The 15 best new Hollywood movies in cinemas this summer, from A Quiet Place Part II to Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Sound-sensitive aliens are back on the rampage in A Quiet Place Part II, and Lin-Manuel Miranda brings his musical In the Heights to the big screen
- Black Widow is a stand-alone adventure for Scarlett Johansson’s first female Avenger, while Hugh Jackman stars in new sci-fi drama Reminiscence
The summer of 2020 is sure to go down as one of the most bizarre in movie-going history, in large part because hardly anyone went to the movies.
The global pandemic saw cinemas closed for much of the year, forcing Hollywood studios to pull their biggest titles from the schedule. With the exception of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet , followed by Disney’s Soul and the superhero movie Wonder Woman 1984 at Christmas, 2020 was pretty much devoid of big-budget tentpole releases.
A year on and most of those expensive, effects-heavy blockbusters remain unreleased. Some titles, like Tom Cruise’s high-flying sequel Top Gun: Maverick, the Paul Rudd-fronted Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and action prequel The King’s Man have set their sights on the November/December holiday window, while Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile and animated follow-up Minions: Rise of Gru are holding out until 2022.
With cinemas around the world starting to reopen for the first time in months, most of 2020’s intended big-hitters must now vie for the attention, and summer dollars, of an understandably apprehensive public alongside 2021’s own crop of new releases. Here are 15 films – new and not quite as new as they once were – that we’re still excited to see this summer (opening dates are for Hong Kong).