacement. (ShadowCatcher)

THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING: More fantasy stuff about Good battling Evil. Why can't they make one of these things about Moral Ambivalence tackling Enlightened Self-Interest? (Fox Walden)

TOOTS: Documentary about legendary nightclub owner Toots Shor. (Menemsha)

WEIRDSVILLE: Stoners meet Satanists. We think it's a comedy. (Magnolia)

>Oct. 10

CONTROL: Tragic life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis is dramatized. (Weinstein)

>Oct. 12

BERKELEY: '60s coming-of-age stuff on the radical California campus. With that symbol of revolution, Henry Winkler. (Jungnrestless Films)

COLMA: THE MUSICAL: Think "Grease" in a town full of graveyards. (Roadside Attractions)

CROSSING THE LINE: Documentary about an American defector in North Korea. (Kino)

DARFUR NOW: Don Cheadle and others campaign to stop the genocide in this documentary. (Warner Independent)

ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE: Cate Blanchett returns to the Virgin Queen's throne with "Elizabeth" director Shekhar Kapur. (Universal)

THE FINAL SEASON: Truth-based story about a small town's high-school baseball team coping with bureaucratic attempts to destroy its winning streak. Sean Astin stars. (Yari)

FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO: Doc presents the case that the Bible is OK with gays. (First Look)

LAKE OF FIRE: Tony Kaye ("American History X") looks at abortion from all angles in a documentary that just might spark a bit of controversy. (ThinkFilm)

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL: Ryan Gosling is a socially awkward country boy whose new girlfriend, an anatomically correct love doll, alarms and charms his neighbors. (MGM)

MANUFACTURING DISSENT: Skeptical documentarians turn their cameras on Michael Moore. (Liberation)

SLEUTH: Michael Caine returns - but this time in the Laurence Olivier role - in remake of the two-hand entrapment mystery. Jude Law does the old Michael Caine role. (Sony Classics)

SUMMER '04: Germans contemplate infidelity during a summer holiday. (Cinema Guild)

TERROR'S ADVOCATE: Documentary portrait of the multiracial French lawyer who has represented Saddam Hussein, Klaus Barbie, Pol Pot and other similarly nice guys. (Magnolia)

TYLER PERRY'S WHY DID I GET MARRIED: The latest relationship drama from ... what's his name again? (Lionsgate)

WE OWN THE NIGHT: Brother drama about a cop and nightclub owner in 1980s Brooklyn. Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg star. (Columbia)

>Oct. 19

THE BEACH PARTY AT THE THRESHOLD OF HELL: Post-apocalyptic comedy from the folks at National Lampoon. (National Lampoon)

BLACK IRISH: Troubled family, Celtic style. (Anywhere Road)

BROKEN: Heather Graham is a failed singer confronted by all of her demons in a single night. (Truly Indie)

THE COMEBACKS: Inspirational sports movies are spoofed. Intentionally, this time. (Fox Atomic)

FUTBAAL: Iranian soccer star considers defecting to the U.S. (Traveling Show)

GOLDA'S BALCONY: Valerie Harper, who also headlined the source play, stars as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. (AV)

GONE BABY GONE: Ben Affleck directs little brother Casey in this Boston-set kidnapping thriller. From a book by "Mystic River's" Dennis Lehane. (Miramax)

MR. UNTOUCHABLE: Documentary about a New York narcotics kingpin. (Magnolia)

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 3-D: It's back if you want to make this an annual thing. (Disney)

OUT OF THE BLUE: Hostage crisis in a New Zealand town. (IFC First Take)

THE PRICE OF SUGAR: Paul Newman narrates this documentary about Haitians working under horrible conditions in Dominican cane fields. (Mitropoulos Films)

RENDITION: Pregnant American Reese Witherspoon looks for her Egypt-born husband after he disappears on a plane flight from South Africa to Washington in this political thriller co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal. (New Line)

RESERVATION ROAD: Two families deal with a hit-and-run tragedy. Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo star. (Focus)

THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE: Widow Halle Berry gets close to her husband's junkie friend Benicio Del Toro. We're hoping for "Monster's Ball"-quality close. (DreamWorks/Paramount)

30 DAYS OF NIGHT: Alaskan vampires! (Columbia)

WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY: Suicides' spirits hook up in purgatory. (Autonomous)

>Oct. 24

O, JERUSALEM: Historical drama about the creation of the state of Israel. (Samuel Goldwyn)

>Oct. 26

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD: Two brothers plan to rob their parents' jewelry store. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke star. (ThinkFilm)

BELLA: An injured soccer star and a waitress come together in New York City. (Roadside Attractions)

DAN IN REAL LIFE: Advice columnist (Steve Carell) falls in love with brother's girlfiend (Juliette Binoche). What would Abby say? (Disney)

FINISHING THE GAME: Comedy about the search for "the new Bruce Lee" after the martial arts star's sudden death. (IFC First Take)

FUNNY GAMES: Michael Haneke ("Cache") remakes his early Austrian movie about a home invasion in English. With Naomi Watts, Tim Roth and Michael Pitt. (Warner Independent)

JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS: Director Jonathan Demme followed the ex-president on the tour to promote his controversial book about the Middle East. (Sony Classics)

MUSIC WITHIN: Deaf Vietnam War vet changes people's perceptions. (MGM)

RAILS & TIES: Train engineer Kevin Bacon is involved in an accident, suffers emotional fallout. Alison Eastwood - yep, Clint's daughter - directed. (Warner Bros.)

RASHEVSKI'S TANGO: Three generations of a Belgian Jewish family. (Menemsha)

RUN, FAT BOY, RUN: "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" star Simon Pegg, who isn't very fat, nevertheless tries to get in marathon-running shape to win back the fiancee (Thandie Newton) he dumped years earlier. Directed by "Friends' " David Schwimmer. (Picturehouse)

SAW IV: The last go-round for torture porn? (Lionsgate)

SLIPSTREAM: Anthony Hopkins' writing-directing debut sounds like a real head trip, man. He stars, too. (Strand)

>Nov. 2

AMERICAN GANGSTER: Outcast cop matches wits with heroin dealer in this fact-based crime drama about ethics from Ridley Scott. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star. (Universal)

BEE MOVIE: Jerry Seinfeld joins forces with DreamWorks Animation in this story about a bee who takes offense at humans eating honey. (DreamWorks)

ELEVEN MEN OUT: Is there anything more isolating than being an Icelandic soccer star? How about a gay, Icelandic soccer star? (Regent)

FAT GIRLS: Apparently it's hard to get a date for the prom in Texas if you are A) a boy obsessed with Broadway or B) overweight. (Regent)

JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN: Documentary about The Clash's late, radical frontman. (IFC First Take)

THE KITE RUNNER: Decades-spanning tale of Afghani friends separated, estranged and ultimately reunited. Marc Forster ("Stranger Than Fiction") directs, based on Khaled Hosseini's mega-seller novel. (Paramount Vantage)

MARTIAN CHILD: Widowed sci-fi writer John Cusack adopts a kid who claims he's from the Red Planet. Does he have a sister from Venus? (New Line)

PARK: Somewhere in the Hollywood Hills, people are doing things they probably shouldn't. (Panorama)

PRIMO LEVI'S JOURNEY: Documentary follows the route the Italian writer took home after Nazi and postwar Soviet incarceration. (Cinema Guild)

WAR/DANCE: Ugandan kids, displaced by war, decide to dance in this documentary. (ThinkFilm)

>Nov. 9

ELECTRIC APRICOT: QUEST FOR FESTEROO: Jam band satire directed by Primus' Les Claypool. (National Lampoon)

FRED CLAUS: Santa's brother has issues. Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, "Wedding Crashers" director David Dobkin. (Warner Bros.)

I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN: Long-delayed Amy Heckerling comedy about a May-December romance between Paul Rudd and Michelle Pfeiffer. (Freestyle)

THE LIFE OF REILLY: The late Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical stage show, adapted to the screen.

LIONS FOR LAMBS: Robert Redford directed and co-stars in this multistory anti-war drama with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. (United Artists)

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: Joel and Ethan Coen directed this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel about narco violence in rural Texas. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Woody Harrelson star. (Miramax)

P2: About the parking attendant from hell. (Summit Entertainment)

POSTAL: This movie made out of a video game was directed by critic-boxing Uwe Boll. (Boll KG/Vivendi Visual)

REDACTED: Brian De Palma's controversial, "fictionalized documentary" about a U.S. Army atrocity in Iraq. (Magnolia)

SOUTHLAND TALES: Richard Kelly's troubled follow-up to "Donnie Darko" finally gets a release date. (Samuel Goldwyn)

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME: Documentary about a concentration camp romantic triangle. (Seventh Art)

>Nov. 16

BEOWULF: Motion-capture rendition of the age-old warrior tale. Robert Zemeckis directs. Also in IMAX 3-D. (Paramount)

HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE: Documentary about Buddhist super chef Edward Espe Brown. (Roadside Attractions)

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's sprawling book comes to the screen with Javier Bardem looking to mend a broken heart by having 622 affairs. (New Line)

MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM: Dustin Hoffman runs a magical toy store. Natalie Portman plays along. (Fox Walden)

SMILEY FACE: "Scary Movies" star Anna Faris inadvertently eats marijuana brownies. (First Look)

>Nov. 21

AUGUST RUSH: An abandoned kid (Freddie Highmore) raised on the streets by Robin Williams (yikes) seeks his true, musician parents. (Warner Bros.)

ENCHANTED: Evil queen banishes fairy princess to the streets of Manhattan in this modern fairy tale from Disney. Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon star. (Disney)

HITMAN: This movie made out of a video game stars "Deadwood's" Timothy Olyphant. (20th Century Fox)

I'M NOT THERE: Artsy fellow Todd Haynes ("Far from Heaven") directs a Bob Dylan biopic starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw as Bob Dylan. That's ALL of them as Bob Dylan. As we said, artsy. (Weinstein)

MARGOT AT THE WEDDING: Fractious sisters have at it in the latest family story from Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale"). Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh star. (Paramount Vantage)

STEPHEN KING'S THE MIST: Didn't John Carpenter do this movie and call it "The Fog"? Director Frank Darabont ("Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile") returns to what works for him. (Weinstein)

THIS CHRISTMAS: Family strife wrapped in tinsel. (Screen Gems)

>Nov. 23

HOLLY: Expose of the child sex business in Cambodia. (Slowhand)

STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING: Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose and Lili Taylor explore writing and life. (Roadside Attractions)

>Fall

NAMING NUMBER TWO: Fijian family comedy continues to await a more appetizing title. (Cyan)

RAZOR EATERS: Australian anarchists run amok in suburbia. (Anywhere Road)

U R PRE-APPROVED: Documentary about credit cards.

>After Thanksgiving

ATONEMENT: Director Joe Wright reunites with his "Pride and Prejudice" star Keira Knightley in this adaptation of Ian McEwan's best seller about sex and lies. Festival word has been astounding. (Focus 12/7)

THE GOLDEN COMPASS: Fantasy-adventure set in an alternate world where people's souls manifest themselves as animals. Based on the first of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. (New Line 12/7)

LEATHERHEADS: George Clooney and Renee Zellweger butt heads in this romantic comedy set against the backdrop of 1920s pro football. Clooney directs. (Universal 12/7)

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: Because the world needs a live-action/CGI movie about singing rodents with Jason Lee, that's why. (20th Century Fox 12/14)

I AM LEGEND: Umpteenth redo of Richard Matheson's last-man-on-Earth story stars Will Smith. (Warner Bros. 12/14)

JUNO: Pregnant teen looks for perfect parents for her unborn child. Won prolonged standing ovations in Toronto. Ellen Page stars. (Fox Searchlight 12/14)

YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH: Francis Coppola's first film in a decade, and we already can't figure out what it's about. (Sony Classics 12/14)

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY: Acclaimed drama about a French fashion magazine editor's life after a completely paralyzing stroke. Directed by "Before Night Falls"' Julian Schnabel. (Miramax 12/19)

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS: Abraham Lincoln and Helen Mirren somehow get mixed up in this Nic Cage sequel. (Disney 12/21)

SWEENEY TODD: Tim Burton brings the Demon Barber of Fleet Street to the screen, with Johnny Depp wielding the razor. (Paramount 12/21)

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY: Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan send up biopics like "Ray" and "Walk the Line" in this story about the ups and downs of a national music icon. John C. Reilly stars. (Columbia 12/21)

THE BUCKET LIST: Terminal patients Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman attempt to do everything they've ever wanted to before time runs out. Rob Reiner directs. (Warner Bros. 12/25)

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR: CIA wheelings and dealings in 1980s Afghanistan. Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts star; Mike Nichols directs. (Universal 12/25)

PERSEPOLIS: Animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about growing up in fundamentalist Iran. (Sony Classics)

THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Prospector becomes oil tycoon in Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling epic about lust, greed and the American Dream. Daniel Day-Lewis stars. Inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" (Paramount Vantage 12/26)

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