Fall's 25 Hottest Movies
From star-studded musicals (Nine) to buzzy indies (Precious) to Clint Eastwood's Oscar hopeful, The Daily Beast selects the 25 films you don't want to miss this fall. WATCH TRAILERS.

Michael Jackson’s farewell tour, This Is It, was originally slated to begin this fall in London. Instead, following the singer’s untimely death, fans will have to say goodbye with this special limited-engagement release of rehearsal footage as Jackson prepared for the comeback that wasn’t to be. (October 28)

Now that Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island has been bumped to 2010, Clint Eastwood’s Invictus is a front-runner for the 2009 Best Picture Oscar. Set immediately after the fall of apartheid in South Africa, Morgan Freeman stars as Nelson Mandela while Matt Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the rugby captain who partnered with Mandela to help repair the cultural rifts in the fragmented South African communities. (December 11)
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