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As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.

Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.

Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.

We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.

Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...

The 39th Toronto International Film Festival has announced its initial slate of galas and special presentations, which includes 37 world premieres and several films with Oscar ambitions. The Judge, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as a big-city lawyer who reluctantly returns home and ends up defending his revered father (Robert Duvall) against criminal charges, will have its world premiere in Toronto. His Avengers pal, Chris Evans, will unveil his own directorial debut in Toronto, titled Before We Go.

Also noteworthy: James Gandolfini’s final film, The Drop, which also stars Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace; another Jason Reitman Toronto world premiere,...

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its initial wave of 2014 premieres and galas this morning and it features some familiar awards titles, some big stars and some unexpected studio titles. Among the major studio films, David Dobkin's "The Judge" with Robert Downey Jr. and Antoine Fuqua's "The Equalizer" each received gala slots and should premiere over the festival's opening weekend. Other announced galas so far include Bennett Miller's acclaimed "Foxcatcher," which debuted at Cannes, and Mike Binder's "Black and White" starring Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer and Anthony Mackie. Toronto has also scheduled special gala screenings for David Cronenberg's "Map to the Stars" with Julianne Moore and Robert Pattinson, François Ozon's "The New Girlfriend," Ed Zwick's "Pawn Sacrifice" with Tobey Maguire, Lone Scherfig's "The Riot Club," Jean-Marc Vallée's "Wild," Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano's "Samba" and Shawn Levy's "This is Where I Leave You...

What happens when you put a dozen or so veteran game designers in a cabin in Vancouver for a few days? They take walks and eat breakfast together, and then they form Hinterland Games and start development on their first project, a survival sim called "The Long Dark."

"The Long Dark" is a first-person, open-world survival game that takes place after a solar flare has knocked out most modern technology. As pilot William Mackenzie, it'll be your job to survive as long as possible in the cold Northwestern winter -- not until rescue comes, but forever as a new way of life. There's no trailer yet, but Hinterland's Kickstarter video is a good introduction:

The basic of wilderness survival include, I guess, finding food and water and staying warm, but "The Long Dark"'s list of gameplay systems is expansive. Here's a taste: time of day, dynamic weather, wildlife, caloric intake,...

If you live in North America and play "League of Legends" -- and, given its rapidly increasing popularity, you probably do -- you'll need to log-in and change your password as soon as possible. According to an e-mail sent to players by Riot Games, North American player information has been compromised.

User names, e-mail addresses, salted password hashes, first and last names, and over 120,000 transaction records dating from 2011 have all been compromised. According to the e-mail, those account passwords are unreadable, but players with easily guessed passwords are vulnerable to account theft.

More troubling are the transaction records, which also contained salted and hashed credit card numbers. Riot are in the process of e-mailing affected players, so check your spam folders and contact your bank or credit card company if you've ever bought a "League of Legends" champion or skin.

The next time you log into your "League of Legends" client,...

By Joseph Leray

BioWare has released a trailer for “Mass Effect 3: Reckoning,” the team’s final piece of free multiplayer content. In a livestream playthrough of the Dlc, BioWare also detailed the updated characters, weapons, and gear being added.

The trailer shows off some of the new characters -- a Geth Juggernaut, a (female) Turian Vanguard, the Edi-like Alliance Infiltration Unit, a Krogan Warlord, and a Talon Engineer -- facing off against a group of Reaper Brutes and Banshees.

New weapons include the Geth Spitfire (a portable Gatling Gun), the Venom Shotgun, and the Bloodpack Executioner Pistol. Among the new gadgets and equipment on offer, you can expect to find amplifiers for sub-machine guns and pistols, ultralight materials for shotguns and assault rifles, and the Batarian Gauntlet, which replaces any heavy melee attack with the Batarian’s signature punch.

“Reckoning,” available today on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, is the last planned content pack,...

By Joseph Leray

Red Thread Games has revealed more of the world of “Dreamfall Chapters,” the third game in the cult classic series that includes “The Longest Journey” and “Dreamfall”: to celebrate surpassing the $1 million mark in the game’s Kickstarter campaign, fans and backers were treated to a look at Europolis.

Europolis is “a vast European city-state covering the former independent nations of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium and the Netherlands,” the Norwegian developer writes. “Its blackened, concrete tendrils reach as far north as the Baltic States, and as far south as Paris. Europolis is not just the dark heart of Europe; it is the filthy bowels and bloodied entrails of Europe.”

For a little more context, it helps to know that the universe of “Dreamfall Chapters” is split into two worlds. Arcadia is the game’s traditional fantasy world, full of magic and nature. Red Thread...

By Joseph Leray

Lab Zero Games, the minds behind the cross-platform PC and PlayStation 3 fighter “Skullgirls,” are asking fans of the game for $150,000 to create, develop, test, and release a new character: an undead opera singer named Squigly, who hosts a parasitic snake living inside her.

In most cases, this type of thing would be handled internally with publisher money, but there’s a hitch: Autumn Games, the publishers of the Reverge Games-developed “Skullgirls,” is in the middle of a costly legal battle related to some of their other projects. With cash running out, Reverge Laid off the “Skullgirls” team, who reformed as indie outfit Lab Zero to further support the game.

Before the Lab Zero team was laid off, Squigly was about 30% finished, which amounts to a $50,000 discount for the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. Here’s a breakdown of how the money will be used:

•$48,000: Staff Salaries - 8 people...

By Joseph Leray

“Riot” is a game by Italian designer and former Valve cinematographer Leonard Menchiari about the power dynamics that take place during social upheavals. The game’s premise and muted, “Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery”-inspired pixel art are eye-catching, and Menchiari’s goals are ambitious.

Influenced by demonstrations in his own country, Menchiari hopes to provide a relatively objective exploration how and why riots happen, and how they must be handled. Players can control a mob, but “playing as a cop is also essential,” he says. “My goal is to expose as many aspects as I can of both sides, from both perspectives.”

To make that happen, Menchiari is asking for $15,000 to pay for Menchiari to travel to social demonstrations happening throughout Italy, Greece, and Egypt, as well as to purchase software licenses and pay for basic living expenses while the game is developed and tested.

Neither the game...

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Production will start early next year on a new film version of Annie, a fact I wasn’t too excited about on its own until I heard of the details: the titular role will be played by everybody’s favorite gender-bending teen, Willow Smith (or, Ok, at least she’s my favorite), with music by Jay-z. If that isn’t enough awesome for you, the adapted screenplay is being written by Emma Thompson, who has been working on it for three years. Suddenly, my excitement level exploded out of my ears. It’s still too early to know if the adaptation will be all that radically different from John Huston’s 1982 version, thematically or plot-wise, but even just knowing that there will be some Jay-z songs added to the mix is enough for me.

I felt the same way when I heard...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Tesis" (1996)

Directed by Alejandro Amenabar

Released by Widowmaker Films

Long out of print, "The Others" director Alejandro Amenabar's debut about a grad student's discovery of a snuff film is being remastered and rereleased by Widowmaker Films.

"Alice in Murderland" (2011)

Directed by Dennis Devine

Released by Brain Damage Films

A year after Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" scared the bejeezus out of kids in multiplexes everywhere, this horror take on Lewis Carroll's classic fairy tale aims to do so intentionally on DVD players around the country.

"America, America" (1963)

Directed by Elia Kazan

Released by Fox Home Entertainment

Elia Kazan's most personal film based on the story of his uncle's immigration to the United States from Turkey, where as a Greek his family is persecuted, was already released as part of last year's Kazan boxed set, but now will be...