JUNE
ME BEFORE YOU
WHO: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin
WHAT: Following in the weepy footsteps of Love Story, A Walk to Remember, and The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You introduces introverted caretaker Lou (Clarke) to embittered quadriplegic Will (Claflin) and lets the tragic love bloom.
WHEN: June 3
POPSTAR:
NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING
WHO: Andy Samberg, Imogen Poots, Sarah Silverman, Bill Hader, Joan Cusack
WHAT: A mockumentary from comedy trio The Lonely Island, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping follows vapid performer Conner4Real (Samberg) as he faces a crisis of popularity when his second album bombs.
WHEN: June 3
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES:
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
WHO: Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, Will Arnett, Johnny Knoxville, William Fichtner
WHAT: When the awful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot had an opening weekend of $65 million two years ago, a sequel was guaranteed. Two years later, here it is, promising to deliver more brainless action and brazen stupidity.
WHEN: June 3
THE CONJURING 2
WHO: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Franka Potente, Frances O’Connor
WHAT: The best horror movie of the last five years finally gets a true sequel, after 2014’s good-but-not-great spinoff Annabelle. This time, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) travel to England to look into the late ‘70s haunting which would become known to the world as the Enfield Poltergeist.
WHEN: June 10
NOW YOU SEE ME 2
WHO: Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Radcliffe
WHAT: Now You See Me was one of the most pleasant surprises of 2013, combining the fun of a magic show with the twists of a heist film. In Now You See Me 2, Daniel Radcliffe joins the team as the son of Michael Caine’s character from the first film, hiring the Four Horsemen (Eisenberg, Franco, Harrelson, and new addition Caplan) to pull off “the heist to end all heists.”
WHEN: June 10
WARCRAFT
WHO: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell, Dominic Cooper
WHAT: The computer game franchise that did for strategy games what SimCity did for sims finally gets the movie treatment, in a fantasy adaptation directed by sci-fi wunderkind Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code).
WHEN: June 10
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WHO: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Aaron Paul, Amy Ryan
WHAT: Building on the basic concept that the best comedic duos look physically opposite, Central Intelligence pairs Kevin Hart with Dwayne Johnson in an action comedy that promises Johnson shooting plenty of bullets and Hart shrieking a lot.
WHEN: June 17
FINDING DORY
WHO: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Eugene Levy, Idris Elba
WHAT: Six months after the neurotic Marlin (Brooks) and memory-impaired Dory (DeGeneres) tracked Nemo halfway across the world, Dory suddenly remembers something her parents said to her as a young fish and sets off to track her family down, before she forgets them again.
WHEN: June 17
FREE STATE OF JONES
WHO: Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
WHAT: Free State of Jones dramatizes the life of Newton Knight (McConaughey), a Mississippi farmer who deserted the Confederate Army in the Civil War and, in 1863, banded together with other deserters to defend Jones County, MS against attacking Confederate soldiers.
WHEN: June 24
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
WHO: Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Joey King, Sela Ward, Bill Pullman
WHAT: For twenty years, director Roland Emmerich has been thinking about how exactly he’d make a sequel to his spectacular Independence Day, and the result looks as visually awesome as it’s going to need to be to live up to the 15-mile-wide shadow of the original.
WHEN: June 24
THE SHALLOWS
WHO: Blake Lively
WHAT: Most actors these days attempt a movie where it’s just them on screen the whole time, with nobody much to talk to and just the elements to contend with. (See: 127 Hours, Buried, Gravity, and All is Lost.) This is Blake Lively’s.
WHEN: June 24
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