Below are the movies we can’t wait to see in June, July, and August (along with the rest of the 2022 movie calendar as it stands now). On the major studio side, horror maestro Jordan Peele is back in the director’s chair for Nope Dan Trachtenberg has unveiled a surprise Predator movie and the spectacle of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic is aiming to get you all shook up, too. It’s shaping up to be a stellar indie-movie season, in fact, with Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet picking up where Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future leaves off, and titles like Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande eager to warm (and break) hearts.
And, hey, remember the Oscars?Īnd while the weeks ahead may be relatively light on tentpoles compared to summers past (you now have until next July to learn how to punctuate Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One), there’s so much to see beyond Thor: Love and Thunder and Jurassic World: Dominion. At Cannes, we saw standing ovation-worthy Palais premieres from David Cronenberg, Park Chan-wook, George Miller, and James Gray. Everything Everywhere All at Once’s word-of-mouth ascendancy may carry it through to awards season. The year’s top earner is a horny superhero movie. That’s not to say it’s been dull around here.
3 highest-grossing movie is still a holdover from last year: Spider-Man: No Way Home. It’d be a hell of a kickoff for summer at the movies, and a welcome jolt when the year’s No. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of StudiosĬould this be it? Is this the summer that marks a pandemic-era reset for theatrical moviegoing? Tom Cruise’s long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick is projected to become the biggest box-office opening of the star’s career - some say it’ll hit $180 million worldwide over Memorial Day weekend, with as many as 130 of those mils coming in Stateside.