With the festival circuit kicking off soon, the New York Film Festival has started to create a line-up of some of the year's most anticipated releases.

The festival announced earlier that director David Fincher's film adaptation of the book, Gone Girl, would open the festival. Gone Girl hosts a cast including Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry, Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris.

The story is about a man (Affleck) who becomes embroiled within an intense media circus after he's suspected in the disappearance of his wife (Pike).

The film will get a theater release on October 3.

Following that, the festival announced that director Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, Inherent Vice, would be the festival's centerpiece film. Inherent Vice stars Joaquin Phoenix, along with Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom and Benicio del Toro among many other actors like Maya Rudolph, Martin Short and Eric Roberts.

The film, based on Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same name, is set in 1960s Los Angeles against the backdrop of Venice beach bums, surfers and acid heads. It centers on an inept stoner detective (Phoenix) who uncovers a larger conspiracy as he begins to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend in Los Angeles.

The film is set to release on December 12 with a wider release on January 9, 2015. It features a soundtrack by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.

The New York Film Festival begins on September 26 with the showing of Gone Girl. As of now, the rumored closing night showing is director Christopher Nolan's latest, Interstellar.

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