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Wherever you’re headed – from alien planets to high-speed bullet trains – your summer of cinema starts right here.

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MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

Release date: 1 July

This summer, from the biggest global animated franchise in history, comes the origin story of how the world’s greatest supervillain first met his iconic Minions, forged cinema’s most despicable crew and faced off against the most unstoppable criminal force ever assembled in Minions: The Rise of Gru.

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (12A)

Release date: 8 July

“Thor: Love and Thunder,” offering long-awaited clues to what’s in store for the God of Thunder. The film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods.

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (15)

Release date: 22 July

From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina.

DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS (PG)

Release date: 29 July

In “DC League of Super-Pets,” Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack—Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle, and Chip the squirrel—to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the Super Heroes.

BULLET TRAIN (15)

Release date: 3 Aug

Based on the Japanese novel, Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to one another. The question becomes, who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station?

NOPE

Release date: 12 Aug

“What’s a bad miracle?” Oscar® winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope.

BEAST

Release date: 26 Aug

The new Beast movie is a white-knuckle survival thriller that sees Idris Elba fight for his life against a killer lion.

All film release dates are correct at the time of publication. Dates are subject to change. For information on film ratings, please visit the BBFC website.