Kicking off the summer much as they’ve done the last decade is the latest Marvel movie The Avengers: End Game on April, 26. This finalé to The Avengers: Infinity War last summer is supposed to tie up a bunch of loose ends while at the same time securing the future of the franchise for many more years to come.
The live-action version of the animated movie Aladdin starring Will Smith as the genie hits theaters May 24. This one’s been getting a lot of press, not all of it good, mostly focusing on how weird Smith looks as the blue genie originally voiced by Robin Williams.
Brightburn, also on May 24, looks to be a horror take on the Superman origin story, or what would happen if little Clark Kent wasn’t a good kid but an evil little !@#$.
The second of the modern Godzilla movies Godzilla: King of the Monsters roars into theaters May 31 five years after the first. This time Godzilla isn’t just fighting the Mutos from Godzilla, this time he/she/it’s fighting Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah.
The oft-delayed X-Men movie Dark Phoenix is supposed to finally hit theaters June 7, though I won’t believe that until I see it. This last film in an X-Men franchise that has spanned the last 19 years sees the characters off before the team is swallowed up into the Disney/Marvel movie behemoth, the one foe who actually took the X-Men down!
A new take on Men in Black is Men in Black: International in theaters June 14. Replacing Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the lead roles are Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as Agents “H” and “M” respectively.
19 years after the previous movie comes Shaft also June 14. Sam Jackson returns as Shaft from the 2000 movie but also the original Shaft Richard Roundtree as well as new Shaft Jessie Usher will star in the movie too.
Nine years after the final Toy Story movie was released comes a brand new Toy Story movie with Toy Story 4 on June 21. I guess Pixar was just kiddin’ when they said Toy Story 3 was going to be the last. In a brilliant move in counter-programming, a reboot of the evil-doll movie Child’s Play is also set to be released the same day Toy Story 4 is. Let’s hope that people buying tickets to these movies don’t get mixed up and go into the wrong theaters. Then again, let’s hope they do!”
Not quite a full Marvel Studios movie, but a Marvel movie none-the-less, is Spider-Man: Far From Home out July 5. This sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming from 2017 sees Spidey taking a school trip to Europe where he must face off against the evil Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) while he’s far from home. Get it!?
The Lion King is getting what’s reported to be a “live action” remake out July 19, except it’s just as animated as the 1994 original but rather than being hand-drawn this one’s being created by animators using computers.
July 26 sees the release of the latest Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that reportedly deals with Charles Manson murders while the even longer delayed than Dark Phoenix but still an X-Men movie The New Mutants is supposed to finally get a release August 2.