Pirates, however, do not traditionally respect such niceties, so the ogre will likely be forced off the mountain top on May 25 by Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," the third and allegedly final voyage of the only hit series to be based on an amusement park ride.

But before Harry returns to Hogwarts, we'll be reunited with Bruce Willis' terrorist fighter John McClane in "Live Free or Die Hard" (June 27), which revives that action franchise after a long hiatus.

And "The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" (June 15) is the first sequel to that Marvel Comics-based adventure; it is designed to spin off the Silver Surfer.

So is everything this summer a sequel? No. In fact, one film certain to end up as one of the top five is an extended version of a TV show. "The Simpsons Movie" may put Springfield's citizens in a larger arena, but creator Matt Groening promises that while Homer and family will get bigger heads, it will be literal, not figurative.

"Spider-Man 3" -- Rumored to be the final installment of the series with director Sam Raimi, this flick should have a fearsome bite. Our conflicted hero, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), has to deal with the one-two punch of villains -- Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), an escaped con whose exposure to nuclear fallout leaves him with a convenient gift for shape-shifting, and a fellow Daily Bugle photographer who chemically mutates into his alter-ego, Venom (Topher Grace). Plus, his best pal, Harry Osborn (James Franco), takes up his late father's mantle to become the New Goblin, while Peter comes into conflict with his own dark side.

"Away From Her" -- With great reluctance, the husband (Gordon Pinsent) of a woman (Julie Christie) showing Alzheimer's symptoms agrees to put her in a nursing home, but when he is finally allowed to visit her, he discovers she not only has no memory of him, but has become emotionally involved with another patient.

"Lucky You" -- Australian Eric Bana, still looking for his breakthrough role after starring in high-profile, so-so movies like " Hulk" and "Munich," plays a smart but self-destructive gambler looking to vanquish his long-time demons with a victory in Vegas' World Series of Poker. Drew Barrymore co-stars as a lounge singer who is also down to her last chips.

"September Dawn" -- A fictionalized retelling of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, where the Fancher Party, a wagon train of western-bound settlers from Arkansas, was attacked and murdered on the Old Spanish Trail in Utah by a Mormon militia.

"28 Weeks Later" -- The Great Zombie Comeback began with Danny Boyle's tense, realistic 2002 thriller "28 Days Later," which all but demanded a sequel. Six months after the virus known as the Rage decimated Great Britain, the U. S. Army has been brought in to restore order (uh, yeah) and has instituted a repopulation campaign in London. But one of the very first families of repatriated refugees may be bringing more back with them than their blankees.

"Georgia Rule" -- Lindsay Lohan steps out of the tabloids and back into the movies as an out-of-control, drinking, car-crashing mess whose Southern mama, played by Felicity Huffman, sends her to live with tough-love grandma Jane Fonda in a tiny Mormon town where all the young women wear the proper underthings and young men and women date instead of hooking up.

"Delta Farce" -- Larry the Cable Guy and his Blue Collar Comedy Tour cohort Bill Engvall enlist pencil-necked DJ Qualls on a duck-hunting-and-beer-drinking mission, only to find themselves mistaken for errant Army Reservists and shipped directly off to Mexico to restore order to a village under the thumb of a drug lord.

"The Flock" -- Richard Gere, fresh off his well-reviewed starring role in "The Hoax," plays a burned-out government worker who has the job of training his replacement (Claire Danes), but can't let go of a missing-child case that he believes is connected to a paroled sex offender.

"The Salon" -- Vivica A. Fox plays an urban beauty shop owner and single mom who's trying to save her business while embarking on a promising relationship with a member of the city council in a comedy with dramatic undertones.

"Home of the Brave" -- Samuel L. Jackson, 50 Cent, Brian Presley and Jessica Biel play members of a National Guard unit who return to the States after a harrowing tour of Iraq, and find coping with their experiences difficult in a drama directed by Irwin Winkler.

"The Hip Hop Project" -- A documentary focusing on Chris (Kazi) Rolle, a rapper who received New York's Urban Hero award for his work as a youth mentor, and who organized an at-risk-youth outreach program that uses hip-hop as an inspirational tool.

"Shrek the Third" -- The lovable ogre (the voice of Mike Myers) returns in the third installment of the fractured fairy tale, and much to his distress, discovers himself being prepped to rule the kingdom of Far, Far Away. While the princess (Cameron Diaz) tries to fend off crown-coveting Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), Shrek enlists Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss (Antonio Banderas) in an effort to rehabilitate the rebellious spoiled Prince Artie, voiced by Justin Timberlake.

"Captivity" -- Elisha Cuthbert is a superstar fashion model who is kidnapped by an obsessed serial killer and subjected to gruesome games of torture in a thriller looking to appeal to loyal fans of the sadistic "Saw" series.

"The Ex" -- When a young wife played by Amanda Peet becomes pregnant, she quits her high-paying job, forcing her unemployed husband, Zach Braff, to take a job at his father-in-law's company.

"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" -- The concluding chapter of the pirate adventure comedy takes yet another unlikely turn, with Will (Orlando Bloom) and his beloved Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) teaming up with wicked Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) to save Jack Sparrow. Rolling Stone Keith Richards, the inspiration for Depp's swaggering and staggering Sparrow, plays Sparrow's old man.

"Bug" -- A psychologically damaged Gulf War vet (Michael Shannon) sees bugs everywhere, and when he shacks up with a woman (Ashley Judd) in an Oklahoma motel, she succumbs to his creepy paranoia, becoming convinced there are bugs under her skin. But hey, what if they're not nuts? What if there really is a homicidal infestation?

"I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With" -- Jeff Garlin, creator of memorable shlubs on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Arrested Development," debuts as a movie director with the story of a food-obsessed Chicagoan living with his mama (Mina Kolb), who somehow manages to find himself juggling relationships with a nutty ice-cream parlor scooper (Sarah Silverman) and a teacher (Bonnie Hunt) who's crazy for jazz.

"Jindabyne" -- The wife (Laura Linney) of a transplanted Irishman (Gabriel Byrne) is devastated by a scandal that erupts after her husband and two friends return from an extended fishing trip in the hill country.

"Knocked Up" -- Judd Apatow, the producer, writer and director of 2005's runaway hit comedy "The 40 Year-Old Virgin," returns to the raunchy well with this story of an average guy (Paul Rudd) who to his great surprise gets lucky one night at a bar with an inebriated, beautiful, career woman (Katherine Heigl) he figures he'll never see again -- until she shows up pregnant eight weeks later.

"Mr. Brooks" -- Kevin Costner is a shy ordinary guy with a big secret: Sometimes, his mind is taken over by a serial killer, portrayed, "Jekyll and Hyde" style, by William Hurt.

"Gracie" -- Elisabeth Shue turns producer for a story loosely based on her experiences as teenager who fought to be allowed to play on the boys' high school soccer team.

"Crazy Love" -- Burt Pugach is an ambulance-chasing Bronx lawyer who sweeps a 21-year-old blond beauty off her feet in the 1950s; he neglects to mention he has a wife and a disabled kid. When she gets engaged to another man, he hires thugs to throw acid in her face and is sentenced to 30 years in the pen. When he gets out, he has one thing on his mind: rewinning her love. Sounds too absurd to be believed, right? That's only because it's all true -- this is a documentary.

"Surf's Up" -- Penguins, penguins everywhere, even on surfboards in this CGI-animated comedy from the directors of "Toy Story 2." Shia LaBeouf gives voice to cocky waddler Cody Maverick, whose assumption of a victory in the World Surfing Competition is a case of counting eggs before they can be transferred from mama to papa.

"Ocean's Thirteen" -- Outing No. 3 sends the gang -- George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle and Matt Damon -- back to Vegas to take vengeance on a double-crossing casino boss (Al Pacino).

"Hostel: Part II" -- The savagery continues in this sequel to the bloody 2005 film about three male backpackers who make a bad lodging choice in Slovakia.

"The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" -- The sequel to the 2005 Marvel comic book movie that nobody liked but everyone went to see, anyway. Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), the Invisible Girl (Jessica Alba), the Thing (Michael Chiklis) and the Human Torch (Chris Evans) face yet another threat from Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) and his tool, Galactus, while they try to get a bead on the enigmatic Silver Surfer (Doug Jones).

"Nancy Drew" -- Everybody's favorite girl detective gets yet another update for the screen -- and the tweens -- with Emma Roberts, niece of Julia and daughter of Eric, playing Nancy, who, while accompanying her dad on a Los Angeles business trip, finds herself attempting to solve a Hollywood murder mystery.

"I Could Never Be Your Woman" -- Michelle Pfeiffer is the producer of a "Saved By The Bell"-style sitcom who finds herself attracted to a much-younger actor (Paul Rudd) on the show, at the same time her daughter (Saoirse Ronan) is feeling the first pangs of love.

"Fido" -- The title character is the best friend of bullied young Timmy Robinson (K'Sun Ray), but it's not a mutt: It's a 6-foot, rotting zombie, played by Bill Connolly, who has been hired by Timmy's mom (Carrie-Anne Moss) as a servant in a retro-alternative society where everyone who is anyone has one.

"Evan Almighty" -- As the title suggests, a sequel to the Jim Carrey hit "Bruce Almighty," but with Carell, not Carrey: "The Office" star Steve Carell, who played Bruce's reporter-rival in the original film, is now a congressman who is summoned by God (Morgan Freeman) and ordered to build an ark in anticipation of another sin-clearing flood.

"A Mighty Heart" -- Free-lance journalist Mariane Pearl's account of the life and death of her husband, Daniel, whose beheading was videotaped by Islamic extremists, is turned into a drama starring Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman.

"Broken English" -- Indie film darling Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a 35-year-old single New Yorker whose life hasn't turned out as she expected.

"DOA.: Dead or Alive" -- Three fighters (Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance and Devon Aoki) from around the world team up for some serious butt-kicking-in-bikinis in this action film based on the video game.

"Live Free or Die Hard" -- This fourth chapter of the long-dormant "Die Hard" franchise has John McClane (Bruce Willis), head shaven, divorced from the wife he risked everything to save in the original film and working a desk job tracking suspicious computer activity for the Homeland Security Agency. But when a terrorist group initiates a complex online plot to shut down the United States, McClane has to team up with a young hacker (Justin Long) he had just taken into custody to counter an attack by an enemy he cannot see.

"Evening" -- Vanessa Redgrave is a dying woman recalling her life as a young woman with her two daughters, played by Toni Collette and Redgrave's real daughter, Natasha Richardson.

"Ratatouille" -- Unlike your average rat, Remy (the voice of Patton Oswalt) is a discriminating diner who has taken up residence in the walls of a great French restaurant, much to the disdain of the staff. But Remy wants to go where no rat has gone before: He aspires to be a chef, which causes a few comic complications in the eighth full-length feature animated film from Pixar.

"Mama's Boy" -- Jon Heder is 29 and has no plans to stop living with his beloved mom (Diane Keaton) until she announces she is marrying a self-help author, played by Jeff Daniels. Let the war begin.

"You Kill Me" -- Ben Kingsley puts his stone face back on to play an alcoholic assassin-for-hire who repairs to Los Angeles to dry out and rethink his life, only to get a job at a mortuary where a relative (Tea Leoni) of one of his victims is employed.

"Death at a Funeral" -- Matthew Macfadyen and Rupert Graves play estranged brothers in a seriously screwed -up family who are reunited at their father's funeral, where they are confronted by a blackmailer with a secret about their old man that could cause even further chaos.

"Transformers" -- Unless you're under 10, you might not have noticed that the novelty toy of the 1980s -- plastic gizmos that with a few flicks of the wrist can be transformed from cars and planes into ferocious armored warriors -- are back in vogue. In director Michael Bay's movie, the warring Autobots (the good guys) and Decepticons (bad guys) come to Earth in search of the energy source that keeps their gears going.

"License to Wed" -- Mandy Moore plays a soon-to-be bride, who with her fiance, John Krasinki, falls victim to a minister (Robin Williams) who refuses to marry them unless they're truly committed, and designs a series of challenges that allows them to prove it.

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" -- The fifth Potter picture sends Harry back to Hogwarts as an outcast. His claim that the evil Lord Voldemort has been restored in body and power is widely dismissed not only by his classmates (except for Hermione and Ron) and the faculty (not the wise but fading Dumbledore), but also the Ministry of Magic.

"Talk to Me" -- Don Cheadle pulls out the 'fro and the flares from his "Boogie Nights" days to play ex-con-turned-flamboyant Washington, D.C., soul music DJ and talk show host Petey Greene, whose enormous popularity in the late 1960s and early '70s turned him into an Oprah-level spokesman for the African-American community and made him a lightning rod for controversy.

"1408" -- John Cusack stars in his second summer movie, playing a serious version of Penn & Teller, a debunker of alleged paranormal and supernatural phenomenon, whose success as an author is tempered by his grief over the death of his daughter. His work brings him to New York's stately and historic Dolphin Hotel, to a room said to be haunted.

"The Strangers" -- Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are a young married couple house-sitting the target of a home invasion by three people in masks who may have an agenda beyond robbery.

"Rescue Dawn" -- Christian Bale is a German who immigrates to America with dreams of becoming a pilot, just in time to get free training in the U.S. Navy, which sends him to fly in the unfriendly skies of Vietnam in the late 1960s. Shot down and captured in an illegal excursion into Laos, he and fellow prisoners mount a daring escape.

"Hairspray" -- John Waters' 1988 comedy about an overweight Baltimore teen who wants nothing more than to be a dancer on a local "American Bandstand"-inspired program in the early 1960s was turned into a Broadway hit, and now becomes a movie again. Newcomer Nicole Blonsky is Tracey Turnblad, the outcast; John Travolta dons drag to play her mouthy mother, Edna, and Queen Latifah is the hip DJ.

"I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" -- Adam Sandler is Chuck and Kevin James is Larry, best friends and Brooklyn firefighters. Chuck is a freewheeling bachelor, while Larry is a widower with kids. When a legal loophole is discovered that disallows Larry's children from receiving survivor or insurance benefits if he is killed or injured in the line of duty, Larry calls in a favor. He wants Chuck to pretend to be his domestic partner so the kids will be protected.

"The Simpsons Movie" -- First it was a cult, then it was a cultural phenomenon, and then it was the continuing story of life in America, only funnier. Now it's a movie, and with the possible exception of "Spider-Man 3" it's the most anticipated movie of the year, despite the fact its old-school animation makes "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" look high-tech, and that its hero's name is Homer. So far, its plotline is known to only a few folks who had to sign a super-secrecy agreement to attend a test screening of a work in progress.

"Skinwalkers" -- A 12-year-old boy is unaware, as is his mother (Rhona Mitra), that he is half-human, half-werewolf, and that on his 13th birthday, under a red full moon, he will inherit a power and fulfill a prophecy that puts him in the middle of good werewolves and bad.

"No Reservations" -- Catherine Zeta-Jones heads this comedy about a high-strung, single celebrity chef who has never had time -- or an interest in -- anything but her job until she becomes guardian to her niece, played by "Little Miss Sunshine" Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin.

"The Bourne Ultimatum" -- Matt Damon returns for his third go-around as former U.S. spy Jason Bourne, who recovered from an assassination attempt with amnesia, and whose ongoing effort to put together all the pieces of his past leads him to Treadstone, the top-secret facility where he was trained.

"Underdog" -- A beagle named Shoeshine Boy (voiced by Jason Lee) finds himself in possession of an array of super powers after a laboratory accident, including the ability to speak; this understandably unnerves the boy (Alex Nueberger) who adopts him, but the boy becomes his aide de camp when he assumes the crime-fighting secret identity of Underdog.

"Hot Rod" -- Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Andy Samberg stars as Rod Kimble, a less than nimble daredevil, who, looking to impress his distant dad, attempts to outdo Evel Knievel by jumping the Snake River on a moped.

"Becoming Jane" -- A speculative look at the early life of Jane Austen, played by Anne Hathaway, and the events that could have inspired "Pride & Prejudice" and "Sense & Sensibility."

"Charlie Bartlett" -- Russian-born Anton Yelchin plays the title character in a comedy about a troubled rich kid who is flunking out at a public school (the principal is played by Robert Downey Jr.) but whose empathetic nature leads him to become the unofficial therapist to the school's similarly screwed-up kids -- even dispensing the occasional medication with help from a classmate dealer.

"Stardust" -- A graphic novel by the gifted and prolific Neil Gaiman is the source of this fantasy about a young man (Charlie Cox) who seeks to prove his love to Yvaine by retrieving a falling star from the magical land that borders their village. The stellar supporting cast in this blend of live action and animation includes, in the flesh or by voice, Robert De Niro (as a pirate), Peter O'Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais and many more.

"Rush Hour 3" -- Jackie Chan's Chinese Inspector Lee and Chris Tucker's American cop James Carter are reunited in Paris, where they make quick enemies of the French branch of Hong Kong-based crime ring the Triad.

"Bratz" -- Yasmin, Sasha, Chloe and Jade, the dress-up dolls turned cartoon characters with a "passion for fashion," finally get a movie that goes to the screen ahead of the DVD, a musical with original pop songs that will undoubtedly spin off an album.

"Daddy Day Camp" -- A sequel to "Daddy Day Care," but without Eddie Murphy. Cuba Gooding Jr. steps in as the unemployed father who, with some typically unsuitable pals, starts a summer camp that attracts the usual assortment of discipline problems and doo-doo issues.

"The Invasion" -- Nicole Kidman plays a Washington, D.C., psychiatrist who comes to believe that a supposed viral epidemic is an alien invasion, and that her infected son could hold the key to a defense; Daniel Craig, in his first post-James Bond part, is a doctor who begins to believe her.

"Superbad" -- Michael Cera and Jonah Hill are joined-at-the-hip best buds throwing a high school graduation party. But when their quest to obtain illegal alcohol separates them, they undergo not only crazed comic misadventures but severe separation anxiety that bodes badly for them going off to different colleges.

"Fanboys" -- A dying "Star Wars" fan's last request? To see "Episode I: Phantom Menace" before he goes. Problem? It's not yet released, so three fellow fanboys take him on a road trip to convince George Lucas to give them a preview at Skywalker Ranch.

"Wedding Daze" -- Actor Michael Ian Black gets behind the camera. After a brutal break-up, a young man (Jason Biggs) is convinced he will never fall in love again. But on a dare, he proposes to a waitress (Isla Fisher) with her own relationship issues, and to the surprise of both, they find themselves planning a wedding.

"Arctic Tale" -- In the path of "March of the Penguins" comes a documentary about the Great North, where a walrus given the name Seela and a polar bear called Nanu are tracked from birth to maturity and, finally, parenthood.

"Good Luck Chuck" -- Dane Cook is back as a guy who never lacks for female company, but never holds on to one woman too long. Why? It seems that women who date him always seem to meet Mr. Right while they're seeing him.

"Virgin Territory" -- Though this sounds like a raunchy sex comedy, it's actually a take on "The Decameron," in which young Florentines take refuge in the country in an attempt to escape the Black Plague, and amuse themselves by telling stories, some of them erotic.

"The Comebacks" -- David Koechner plays the losingest coach in the history of college football, who gets one last chance to prove himself when he comes out of retirement to take a job at a school that has a team that makes the Lions look like winners.

"The Last Legion" -- With the Roman Empire under siege by barbarians, 12-year-old Romulus Augustus (Thomas Sangster) is crowned emperor, and his father appoints the tribune Aurelius (Colin Firth) as the boy's bodyguard; but when they are captured and taken to the isle of Capri, Romulus discovers the magical sword of Caesar, and with Aurelius and a mysterious Byzantine defector (Aishwarya Rai) forms a new legion to retake Rome.

"Halloween" -- Michael Myers is born again in what was originally announced as a straight remake of John Carpenter's 1978 classic. Director Rod Zombie has reimagined the tale of a young man who breaks out of the mental institution where he has resided for 15 years after murdering his older sister, returning to his hometown to take murderous revenge.

"Mr. Bean's Holiday" -- Rowan Atkinson's archetypal British bumbler Mr. Bean finally returns to the screen in a story that has him winning a trip to France in a raffle, where he has no shortage of accidents and misadventures, none of which he ever really notices. But along the way, he also accidentally does some good deeds, and may fall in love.

"The Brothers Solomon" -- Will Arnett and Will Forte are naive brothers who have been sheltered from the big bad world by their dying father but venture into the unknown to find mates so they can fulfill Daddy's wish for a grandchild.

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