Based on information provided by the Box Office Mojo and some internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in June:
Approaching the Unknown
Opens: June 3
Captain William Stanaforth (Mark Strong) is on a one-way solo mission to Mars, taking humanity’s first steps towards colonizing it. Although the entire world is watching him, he is completely alone in a dark and distant sea of stars. Stanaforth rockets bravely through space facing insurmountable odds, but as the journey takes a toll on his life-sustaining systems, he is forced to make impossible choices that threaten his sanity, mission and very existence. The cast includes Luke Wilson and Sanaa Lathan.
Me Before You
Opens: June 3
Young and quirky Louisa “Lou” Clark (Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones) moves from one job to the next to help her family make ends meet. Her cheerful attitude is put to the test when she becomes a caregiver for Will Traynor (Sam Claflin from The Hunger Games franchise), a wealthy young banker left paralyzed from an accident two years earlier. Will’s cynical outlook starts to change when Louisa shows him that life is worth living. As their bond deepens, their lives and hearts change in ways neither one could have imagined. The cast includes Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, Brendan Coyle and Jenna Coleman.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Opens: June 3
The Turtles come into conflict with T.C.R.I. scientist Dr. Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and the return of their enemy, The Shredder (Brian Tee), who has hired Stockman to create mutants of his own in the form of Bebop and Rocksteady to even the score, during which the Turtles discover a Retro-Mutagen in hopes they can become humans. Following an extraterrestrial invasion above New York City led by the Dimension X inhabitant known as Krang. Upon Krang’s Invasion, the Turtles are joined in the fight with their Master Splinter, their human friends April O’Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett) and new friend, vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell from Arrow). The film also stars William Fichtner and Brittany Ishibashi.
Genius
Opens: June 10
The story of Genius follows the story of American Southern writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) and his connections with New Yorker Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth), the publisher. Perkins had already previously published works by the great American writers Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Guy Pearce). The story also follows the almost “romantic” affair between Wolfe and Perkins. The cast also includes Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney.
Now You See Me 2
Opens: June 10
The illusionists (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Lizzy Caplan) known as the Four Horsemen must perform an unprecedented stunt to clear their names and expose the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The film also stars Mark Ruffalo, Daniel Radcliffe, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman.
Warcraft
Opens: June 10
Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization, led by the humans, faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying world of Draenor to find their place in another. As a gateway known as the Dark Portal opens to connect the two worlds, the humans face destruction while the orcs face extinction. Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel from Vikings), leader of the humans, and Durotan (Toby Kebbell from Fantastic Four), leader of the orcs, are then sent on a collision course that will decide the fate of their families, their people and their home. The film also stars Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Clancy Brown, Anna Galvin and Callum Keith Rennie.
Finding Dory
Opens: June 17
Six months after the events of the first film, Dory suddenly recalls her childhood memories. Remembering something about “the jewel of Morro Bay, California”, accompanied by Nemo and Marlin, she sets out to find her family. She arrives at the Monterey Marine Life Institute, where she meets Bailey, a white beluga whale; Destiny, a whale shark; and Hank, an octopus, who becomes her guide. Voices will be provided by Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Ed O’Neill, Ty Burrell, Willem Dafoe, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Bill Hader and Sigourney Weaver.
Free State of Jones
Opens: June 24
After surviving the 1862 Battle of Corinth during the Civil War, Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), a poor farmer from Mississippi, leads a group of small farmers and local slaves in an armed rebellion against the Confederacy in Jones County. Knight subsequently marries a former enslaved woman, Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). He establishes a mixed-race community, unique in the post-war South. The film also stars Keri Russell, Mahershala Ali and Brendan Gleeson.
Independence Day: Resurgence
Opens: June 24
Twenty years after the events of the first film, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a united global defense program that serves as Earth’s early warning system and the main defense force using technology salvaged from remains of the alien forces, with some military forces assembled on the Moon, Mars and Rhea. However, the aliens were able to send a distress signal to their other battalions before their final defeat while others went into hiding elsewhere around the world. The aliens in deep space received the signal and sent a larger and more powerful battle fleet, threatening the human race once more, this time, with a gravitational machine. The cast includes Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner and William Fichtner.
Movies coming out in July will be posted at the end of June.
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