Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opens Friday, May 5.

Peter Quill and his expanded superhero family battle new foes and lingering father issues as the Awesome Mixtape #2 re-introduces old favorites as your new summer soundtrack. Looks like it's $1 billion or bust at the worldwide box office, too. 

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The Lovers opens in limited release on Friday, May 5.

One of the more intriguing premises of the season (and easily one of the best trailers as well) finds Azazel Jacobs, who directed the underrated HBO series "Doll & Em," partnering with A24, the hottest indie studio around. And the cast? Superb.

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The Dinner opens in limited release on Friday, May 5.

Provocateur Oren Moverman is back behind the camera with his adaptation of Herman Koch's novel, which has sharply divided critics since its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival (where it was nominated for the Golden Bear for Best Film).

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3 Generations opens in limited release on Friday, May 5.

Formerly titled About Ray, it seems the title to this transgender drama was changed perhaps to take advantage of Susan Sarandon's "Feud" moment. The updated trailer reveals more of the dynamic between Sarandon, Naomi Watts and Elle Fanning's characters.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword opens Friday, May 12.

Guy Ritchie gave Sherlock Holmes his makeover, and now he's out to do the same for the swords and sandals genre. Anything it takes to mint Charlie Hunnam as a bona fide movie star is fine by us, plus we're hoping Jude Law taps into his "Young Pope" outrageousness to become villain of the year.

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Snatched opens Friday, May 12.

Amy Schumer returns two summers after Trainwreck with Goldie Hawn as her movie mom in one of the most unlikely (and welcome) on-screen pairings of the year, with a screenplay by Kate Dippold (The Heat/Ghostbusters) and Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies/The Night Before) at the helm.

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Paris Can Wait opens in limited release on Friday, May 12.

Eleanor Coppola makes her feature directorial debut with this romantic comedy starring Diane Lane and Alec Baldwin, 25 years after making an Emmy Award-winning documentary about husband Francis Ford Coppola’s epic, Apocalypse Now. 

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The Wall opens in limited release on Friday, May 12.

Director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) returns with this war film about two American soldiers, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, pinned behind a wall by an Iraqi sniper. The film was the first ever original spec script bought by Amazon Studios, after appearing on the 2014 Black List of hot un-produced screenplays.

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The Wedding Plan opens in limited release on Friday, May 12.

Israeli-American director Rama Burshtein follows her award-winning debut, Fill the Void, with this Bridget Jones-style comedy set in the orthodox Jewish community.

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Alien: Covenant opens Friday, May 19.

Ridley Scott wants to put Prometheus haters in their place and through their paces with Alien: Covenant's hard-R gore and a story that leads right up to his original masterpiece.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul opens Friday, May 19.

Cher from Clueless (Alicia Silverstone) is now getting mom roles as the entire Heffley family has been rebooted in this fourth movie based on Jeff Kinney's outrageously popular book series.

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Everything, Everything opens Friday, May 19.

Nicola Yoon's novel rallied YA readers. Can Stella Meghie do the same with movie-goers with her second outing as writer/director?

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales opens Friday, May 26.

Disney's promotional campaign for the long-in-the-works fifth POTC outing has kept the focus on Javier Bardem's Captain Salazar and his ghost crew who are out to wipe out all pirates -- especially Captain Jack Sparrow. With nods back to the original movie and plenty of inventiveness to be found in the trailers, this could be the most welcome sequel of the season.

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Baywatch opens Friday, May 26.

Just when you thought '80s revivals had run aground, the long-planned Baywatch movie brings back the iconic red swimsuits (and rescue cans) as franchise-helper Dwayne Johnson is enlisted early on to resuscitate this property.

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Wonder Woman opens Friday, June 2.

With what appears to be a prime balance of action and storytelling, it looks like Diana of Themyscira will make things right in the world of DC Comics movies and women superheroes in general. 

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie opens Friday, June 2.

20th Century Fox, which has made a quiet fortune on its Wimpy Kid movies, will undoubtedly apply some of the same formula to its plans for the elementary-school universe created by Dav Pilkey. For CU die-hards: There're no plans for a Dog-Man spin-off at the moment.

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The Mummy opens Friday, June 9.

Universal is looking to reintroduce all of their classic monsters, and if their casting decisions remain as exciting as the thought of Sofia Boutella playing the ancient princess Ahmanet, we imagine audiences will welcome back The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man ... 

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It Comes at Night opens Friday, June 9.

Krisha director Trey Edward Shults reteams with the innovative movie studio A24 for a contemporary horror/mystery tale with a trailer we can barely get through without passing out from anxiety. 

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All Eyez on Me opens Friday, June 16.

Litigation between this project's main production company and Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, held up filming since 2011. But it looks like the drama helped director Benny Boom and co. create a realistic portrayal of the struggles and triumphs faced by the eternally influential rapper and poet.

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Cars 3 opens Friday, June 16.

Cars has always been Pixar's cutesy merchandising cash cow, but the franchise's tone looks to be changing up for this third time around the race track since the movie's first look teased a life-changing accident that befalls Lightning McQueen.

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Rough Night opens Friday, June 16.

The first of two hard-R rated women's-night-out comedies this season has a purse full of secret weapons from "Broad City" both in front of and behind the camera.

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Transformers: The Last Knight opens Friday, June 23.

Merlin, King Arthur, and Nazi Germany somehow factor into T5's plot, which we'd really love to hear Mark Wahlberg explain ... as Dirk Diggler. The movie will tip it's hat to Logan as well by positioning young Isabela Moner's role front and center alongside Wahlberg.

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47 Meters Down opens Friday, June 23.

Every summer movie season should have a shark movie, and it should at least be as good as The Shallows. Know what we mean? Sometime this summer director Johannes Roberts will begin his high profile gig as the helmer of The Strangers 2.

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Despicable Me 3 opens Friday, June 30.

While the Minions and a heretofore unknown brother try to lure Gru back to the world of supervillainy, but domestication isn't the enemy here - leave that to Trey Parker ("South Park"), who portrays the fashion-forward (though the movie wants you to think otherwise) Balthazar Bratt. 

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The House opens Friday, June 30.

Pause for a moment to realize that Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell have been entertaining us, separately and together, for two decades now, and this financial crisis comedy denotes their first movie appearance as wife and husband.

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Amityville: The Awakening opens Friday, June 30.

Genre specialists of the present and past unite to reintroduce the Amityville legend as Blumhouse Productions partners with Dimension Films for a hopeful summer horror hit that was originally nestled into the winter release calendar. 

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Wish Upon opens Friday, June 30.

The studio behind this horror movie is having myriad distribution issues so hopefully Joey King, who already survived The Conjuring, has one wish left in that evil octagon she was gifted. Barb from "Stranger Things" and Audrey from "Twin Peaks" help ramp up the mystery factor.

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Spider-Man: Homecoming opens Friday, July 7.

Having passed a litmus test with his appearance in Captain America: Civil War, it's clear that the movie-going universe is ready for Tom Holland as the new Peter Parker only three short years after Andrew Garfield's noble attempt at the role.

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War for the Planet of the Apes opens Friday, July 14.

The third installment of this fine franchise introduces Woody Harrelson as a Kurtz-like military figure and Steve Zahn utilizing his comedic talent to portray "Bad Ape," though we did not know this serial needed any levity. 

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Midnight Sun opens Friday, July 14.

With a premise similar to Everything, Everything, it's up to the pairing of Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger to tantalize the YA crowd. 

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Valerian and the City a Thousand Planets opens Friday, July 21.

An entire movie studio's fate is resting on the shoulders of Luc Besson as he returns to space with a heroine, Laureline, he's loved longer than Leeloo.

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Dunkirk opens Friday, July 21.

Christopher Nolan's first war picture will help him earn his first Best Director Oscar nomination, right?

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Girls Trip opens Friday, July 21.

New Orleans' Essence Music Festival gets its own movie in the form of a road trip captained by Queen Latifah that looks set to make Tiffany Haddish a breakout star.

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The Dark Tower opens Friday, July 28.

The first of two insanely anticipated Stephen King adaptations arrives in the form of an incredibly scaled down take on the tale of Roland Deschain. Remember when "The Dark Tower" was being developed as a trilogy with an accompanying TV series?

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Atomic Blonde opens Friday, July 28.

Charlize Theron gets an opportunity to reveal more of her Furiosa side with everyone's new favorite action director, David Leitch, who co-helmed John Wick and will take on the upcoming Deadpool sequel.

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An Inconvenient Sequel opens Friday, July 28.

Al Gore is here to make you to reconsider what's fueling those hot summer days and we're not going to blame him one bit for being the Debbie Downer of climate change.

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The Emoji Movie opens Friday, August 4.

We suggest fully exploring your phone's emoji palette before tweeting your review of Sony's attempt to bring smileys to the big screen.

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All I See Is You opens Friday, August 4.

Blake Lively continues to put Serena van der Woodsen behind her; this time out, she stars opposite Jason Clarke in a psychological thriller handled by Marc Foster, who makes a habit of directing both blockbusters and scaled-down dramas. 

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Baby Driver opens Friday, August 11.

The trailer for Edgar Wright's pet project makes us feel like the tough guyness of Drive was channeled through John Waters' sense of humor. And its SXSW premiere was electrifying. Plus, has Jon Hamm ever looked more take home-able?

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Annabelle 2 opens Friday, August 11.

The Conjuring spinoff that is now its own franchise has both a terrific director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) and young actress, Lulu Wilson, who was the best part of Ouija: Origin of Evil.

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The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature opens Friday, August 18.

Surly the squirrel and his crew get into some direct action activism in the sequel to their sleeper hit. Brendan Fraser won't be back as Grayson this time around, though.

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Tulip Fever opens Friday, August 25.

Justin Chadwick's movies (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom/The Other Boleyn Girl) always have an awards sheen and his latest once enjoyed a plum, Oscar-baiting release date. But the tulip mania didn't last at the Weinstein Company, which quietly re-potted the movie at the very end of the summer season. Still, what a cast!

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