{"id":14228,"date":"2017-04-28T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:29:24","slug":"summer-movie-preview-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=14228","title":{"rendered":"Summer Movie Preview 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time sure flies, doesn&#8217;t it? Well, it appears to pass even faster in Hollywood. After something of a lull at cinemas this week (the newest releases aren&#8217;t even being screened for the press), the summer season is about to arrive. Sure, according to the Gregorian calendar we&#8217;re not even close to those long, lazy, heat-filled days of shorts and sunglasses. Yet the movie studios have other ideas. They&#8217;re already hoping to pack cinemas with big, expensive, and often goofier movie fare. Here are the highlights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Snatched-Poster-Fixed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Snatched-Poster-Fixed-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Snatched-Poster-Fixed\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14229\" \/><\/a>It all starts on May 5th, with the arrival of <em>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/em>. Based on the Marvel comic book characters, it&#8217;ll find protagonist Peter Quill on a search for his long lost father and is pretty certain to be one of the biggest titles of the season. The following week, audiences will be taking a trip to England to be reintroduced to an old fable about the Knights of the Round Table in <em>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword<\/em>. <em>Snatched<\/em> arrives the very same week. It&#8217;s one of the few flicks this season that isn&#8217;t a sequel or remake; this is a buddy picture featuring comedians Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn as mother and daughter who end up kidnapped and lost in the jungle while vacationing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/alien-covenant-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/alien-covenant-poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"alien-covenant-poster\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14230\" \/><\/a>Later in the month, <em>Alien: Covenant<\/em> attempts to answer a few questions after the events of <em>Prometheus<\/em>, while drumming up more scares and chills along the way. Who knows what to make of the tongue-in-cheek Dwayne Johnson\/Zach Efron take on the David Hasselhoff show, <em>Baywatch<\/em>? Or for that matter, <em>Everything, Everything<\/em>, a teen romance that sounds like an update of the John Travolta TV-movie, <em>The Boy in the Plastic Bubble<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>May ends with another franchise tentpole, <em>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales<\/em>. Johnny Depp returns once again as Captain Jack Sparrow setting out to find Poseidon&#8217;s Trident in order to fight a vicious ghost pirate played by Javier Bardem. Original film co-stars Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom are also said to return to the series as well. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wonder-woman-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wonder-woman-poster-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Wonder-woman-poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14233\" \/><\/a>With the arrival of June, the movies get even bigger and presumably louder. <em>Wonder Woman<\/em> is another superhero getting the big screen treatment; Gal Gadot plays the title character. A different kind of guardian takes to the screen in the (thankfully) animated children&#8217;s flick, <em>Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie<\/em>. Universal Pictures has been trying to resurrect their classic monster line and set up a new universe featuring all the characters. They had some trouble with 2014&#8217;s <em>Dracula Untold<\/em>, but hope to change things with the more elaborate and expensive Tom Cruise redo of <em>The Mummy<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Animation studio Pixar are also prepping the release of a sequel; <em>Cars 3<\/em> features Lightning McQueen heading out to face off against new vehicles and prove he&#8217;s still the fastest. And while no one appears to be clamoring for yet another follow-up, <em>Transformers: The Last Knight<\/em> aims to make eardrums bleed and confuse those attempting to decipher any kind of logical plot as a war breaks out between humans and the robots.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baby-Driver-fixed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Baby-Driver-fixed-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Baby-Driver-fixed\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14234\" \/><\/a>Hopefully <em>Baby Driver<\/em> can help alleviate some of the cinematic repetition. The latest from director Edgar Wright (<em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em>, <em>Hot Fuzz<\/em>) is a heist film about a young getaway driver that wowed festival audiences at South by Southwest. Whether it&#8217;ll find a larger audience remains to be seen. Scarlett Johansson stars in the bachelorette party comedy, <em>Rough Night<\/em>. And <em>Despicable Me 3<\/em> promises more animated family-friendly fun as ex-evil mastermind Gru discovers that he has a cheerful and exceedingly upbeat sibling.<\/p>\n<p>July also has some very intriguing releases. Hoping no one has gotten tired of superheroes by mid-summer, Marvel will release <em>Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em>, the latest live-action revamp of the popular web-slinger. Personally, it&#8217;s the next couple of weeks that boast some of the most exciting releases. So far, the new <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em> movies have marked one of the better attempts at revitalizing a preexisting property. The latest, <em>War for the Planet of the Apes<\/em>, portrays an epic struggle between lead simian Caesar squaring off against an army of angry humans. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dunkirk-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dunkirk-Poster-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Dunkirk-Poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14236\" \/><\/a>Director Luc Besson (<em>The Fifth Element<\/em>) returns to his science-fiction roots with an eye-popping adaptation of the French comic series, <em>Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets<\/em>. <em>Dunkirk<\/em> offers weightier fare for movie fans. This WWII tale about Allied forces trapped in the titular city is considered a tide-turning mission in the war. The all-star feature comes from filmmaker Christopher Nolan (<em>Memento<\/em>, <em>The Prestige<\/em>, <em>Batman: The Dark Knight<\/em>, <em>Inception<\/em>, <em>Interstellar<\/em>). Finally, Charlize Theron plays an undercover secret agent in the comic book adaptation, <em>Atomic Blonde<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dark_tower-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dark_tower-poster-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"dark_tower-poster\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14237\" \/><\/a>As always, August is a little slimmer, but there are a couple of big movies, including <em>The Dark Tower<\/em>, a fantasy based on the books by Stephen King. The horror film <em>Annabelle 2<\/em> finds a possessed doll getting up to more malevolent mischief with a new set of owners. Find clowns scary? It is safe to say that most people do find them unsettling, and as September rolls around, audiences will get a feature version of another popular Stephen King novel, It. Word on the street is that the movie is the first of a planned two-film adaptation. <\/p>\n<p>The movies won&#8217;t all be excellent, but some of them are sure to provide fun entertainment for viewing audiences. Who knows, a couple of films might provide thoughtful, insightful fare as well. And let&#8217;s hope there are a few sleepers no one knows about that might surprise us all. Whatever happens, there will be no shortage of flicks to see this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time sure flies, doesn&#8217;t it? Well, it appears to pass even faster in Hollywood. After something of a lull at cinemas this week (the newest releases aren&#8217;t even being screened for the press), the summer season is about to arrive. Sure, according to the Gregorian calendar we&#8217;re not even close to those long, lazy, heat-filled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[188,19308,19309],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-articles","tag-188","tag-summer-movie-preview-2017","tag-summer-movies"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}