October 2011 DVD & Blu-rays

Scream 4

"Scream 4" sees the return of the three main characters, along with a group of new stars. Said to jump-start a proposed new trilogy of the franchise.

Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Kristen Bell, Alison Brie, Neve Campbell, Kevin Williamson, Courteney Cox-Arquette, Adam Brody

African Cats

A look at how three cats -- a lioness, a leopard and a cheetah -- survive in the African plains.

Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey

Fast Five

No plot details have been announced.

Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Justin Lin, Jordana Brewster, Chris Morgan, Sung Kang, Neal H. Moritz

Submarine

A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

Sally Hawkins, Craig Roberts, Paddy Considine, Richard Ayoade, Ben Stiller, Noah Taylor, Andy Stebbing, Michael Sheen

The Undefeated

A documentary on Sarah Palin inspired by her book Going Rogue.

Stephen K. Bannon

Buck

Master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses principles of respect and trust to tame horses and inspire their human counterparts.

Cindy Meehl, Buck Brannaman

Crazy on the Outside

In the movie, Tim Allen stars as a parolee who finds life outside a prison cell to be much crazier once he enters his quirky sister's world.

Ray Liotta, Kelsey Grammer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Brett Gregory, Brian Reilly, Anastasia Stanecki

The Heart Specialist

Method Man, Zoe Saldana, Wood Harris, Dennis Cooper, Mya

The Great Ghost Rescue

A young ghost loses his usual haunt and must search for a new one.

Jason Isaacs, Kevin McKidd, Yann Samuell, Miriam Segal, Emma Fielding

Jig

A documentary on the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships.

Sue Bourne

Phase 7

Coco (Daniel Hendler) has just moved to a new apartment with his wife Pipi (Jazmin Stuart), who’s seven months pregnant. At first, they don’t seem to notice the growing chaos around them, but when authorities quarantine their building after a deadly pandemic breaks out, Coco joins forces with his off-kilter, but well-prepared and stocked next-door neighbor Horacio to defend his refrigerator and keep Pipi safe.

Steven Schneider, Nicolas Goldbart

Deep Gold

Shortly after free diver Amy Sanchez breaks a freediving record, her boyfriend, a pilot transporting millions of dollar of gold, mysteriously vanishes.

Michael Gleissner

Horrible Bosses

Three best friends come together and agree to kill their horrible bosses.

Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Seth Gordon, Diana Pokorny, Brett Ratner, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, John Francis Daley

Zookeeper

A lonely, misguided zookeeper gets unexpected romantic help from the animals in his care.

Sylvester Stallone, Kevin James, Adam Sandler, Jon Favreau, David Ronn, Rosario Dawson, Judd Apatow, Frank Coraci

Judy Moody And The NOT Bumme...

While her friends all head off to exotic summer camps, bummed-out third-grader Judy Moody is is stuck in town to face a boring summer with only her friend Frank and her little brother Stink for company. However, when her Aunt Opal comes to visit, the summer takes an unexpectedly adventurous turn.

Heather Graham, John Schultz, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Jaleel White, Megan McDonald, Kathy Waugh, Jordana Beatty

Terri

Follows the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit, and the garrulous but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who takes an interest in him.

John C. Reilly, Azazel Jacobs, Patrick Dewitt, Jacob Wysocki, Creed Bratton

The Trip

Steve Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend (Rob Brydon) who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart.

Michael Winterbottom, Andrew Eaton, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon

Beautiful Boy

When an unhappily married couple learns their teenage son is the shooter in a college campus massacre, they struggle to find refuge from both the media and their mutual grief.

Maria Bello, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk, Richard Gabai, Mark Moran, Michael Armbruster, Shawn Ku

Tibet in Song

Director Ngawang Choephel, traveled to Tibet in 1995 to make a documentary about Tibetan folk music threatened by the Chinese occupation. While there, he was accused of being a spy by the Chinese and imprisoned for an 18-year sentence, of which he served seven years before he was released under international pressure.

Ngawang Choephel

Septien

Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his family's farm.

Michael Tully, Robert Longstreet, Rachel Korine, John Maringouin, Mark Darby Robinson

Arena

Story centers on a young man who is kidnapped and forced into the savage world of a modern gladiator arena, where men fight to the death for entertainment of the online masses.

Samuel L. Jackson, Kellan Lutz, Nina Dobrev, James Remar, Mark Williams, Daniel Dae Kim, Brad Krevoy, Robert Martinez

The Tree of Life

No plot details have been announced.

Brad Pitt, Tye Sheridan, Sean Penn, Terrence Malick, Jessica Chastain

The Princess of Montpensier

To increase his family’s prestige, the Marquis de Mézières forces Marie to marry the Prince de Montpensier, whom she has never met.

Bertrand Tavernier

Green Lantern

Hal Jordan, a test pilo, finds a downed alien spacecraft. A dying alien passes his ring to Jordan, introducing the man to a wider world that includes an interstellar police force known as the Green Lantern Corps and its overseers, the Guardians of the Universe.

Ryan Reynolds, Angela Bassett, Blake Lively, Geoffrey Rush, Martin Campbell, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Green, Greg Berlanti

Pirates of the Caribbean: On...

No plot details have been announced.

Jerry Bruckheimer, Geoffrey Rush, Penelope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Terry Rossio, Kevin McNally, Ted Elliott, Johnny Depp

Bad Teacher

A foul-mouthed, gold-digging seventh-grade teacher is dumped by her sugar-daddy boyfriend and turns her attention toward a colleague, which pits her against a rival who happens to be the school's model teacher.

Molly Shannon, Jake Kasdan, Jason Segel, John Michael Higgins, Gene Stupnitsky, Michael Aguilar, Lee Eisenberg, Cameron Diaz

Monte Carlo

Three Midwestern schoolteachers ditch a disappointing no-frills holiday in Paris and pose as wealthy women vacationing in Monaco.

Andie MacDowell, Nicole Kidman, Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Denise Di Novi, Arnon Milchan, Rick Schwartz, Alison Greenspan

Grave Encounters

Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. They soon begin to question their own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness, ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital's dark past... and taping what will be their final episode.

Mackenzie Gray, The Vicious Brothers, Sean Rogerson, Juan Riedinger, Ashleigh Gryzko

Red State

A horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America.

Dermot Mulroney, John Goodman, Michael Angarano, Melissa Leo, Kevin Pollack, Stephen Root, Kevin Smith, Kyle Gallner

The Last Circus

1937, Spain is in the midst of the brutal Spanish Civil War. A "Happy" circus clown is interrupted mid-performance and forcibly recruited by a militia. Still in his costume, he is handed a machete and led into battle against National soldiers, where he single handedly massacres an entire platoon.

Alex de la Iglesia

Bodyguard

Assigned to guard Divya, the daughter of a business tycoon, Lovely Singh accompanies Divya to her campus, but ends up rubbing her the wrong way with his over-protective nature and paranoia about security. She finds him to be a major obstacle in leading a regular campus life. To throw him off-track and get him out of the way, she plans to trap him in a fake love affair.

Siddique

The Last Mountain

The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America's struggle to balance its energy needs and environmental concerns, so the daring solution proposed by this small Appalachian community takes on national significance when Bobby Kennedy, Jr. joins the Appalachian families to fight the extraordinary and insidious power of Big Coal.

Bill Haney, Peter Rhodes

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The ...

Documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama that follow the band, A Tribe Called Quest, even today and explores what’s next for a group many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap. Having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group’s much-publicized breakup in 1998

Michael Rapaport

A Better Life

A hard-working immigrant Mexican gardener lives in Los Angeles and tries to protect his son.

Chris Weitz, Jami Gertz, Demian Bichir, Erik Feig, Eric Eason, Paul Witt, Christian McLaughlin, Jose Julian

Pearl Jam Twenty

Pearl Jam Twenty chronicles the years leading up to the band's formation, the chaos that ensued soon-after their rise to megastardom, their step back from center stage, and the creation of a trusted circle that would surround them-giving way to a work culture that would sustain them.

Cameron Crowe

Captain America: The First A...

Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment... Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Solider Serum and bombarded by "vita-rays." Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and battle savvy, Captain America has continued hiswar against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and as leader of the Avengers.

Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Stanley Tucci, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Johnston, Derek Luke, Kevin Feige, Sebastian Stan

Winnie the Pooh

A hand-drawn animated "Winnie the Pooh" film, which will be released theatrically. The film will feature five previously unadapted stories from the original books.

John Lasseter, Craig Ferguson, Tom Kenny, Don Hall, Clark Spencer, Jim Cummings, Kath Soucie, Stephen J. Anderson

Mere Brother Ki Dulhan

A young man tries to arrange a marriage for his brother, but finds himself falling in love with the chosen fiancée.

Katrina Kaif, Ali Abbas Zafar

Father of Invention

A humble inventor-turned-egomaniacal billionaire loses it all when one of his inventions goes horribly awry. After eight years in federal prison, he returns bankrupt, homeless and determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.

Heather Graham, Dana Brunetti, Camilla Belle, Virginia Madsen, Kevin Spacey, Craig Robinson, Johnny Knoxville, Trent Cooper

Mardi Gras: Spring Break

Three college pals, depressed with their current social situation, decide to venture to New Orleans, a magical place where a man and his beverage can walk the streets undisturbed in pursuit of the happiness that has thus far eluded them.

Regina Hall, Josh Gad, Josh Heald, Carmen Electra, Arielle Kebbel, Bret Harrison, Phil Dornfeld, Zanne Divine

Shaolin

As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin Temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. General Hou (Andy Lau) has caused much of this mess with his violent and ruthless tactics that rarely discriminate between soldiers and civilians. When Hao is betrayed by fellow general Cao Man (Nicholas Tse), he is forced into hiding, and takes refuge with the monks at their hidden mountain temple. As the days pass, he finds himself more and more at ease as he learns the ways of peace, and begins to release his hatred through Martial Zen. But Cao is not far behind, and war soon reaches the temple, where the monks are ready to fight back- with their unstoppable Shaolin Kung Fu.

Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Bingbing Fan, Benny Chan, Nicholas Tse

Faces in the Crowd

A woman barely survives an attack by a serial killer and wakes up in hospital with a head injury that leaves her "face-blind." No longer able to recognize faces, she must navigate a world in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them while the killer is closing in, determined to eliminate the potential witness.

Milla Jovovich, Julian McMahon, Jean-Charles Levy, Sylvain White, Scott Mednick, Sarah Wayne Callies, Julien Magnat, Marianne Faithful

Attack the Block

A gang of South London teenagers defends their housing project against an alien attack.

John Boyega, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, Joe Cornish, Nira Park, Tessa Ross, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway

Atrocious

The film centers on the Spanish police’s discovery of hours of recorded evidence that shed new light on a gruesome murder investigation. The found footage documents a family’s summer holiday, where a brother and sister investigate a terrifying local urban legend. As their investigation intensifies, strange occurrences in and around the house escalate rapidly, before culminating in unspeakable atrocities.

Fernando Barreda Luna

A Little Help

A recently widowed single mom reconnects with an old flame, who happens to be her sister's husband.

Jenna Fischer, Dena Hysell, Joe Gressis, Michael J. Weithorn

Rare Exports: A Christmas Ta...

On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa.

Jalmari Helander

Severe Clear

Based on the memoir of First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Kristian Fraga