2018 Summer Season Preview: Introduction

To introduce you to the upcoming films, there will be two preview articles every month and this introduction every four months. The Season Preview article will focus on one of three seasons Spring Season (January through April), Blockbuster Season (May through August) and Oscar Season (September through December). In these introductory articles, I will give you the current release schedule for the specified season, which may change as the release dates get closer.

With all the movies releasing in all sorts of places throughout the year, the summer movie season has become strangely underpopulated. Whereas, you used to get a new movie almost every week that had blockbuster potential, they are so spread out now that you can sometimes go one or two weeks without a major release. While that should bolster a film’s chances at the box office with limited competition, it seldom works out that way.

Looking over this roster of summer releases, I can’t help but feel that the selection is anemic. While there are a few potential major films, not many of them seem like movies that would be must-see entertainment.

Now let’s take a look at what’s coming up in May, June, July, and August.

May 4, 2018

Bad Samaritan (Wide)
Overboard (Wide)
Tully (Wide)

May 11, 2018

Breaking In (Wide)
Life of the Party (Wide)
Revenge (Wide)
The Seagull (Limited)

May 18, 2018

Book Club (Wide)
Deadpool 2 (Wide)
Show Dogs (Wide)
On Chesil Beach (Limited)

May 25, 2018

Solo: A Star Wars Story (Wide)

June 1, 2018

Action Point (Wide)
Adrift (Wide)

June 8, 2018

Hereditary (Wide)
Ocean’s 8 (Wide)

June 15, 2018

Incredibles 2 (Wide)
Superfly (Wide)
Tag (Wide)

June 22, 2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Wide)

June 29, 2018

Sicario 2: Soldado (Wide)
Uncle Drew (Wide)
Valley Girl (Wide)

July 6, 2018

Ant-Man and the Wasp (Wide)
The First Purge (Wide)

July 13, 2018

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (Wide)
Skyscraper (Wide)
Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Limited)

July 20, 2018

The Equalizer 2 (Wide)
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (Wide)

July 27, 2018

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Wide)
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Wide)
Blindspotting (Limited)

August 3, 2018

The Darkest Minds (Wide)
Christopher Robin (Wide)
Mile 22 (Wide)
Searching (Wide)
The Spy Who Dumped Me (Wide)
The Wife (Limited)