Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and 4 Other Most Anticipated Movies Coming in September 2024

This month sees the return of Tim Burton and his ghosts, young Transformers, and the indestructible teen dystopia genre. And finally, the viewers will be treated to the most scandalous long-term project of the decade, and that's exciting, to say the least.

1. Megalopolis

Release Date: September 27

Megalopolis is a futuristic fantasy about an episode of ancient Roman history – the Catilinarian conspiracy. New York has been destroyed by a catastrophe. The brilliant architect Cesar Catilina wants to rebuild it and turn it into a utopian city of the future, but he is thwarted by the insidious mayor Cicero, whose daughter Catilina has fallen in love with.

Once upon a time, this was a legendary long-term project that the great Coppola spent 40 years developing and eventually filmed for his personal millions. And now – an equally legendary "movie not for everyone", surrounded by scandals.

The film has already been shown at film festivals and discussed in the press. And it is only now that it will finally be released in theaters, and ordinary viewers will be able to appreciate what the director of The Godfather has been dreaming about all these years.

2. The Wild Robot

Release Date: September 27

The Corporation has lost several robots during transport, and Roz is one of them. She wakes up on a deserted island, remembers and understands nothing. To survive, she must find a common language with the local animals – literally.

The Wild Robot was filmed for DreamWorks by Chris Sanders, director of the first How to Train Your Dragon movie and co-writer of The Lion King and Aladdin. But The Wild Robot is most reminiscent of an animation that Sanders didn't work on: WALL-E – the story about a cute, lonely robot who explores the world and tries to help its inhabitants.

3. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Release Date: September 6

After the death of their father, the Deetz family returns to the good old haunted house. Lydia now has a daughter, the young rebel Astrid. She doesn't listen to boring boomer admonitions like "don't wake the devil" and accidentally brings Beetlejuice back to life.

Of all the recent sequels to 1980s classics, this one feels the least like an attempt to cash in and more like a reunion of old friends trying to shake off the old days.

Tim Burton avoided computer graphics and used practical special effects and puppets as much as possible to give the actors something to interact with on set. So if you think Hollywood's main goth has gotten too carried away with expensive blockbusters with CGI, don't miss this one.

4. Transformers One

Release Date: September 20

Optimus Prime and Megatron weren't always leaders of nations and sworn enemies. Once upon a time, on their home planet of Cybertron, they were simple teenage robots, known as losers, but considered each other almost brothers. And more than anything in the world, they wanted to learn how to transform.

We're waiting for Transformers in its purest form, without the humans – with the director of Toy Story 4 instead of Michael Bay (but with his participation – he produces everything that comes out in this franchise).

With a bunch of Hollywood stars in the voice acting, from Hemsworth and Johansson to Buscemi and Fishburne. But the usual Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving were not invited this time, because Optimus and Megatron are still robot teenagers and even have different names.

5. Uglies

Release Date: September 13

In the dark future, all people undergo an operation at the age of 16 that turns them into ideal beauties. Until then, teenagers, even those who look normal, are considered "uglies".

But there are rebels who refuse to give in to the surgeons, who run away and fight for natural beauty. A girl named Tally is forced to infiltrate the refugees and spy on them, lest she be denied the right to surgery herself.

Teenage dystopias are back! We expect about the same as in Divergent, The Giver and other similar stories about the rituals of growing up in a post-apocalyptic world. The society of the dystopia is unfair and built on delusional rules, teenagers rebel against it, and in this case – also against the artificial standards of glamorous beauty.