What's at the Movies this Summer: 2024 Summer Box Office Preview
It's Thursday, May 2nd. That means tomorrow is officially the start of the summer season at the box office. Last summer had some monster hits. There was
Barbie ($612.3M),
Across the Spider-Verse ($381.2M) and
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 ($358.9M). Don't forget
Oppenheimer and its $310.6M, thanks in large part to large screen, IMAX to be specific. All told there were 13 Summer Blockbusters - that is $100 plus million dollar grossers. We also had surprise hits like
Talk to Me which made $44.6M in the hot season, a movie I saw in the theater and very much enjoyed. Do we got some heat on the horizon?
May 3rd Releases
Ryan Gosling kicks the season off with
The Fall Guy, which opens tomorrow.
Also releasing tomorrow is
Tarot, a Sony horror pic with Ned Leeds from the MCU Spider-Man movies. Incredibly, this is not a Blumhouse production.
May 10th Releases
We got
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth release in the franchise since 2011.
May 17th Releases
Ryan Reynolds, who will appear again, shows up in
IF, written and directed by John Krasinski. Steve Carell also stars alongside Krasinski, so we get an
Office reunion.
We get another horror entry -
The Strangers: Chapter 1, the first entry in the franchise since 2018's
Prey at Night.
May 24th Releases
It's the return of
Furiosa in
A Mad Max Saga. I didn't care if a
Fury Road but I may have to go back and re-watch it.
Chris Pratt is back with another voice role in an animated film, this time as Garfield in
The Garfield Movie.
June 7th Releases
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back with
Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Bad Boys for Life made
$206.3M back in 2020.
Dakota Fanning stars in
The Watchers, a horror flick from Warner Bros., who, when not trying to lose the NBA rights, is trying to take the top spot at the box office this year.
June 14th Releases
Pixar makes an appearance with
Inside Out 2, the sequel to
Inside Out, which had a $90M opening in June of 2015. Can the sequel get Disney•Pixar outta their flopping funk?
Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe reteam with Poor Things director, Yorgos Lanthimos, in
Kinds of Kindness. You already know this is probably
@Lootpack most anticipated movie of the summer.
The Bikeriders, starring Austin Butler, is a movie I would see solely for Jodie Comer. I got no use for Butler.
June 28th Releases
We got a heavy hitter with
A Quiet Place: Day One, with a story by John Krasinski.
July 3rd Releases
Independence Day weekend sees the release of a surefire smash hit with
Despicable Me 4. Certified Summer Blockbuster.
July 5th Releases
MaXXXine is the 3rd entry in the Ti West's
X franchise. I didn't really care for
Pearl. I much preferred the more conventional
X. Even though it was more conventional I still found it to be more entertaining movie.
July 12th Releases
We have another horror movie:
Longlegs, which stars Nic Cage and Maika Monroe (It Follows, Watcher and Significant Other).
Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson star and
Fly Me to the Moon, a rom-com that could maybe catch lightning in a bottle like Tatum's
The Lost City with Sandra Bullock.
July 19th Releases
Glen Powell, Hollywood's New golden boy, in that he's a traditional tall, blonde, hunk
stars in
Twisters.
July 26th Releases
Now we get to the big dog. The movie to restore the MCU to prominence:
Deadpool & Wolverine.
August 2nd Releases
We have another horror release with
Cuckoo.
Zachary Levi and Lil Rel star in
Harold and the Purple Crayon.
August 9th Releases
Videogame adaptations have been
lately and hopefully
Borderlands continues that trend. Cate Blanchett, who is in dire need of my penis, slums it with Jack Black and Kevin Hart. Maybe this could be a hit in the vein of
Dungeons & Dragons.
M. Night Shyamalan is back for the first time in a year in a half with
Trap, which stars Josh Hartnett, back in a primetime summer slot after appearing in
Oppenheimer last year. This looks like an updated Sudden Death with JCVD.
August 16th Releases
Kevin Costner is back in the Western scene on the big screen with
Horizon: An American Saga.
Alien: Romulus is the one I really wanna see. It's directed by Fede Alvarez, of
Don't Breathe and
Evil Dead fame. I was playing
Alien: Isolation a few months ago, which was very atmospheric.
August 23rd Releases
Bill Skarsgård, who is the Boy in
Boy Kills World, is
The Crow. I never liked the original
Crow.
Channing Tatum is back again with
Blink Twice, which is directed by Zoe Kravitz.
Might be worth it for Adria Arojna tho.
Those are all the big releases that will be in theaters this summer. Which flicks are y'all looking forward to seeing the most? I think it might be
Alien: Romulus for me.