Well kids, it’s going to be another summer of fun-filled remakes, sequels, and franchise resurrections. Maybe, if you are lucky, you will find something original, but it’s doubtful. Anyway, here’s a helpful guide to help you figure out what is typical Hollywood trash and what might be a little more. Limited release movies have not been included on this list and all information is subject to change.

(Information taken from www.comingsoon.net )

June 3, 2005

Cinderella Man

Genre: Drama

Starring: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger

Plot: Based on the true story of a boxer who makes a comeback and becomes an inspiration during the Great Depression.

High Tension

Genre: Horror

Starring: A lot of foreign unpronounceable names

Plot: A lot of pointless blood and killing.

Lords of Dogtown

Genre: Drama

Starring: Heath Ledger

Plot: Based on true events involving a group of small-town kids who form a skateboarding team and shape the world of skateboarding, as we know it today.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Genre: Drama

Starring: Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera

Plot: Four close friends have to spend their first summer apart and keep in contact by constantly exchanging (and wearing) a pair of pants (that just happens to fit them all).

June 10, 2005

The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D

Genre: Action

Starring: David Arquette

Plot: From writer/director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) comes the story of a 10-year-old outcast forced to spend his summer alone with his two imaginary friends Shark Boy and Lava Girl.



The Honeymooners

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Cedric The Entertainer

Plot: Two friends come up with a scheme to get out of Brookline and onto Easy Street.

Mr. And Mrs. Smith

Genre: Action

Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie

Plot: A remake of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller involving two assassins who are married but are unaware of each other’s occupations… that is until they are each hired to kill the other.

June 17, 2005

Batman Begins

Genre: Action

Starring: Christian Bale!!!

Plot: It’s Batman. The beginning. Figure it out.

The Perfect Man

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Starring: Hilary Duff

Plot: No such thing.

June 24, 2004

Bewitched

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell

Plot: Based on the classic television show (watch TV Land).

George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead

Genre: Horror

Starring: Zombies

Plot: From the creator of “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead” comes the story of a modern day world in which the dead reside on wastelands trying to lead “normal” lives.

Herbie: Fully Loaded

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Lindsay Lohan

Plot: Another remake about Herbie the Volkswagen Bug (except now he’s a racecar)…yay…

June 29, 2004

War of the Worlds

Genre: Science-fiction

Starring: Tom Cruise

Plot: From director Stephen Spielberg comes a retelling of the famous H.G. Wells (“The Invisible Man”) novel.

July 1, 2005

Rebound

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Martin Lawrence

Plot: A hothead college basketball coach gets a gig coaching little kids.

July 8, 2004

Dark Water

Genre: Horror

Starring: Jennifer Connelly

Plot: Another rip-off of a Japanese horror movie involving the story of a single mother and her daughter who move into a new apartment in an attempt to start a new life and find themselves being haunted by mysterious stains in their ceiling…wwwwooooo.



Fantastic Four

Genre: Action

Starring: TV stars

Plot: Based on the popular Marvel comic book series.

July 15, 2005

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Genre: Fantasy

Starring: Johnny!!!

Plot: Tim Burton’s version of the 1971 classic film.

Hustle & Flow

Genre: Drama

Starring: Terrence Dashon Howard

Plot: A pimp suffering from a midlife crisis find himself yearning to be a rap star.

Wedding Crashers

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson

Plot: The story of a couple of divorce mediators who enjoy spending their time crashing weddings and stealing the hearts of bridesmaids.

July 22, 2005

The Bad News Bears

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Billy Bob Thorton

Plot: Remake from the popular 1976 comedy.

The Devil’s Rejects

Genre: Horror

Starring: Who cares…

Plot: The sequel to “House of 1000 Corpses” brought to you by Rob Zombie.

The Island

Genre: Science-fiction

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson!!!

Plot: Futuristic story involving clones whose only purposes in life are to be “harvested” for their parts for their original human counterparts.

July 29, 2005

The Brothers Grimm

Genre: Fantasy

Starring: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger

Plot: The dark story of two brothers who travel around the Napoleonic countryside vanquishing monsters for money.

Must Love Dogs

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Diane Lane

Plot: The story of a woman who is going through a divorce, who ends up enrolled in multiple dating services by her family.

Sky High

Genre: Family Film

Starring: Kurt Russell

Plot: The tale of a school that grooms kids to become superheroes.

Stealth

Genre: Action

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel

Plot: The story of an out-of-control prototype drone fighter plane equipped with artificial intelligence that must be stopped.

August 5, 2005

Cry Wolf

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Jon Bon Jovi… “livin’ on a prayer!”

Plot: A modern day retelling of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”

The Dukes of Hazzard

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson

Plot: Based on the popular television show.

The Pink Panther

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Steve Martin

Plot: A remake of the popular film series.

August 12, 2005

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Rob Schneider

Plot: The sequel to Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.

Everything is Illuminated

Genre: Drama

Starring: Elijah Wood (a.k.a Frodo or Cannibal from “Sin City”)

Plot: The story of a young American Jewish man’s quest to find a woman who saved his grandfather in a small town in the Ukraine during World War II.



Four Brothers

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Mark Wahlberg

Plot: Four brothers come together to avenge the death of their mother.

The Skeleton Key

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Joy Bryant

Plot: A live-in nurse caring for an old couple in a creepy old mansion begins to explore its multiple rooms only to discover the couple’s terrifying secret.

August 17, 2005

Supercross

Genre: Action

Starring: Steve Howey, Mike Vogel, Daryl Hannah, Robert Patrick, Aaron Carter, Cameron Richardson, Ryan Locke, Carolyn Garcia

Plot: This story revolves around two brothers trying to make their way into the world of competitive motorcycle racing.

August 19, 2005

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener

Plot: Andy Stitzer has done quite a few things in his life. He’s got a great job, a nice apartment, and good friends. But, there’s one thing that he has not gotten around to doing…

Domino

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Keira Knightley, Mena Suvari, Christopher Walken, Lucy Liu, Mickey Rourke, Macy Gray, Jacqueline Bisset, Edgar Ramirez, Mo'Nique, Shondrella Avery, Dabney Coleman, Delroy Lindo, Brian Austin Green

Plot: The film tells the real-life story of Domino Harvey, a former Ford model who ditched her privileged Beverly Hills lifestyle to become a bounty hunter.

Red Eye

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy

Plot: Lisa Reisert has a fear of flying, but on an overnight flight to Miami she becomes entangled in a terrifying assassination plot.

Valiant

Genre: Action

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Everett, Hugh Laurie, John Hurt, Ricky Gervais, John Cleese, Tim Curry, Olivia Williams

Plot: This animated action/comedy is about a little wood pigeon named Valiant who becomes a hero during World War II when he enlists in Great Britain's Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service.

Zu Warriors

Genre: Action/Fantasy

Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Patrick Tam, Kelly Lin, Sammo Hung, Jacky Wu, Lan Shun

Plot: Beyond our world exists the mystic Kingdom of Zu that guards the mortal universe.

August 26, 2005

The Cave

Genre: Horror

Starring: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Lures, Lena Headey, Piper Perabo

Plot: When a 13th century abbey is discovered by a group of scientists deep in the Romanian forest, they soon discover that below it is a gigantic underground cave system. A team of explorers is then sent to investigate the old passageways.

Undiscovered

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Starring: Pell James, Steven Strait, Kip Pardue, Shannyn Sossamon, Fisher Stevens, Carrie Fisher, Peter Weller, Stephen Moyer, Ashlee Simpson

Plot: The story of an aspiring model that falls in love with a struggling musician after crossing paths on a subway train in New York.