The Comebacks
(Fox Atomic)
No sports movie is sacred when the producers behind Wedding Crashers tackle the genre. In this sports spoof, star David Koechner (Anchorman) and company take on Rocky, Field of Dreams, Seabiscuit, Stick It, The Longest Yard, Bend It Like Beckham, and even Blue Crush. The Comebacks seems primed to squeeze a few laughs out of anyone who's been forced to sit through one too many sports movies.

The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D
(Disney)
In what's become a Halloween tradition, a 3-D version of the Tim Burton/Henry Selick musical The Nightmare Before Christmas. Both Burton and Selick carefully monitored the intense frame-by-frame digitizing process to make sure that every creepy puppet pops off the screen. Pass the popcorn.

Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
(Freestyle Releasing and Sunset Creek Productions)
Newcomer Rissa Walters stars as 17-year-old clue-chaser Sarah Landon. In what promises to be the first in a series of flicks, Landon must carefully navigate a strange new town and haunted guesthouse while battling an evil spirit and solving a mystery the involves two brothers. Naturally, she'll fall for one of the brothers in this classic teen ghost story that looks to have slightly more soul than its predecessor, Nancy Drew.

O Jerusalem
(Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Based on Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's 1972 novel, O Jerusalem explores Middle East politics from a personal point of view. Two Americans — one Jewish, the other Arab — try to maintain a close friendship while Israel is being formed and sectioned off. A subject this inflammatory should produce a lot of heat but director Elie Chouraqui allows O Jerusalem to burn with all the intensity of a grade school history lesson.

Wristcutters: A Love Story (limited release)
(Autonomous Films)
The staid tale of young love, loss, and redemption takes an acid trip down the off beaten path in Wristcutters: A Love Story. Distraught after breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) takes his own life and is banished to an absurd afterlife reserved for suicides. Once there, he discovers his ex-girlfriend has also ended her life and sets out on a road trip through purgatory to find her.