Hollywood gears up for hot movie summer

There s a sense that the Summer of could be a scorcher at the box office buoyed by a pair of gigantic unexpected hits The Minecraft Movie is turning into a billion dollar franchise the mightiest hit of the year while the just-opened Sinners has ascertained an audience amid rapturous reviews Believing that hits beget more hits optimism reigns for an ambitious slate of big-screen entertainment Here a selective list of what s coming Thunderbolts May Here thrives a ragtag gang of reformed superheroes led by Sebastian Stan Florence Pugh Wyatt Russell and Julia Louise-Dreyfus Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning May Indeed this is The End of Tom Cruise s mightiest franchise This Mission was held up for a year and given a new name after its Dead Reckoning Part One predecessor failed at the box-office Lilo Stitch May and How to Train Your Dragon June Two now-classic animated originals get the live-action remedy Karate Kid Legends May Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan are here and that should be more than enough The Phoenician Scheme May Benicio del Toro is an arms dealer in Wes Anderson s latest bit of all-star Scarlett Johansson Tom Hanks peculiarity Ballerina June This first John Wick spinoff stars Ana de Armas as a dancing assassin out for vengeance and is set between the third and fourth Wick movies Years Later June Zombies Hordes and hordes of them in Danny Boyle s reboot of his franchise With Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes F June One of summer s biggest gambles sees Brad Pitt as a Formula One legend mentoring a young hotshot driver Damson Idris M GAN June The sleeper surprise among homicidal doll movies forges a sequel reuniting a robotic killer and Allison Williams Jurassic World Rebirth July The only issue Is this latest the fourth dinosaur extravaganza in years too familiar to soar Superman July James Gunn defected to Warner Bros to specifically oversee the DC Universe which launches with unknown David Corenswet s Man of Steel Supe finds himself on an Earth with other superheroes The Fantastic Four First Moves July Can a reboot work in Marvel land Can this s-set era adventure far away from the MCU timeline starring Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic and Vanessa Kirby as the Invisible Woman really be fantastic The Naked Gun Aug Liam Neeson takes over as Lt Frank Drebin Jr son of late Det Lt Franklin Frank Drebin in this fourth film in the comic franchise Freakier Friday Aug Who could have imagined yet it s true A reunion in body-swapping various years on for Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan This image circulated by Disney shows the character Stitch left and Sydney Agudong as Nani in a scene from Lilo amp Stitch Disney via AP This image issued by Sony Pictures shows Aaron Taylor-Johnson left and Alfie Williams in a scene from Years Later Miya Mizuno Sony Pictures via AP