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Although the Summer of 2024 doesn’t seem to promise the theater juggernauts like last year’s “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer,” rest assured, the big screen is still serving up classic summertime entertainment this year. Check below for the season’s most highly anticipated big-screen releases.
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“We Grown Now” offers a heartwarming story of a childhood friendship between two boys growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green Housing projects in the 90s. Featuring Jurnee Smollett (“Lovecraft Country,” “Ruby’s Bucket of Blood”), S. Epatha Merkerson (“Chicago Med”), Lil Rel Howry (“Poker Face,” “Get Out”).
This story follows Nora, Ginny, and Mary, three childhood best friends who used to spend every summer at a sleepaway camp together. After years, when the opportunity to get back together for a summer camp reunion presents itself, they all seize it. Features Alfre Woodard (“12 Years A Slave,” “Juanita”), Dennis Haysbert (“24”).
The world’s favorite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your-seat action and outrageous comedy, but this time with a twist: Miami’s finest are now on the run. Features Melanie Liburd (“This Is Us”), Tasha Smith (“Couples Retreat”), and Tiffany Haddish (“Girls Trip”).
A romance between star-crossed lovers who must overcome the disapproval of those in the community in Senegal.
Lupita Nyong’o stars in this prequel to the horror franchise where an alien creatures show up in New York City. Features Djimon Hounsou (“Guardians of the Galaxy”).
July 4
This action thriller from Indian director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat caused quite a stir at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival. Follows a passenger on a train to New Delhi. The train soon becomes a combat battleground as a pair of commandos face an army of invading bandits.
July 5
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. Features Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”), Halsey (Americana), Moses Sumney (“Queen and Slim”).
July 12
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art. Features Colman Domingo (“If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Euphoria”).
July 19
Another classic (potential) summer blockbuster. Twisters is an update to the 1996 film “Twister,” which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system. Features Sasha Lane (American Honey, Hellboy), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders, The Lesson, The Woman in the Wall).
July 26
A likely summer blockbuster, Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy. Features Leslie Uggams.
It tells the story of two friends who travel to be bridesmaids at a surprise wedding for their college girlfriend. Features Sheryl Lee Ralph.
August 9
Cinematographer (“Black Panther,” “Mudbound,” “Fruitvale Station”) turned director Rachel Morrison helms this biopic written by Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”). It tells the story of Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields, a boxer from Flint, Michigan who trained to become the first woman in her country’s history to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport. Features Ryan Destiny (Star), Bryan Tyree Henry (“Atlanta”).
August 23
Frida is a young waitress in Los Angeles who has an eye for tech entrepreneur Slater King. On a dream vacation to his private island, strange things start to happen. Frida will have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out alive. Features Zoe Kravitz (“Batman,” “Big Little Lies”), Naomie Ackie (“I Wanna Dance With Somebody”).
Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right. Features FKA Twigs (“The King’s Man”), Jordan Bolger (“The Woman King”).
An astronaut struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan. Features Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix,” “Deep Cover”).
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