Brace for wildness with ““Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)
No one is expecting Hollywood’s Summer of ’24 to match last year’s billion dollar Barbenheimer phenomenon.
Yet new blockbusters are sure to pop and suggest that, yes! moviegoers are going back to see movies in theaters and IMAX.
This weekend’s Ryan Gosling reboot of “The Fall Guy” opened the season. Here then a rollcall of Hollywood’s upcoming slate, knowing that dates may change.
May 10
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes:” The rebooted series gets a years-later sequel as war breaks out among apes, and humans suddenly matter.
May 17
“Back to Black:” Marisa Abela hopes to hit the proverbial gong in this biopic of talented, self-destructive, legendary and iconic Amy Winehouse.
“If:” This is Ryan Reynolds’ busy summer, beginning with this family-oriented fantasy comedy, before he steps back into Deadpool’s shoes in July.
“The Strangers: Chapter 1” illustrates why it’s never good to meet three masked psychopaths when you travel.
May 24
George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is the fifth film in the series but a prequel to the last one. Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth head the latest eye-opening salvo of frenetic action, violence and sexually charged tension.
May 31
“Summer Camp” stars a trio of beloved veterans – Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodward – in, what else, a comedy.
June 7
Richard Linklater’s winning spin on a true-life Texas case of a teacher-turned-undercover cop, “Hit Man” scores with Glen Powell’s mesmerizing work.
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die:” This 4th round in the comedic feel-good franchise reteams Will Smith, still on the comeback trail after The Slap, with Martin Lawrence,
June 14
“Inside Out 2:” New emotions, including Anxiety, make for merry Pixar times in this sequel.
Following in her father’s famous shoes Ishana Night Shyamalan offers – no surprise! – a supernatural horror film “The Watchers,” starring Dakota Fanning.
June 21
Rising stars Jodie Comer and Austin Butler join Tom Hardy in “The Bike Riders” about a Midwest motorcycle club drifting to the dark side.
Set in a psychiatric hospital, “What Remains” finds an alleged serial killer, his therapist and a police detective covering a cold case. Andrea Riseborough and Stellan Skarsgard star.
June 28
Kevin Costner’s epic Civil War-era Western, “Horizon Part 1” opens, followed on Aug. 16 by “Chapter Two.”
July 3
“Despicable Me 4:” More Minions mayhem! AND Will Ferrell voices sinister villainess Maxime Le Mal.
July 12
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in an aptly titled NASA-set rom-com “Fly Me to the Moon.”
July 19
Nature is furious and “Twisters” fields a team ready to report the effects of climate change in this sequel to 1996 “Twister.”
July 26
“Deadpool and Wolverine” says it all – a union between two of Marvel’s most beloved characters with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman teaming a second time.
Aug. 2
“The Instigators” pairs Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as thieves on the run – with one of their therapists.
Aug. 9
“It Ends with Us:” Publishing phenomenon Colleen Hoover’s first film adaptation stars Blake Lively and is set in Boston. Justin Baldoni directs and co-stars.
M. Knight Shyamalan’s “Trap” promises to be one gigantic, nonstop chase as a serial killer is pursued by cops at a pop concert.
Aug. 16
Cinema’s creepiest crawlers return in “Alien: Romulus,” the landmark horror series’ 7th installment.
Aug. 23
Bill Skarsgård stars in “The Crow” which reboots and provides a sequel to the 1994 vengeance-from-beyond thriller notorious for the on-set death of its star Brandon Lee.
