Summer Movie Guide: 18 Films We Can’t Wait to See Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Universal Studios1/18Pitch Perfect 2
The sequel to the 2012 hit finds the Barden Bellas taking their aca-amazing skills to the world championship of a capella. The only hitch: No American team has ever won. But have they ever heard Anna Kendrick sing “Cups” before?
Premieres May 15
Tomorrowland | Photo: Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures2/18Tomorrowland
All we know about this movie is that it stars George Clooney and a girl who could be **Jennifer Lawrence'**s sister (Britt Robertson), and it was co-written by Damon Lindelof (Lost) and directed by Brad Bird (Ratatouille). Hope for answers, expect airborne bathtubs.
Premieres May 22
Aloha | Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Industries3/18Aloha
In **Cameron Crowe’**s Aloha, a decorated military contractor (Bradley Cooper) returns to his Hawaiian stomping grounds in the hopes of rekindling a former flame (Rachel McAdams). But what’s a rom-com without a love triangle? Enter Emma Stone as the quirky and oh-so-lovable colleague. John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, and Bill Murray round out the cast.
Premieres May 29
Photo: Francois Duhamel4/18Love & Mercy
Paul Dano gets the role of his life as Brian Wilson in the ambitious Beach Boys biopic that could give summer a whiff of awards season. John Cusack, Paul Giamatti, and Elizabeth Banks also star.
Premieres June 5
Photo: Courtesy of Universal Studios5/18Jurassic World
In case his abs in Guardians of the Galaxy left you with any doubt: Chris Pratt is now a giant movie star. So who better to navigate us through yet another Jurassic mishap? From Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes a reboot of the dino-filled thriller. New park, new cast, same old tricky genetics.
Premieres June 12
Photo: Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures6/18Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The adaptation of **Jesse Andrews’**s novel of the same name premiered at Sundance and won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Thomas Mann stars as Greg, an oddball teen who’s charged with spending time with a classmate who’s been diagnosed with leukemia (played by Olivia Cooke). It’s a tween-aged tearjerker that’s worth its weight in tissues.
Premieres June 12
Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film7/18Madame Bovary
From Brontë to Flaubert, Mia Wasikowska continues her tour of literary adaptations. Wasikowska stars as the adulterous lead with Logan Marshall-Green and Ezra Miller playing her bedfellows and Henry Lloyd-Hughes as her husband.
Premieres June 12
Photo: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures8/18The Wolfpack
The Wolfpack tells the story of a family who homeschool their seven children in a cramped New York City apartment. The Crystal Moselle–directed film won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Premieres June 12
Photo: Courtesy of Open Road Films9/18Dope
Another Sundance sparkler, Dope had a bidding war on its hands after premiering at this year’s festival. Open Road Films won the rights to this offbeat coming-of-age story about a nineties hip-hop geek and straight-A student’s misadventures growing up in Inglewood, California. Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa (Brown Sugar), the film was produced by Forest Whitaker with Sean “Diddy” Combs and Pharrell Williams serving as executive producers.
Premieres June 19
Photo: Courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures10/18Inside Out
From animated guru Peter Docter (Up), Inside Out follows Riley, a Midwestern girl having trouble adjusting to her new San Francisco home. The film takes a playful spin on the turmoil of adolescence by personifying emotion through a quirky character—Amy Poehler plays Joy, Mindy Kaling plays Disgust. Get ready for your next favorite Disney-Pixar film.
Premieres June 19
Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features11/18A Little Chaos
Love periwigs, seventeenth-century France period pieces, and the velvety timbre of **Alan Rickman’**s voice? A Little Chaos is up your alley. Directed by Rickman (who also plays King Louis XIV), the film centers around Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts, star-crossed landscapers who are designing the elaborate gardens of Versailles.
Premieres June 26
Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures12/18Magic Mike XXL
After hanging up his stripper pants, Magic Mike (Channing Tatum) and the rest of the Kings of Tampa are back for the biggest innuendo-producing blockbuster of the summer.
Premieres July 1
Photo: Courtesy of Universal Studios13/18Trainwreck
Who better to take on the now-defunct genre of rom-coms than the infallible Amy Schumer? Here she stars as a commitment phobe who finds herself in an unusual situation: falling for a guy (played by funnyman Bill Hader).
Premieres July 17
Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film14/18Paper Towns
In this John Green (The Fault in Our Stars) adaptation, Cara Delevingne stars as the dream girl Margo Roth Spiegelman, “inarguably the most gorgeous creature God had ever created.” Nat Wolff plays the pining next-door neighbor who, after Margo mysteriously disappears, goes on the ride of his life to find her.
Premieres July 24
Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures15/18Pan
From Joe Wright (Atonement) comes the origin story of the famed bedtime classic. Levi Miller plays a pint-sized Peter Pan, while Hugh Jackman stars as the villain Blackbeard, Garrett Hedlund plays the not-yet-evil Hook, Rooney Mara takes on the role of Tiger Lily, and Cara Delevingne has her second big-screen role of the summer as a mermaid.
Premieres July 24
Photo: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics16/18Irrational Man
Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix star in **Woody Allen’**s latest film about—what else?— a man going through an existential crisis.
Premieres July 24
Photo: Courtesy of TriStar Pictures17/18Ricki and the Flash
Written by Diablo Cody (Juno), Meryl Streep stars as Ricki, an eighties rocker who had abandoned her family to pursue her rock’-n’-roll dreams. With her children all grown up, Ricki returns and endeavors to make things right.
Premieres August 7
Photo: Courtesy of IFC Films18/18Sleeping with Other People
From Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) comes another irreverent romantic comedy. Here, a womanizer (Jason Sudeikis) and a serial cheater (Alison Brie) enter into a platonic pact to reform their ways but—surprise!—things don’t go according to plan. Amanda Peet, Adam Scott, Natasha Lyonne also star.
Premieres August 21
