Summer Movie Calendar 2018

David Tennant stars in this thriller from Geostorm director Dean Devlin about a thieving valet (Robert Sheehan) who encounters more than he bargained for when he finds a captive woman in the home of a wealthy victim.

Starring: David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Carlito Olivero, Kerry Condon

Directed By: Dean Devlin

In this gender-swapped remake of the 1987 film, Anna Faris plays a working-class mother who saves the life of a spoiled, wealthy playboy (Eugenio Derbez) and pretends to be his wife when she realizes he lost his memory in the accident.

Starring: Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, John Hannah

Directed By: Rob Greenberg

Director Jason Reitman reunites with writer Diablo Cody and star Charlize Theron in this comedy about a struggling single mother of three who forms an unlikely bond with the young nanny (Mackenzie Davis) her brother has hired for her.

Starring: Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass, Ron Livingston

Directed By: Jason Reitman

In something of a reversal of David Fincher’s Panic Room, this thriller follows a determined mother (Gabrielle Union) attempting to break into a fortified home to save her children from the band of robbers who have taken it over.

Starring: Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Richard Cabral, Ajiona Alexus

Directed By: James McTeigue

Melissa McCarthy teams up with her husband, director Ben Falcone, for their third outing together in this comedy about a recently single mother who decides to go back to college and ends up in the same class as her daughter.

Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Gillian Jacobs, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen

Directed By: Ben Falcone

Everybody’s favorite Merc with a Mouth is back, and this time he’s got some new friends, as Deadpool teams up with a band of soldiers to protect a young mutant from being kidnapped by a time-traveling commando named Cable.

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz

Directed By: David Leitch

Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen star in this comedy for the older set, about four lifelong friends whose lives are rejuvenated when they all decide to read Fifty Shades of Grey together.

Starring: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen

Directed By: Bill Holderman

If talking animals are your thing, you’ll want to check out this family comedy, which stars Will Arnett as a detective and Ludacris as the voice of his canine partner, as the pair go undercover to solve a case at a prestigious dog show.

Starring: Will Arnett, Natasha Lyonne, RuPaul, Ludacris

Directed By: Raja Gosnell

Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan stars in this period drama that recounts the romance between a young grad student and a violinist from vastly different cultural bakgrounds.

Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Samuel West

Directed By: Dominic Cooke

Alden Ehrenreich steps into Harrison Ford’s shoes as Han Solo in the latest standalone spinoff in the Star Wars universe, which depicts the young smuggler years before he met Luke and Leia and helped take down the Empire.

Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson

Directed By: Ron Howard

Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth star in this dramatized account of the relationship between poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, as well as the fateful night that led the latter to write Frankenstein.

Starring: Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Tom Sturridge

Directed By: Haifaa Al-Mansour

Like Bad Grandpa before it, this comedy weaves real — and hilariously dangerous — Jackass-style stunts into a story about a young amusement park owner (Johnny Knoxville) who pulls out all the stops in order to save the park from closure.

Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Dan Bakkedahl, Matt Schulze

Directed By: Tim Kirkby

Based on a true story, this survival drama stars Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin as a young couple who set sail across the ocean together but find themselves marooned at sea after an unexpected encounter with a powerful hurricane.

Starring: Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas, Elizabeth Hawthorne

Directed By: Baltasar Kormákur

Based on a true story, this crime drama follows four friends who, struggling with life and inspired by heist movies, attempt to rob a college of its valuable private book collection.

Starring: Barry Keoghan, Evan Peters, Jared Abrahamson, Blake Jenner

Directed By: Bart Layton

Logan Marshall-Green stars in Leigh Whannell’s sci-fi thriller about a mugging victim who seeks revenge for the death of his wife after he recieves an experimental treatment that gives him superhuman abilities.

Starring: Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson, Christopher Kirby

Directed By: Leigh Whannell

A rousing crowd-pleaser at Sundance where it premiered, this supernatural horror film stars Toni Collette as a woman who suspects her recently deceased mother is terrorizing her daughter from beyond the grave.

Starring: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd

Directed By: Ari Aster

In this spinoff of the hit Steven Soderbergh trilogy, Sandra Bullock plays Debbie Ocean (sister to George Clooney’s Danny), who gathers an all-female team for a heist at the famous Met Gala in New York City.

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter

Directed By: Gary Ross

Bring your handkerchiefs for this insightful documentary look at the life of Fred Rogers, the man behind the influential TV series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which entertained and educated children for generations.

Starring: Joanne Rogers, Bill Isler, Hedda Sharapan, Margaret Whitmer

Directed By: Morgan Neville

Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, and Jeff Goldblum lead an all-star cast in this dystopian action film that revolves around a woman who runs a secret hospital for criminals.

Starring: Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum

Directed By: Drew Pearce

Pixar’s superpowered Parr family are back in this sequel that picks up literally right where The Incredibles left off and follows Elastigirl’s return to fame, while Bob and the kids try to get used to normal life.

Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner

Directed By: Brad Bird

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard reprise their roles in the latest chapter of the Jurassic Park franchise, which finds their characters returning to the island to save the dinos from a volcanic eruption.

Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum, Ted Levine

Directed By: J. A. Bayona

The latest from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell stars Andrew Garfield as a disillusioned man who meets a mysterious woman and then embarks on a search through Los Angeles to find her when she suddenly disappears.

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Patrick Fischler

Directed By: David Robert Mitchell

Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro return — sans Emily Blunt and director Denis Villeneuve — for this sequel that focuses on a federal agent’s efforts to curb drug trafficking at the US-Mexico border.

Starring: Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced, Jeffrey Donovan

Directed By: Stefano Sollima

Have you seen those videos where NBA star Kyrie Irving dresses up in old-person makeup, calls himself Uncle Drew, and destroys opposing teams in pick-up basketball games? This is that, in feature-length form.

Starring: Kyrie Irving, Lil Rel Howery, Nick Kroll, Shaquille O'Neal

Directed By: Charles Stone III

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star in this remake of the 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels about a pair of conmen competing with each other to bamboozle a wealthy heiress out of her fortune.

Starring: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp, Ingrid Oliver

Directed By: Chris Addison

Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, and Mike Myers headline this stylized crime thriller about a pair of hitmen whose mysterious — but lucrative — mission is compromised by an equally mysterious woman.

Starring: Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, Dexter Fletcher, Mike Myers

Directed By: Vaughn Stein

The Purge franchise finally goes the prequel route, this time tracing the origins of the national day of mayhem that allows any crime to be committed for a 12-hour period with no legal consequences.

Starring: Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Mugga

Directed By: Gerard McMurray

Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, and Michael Douglas return for this post-Ifinity War Marvel sequel, in which thief-turned-superhero Scott Lang takes on a partner and struggles to balance his dual life.

Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña

Directed By: Peyton Reed

LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, and Armie Hammer star in rapper Boots Riley’s directorial debut, a surreal social satire about a black telemarketer whose career is propelled by the efficacy of his “white voice.”

Starring: LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick

Directed By: Boots Riley

In this third installment of the animated series, Dracula (Adam Sandler) takes his family on a vacation cruise, where he falls in love with the ship’s captain, much to his daughter Mavis’ (Selena Gomez) dismay.

Starring: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James

Directed By: Genndy Tartakovsky

The 2018 Dwayne Johnson destruction tour continues, as the affable action star plays a building inspector framed for a crime he didn’t commit who must clear his name and rescue his family.

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller

Directed By: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Gus Van Sant directs this based-on-true-events drama about renowned cartoonist John Callahan (played by Joqauin Phoenix), who only discovered his talent when he became a quadriplegic after a drunk driving accident.

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black

Directed By: Gus Van Sant

Bo Burnham’s coming-of-age comedy centers on a young teen (Elsie Fisher) trying to make the best of the last week of her dreadful eighth grade year.

Starring: Elsie Fisher, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis

Directed By: Bo Burnham

Denzel Washington returns to reprise his role as Robert McCall, the former CIA operative who becomes a vigilante hero, in this seqeuel directed by frequent collaborator Antoine Fuqua.

Starring: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Bill Pullman

Directed By: Antoine Fuqua

Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and the rest of the cast — along with Cher — are back in this sequel to the 2008 musical comedy, which cuts back and forth from the present to Donna’s romantic past.

Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth

Directed By: Ol Parker

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team of high-octane spies come back to the big screen under the guidance of director Christopher McQuarrie, who also helmed Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in 2015.

Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg

Directed By: Christopher McQuarrie

The popular DC Comics-based animated series comes to the big screen as the Teen Titans search for a director to helm their own movie, only to be set back by the nefarious plans of their nemesis Slade.

Starring: Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong

Directed By: Peter Rida Michail, Aaron Horvath

Indie darlings Timothée Chalamet and Maika Monroe star in this coming-of-age drama about a young man who arrives in Cape Cod for the summer, starts selling weed, and falls in love with his business partner’s sister.

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Alex Roe, Maika Monroe, Maia Mitchell

Directed By: Elijah Bynum

Daveed Diggs co-wrote and stars in this comedy — about a man on probation who witnesses a police shooting — that utilizes humor to address issues of race, class, and gentrification.

Starring: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones

Directed By: Carlos López Estrada

Based on the YA novel of the same name, this sci-fi fantasy follows a group of teens with superhuman powers on the run from a government after a plague has killed off the majority of the country’s children.

Starring: Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Bradley Whitford, Harris Dickinson

Directed By: Jennifer Yuh Nelson

This CGI/live-action family film stars Ewan McGregor as the titular A.A. Milne character, who’s all grown up and needs a little nudge from a certain honey-loving bear to rekindle the spirit of his youth.

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss

Directed By: Marc Forster

Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg have worked on three Certified Fresh films together, and they hope to do it again with their latest, about an intelligence operative attempting to smuggle a high-value target out of the country.

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich

Directed By: Peter Berg

John Cho and Debra Messing star in this thriller about a desperate father trying to locate his missing daughter by following clues discovered in her laptop with the help of a local detective.

Starring: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La

Directed By: Aneesh Chaganty

Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon join forces for this action-comedy about a pair of best friends who find themselves in the middle of a life-or-death conspiracy when one of their exes suddenly appears with assassins on his trail.

Starring: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan

Directed By: Susanna Fogel

This sci-fi adventure film in the vein of E.T., D.A.R.Y.L., and Short Circuit centers on a teenager who discovers and befriends a state-of-the-art A.I. in the form of a dog and attempts to keep it safe from the evil scientists who want it back.

Starring: Alex Neustaedter, Becky G, Alex MacNicoll, Dominic Rains

Directed By: Oliver Daly

Ken Marino directs this ensemble comedy that follows several Los Angeles dog owners whose lives begin to intertwine and impact each other in unexpected ways.

Starring: Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens, Adam Pally, Eva Longoria

Directed By: Ken Marino

It’s got Jason Statham. It’s got a giant shark. Its tagline is “Pleased to eat you.” You know exactly what you’re getting into here.

Starring: Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis

Directed By: Jon Turteltaub

John Goodman and Vera Farmiga star in Rupert Wyatt’s sci-fi thriller that explores the impact on the lives of people living in a Chicago neighborhood that was occupied by alien forces a decade earlier.

Starring: John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Vera Farmiga

Directed By: Rupert Wyatt

Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh star in this comedy about a woman who accompanies her boyfriend back to Singapore, only to discover he comes from an ultra-wealthy family and he’s one of the country’s most eligible bachelors.

Starring: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan

Directed By: Jon M. Chu

Melissa McCarthy and Elizabeth Banks headline this noir-ish comedy from Brian Henson about a human cop and a puppet detective who must work together to solve the serial murders of the cast of a popular 1980s children’s show.

Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker

Directed By: Brian Henson

Matthew McConaughey stars in this true story about a young man during the 1980s crack epidemic who became a police informant for Detroit police, who then unceremoniously sentenced him to life in prison.

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Directed By: Yann Demange

Keanu Reeves and Alice Eve star in this sci-fi thriller about a man who becomes obsessed with bringing his family back — in any way possible — after they are killed in a car accident.

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Thomas Middleditch, Alice Eve, John Ortiz

Directed By: Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Based on the meme-inspired legends, this supernatural horror film follows a group of girls who attempt to debunk the existence of the titular specter but suspect they might be wrong when one of them goes missing.

Starring: Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso

Directed By: Sylvain White

James Franco and Zoë Kravitz star in this sci-fi action film about a pair of brothers who are forced to go on the run by a vengeful criminal, with only a mysterious weapon of unknown origins at their disposal.

Starring: Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Carrie Coon

Directed By: Jonathan Baker, Josh Baker