STAR TREK BEYOND
Directed by: Justin Lin
Starring: Chris Pine, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban
Release Date: July 22nd 2016
Halfway through their five year mission the crew of the USS Enterprise find themselves violently and overwhelmingly attacked; a move which forces them to abandon ship. Stranded on an unknown planet, with no means of getting home, the crew find themselves facing a new and ruthless enemy.
ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE
Directed by: Mike Thurmeier and Galen T. Chu
Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Simon Pegg, Nick Offerman, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah
Release Date: July 15th 2016
The fifth instalment in the wildly successful ‘Ice Age’ franchise is released in Irish cinemas this month. This time Manny and his pals must take on a new threat to their survival; a meteor which may or may not have been pushed toward Earth by Scrat… In a spaceship.
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
Directed by: David Yates
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Djimon Hounsou, Christoph Waltz
Release Date: July 6th 2016
After delays and false starts, the first live-action Tarzan movie since 1998 – ‘The Legend of Tarzan’ finally swings into cinemas this month. Alexander Skarsgård stars as Tarzan who has acclimatised to a life in London, but is called back to his jungle home when trouble emerges at a mining encampment.
KEANU
Directed by: Peter Atencio
Starring: Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Will Forte, Method Man, Madison Wolfe
Release Date: July 15th 2016
After Rell (Peele) is dumped by his girlfriend; he finds a cat on his doorstep, takes an immediate liking to it, and names it Keanu. When a gang raids Rell’s house by mistake and kidnaps Keanu, it is up to Rell and his best friend Clarence (Key) to go undercover to get their kitten back.
GHOSTBUSTERS
Directed by: Paul Feig
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Chris Hemsowrth, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones
Release Date: July 11th 2016
Many years ago, Erin (Wiig) wrote a book with her friend Abby (McCarthy) positing that ghosts are real, when the book resurfaces, Erin is laughed out of her job at Columbia University. When ghosts invade Manhattan, Erin and Abby team up with a nuclear engineer and a subway worker to take down the threat, and bust some ghosts the old fashioned way.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE
Directed by: Mandie Fletcher
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Julia Sawalha, Gwendoline Christie, Rebel Wilson, Jon Hamm
Release Date: July 1st 2016
Patsy (Lumley) and Eddy (Saunders) are still living their fabulous high glamour lives, but when Eddy accidentally kills Kate Moss, the two find themselves at the heart of a paparazzi storm, and escape to the south of France to hide out.
THE NEON DEMON
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman
Release Date: July 8th 2016
Jesse (Fanning) moves to LA to chase her dream of being a model. On her first shoot she meets Ruby (Malone) and the two become fast friends. When Jesse’s star starts to rise however, she attracts the ire of older models who are being overlooked.
FINDING DORY
Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
Starring: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Diane Keaton
Release Date: July 29th 2016
When forgetful fish Dory suddenly remembers that she indeed has a family – a family that she forgot about – she sets out to find them, with the help of Malin and Nemo. Of course, their adventure doesn’t run smoothly, but the three learn some valuable lessons about family as they search.
JASON BOURNE
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel
Release Date: July 29th 2016
Although he disappeared at the end of ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’, Jason Bourne (Damon) suddenly comes out of hiding at a time when the world is more uncertain and unstable than ever. As he searches for further answers about his past, Bourne himself is being hunted by an unknown villain.
THE BFG
Directed by: Steven Speilberg
Starring: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall
Release Date: July 22nd 2016
A giant named The BFG (Rylance) snatches a young girl named Sophie (Barnhill) from her home at the orphanage after she catches sight of him from her dormitory window. The BFG takes Sophie to Giant Country, where he shows her all manner of marvellous things, but there are more giants than the big friendly one, and the two new friends must come up with a plan to stop them from eating human beings.
SUICIDE SQUAD
Directed by: David Ayer
Starring: Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Will Smith, Cara Delevigne, Scott Eastwood
Release Date: August 5th 2016
A secret government agency recruits imprisoned super villains – including the Joker, Deadshot and Harley Quinn – to take on dangerous black ops missions in exchange for clemency. The trouble is that while the super villains may seems as though they are co-operating, this is not really in their nature.