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Yes, it’s that time of year again, when Hollywood brings out the heavy artillery, and sets about to release their sure-to-be-blockbuster slate of summer movie eye-candy.
Perhaps, the most anticipated film of the summer movie season is Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, due June 30, just in time for the long holiday weekend. Sony’s Columbia-Tri Star has just released a new, longer trailer for the film. If you’ve got Quicktime Pro, you can save the trailer to your hard drive, by clicking on the down arrow at the bottom right on the screen (once the trailer has finished), and clicking on ‘Save as Quicktime Movie’. Possibly, reason enough to purchase Quicktime 6.5?
In respect of trailers (which is to say, previews) for the remaining upcoming summer-movie releases, of course you can always go to apple.com/trailers, and click on any one of the upcoming previews for films about to be released. We’ll save you a bit of time and trouble, though, by linking to the films that VanRamblings is most looking forward to summer 2004.
Coming up May 7th, the summer’s first blockbuster, Universal’s Van Helsing, which will be followed by Wolfgang Peterson’s Warner Bros. film release Troy (May 14). Pretty much everyone, one would think, is looking forward to the release of Dreamworks’ Shrek 2 (May 21). On a lighter and slighter note, there’s Touchstone’s Raising Helen (May 26), followed by one of the most anticipated films of the summer movie season, Roland Emmerich’s 20th-Century Fox release of The Day After Tomorrow (May 28).
June sees the release of the latest instalment of the J.K. Rowling series, Warner Bros’ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (June 4); the filmed-in-Vancouver Universal film The Chronicles of Riddick, and Paramount’s The Stepford Wives (both June 11); Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (June 18); and MGM’s Cole Porter biopic, De-Lovely (June 25).
In the second half of the summer, VanRamblings will set aside monies to gain entrance to Fox Searchlight’s The Clearing (July 2); Touchstone Pictures’ King Arthur (July 7); the Will Ferrell comedy, Anchorman (July 9); Will Smith’s filmed-in-Vancouver I, Robot (July 16); Matt Damon, back in The Bourne Supremacy; M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village (July 30); Michael Mann’s Collateral, (August 6); and 20th Century Fox’s Alien vs. Predator (August 13), among a host of others.
As more movie previews are made available, links to the trailers will be posted on VanRamblings.
