10 hot blockbusters to see this summer

There may be no #Barbenheimer, but the 2024 summer movie season is finally heating up.Thanks to the domestic box office success of sequels “Inside Out 2” ($469 million), “A Quiet Place: Day One” ($98 million) and “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” ($165 million), theater chains can heave a sigh of relief.For now.There are still two months left to go.

Here are the upcoming blockbusters to catch at the cinema (or at home) before the fall.Netflix has been essential to Eddie Murphy’s career lately.“Dolemite Is My Name” was the funnyman’s best film in ages and, even if the “Coming to America” sequel “Coming 2 America” was a letdown, it was a hot title.

Now for the streamer, he’s playing Detective Axel Foley again for the first time in 30 years.This time, Axel heads back to the ritzy California town when his daughter’s life is in danger. A romantic comedy about the 1960s Space Race? Why not? Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson respectively play the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 launch and a top marketer hired by the agency to boost its image.

Sparks — as well as space shuttles — fly.The tornadoes are back, even if Helen Hunt and the late actors Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman aren’t.The sequel to the 1996 disaster-ish film “Twister” stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Normal People”), Glen Powell (“Top Gun: Maverick”) and Anthony Ramos (“In the Heights”), and they’re chasing cyclones through central Oklahoma.The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest test in years arrives with this Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman buddy comedy, which sees the Aussie actor return to the role of “X-Men’s” Wolverine for the first time since “Logan” in 2017.

Expectations are high, to say the least.Box office analytics group The Quorum expects the R-rated movie to open to $200-239 million, which would be the biggest domestic opening of the year so far.

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