  A scene from Robert Rodriguez's Machete opening September 3, 2010.
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Bored of adolescent sorcerers, social media moguls and bank robbers? Here's more of what's coming soon this autumn:
Never Let Me Go (September): Students at an English boarding school are actually clones bred to "donate" body parts. Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan star.
The American (Sept. 1): George Clooney stars as a burned-out assassin seeking refuge in the Italian countryside.
Going the Distance (Sept. 3): Justin Long and Drew Barrymore play long-distance lovers.
Machete (Sept. 3): Robert Rodriguez's spin-off, based on the ultra-violent faux-trailer that was produced for his Grindhouse outing, Planet Terror.
Resident Evil: Afterlife (Sept. 10): It's sub-titled Afterlife, but this franchise refuses to die.
Easy A (Sept. 17): Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) is the girl with the scarlet letter in this high school comedy.
Jack Goes Boating (Sept. 17): Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in and directs this drama about working-class romance. Amy Ryan co-stars.
Catfish (Sept. 17): Sundance sensation about an Internet romance that takes a dark turn.
Alpha and Omega 3D (Sept. 17): Cute talking animals! 3D! Sounds like a hit to me.
Devil (Sept. 17): Can M. Night Shyamalan salvage his cursed reputation by producing this horror thriller? No, I don't think so either.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (Sept. 24): Director Zack Snyder (300) directs this CG-animated fantasy, probably best-described as Lord of the Rings with owls.
You Again (Sept. 24): Kristen Bell discovers her brother is marrying the girl who made her life a nightmare in high school. Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver -- who have a feud of their own -- co-star.
Buried (October): Ryan Reynolds stars as a man buried alive in a coffin -- for the entirety of this Hitchcockian thriller.
The Company Men (October): Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones star in this drama about laid-off white-collar executives.
Conviction (October): This fact-based drama stars Hilary Swank as a high school dropout who put herself through law school in order to free her wrongly convicted brother (Sam Rockwell).
Stone (October): Edward Norton re-teams with Robert De Niro for this psychological drama about the mind games that ensue between an arsonist and his parole officer.
Case 39 (Oct. 1): How did real-life item Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper meet? On the set of this long, long delayed thriller. (It was shot in Vancouver in 2006.)
Fubar 2 (Oct. 1): The sequel to the 2002 mockumentary -- and Canadian cult classic -- picks up with the head-banging hosers travelling to Fort McMurray to work in the oilsands.
Secretariat (Oct. 8): Diane Lane and John Malkovich star in this biopic about the 1973 Triple Crown winner, who's considered by many to be the greatest race horse who ever set hoof on a track.
Life As We Know It (Oct. 8): Two singles who loathe each other -- Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel -- are charged with raising an infant after the parents are killed.
Jackass 3D (Oct. 15): Because self-inflicted bodily harm is vastly more entertaining in 3D.
Nowhere Boy (Oct. 15): Aaron Johnson, last seen being upstaged by Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass, stars as a young John Lennon.
Saw 3D (Oct. 29): One sign this torture-porn franchise is no longer the horror kingpin: It got out of the way of Paranormal Activity 2, which is opening a week earlier.
127 Hours (November): Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) follows his Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire with this fact-based account of mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco) who had to amputate his own arm after being pinned by a boulder.
Fair Game (November): Naomi Watts stars as Valerie Plame, the CIA agent outed by members of the Bush administration after her husband (played by Sean Penn) criticized the war in Iraq. Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) directs.
The Next Three Days (Nov. 19): In this Paul Haggis-directed thriller, Russell Crowe conspires to break his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of prison. If you were married to the gorgeous, hilarious Banks, wouldn't you?
