5 new movies to watch in September, including Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Megalopolis

A preview of all the major new movies releasing in September, including Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Transformers One, and Megalopolis.

August gave us lots of horror in the shape of Alien Romulus, Trap, Blink Twice, and The Crow, while the big-budget Borderlands adaptation was a box office disaster.

They came in the midst of a year where animation is dominating, and scary movies might be the new summer blockbusters. And there are more scares coming in September.

The following are our picks of the movies hitting screens this month in chronological order, followed by a list of every new film releasing in cinemas, plus a preview of October.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Release Date: September 6, 2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a belated sequel to the cult classic, with Tim Burton returning behind the camera, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara once again starring, and Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci all added to the mix.

Dexerto reviewed Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the Venice Film Festival, where we wrote that: “The result is a fantasy world that still feels tangible despite its shiny graphics, with beautifully designed ghouls and ghosts wandering the narrow corridors of this ludicrous, all-encompassing underworld that makes death sound way more fun than it has any right to be.”

Transformers One

Release Date: September 13, 2024

Transformers was an animated TV show that was turned into an acclaimed animated movie in 1986. The “robots in disguise” then went live-action via a bunch of Michael Bay movies and spinoffs. And now they are going back to their roots, thanks to this new animated feature.

Featuring the vocal talents of Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry, this is very much an origin story, introducing Optimus Prime and Megatron as friends, and starting them on the journey that leads to the pair becoming mortal enemies.

Speak No Evil

Release Date: September 13, 2024

The original Speak No Evil caused something of a sensation in 2022, the dark Danish thriller traumatising anyone and everyone who watched it. Here James Watkins (The Woman in Black) directs the remake, with James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, and Scoot McNairy starring.

Best to go into this one blind if you can, but the basic plot concerns an American couple and their daughter visiting a British family they met on holiday. Who aren’t altogether who they seem…

Never Let Go

Release Date: September 27, 2024

Director Alexandre Aja burst onto the horror scene with Haute Tension/Switchblade Romance in 2003. He’s remained tethered to the genre ever since, helming remakes of The Hills Have Eyes and Maniac, as well as recent creature feature Crawl.

Never Let Go is his latest, a high-concept genre flick about a mother (Halle Berry) isolating her twin boys to protect them from an evil spirit. But gradually, one of the boys starts to question if said spirit is real.

Megalopolis

Release Date: September 27, 2024

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film since The Rainmaker in 1997 is a passion project that he spent decades developing, and finally self-funded as what appears to be his celluloid swan-song. The movie debuted at Cannes, to decidedly mixed reviews. While here’s what we wrote in Dexerto’s 4-star Megalopolis review:

“Megalopolis is impassioned, exasperating and exhilarating. I’d struggle to defend anyone who called it an outright masterpiece, but I couldn’t really trust anyone who would dismiss it out of hand. It’s Coppola looking both outside and deep within himself, a self-reckoning of his own reckless creative impulses and its casualties, but an insistence on the attempt to change our destinies.”

New movies in September 2024: Full list

This is a list of all the major new movies releasing in US cinemas during September 2024:

September 4

• Legend of the White Dragon

September 6

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Don’t Turn Out the Lights
• The Front Room
• Lover of Men
• His Three Daughters
• Red Rooms
• The Thicket
• Hoards
• Continue
• I’ll Be Right There
• Look Into My Eyes
• The Cowboy & The Queen

September 12

• God’s Not Dead 5: In God We Trust
• Usher: Rendezvous in Paris

September 13

• Transformers One
• Speak No Evil
• The Killer’s Game
• How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
• Meanwhile on Earth
• Here After
• Am I Racist?
• My Old Ass
• The 4:30 Movie
• Believer
• Matt and Mara
• Dead Money
• The Critic
• Sweetheart Deal

September 20

• In the Summers
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Long Gone Heroes
• Wolfs
• The Substance
• A Mistake
• A Different Man
• Omni Loop
• The Featherweight
• What We Find on the Roof

September 21

• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

September 24

• Succubus

September 27

• Never Let Go
• Megalopolis
• The wild Robot
• Notice to Quit
• Lee
• Amber Alert
• The Line
• Empire Waist
• Azrael
• Sleep
• Abruptio

What’s coming in October 2024?

With Halloween concluding the month, there’s lots of horror in October, as well as a pair of twisted superhero sequels…

• Joker: Folie a Deux
• Terrifier 3
• Saturday Night
• Flight Risk
• Smile 2
• Venom: The Last Dance

For more previews, check out the best new TV shows this month, what’s happening in true crime and documentaries, plus movies that are streaming this month.