{"id":97348,"date":"2024-05-15T01:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/summer-2024s-biggest-blockbuster-movies-a-complete-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T01:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:18:24","slug":"summer-2024s-biggest-blockbuster-movies-a-complete-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/summer-2024s-biggest-blockbuster-movies-a-complete-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2024\u2019s Biggest Blockbuster Movies: A Complete Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"


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From action adventure to heartbreaking romance, there is a summer blockbuster for every type of cinephile this year, and Us Weekly<\/em> has your complete guide to all of them.<\/p>\n

Potentially the most anticipated movie of the season, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/em>, serves as the fifth installment in director George Miller\u2019s<\/strong> post-apocalyptic franchise. The film follows a young Furiosa played by Anya-Taylor Joy<\/strong> \u2014 first made famous by Charlize Theron<\/strong> in 2015\u2019s Max Max: Fury Road<\/em> \u2014 as she finds herself snatched from her home and caught between two rival tyrants, Dr. Dementus (Chris Hemsworth<\/strong>) and Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Creating a summer epic, however, isn\u2019t always an easy feat. Taylor-Joy told The New York Times<\/em><\/a> in May that she would go \u201cmonths\u201d on the movie\u2019s Australia set without speaking a single line of dialogue, noting that she\u2019s \u201cnever been more alone than making that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor-Joy did clarify, however, that her grievances were less about Miller as a director and more about what was required of her to bring Furiosa to life.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tWarner Bros.\/Universal (2) This is a Top 20 Movies of 2023 post, so obviously we must start with \u2026 Taylor Swift. Seriously. Go back to October, when the devastating SAG-AFTRA strike was still in full throttle. High-profile projects like Dune 2 had been jettisoned to 2024; the films that were being released couldn\u2019t benefit from [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI do want to 100 percent preface this by saying I love George and if you\u2019re going to do something like this, you want to be in the hands of someone like George Miller,\u201d she explained. \u201cBut he had a very, very strict idea of what Furiosa\u2019s war face looked like, and that only allowed me my eyes for a large portion of the movie. It was very much \u2018mouth closed, no emotion, speak with your eyes.\u2019 That\u2019s it, that\u2019s all you have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the challenges of the role, Taylor-Joy added that she was interested in playing the character because she is a \u201creally strong advocate of female rage,\u201d and demanded that Furiosa\u2019s pain come across on screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re animals, and there\u2019s a point where somebody just snaps,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere\u2019s one scream in that movie, and I am not joking when I tell you that I fought for that scream for three months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep scrolling for the Us\u2019<\/em> biggest summer blockbusters of 2024:<\/p>\n

\u2018Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, May 24<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> Expanding George Miller\u2019s franchise, Mad Max\u2019s<\/em> fifth installment follows a young Furiosa (Joy) who, after being snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dr. Dementus (Hemsworth). As they sweep through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe (Hulme). As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way home.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Garfield Movie\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, May 24<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Chris Pratt, Nicholas Hoult, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> Garfield (Pratt) has an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father (Jackson), a scruffy street cat who draws him into a high-stakes heist.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Crow\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, August 23<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, FKA Twigs, Danny Huston, Isabella Wei<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> A reimagining of the original 1994 film, The Crow<\/em> follows soulmates Eric (Skarsg\u00e5rd) and Shelly (Twigs) as they are brutally murdered after the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Draven returns to seek bloody revenge against the killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bad Boys: Ride or Die\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, June 7<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> The fourth film of the iconic franchise, Ride or Die<\/em> follows wisecracking Miami cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) as they embark on a dangerous mission to clear their late captain\u2019s name after he gets linked to drug cartels. In the process, the duo are framed and have to go on the run while attempting to clear their names.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Watchers\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, June 14<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, Olwen Fou\u00e9r\u00e9<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong>: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan and written by his daughter, Ishana Night Shyamalan, The Watchers<\/em> centers on a 28-year-old artist (Fanning) who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. Finding shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are stalked by mysterious creatures every night.<\/p>\n

\u2018Inside Out 2\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, June 14<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Tony Hale, Ayo Edebiri, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Liza Lapira, Paul Walter Hauser, Kensington Tallman, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> Joy (Poehler), Sadness (Smith), Anger (Blake), Fear (Hale) and Disgust (Lapira) have been running a successful operation of Riley\u2019s (Tallman) emotions by all accounts following Pixar\u2019s original 2015 film. However, when Anxiety (Hawke) shows up in the sequel as Riley turns 13, they aren\u2019t sure how to feel.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Bikeriders\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, June 21<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Mike Fast, Norman Reedus<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> After a chance encounter at a local bar, Kathy (Comer) is drawn to Benny (Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny (Hardy). Over the course of a decade, the club begins to evolve from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.<\/p>\n

\u2018Kinds of Kindness\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, June 21<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Joe Alwyn, Willem Defoe, Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> While much of the story details are being kept under wraps, the film will follow three simultaneous and overlapping stories;\u00a0a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.<\/p>\n

\u2018A Quiet Place: Day One\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, June 28<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou, Alex Wolff, Eliane Umuhire<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> Serving as a spinoff and prequel to the first two Quiet Place<\/em> films, Day One<\/em> takes audiences back to the first day the world went quiet, following Sam (Nyong\u2019o) and Eric (Quinn) as they team up in an attempt to escape the city \u2014 and stay alive.<\/p>\n

\u2018Horizon: An American Saga \u2013 Chapter 1\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, June 28<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Abbey Lee, Jamie Bower Campbell, Sam Worthington, Jenna Malone, Ella Hunt<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> In part 1 of Costner\u2019s Western epic \u2014 which he directed, cowrote, partially-funded and stars in \u2014 families, friends and foes discover the lure of the Old West through overlapping stories of American settlers and Indigenous people in the Civil War era. If you\u2019re a fan, Chapter 2 drops on Friday, August 16.<\/p>\n

\u2018Despicable Me 4\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, July 3<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig, Joey King<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> Round 4! Gru (Carell) welcomes a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who\u2019s intent on tormenting his dad. However, their peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when criminal mastermind Maxime Le Mal (Ferrell) escapes from prison and vows revenge against Gru.<\/p>\n

\u2018MaXXXine\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, July 3<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Mia Goth, Halsey, Elizabeth Debicki, Lily Collins<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Goth) finally gets her big break. However, as a mysterious killer stalks \u2014 yes,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/i>Night Stalker \u2014 the starlets of Los Angeles, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past in this horror flick, the third installment of the X<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fly Me to the Moon\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, July 12<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johansson, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash,<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> During the 1960s Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, sparks fly between a marketing executive (Johansson) and a NASA official (Tatum) as he makes preparations for the Apollo 11 moon landing.<\/p>\n

\u2018Twisters\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, July 19<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Kiernan Shipka, Anthony Ramos<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> A standalone sequel to 1996\u2019s Twister<\/em>, Kate Cooper (Edgar-Jones) gets lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Ramos), to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. She soon crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), a charming but reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures. As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\u2018Deadpool and Wolverine\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, July 26<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> In the third installment of the Marvel franchise, Wolverine (Jackman) finally crosses paths with the merc with a mouth, Deadpool (Reynolds). The duo team up to defeat a common enemy, Cassandra Nova (Corrin).<\/p>\n

\u2018Borderlands\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, August 9<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ram\u00edrez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> A movie adaptation of the famous video game franchise, Borderlands<\/em> finds infamous outlaw Lilith (Blanchett) returning to her home planet and forming an unexpected alliance with a team of unlikely heroes. Together, they battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.<\/p>\n

\u2018It Ends With Us\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, August 9<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> Based on Colleen Hoover\u2019s novel of the same name, Lily (Lively) overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with neurosurgeon Ryle (Baldoni, who is also directing) sparks a connection, but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents\u2019 relationship. Further complications arise when a mysterious figure from her past, Atlas (Sklenar), resurfaces.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cuckoo\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, August 9<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> Seventeen-year-old Gretchen (Schafer) reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family.<\/p>\n

\u2018Alien: Romulus\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, August 16<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, Archie Renaux, David Jonnson<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> The eighth installment in the Alien<\/em> franchise, Romulus follows a group of young space colonizers who, while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.<\/p>\n

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Bonus: \u2018The Fall Guy\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

Release Date:<\/strong> Friday, May 3<\/p>\n

Starring:<\/strong> Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> A little bit of a cheat, The Fall Guy<\/em> is technically a spring-not-summer blockbuster. However, it may be the most fun you have all year. The film follows Colt Seavers (Gosling), a retired and beaten-down stunt performer who gets pulled back into the game when he\u2019s recruited to find the missing star of a film (Taylor-Johnson). He also comes back to face the lost love of his life, Jody (Blunt), who happens to be directing the movie.<\/p>\n

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