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Since it's a lazy Sunday morning, which I'm about to spend watching football with one eye while catching up on work, and since it occurred to me earlier this weekend that the trifecta of Fame, Pandorum, and Surrogates just has to be the lamest movie weekend we've seen in many moons, here's the rest of the fall film schedule. If a movie is listed below without parentheses, it's on my must-see list -- Movies in paras are definitely-maybes. Also, some of these, particularly the ones in and around xmastime, may be limited release on the date given.

Out now: (The Baader-Meinhof Complex)

Oct. 2: A Serious Man. (Capitalism: A Love Story, The Invention of Lying, Whip It)

Oct. 9: (An Education, Zombieland)

Oct. 16: Where the Wild Things Are. (New York, I Love You)

Oct. 23: Amelia. (Astro Boy, Anti-Christ, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant)

Oct. 30: (Gentlemen Broncos)

Nov. 6: The Men Who Stare at Goats. (The Box)

Nov. 13: (2012, Pirate Radio)

Nov. 20: (Red Cliff)

Nov. 25: The Road. (Nine, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Me and Orson Welles)

Dec. 4: Up in the Air.

Dec. 11: The Lovely Bones. (Invictus)

Dec. 18: Avatar.

Dec. 25: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. (Sherlock Holmes)

Wild Thing, I think I love you: The full trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are is now online. It'll be hard to sustain the mood of this trailer for two hours, I'd think, but this looks just about perfect.

"I didn't want to wake you up, but I really want to show you something." The teaser for Spike Jonze's long-awaited adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are appears on the Interweb (after debuting on Ellen this morning.) Along with Max Record, Catherine Keener, and Mark Ruffalo, WTWTA includes voice-work by James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose, and Chris Cooper.

On the occasion of the new year, EW previews some of the more-anticipated films of 2009, including Michael Mann's Public Enemies, Terminator: Salvation, Spike Jonze's' long-awaited Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Pixar's Up, Harold Ramis' Year One, The Taking of the Pelham 1-2-3 (again), Wolverine, and Watchmen.

AICN and MTV's Movie Blog score the first production still from Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are. Looks just about perfect.

The vocal cast for Where the Wild Things Are fills out, with Benicio Del Toro, Michael Berry Jr., Paul Dano, Tom Noonan, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker and Michelle Williams joining in Spike Jonze's after-bedtime shenanigans.

Catherine Keener joins Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, which looks set to go, as Max's Mom (and the instigator of his adventures in the Wild kingdom.)

Genre director update: As if their Willy Wonka wasn't creepy-serial-killer enough, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp will soon reunite for Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. Meanwhile, the Spike Jonze-Dave Eggers interpretation of Where the Wild Things Are lands at Warner Bros. Says author Maurice Sendak of the project: "I am in love with it. If Spike and Dave do not do this movie now, I would just as soon not see any version of it ever get made."