F1, Jurassic World, Superman… The blockbusters to come and promise to be a chain of suites or remakes.
In the “continued” family, I would like the eighth Mission Impossible. In the “spin-off” family, I would like Ballerinafrom the universe John Wick. In the family of remakes, I would like Lilo and Stitch. The little game can continue for a very long time. Clint Eastwood did not lie when he said ” regret The good old days when the writers wrote films like Casablanca, When everyone had a new idea ”. Do ” something new or stay at home ”, he said. Even if it was not in an interview with Austrian daily Delivery man ; Finally, this is another story.
Hollywood out of inspiration? The studios no longer bet much on original scenarios but on stories warmed with characters already well known to the public. More than half of the large productions expected this summer are suites or remakes. Little inventory with, fortunately, some new features.
Live action and horror movies
It all started with the release, on May 23, of the eighth Mission Impossible where Ethan Hunt must succeed in destroying for good, the dangerous artificial intelligence program. The same day, we also had the right to remake in real Disney taking Lilo and Stitch. The following week, it was the franchise Karate Kid : Legends, Who revealed his sixth opus! The synopsis remains the same: a young Kung-Fu prodigy will be trained by a profession of the profession. Without forgetting the release of the sixth Destination finale .
The next outings are not more original. On June 11, DreamWorks fans fell in childhood before the live action adaptation of Dragons, An animated film released in 2010 where a Viking befriends one of these creatures. Fans of the universe of Danny Boyle find in dark rooms this week the third part of his science fiction franchise 28 years later. With the headliners Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the film takes place thirty years after the fury virus escaped from a laboratory. After all these years, survivors realized that this disease has never disappeared. Ralph Fiennes is playing with another film: The Return, the return of Ulysses new adaptation on the big screen of the adventures of the Greek hero.
On June 25, the dark rooms will broadcast the continuation of the adventures of M3gan , The killer doll created using artificial intelligence. In this second part, she must face Amélia, another evil doll, scheduled to destroy the world. On the other side, Brad Pitt puts on the combination of Formula 1 pilot in F1. Two days later, Martin Bourboulon’s film presented on the Croisette, 13 days 13 nights will be broadcast in the cinema. Adapted from Mohamed Bida’s novel, the film returns to the exfiltration of hundreds of people from the French Embassy in Afghanistan, during the fall of Kabul in August 2021.
Dinosaurs and superheroes
This summer, Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans will meet on July 2 in the heart of a love triangle in Materialists . Dinosaurs lovers will be served with the return of Jurassic World : Renaissance July 4. In this seventh part of the saga inspired by Michael Crichton’s work, Scarlett Johansson finds himself alongside Jonathan Bailey in full race with these diplodocus and brontosaurs on a lost island. James Gunn will unveil on July 9, his highly anticipated: Superman with David Corenswet in the role of the superhero. Yet another version dedicated to the character DC Comics, promising to be more ” modern and optimistic ”, According to its director.
On July 16, a remake of the horror franchise launched in the late 1990s will release Remember… last summer . With a scenario similar to the first installment: a new generation of friends is involuntarily involved in a fatal car accident. They prefer to keep it secret rather than going to the police. But their past will come back to haunt them … The most cautious can comfort themselves on the same day in front of yet another adaptation of Smurf With this time, Rihanna who lends her voice to the Smurfette. This Wednesday, July 16, can stand out with one of the few original productions expected for the month: Eddington Ari Aster, presented a few weeks ago in Cannes. The feature film takes place in May 2020, during the COVID, where the inhabitants of a small town in New Mexico become very agitated.
This summer will also definitely be under the sign of superheroes with another blockbuster expected for July 25: The fantastic 4, first steps . Directed by Matt Shakman, this film with Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn and Julia Garner traces the story of a band of superheroes responsible for fighting the Galactus cosmic entity, eager to destroy the world. It remains to be seen who from DC Comics or Marvel will make the best figure at the box office. In addition to superheroes, vampires will also be released with a new adaptation of Draculathis time proposed by Luc Besson. In Dracula : A Love Tale , Expected on July 30, Prince Vladimir denies God after the brutal loss of his wife. He then inherits a curse: eternal life and will have only one objective: to find his soul mate. July will end with another suite: the second part of Bad Guys an animated film featuring a formidable bunch of criminal animals.
More original films for August
August will open with the following, twenty years later, Freaky Friday 2, Where a mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) and a girl (Lindsay Lohan) exchange body for 24 hours. The film will be presented in dark rooms from August 6. This summer will also be an opportunity to discover films presented in Cannes as Sentimental value by Joachim Trier, awarded Grand Prix. This dramatic comedy, available on August 20, traces the story of a renowned filmmaker who tries to reconnect with her daughters by offering them a role in his next film. The same day will be released Alpha a drama by Julia Ducournau where society is ravaged by an ugly virus, transforming the patients into stone, which end up becoming dust. It remains to be seen whether the summer of 2025 will succeed in attracting as many spectators as last year, with successes like The Comte de Monte-Cristo et Deadpool & Wolverine, The first having made more than 10 million admissions in France and the second having reached one billion dollars at the international box office.
