Generally, when I put together a seasonal movie-release preview, it's presented with the caveat that "release dates are subject to change." And as far as the scheduled releases for fall of 2023 are concerned, that goes double.

Probably not since the earliest days of COVID has the theatrical release calendar been more in-flux, thanks to the dual strikes by the screen actors' and screen writers' unions that are still ongoing at press time, affecting the ability of studios to promote their releases; Dune Part Two has already been bumped to next spring. Nevertheless, we're offering it up as things now stand, understanding that some of these titles may end up appearing on a 2024 preview as well.

SEPT. 8: It's been seven years since we last checked in on Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Ian (John Corbett), and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 takes the surviving family members on a trip to Greece after the passing of Toula's father (the late Michael Constantine); The Nun II offers the sequel to the spinoff from The Conjuring universe, with a malevolent entity continuing to terrorize Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga).

SEPT. 15: Kenneth Branagh takes his third spin as Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice, with another mystery featuring an all-star cast.

SEPT. 22: Sylvester Stallone leads another mission of all-star action heroes in The Expendables 4; filmmaker John Carney (Once, Sing Street) unleashes his latest musical, with Eve Hewson as a single mom trying to connect with her child through song in Flora and Son.

SEPT. 29: Rogue One director Gareth Edwards tells the futuristic story of a human soldier (John David Washington) in a war with AI tasked with destroying a robot in the shape of a child in The Creator; the long-dead John Kramer/Jigsaw somehow continues to torture people creatively in Saw X; the wildly popular kid copaganda show gets a shot at big screens in PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie; The wild story of how a bunch of subredditors cost hedge funds millions of dollars in GameStop stock gets a cinematic treatment in Dumb Money;

OCT. 6: Oscar nominees Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal headline the psychological thriller Foe; Director David Gordon Green moves from his recent Halloween legacy-quels to bring Ellen Burstyn back to a tale of demonic possession in The Exorcist: Believer.

OCT. 13: Hilary Swank stars in a fact-based story of a hairdresser who becomes a good Samaritan for a widowed man's critically-ill child in Ordinary Angels.

OCT. 20: Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are together again for the true story of a terrorized Native American community in Killers of the Flower Moon.

OCT. 27: Five Nights at Freddy's adapts the popular video-game franchise about evil animatronic characters at a family pizza restaurant.

NOV. 10: Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) from the MCU series Ms. Marvel teams up with Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) to save the universe in The Marvels; Paul Giamatti reunites with Sideways director Alexander Payne, playing a boarding-school teacher supervising the one student not going home for the Christmas holidays in The Holdovers.

NOV. 17: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes takes the dystopian franchise back to an origin story of the original series' fascist leader President Snow; writer/director Taika Waititi takes a comedic look at the fact-based story of the legendarily bad American Samoa soccer team in Next Goal Wins; the frizzy-haired, bulb-nosed creatures return for a third animated adventure in Trolls Band Together.

NOV. 22: Disney's Wish somehow finds an actual story in the star that everyone in fairy tales is always wishing on; director Ridley Scott casts his Gladiator co-star Joaquin Phoenix as the emperor/soldier in the biopic Napoleon.

DEC. 8: Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) tells a Frankenstein-esque story of a scientist (Willem Dafoe) whose experiment brings a young woman (Emma Stone) back to life in Poor Things.

DEC. 15: Timothy Chalamet puts on the purple coat and cavorts with Oompa Loompas in the origin story Wonka; Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell play old college nemeses who pose as a couple during a destination wedding in Anyone But You.

DEC. 20-22: Jason Momoa returns as the undersea DC superhero in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom; a family of ducks takes a long trip in the animated comedy Migration.

DEC. 25: George Clooney directs the true story of a 1930s American Olympic rowing team in The Boys in the Boat; Alice Walker's The Color Purple gets a film adaptation of the Broadway musical version.