Watch the trailer for literally every movie coming out this fall

Summer’s over. The kids are in school. It’s safe for grown-ups to come out of hiding.

It sounds like the makings of a bad M. Night Shyamalan movie.

Or, as they’ve come to be known, just another M. Night Shyamalan movie.

But it’s the annual changing of the movie seasons, when summer blockbusters give way to smaller, more interesting fare.

That’s not to say there still won’t be huge movies. Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” and the Harry Potter spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” should work plenty of box office magic.

They’ll just do so alongside the likes of Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” and the literary sensation “The Girl on the Train” as well as Oscar hopefuls “The Birth of a Nation” and “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”

The latter, directed by Ang Lee, is so technologically advanced that when footage of it debuted in April at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, there wasn’t a single projector in the world capable of playing it the way it was intended.

Here’s a look at what you can expect out of the fall movie season, and, as always, release dates are subject to change:

FRIDAY

An Australian couple (Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander) who can’t conceive a child think their prayers have been answered when they discover a boat containing a dead man and a living infant in “The Light Between Oceans,” based on the best-selling novel.

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A corporate troubleshooter (Kate Mara) is sent to a remote location to investigate an incident involving a bioengineered teenager in “Morgan.”

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A suicidal American (Matthew McConaughey) befriends a Japanese man (Ken Watanabe) who’s lost and injured in a forest in director Gus Van Sant’s “The Sea of Trees.”

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SEPT. 9

Clint Eastwood directs Tom Hanks in “Sully,” the story of pilot Chesley Sullenberger and the “Miracle on the Hudson.”

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When a couple (Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall) hire a surrogate (Jaz Sinclair), she develops a dangerous fixation on the husband in the thriller “When the Bough Breaks.”

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A couple (Kate Beckinsale, Lucas Till) and their 5-year-old son move from Brooklyn to a haunted Southern mansion in “The Disappointments Room.”

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A group of animals react to the arrival of Robinson Crusoe on their island in the animated “The Wild Life.”

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The story of Sergei Polunin, the “bad boy of ballet,” is chronicled in the documentary “Dancer.”

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SEPT. 16

Oliver Stone, who’s never been shy about politically charged dramas, directs the story of Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in “Snowden.”

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Diarist Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is pregnant, but she’s unsure whether the father is her ex, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), or the dashing new American (Patrick Dempsey) in her life, in “Bridget Jones’s Baby.”

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Seventeen years later, more college students start getting picked off one by one in the woods in “Blair Witch.”

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Guatemalan “worry dolls” set off a series of killings in the backwoods of Mississippi in “The Devil’s Dolls.”

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SEPT. 23

Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio lead director Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the Western “The Magnificent Seven,” about a group of mercenaries and outlaws hired to protect a small town.

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Now that storks no longer deliver babies, they bring packages from a giant internet retailer in “Storks,” an animated comedy featuring the voices of Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.

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A man (Boyd Holbrook) recently released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit finds his freedom in jeopardy when a blood-soaked woman (“Mad Men’s” Elisabeth Moss) turns up at his door in “The Free World.”

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When his mother (Margo Martindale) becomes ill, a New York artist (director John Krasinski) returns to his dysfunctional home in “The Hollars.”

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SEPT. 30

A young boy (Asa Butterfield) discovers a secret refuge for children with special gifts in “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” from director Tim Burton.

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Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and John Malkovich star in “Deepwater Horizon,” based on the April 20, 2010, oil rig explosion.

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A young Ugandan girl (Lupita Nyong’o) pursues her dream of becoming an international chess champion in the based-on-a-true-story “Queen of Katwe.”

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An armored car driver (Zach Galifianakis) is lured into a scheme to steal $17 million in the comedy “Masterminds,” co-starring Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis.

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A teen girl (Sasha Lane) runs away from her troubled home to join a traveling crew of misfits (including one played by Shia LaBeouf) selling magazine subscriptions in the Midwest in the drama “American Honey.”

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A worldly designer (Kate Winslet) returns to her small Australian hometown and transforms the local women with her creations in “The Dressmaker.”

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What was supposed to be a brief arctic expedition designed to lead to an eventual trip to Mars turns into a two-year adventure in the documentary “Passage to Mars.”

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OCT. 7

A recently divorced woman (Emily Blunt) becomes a witness to a crime during her daily commute and gets entangled in a mystery in “The Girl on the Train,” based on the best-selling novel.

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Nat Turner (writer-director Nate Parker) leads a historic slave rebellion in the Sundance sensation “The Birth of a Nation.”

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as The Clash frontman Joe Strummer in “London Town.”

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After transferring to a strict school, a new student and his best friend engage in a battle of wills with the principal (Andy Daly) in the family comedy “Middle School.”

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OCT. 14

A math savant (Ben Affleck) balances the books for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal syndicates in the thriller “The Accountant,” co-starring Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons.

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“Kevin Hart: What Now?,” the comedian’s latest stand-up movie, was filmed in front of 50,000 people at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.

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An armed vigilante stalks a group of men and women along the U.S.-Mexican border in the thriller “Desierto,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

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The lives of three flawed, independent women (Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams) intersect in “Certain Women,” from “Meek’s Cutoff” director Kelly Reichardt.

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OCT. 21

When the head (Cobie Smulders) of his former investigative unit is wrongly arrested for treason, Jack Reacher breaks her out of prison to uncover a government conspiracy in the sequel “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.”

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A suburban couple (Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher) discover their seemingly perfect new neighbors (Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot) are covert operatives in the comedy “Keeping Up with the Joneses.”

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In 1965, a family’s scam seance business takes a dark turn when the youngest daughter becomes possessed in “Ouija: Origin of Evil.”

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What started as a joke in Chris Rock’s “Top Five” has come to fruition as Madea (Tyler Perry) battles ghosts and zombies in “Boo! A Madea Halloween.”

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A gay-porn producer (Christian Slater) is targeted by rival pornographers who are out to poach his latest discovery in the drama “King Cobra,” co-starring James Franco.

The youth, adolescence and adulthood of an African-American man struggling with his sexuality are explored in the drama “Moonlight.”

To win a libel case against a Holocaust denier (Timothy Spall), a British woman (Rachel Weisz) essentially has to prove in a court of law that the Holocaust really happened in “Denial.”

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OCT. 28

Symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows a trail of clues tied to Dante to try to stop the unleashing of a global virus in the “Da Vinci Code” sequel “Inferno,” directed by Ron Howard.

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It turns out there’s a hidden movie within the deadly movie in “The Ring” sequel “Rings.”

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NOV. 4

Following a horrific car accident, neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) seeks healing, only to acquire magical powers, in “Doctor Strange,” the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, James Corden and Gwen Stefani lend their voices to the animated musical “Trolls.”

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The story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a World War II Army medic and conscientious objector who rescued 75 men from behind enemy lines in Okinawa, is told in the drama “Hacksaw Ridge,” from director Mel Gibson.

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NOV. 11

A group of soldiers are declared heroes after a battle in Iraq, then brought home for a victory tour as flashbacks contrast the realities of war with the government’s public-relations spin, in director Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”

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Mysterious spacecraft begin landing around the world in “Arrival,” starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker.

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A child psychologist (Naomi Watts) in rural New England tries to rescue a young boy during a winter storm in the thriller “Shut In.”

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NOV. 18

In 1926 New York, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) misplaces some of the magical creatures he’s acquired in the Harry Potter spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

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And Hailee Steinfeld stars as an awkward teenager in the coming-of-age comedy “The Edge of Seventeen,” co-starring Kyra Sedgwick and Woody Harrelson.

Contact Christopher Lawrence at clawrence@reviewjournal.com. On Twitter: @life_onthecouch.

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