Fall Movie Preview: Also in October

Twelfth Night
Three-time Tony winner Trevor Nunn set Shakespeare's gender-blending comedy at the turn of the century and shot it (for just $5 million) during an icy Cornwall winter. The cast (including Ben Kingsley and Richard E. Grant) fought the frost, but ''sometimes our breath would be showing,'' says Helena Bonham Carter, ''and nothing would come through in the acting but the fact that we were so cold.'' (Oct. 25)

Swingers
You heard it here first: ''You're money'' means ''You're cool,'' and friends are now babies. And you can use it if the country catches on to the hip talk of this cocktail-culture comedy shot for ''less than Brothers McMullen,'' according to director Doug Liman. Not that the dialect's base is that strong. ''It's the vernacular of a group of friends,'' says Liman. ''Everyone in L.A. isn't going 'You're money.''' Yet. (Oct. 18)

The War at Home
''Last summer, Disney approached me about doing Mighty Ducks 3, and I said, 'Wow, that's really not appealing,''' remembers Emilio Estevez. ''But I said, 'I'll do it if you help me finance this film.''' The deal was made, and Estevez got to write, produce, and direct this small-scale drama about a Vietnam vet's return to Virginia. He also stars, alongside Kathy Bates, Kimberly Williams, and dad Martin Sheen. (Late October)

When We Were Kings
Legal battles and financial woes kept this documentary about the 1974 ''Rumble in the Jungle'' between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire off screen for decades. It may have been worth the wait; critics gave Kings Sundance's Special Jury Prize. ''There's no narration,'' says producer David Sonenberg. ''Ali is so theatrical, we didn't want to turn it into a PBS special.'' (Oct. 25)

Plus
A Mob mistress (Jennifer Tilly) and a thief (Gina Gershon) become Bound together after stealing $2 million from Tilly's lover (Joe Pantoliano). What will Ed's Next Move be when an insecure newcomer to New York falls for a struggling musician? Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominee Small Wonders (formerly Fiddlefest) profiles an East Harlem violin teacher who nurtures her students despite government budget cuts. Three friends take a crack at petty crime in Palookaville, featuring a cameo by Fargo's Frances McDormand. Lukas Haas and David Arquette are male hustlers, a.k.a. Johns, in this teenage Midnight Cowboyfrom 1996's Sundance festival. Jeanne Moreau plays a revered author who tries to return to her Parisian neighborhood after 30 years abroad in Ismail Merchant's The Proprietor. Walter Matthau is Judge Cool, a Southern eccentric who woos the dotty sister (Piper Laurie) of the richest woman in town (Sissy Spacek) in The Grass Harp. A British teen finds love with his boarding-school neighbor in Beautiful Mind. Marcello Mastroianni plays a man whose multiple personalities result in Three Lives & Only One Death. Falling in love, an honor student and a dancer taste Bitter Sugar in gritty Havana. Two heroin addicts — one recovering, one still hooked — battle a vindictive mother-in-law in Curtis's Charm. A private-school teacher (Jon Lovitz) moves to the inner city and mentors a tough student (Clockers' Mekhi Phifer) in the comedy High School High. Two teens from rival Italian families meet during a production of Romeo and Juliet and find that Love Is All There Is. Matthew Broderick directs himself and Patricia Arquette in Infinity, about physicist Richard Feynman's struggle to rationalize his wife's battle with TB. And Emilio Estevez is back in The Mighty Ducks 3, as the Ducks invade a snooty prep school.