Summer 2024 movie preview: everything else worth paying attention to
Genre fans will be eating well this summer—and there are still plenty of blockbusters on offer, too
Film Features Rob Delaney
Clockwise from bottom left: Good One (Metrograph Pictures), Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney/Marvel), The Watchers (Warner Bros.), Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios) Graphic: The A.V. Club
Yesterday, we took a look at the films that really stand out to us this summer, but there are still plenty of other movies on the docket that are also worth keeping an eye on. Blockbusters, rom-coms, indies, horror flicks—here are 25 more films to check out over the next few months.
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Dammit Renny, we don’t need to know the origin story of the freaky masked killers. This thing is going to be a damn train wreck. Can we all collectively agree to skip this and just rewatch the masterful original instead?
just the way it is, once something kinda makes it then they have to milk it all the way to VOD, where we will get The Strangers: Tea Time…
The Strangers: The Beginning: Origins: Part Four
I was shocked to Renny Harlin’s name as the director on this. I thought he was forever in “director jail” and would never again be at the helm of a wide theatrical release.
The thing is, was the movie he was in exile for, “Cutthroat Island”, really that bad? Yes, it flopped, but the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, which were basically the same deal, were later hits. Audiences are fickle.
Mad Max?
A Quiet Place, while great, wasn’t Krasinski’s directorial debut. I mean, just open IMDB. Sheesh.
Yesterday, we took a look at the films that really stand out to us this summerYeah, and you managed to do it without a goddamn slide show, too.And I’m disappointed to learn that Sean Penn’s Daddio is not a remake of Daddy-O, the 1958 Dick Contino tour-de-force.
I’m hoping this is a science experiment to see what kind of digital marketing metrics shake out of the two approaches (slideshow/no slideshow). I had a client 5+ years ago that was in the digital marketing space and they had already abandoned slide shows because while you got more impressions per article, the individual engagement was negligible because viewers moved from slide to slide so quickly. Which is why I was surprised Giz sites leaned so heavily into them.
The ads on this site made going through the slide maddening.
The Idea of You movie must be eons better than the book, which was the most absurd wish fulfillment nonsense I’d ever read (my defense – we were at the beach and I was out of reading material so borrowed it from my wife. True story). 40s divorcee who is in perfect physical condition, lives a very comfortable LA lifestyle running an art gallery that features only work by women of color, and is pursued by the most popular 20 year-old on the planet after he meets her with her daughter backstage after a concert. At least they aged him up a couple of years. Oh, and he has a huge dick and makes her want to do things she never did with her husband. She could also jet off to Japan with him for long weekends and leave her kid and the gallery to her ex and business partner, respectively, any time she pleased. It’s like if the 50 Shades woman was into One Direction instead of Twilight.
A Quiet Place was Krasinski’s 3rd movie as a director, not his directorial debut.
Not one single robot dinosaur in the Horizon trailer. wtf
Blink Twice looks awesome but man that name change. It almost feels passive aggressive to go so bland like that.
I hope Daddio is good because it’s nice to see Sean Penn just being a good actor in a movie.
Man, surprised no one’s jumped in yet, so here goes: Sean “Assault & Battery” Penn can go fuck himself.
I’m disappointed that “IF” isn’t a remake of “If…” the 1968 film that was basically “Lord of the Flies” set in a fancy boarding school. It’s also the film that Stanley Kubrick saw Malcolm McDowell in and decided to cast him as Alex in “A Clockwork Orange”.
The twist (and I’m not spoiling anything that isn’t revealed in the
trailer) is that Hartnett’s character may be The Butcher himself. Ever
since the trailer dropped there’s been speculation that the film could
have another big twist in storeI bet it turns out that the daughter is actually The Butcher. I’m joking, but also not. That’s exactly the sort of thing M. Night would do.
I caught Hypnotic in a theater last year and had such a surprisingly great time that my New Year’s resolution was to catch more schlock. This seems perfect for that, mostly because I also immediately went “it’s the daughter.” That seems way too obvious and strains credulity…but it also sounds fun?