The stage is set for a scorching summer at the box office. Hollywood is firing on all cylinders, with a stacked schedule of blockbusters throughout the season. With films ranging from action packed to comedy to crime thrillers 2016’s movie lineup has something for palettes of all kinds.
These are our top 5 most anticipated films to look forward to for Summer 2016:
5. Warcraft
Release Date: June 10th
Directed by: Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone,
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky.
Warcraft, the famed online role-playing game has found it’s way from the comfort of your laptop to the silver screen. Human civilization will war out against the ferocious orc warrior race for supremacy of the Azeroth world in the first installment of the Warcraft franchise.
4. Suicide Squad
Release Date:August 5th
Directed By: David Ayer
Cast: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, and Cara Delevingne.
When the government reluctantly casts together the most dangerous supervillains in the DC Universe for high-risk, secret black ops missions in exchange for a pardon on their previous digressions all hell indeed breaks loose.
3. Kicks
Release Date: TBD
Directed by: Justin Tipping
Cast: Jahking Guillory, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Christopher Meyer, Kofi Siriboe, Mahershala Ali, Molly Shaiken.
“Brandon is a 15 year old whose dream is a pair of fresh Air Jordans. Soon after he gets his hands on them, they’re stolen by a local hood, causing Brandon and his two friends to go on a dangerous mission through Oakland to retrieve them.”
2. The Infiltrator
Release Date: July 15th
Directed by: Brad Furman
Cast: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan, Joseph Gilgun, Benjamin Bratt
Using his undercover alias, DEA Agent Robert Mazur rises to become one of the drug world’s most reliable money launders, eventually crossing paths with the notorious Pablo Escobar. (Based on a true story)
1. Jason Bourne
Release Date: July 29th
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel
With the effects of his amnesia completely shaken off, Jason Bourne is back to find out the truths about his past, and kick some ass.
