Summer. NYT/LAT.

So both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times plunk down their summer movie preview packages this weekend. Before shuffling them together and laying them out again, movie by movie, I just wanted to note that besides Dave Kehr's annotated release calendar (NYT) and the LAT's, Hugh Hart's got one in the San Francisco Chronicle. See also yesterday's entry.

Otherwise, lucky AO Scott and Manohla Dargis (NYT) get to phone in a few comments on the ones they're looking forward to and have done with it. The rest:

Mission Impossible III (already out, around the world). John Burlingame (NYT) on Michael Giacchino's score audio slide show.

Poseidon (May 12). Robert W Welkos (LAT) on the logistics.

The Da Vinci Code (May 19). Alan Riding (NYT) on what it's like to film in the Louvre. Rachel Abramowitz (LAT) pulls some quotes together.

Over the Hedge (May 19). In the making for ten years now; Charles Solomon explains (NYT). A bit more from John Horn (LAT).

An Inconvenient Truth (May 24). Tina Daunt (LAT), briefly.

X-Men: The Last Stand (May 26). Martin Miller (LAT) talks with Brett Ratner.

The Break-Up (June 2). Susan King (LAT) briefs you.

The Omen (June 6). Susan King (LAT) hears John Moore's pitch.

A Prairie Home Companion (June 9). Susan King (LAT) gets a few words with Robert Altman.

Cars (June 9). John Horn (LAT) profiles John Lasseter.

Superman Returns (June 30). Geoff Boucher (LAT) profiles Brandon Routh.

The Devil Wears Prada (June 30). Mimi Avins (LAT) has a brief intro. The book.

Little Man (July 5). Chris Lee (LAT) catches Marlon Wayans.

A Scanner Darkly (July 7). Susan King (LAT) chats with Richard Linklater.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (July 7). Martin Miller (LAT) meets Bill Nighy.

Heading South (Vers le sud; July 7). Leslie Camhi (NYT) calls up Laurent Cantet.

Lady in the Water (July 21). David Carr (NYT) profiles Paul Giamatti. Rachel Abramowitz (LAT) talks with M Night Shyamalan.

Miami Vice (July 28). Robert W Welkos (LAT) on the "Michael Mann School."

Little Miss Sunshine (July 28). Sharon Waxman (NYT) talks with Toni Collette. A bit more from Mary McNamara (LAT).

Trust the Man (August 18). Susan King (LAT) meets Bart Freundlich.

Snakes on a Plane (August 18). Susan King meets "snake wrangler" Jules Sylvester.

Idlewild (August 25). Chris Lee (LAT) on the Outkast movie.

Crank (September 1). Jay A Fernandez (LAT) talks with debut writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.

Pathfinder (September 8). Mark Olsen (NYT) on "How to Build a Viking. A Very, Very Big Viking."

Also:

• Karen Durbin (NYT) on five performances to watch for (slide show): Zoë Weizenbaum in Twelve and Holding (May 19), Alice Braga in Lower City (June 16), Simon Baker in The Devil Wears Prada (June 30), Melvil Poupaud in Time to Leave (July 21) and Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson (August 11).

• Where are the women this summer, asks Mary McNamara (LAT).

• Charles Taylor and Stephanie Zacharek (NYT) on the DVDs of summer.

• Rachel Abramowitz (LAT) on the comedies: "The battle of the sexes percolates through the summer laugh-fest, with enough dollops of teen antics, sophisticated Streepian high jinks and Ali G doing NASCAR to keep the rest of us amused."

• Charles McGrath (NYT) on lessons to be learned from horror movies (stay out of "crummy lodgings," etc).

Posted by dwhudson at May 6, 2006 5:55 AM