Summer Movie Preview 2024

On this episode of The Hollywood Outsider podcast, 2024 has finally arrived at the greatest point of every cinephile’s annual indulgence, the summer movie season!! This year theaters are trying to kick back into gear with blockbusters like Deadpool and Wolverine, The Fall Guy, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Inside Out 2, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, IF, Furiosa, Twisters, A Quiet Place: Day One, and also insightful smaller films like The Bikeriders, Hit Man, Trap, I Saw the TV Glow, Babes, and a whole lot more.  But with so many films coming out at this time, how is any self-respecting fan supposed to know what to see when there are so many options available? We’re here to help with our Summer Movie Preview 2024!

We discuss each month in detail and every major and many minor releases. May, June, July, and August all receive their fair due as we elaborate and debate on over 60 titles coming to theaters, as well as those independent and streaming gems to look for.

Grab a pen and paper or your favorite app, because this is one episode you will want to take notes on. THIS is our 2024 Summer Movie Preview!

*Editor’s Note: Release dates were based on the date of the recording, and are subject to change

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2023 Summer Movie Schedule

Releasing in theaters unless stated otherwise

May 2
The Idea of You R – Prime
A middle-aged woman embarks on a global love affair. Starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine

Turtles All the Way Down PG-13 – MAX
A 16-year-old high school girl with obsessive compulsive disorder tries to the solve the mystery of a fugitive billionaire. Along with her friend Daisy, she sets out to try to claim a $100,000 reward.

May 3
The Fall Guy PG-13
Colt Seavers is a Hollywood stuntman by day but works as bounty hunter by night. He incorporates his stunts into his bounty-hunting, flying vehicles over large objects, jumping from impossibly high angles, etc. to nab the people he and his team are chasing. Starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt

I Saw the TV Glow PG-13
Two teenage outcasts bond over their shared love of a scary television show, but the boundary between TV and reality begins to blur after it is mysteriously canceled. Starring Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith

Unfrosted PG-13 Netflix
A story about the invention of Pop-Tarts. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer, Jack McBrayer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Jerry Seinfeld

Wildcat
Explores teh life and work of a young Flannery O’Connor as she battles lupus and struggles to publish her first novel. Ethan Hawke directs Maya Hawke

 

May 8
The Beatles: Let It Be – Disney Plus
First released in May 1970 amidst the swirl of The Beatles’ breakup, “Let It Be” is restored.

May 10
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 
A new Planet of the Apes film.

Tarot 
After attending a horoscope party, people begin dying in ways connected to their zodiac signs. Four friends must work together to solve the mystery before their numbers are up.

We Grown Now PG 
In 1992 Chicago, as Michael Jordan solidifies himself as a champion, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.

The Last Stop in Yuma County – VOD
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune.

Poolman – Limited
The story of Darren Barrenman (Chris Pine), a native Los Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live. When he is tasked by a femme fatale to uncover the truth behind a shady business deal, Darren enlists the help of his friends to take on a corrupt politician and a greedy land developer. His investigation reveals a hidden truth about his beloved city and himself.

May 17
IF
A child can see and talk to people’s imaginary friends, befriending those that have been forgotten or discarded. Some imaginary friends turn to the dark side and become evil. Starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by John Krasinski

The Strangers: Chapter 1
Follows Petsch, who drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers.

Babes
It tells the story of Eden who becomes pregnant from a one-night-stand and leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her.

You Can’t Run Forever
A teenage girl suffering from anxiety due to a tragic event from her past finds herself hunted through the woods by a sociopath on a murderous rampage. Starring J.K. Simmons

Back to Black R
An Amy Winehouse biopic – Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, five years after rising to international fame with her “Back to Black” album.

May 23
The Blue Angels – Prime
Soar with The Blue Angels in a brand-new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage that chronicles a year with the Navy’s elite Flight Demonstration Squadron—from selection through the challenging training and demanding show season—showcasing the extraordinary teamwork, passion, and pride that fuels America’s best, the Blue Angels.

May 24
The Garfield Movie
A cynical and lazy orange cat named Garfield interacts with owner Jon Arbuckle and fellow pet Odie, a dog. Voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Ving Rhames, Chris Pratt,

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
A prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road following the origins of Furiosa, sans Charlize Theron. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth

Atlas PG-13 – Netflix
The story of a woman named Atlas fighting for humanity in a future where an AI soldier has determined the only way to end war is to end humanity. To outthink this rogue AI, Atlas must work with the one thing she fears most, another AI. Starring Jennifer Lopez

May 31
Backspot
An ambitious cheerleader (Devery Jacobs) faces both new adversity and the increased drive for perfection and triumph when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad and its demanding head coach (Evan Rachel Wood). With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her drive with her crippling anxiety as one wrong move will bring her crashing to the ground.

Ezra R
While his agent (Whoopi Goldberg, 68) tries to keep his flailing career afloat, a stand-up comic (Bobby Cannavale, 53) moves in with his dad (Robert De Niro, 80), who thinks he’s a loser. But he’ll fight for his autistic son, Ezra, 11 (William A. Fitzgerald), who’s read The New York Times since age 5 but gets booted from school for impulsive outbursts. Screenwriter Tony Spiridakis, who raised a neurodivergent son, writes from experience.

Jim Henson Idea Man – Disney +
Will feature interviews with members of Henson’s family and his frequent collaborators.

In A Violent Nature – Limited
When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year-old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it. The undead golem hones in on the group of vacationing teens responsible for the theft and proceeds to methodically slaughter them one by one in his mission to get it back, along with anyone in his way.

June 7
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence team up to clear their dead captain’s names and their own as they fight a massive drug conspiracy.

Hit Man R – Netflix
Gary Johnson (Glen Powell), a part-time teacher moonlights as a mysterious gun man for hire for cops. When he breaks protocol to help a desperate woman (Adria Arjona) trying to flee an abusive husband, he finds himself becoming one of his false personas, falling for the woman and flirting with turning into a criminal himself

June 14
Inside Out 2
An all-new adventure inside the head of now-teenager Riley—who may or may not be feeling all kinds of new emotions.

The Watchers
Follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers that are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night. Starring Dakota Fanning, directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan

June 21
Kinds of Kindness
Plot kept under wraps. Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Janet Planet PG-13
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet and her spellbinding nature. In her solitary moments, Lacy inhabits an inner world so extraordinarily detailed that it begins to seep into the outside world.

The Bikeriders R
A furious drama following the rise of a fictional 1960s Midwestern motorcycle club through the lives of its members. Jeff Nichols directs, starring Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, and Austin Butler

Thelma – Limited release
After 70 years in the industry, Nebraska Oscar nominee June Squibb lands her first lead role at 94, in an action film about a grandma who gets victimized by a phone scammer impersonating her grandson (The White Lotus’ Fred Hechinger). She joins a friend (Shaft’s Richard Roundtree, who died at 81 last year) to take back what’s hers. Parker Posey, 55, and Malcolm McDowell, 80, costar — and Squibb does most of her own stunts!

June 28
Daddio R
New York City. JFK airport. A young woman jumps into the backseat of a yellow taxi, the cabbie throws the vehicle into drive as the two head out into the night toward Manhattan, striking up the most unexpected conversation resulting in a single, epic remarkable journey. Starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn

A Quiet Place: Day One
What happened on Day One of the invasion. Starring Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn

Horizon: An American Saga R – Part 1
Chronicles a multi-faceted, 15-year span of pre- and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West. Directed by and starring Kevin Costner.

July 2024
Sing Sing R
The film follows a rehabilitation performing arts prison program. Starring Colman Domingo,

July 3
Despicable Me 4 PG
The fourth installment in the popular Despicable Me franchise.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – Netflix
Eddie Murphy will return as detective Axel Foley in a revival of the classic action-comedy franchise.

July 5
MaXXXine
The third film of Ti West and A24’s X horror franchise starring Mia Goth

July 10
Skywalkers: A Love Story – Documentary – Netflix
To save their career and relationship, a daredevil couple journey across the globe to climb the world’s last super skyscraper and perform a bold acrobatic stunt on the spire.

July 12
Fly Me to the Moon
A 1960s ad shark and a by-the-book launch director on a mission set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic moon landing. Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum

Descendants: The Rise of Red – Disney +
The “Descendants” expansive new story finds polar opposites Red and Chloe crossing paths at a momentous celebration in Auradon when unexpected chaos breaks out. In order to prevent an impending coup, they must join forces to travel back in time, via a magical pocket watch created by the Mad Hatter’s son, to stop an event that would lead to grave consequences.

July 18
My Spy: The Eternal City – Prime Video
It follows a teenage Sophie as she convinces JJ to chaperone her school trip where they both end up as pawns in an international terrorist plot targeting CIA Chief, David Kim and his son, Collin – who is Sophie’s best friend. Starring Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman

July 19
Twisters
Stars Glen Powell as a risk-loving, storm-chasing, self-promoting social media star and Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing) as a tornado-traumatized recovering twister chaser in peril once more in Oklahoma’s Tornado Alley.

Find Me Falling – Netflix
An aging, flopping rock star (not-at-all-flopping singer/actor Harry Connick Jr., 56) flees to a remote home on a cliff on the spectacular island of Cyprus, where he rekindles an old flame (Agni Scott) and is forced to choose what he loves most: his music or his woman.

July 25
The Fabulous Four
Three lifelong pals (Susan Sarandon, 77, Sheryl Lee Ralph, 67, and Megan Mullally, 65) visit Key West to be bridesmaids at the surprise wedding of their college girlfriend (Bette Midler, 78).

July 26
Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool and Wolverine team up for a multiverse battle in the MCU. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman

August 2
Harold and the Purple Crayon PG
Harold, a bald young boy with a love of drawing, fears that the birth of a new baby brother will ruin his life. With his magic purple crayon, he retreats into a fantasy world in which a monster abducts his baby brother. When real-life complications occur during the pregnancy, it’s up to Harold to right his wrongs. Starring Zachary Levi

Kneecap
Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound – whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies.

August 9
Trap
A dad takes his daughter to a pop concert, only to discover the police are using it as a trap to take down an elusive serial killer. But what if the dad IS the serial killer? M. Night Shyamalan directs, starring Josh Hartnett

Borderlands
Set on the planet of Pandora which has been abandoned by a mega-corporation. Starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis

Cuckoo R
A 17-year-old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem. Starring Hunter Schafer

It Ends with Us
Complications arise when a woman’s high school love interest comes back into her life. Starring Blake Lively

Flint Strong PG-13
Follows Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (Ryan Destiny), a 17-year-old Flint, Michigan native who dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.

August 16
Alien: Romulus
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Directed by Fede Alvarez

Ryan’s World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2
The second chapter of this comprehensive chronicle covers a 15-year period of growth, exploration, and settlement in the American West, both before and after the Civil War. Directed by and starring Kevin Costner

August 23
The Crow
Based on the comic of the same name, a murdered musician returns from the dead to avenge the murders of himself and his girlfriend. Starring Bill Skarsgard

Slingshot
Follows an astronaut who struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.

Blink Twice
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun soaked days and everyone’s having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive. Channing Tatum, directed by Zoe Kravitz.

August 30

Kraven the Hunter 
Kraven the Hunter, aka Sergei Kravinoff, is known for hunting big game, and he considers Spider-Man his ultimate trophy. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Reagan
Dennis Quaid, 69, plays Ronald Reagan from his 30s to his 80s, with Penelope Ann Miller, 60, as Nancy Reagan, Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman and Lesley-Anne Down, 70, as Margaret Thatcher.

*Descriptions courtesy of MovieInsider.com