Summer Movie Extravaganza
by MaxPower
Here is a quick cheatsheet with all the big movies and their release dates. Before anyone says anything - the number of sequels this year is similar to the five year average for sequals! But that being said there are a lot of #3 movies here (Shrek, Pirates, Ocean's, Bourne, Rush Hour).
Shrek the Third - May 18 (First two grossed $704M)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - May 25 (First two grossed $729M)
Hostel: Part II - June 8 (the original grossed $47M on a $4M budget)
Ocean's Thirteen - June 8
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - June 15
Evan Almighty - June 22
Live Free or Die Hard - June 27 (Die Hard sequel... really?)
Ratatouille - June 29 (Pixar magic continue or will it be too cheese-eating-surrender-monkeyeseque ?)
The Transformers - July 4 ('80's!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - July 13
Hairspray - July 20 (John Travolta, Billy Crystal and Michelle Pfeiffer)
The Simpsons Movie - July 27
The Bourne Ultimatum - Aug 3 (previous two films grossed $297M)
Rush Hour 3 - Aug 10
Other non-summer big movies include
Bee Movie - Nov 2 (animated with Jerry Seinfeld)
Beowulf - Nov 16 (Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie - finally first year English lit students get a decent movie version of this impossible to read book)
I Am Legend - Dec 14 (Will Smith and Johnny Depp - really?)
Alien vs. Predator 2 - Dec 25