Open Road Films will release David Ayer's cop drama End of Watch open September 28th.  Per the press release, "the film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala as they patrol the city’s meanest streets of south central Los Angeles."  The film also stars Anna Kendrick, Frank Grillo, and America Ferrera.  When Steve visited the set last year, he said in his report, "End of Watch is going to look and feel completely different than any cop movie you’ve ever seen and I left excited by what I saw."At the box office, the September 28th release date puts End of Watch up against Rian Johnson's sci-fi action film Looper, the dramas Trouble with the Curve starring Clint Eastwood, and Won't Back Down (formerly titled Still I Rise) starring Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal.  Hit the jump for the press release, which contains the official synopsis.Here's the press release.  I've put the synopsis in bold:

"END OF WATCH" WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 IN THEATERS NATIONWIDE

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DAVID AYER, BOLD & INNOVATIVE COP DRAMA STARS JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND MICHAEL PEÑA

LOS ANGELES, CA, March 2, 2012 – Open Road Films has set September 28, 2012 for the nationwide release of Exclusive Media’s, in association with Emmett/Furla Films, highly-anticipated film, End Of Watch, which stars Academy Award® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Academy Award® nominee Anna Kendrick, Frank Grillo and America Ferrera and is written and directed by David Ayer (writer/director of Street Kings and Harsh Times; screenwriter of Training Day, The Fast and the Furious and S.W.A.T.).
A powerful story of family, friendship, love, honor and courage, End Of Watch stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala as they patrol the city’s meanest streets of south central Los Angeles.
Giving the story a gripping, first-person immediacy, the action unfolds entirely through footage from the handheld HD cameras of the police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras, and citizens caught in the line of fire to create a riveting portrait of the city’s most dangerous corners, the cops who risk their lives there every day, and the price they and their families are forced to pay.

End of Watch is produced by David Ayer's Crave Films, John Lesher under his Le Grisbi Productions, and Nigel Sinclair and Matt Jackson of Exclusive Media who also financed the film, in association with Emmett/Furla Films.  Exclusive Media holds worldwide distribution rights.  Executive producers are Guy East and Exclusive Media’s Tobin Armbrust, Jake Gyllenhaal, Adam Kassan, Chrisann Verges, Randall Emmett and George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films, Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase.