Superhero Films Dominate Summer Movie Lineup

Get ready. Coming your way this summer is a feast of superhero films primed to whet any fanboy's appetite!

IRON MAN:
Paramount Pictures. Release Date: May 2, 2008 Starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrance Howard and Gwenneth Paltrow

Synopsis: Billionaire playboy industrialist Tony Stark is a weapons designer for the US Government. While out on a field test of one of his inventions, he is wounded, captured and his captures force him to make weapons for the enemy. Stark fashions himself a crude power armor to save his life and uses it to escape. Later he revises his armor and finds purpose as the armored crime-fighter known as Iron Man!

SPEED RACER:

Warner Brothers. Release Date: May 9, 2008 Starring Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, and Matthew Fox

Synopsis: Based on the popular cartoon series, Speed Racer's goal is to win The Crucible, a cross county race that took the life of his older brother which puts him into conflict with the powerful corporation Royalton Industries who will do everything in their power to make sure Speed Racer never makes it to the finish line.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK:

Universal Pictures. Release Date: June 13, 2008 Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler and Tim Roth

Synopsis: Dr. Bruce Banner searches for a cure that transforms him into the Hulk while enemy forces want to use his DNA to create the ultimate weapon.

WANTED:

Universal Pictures. Release Date: June 27, 2008 Starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie

A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. After his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps. But slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye.

HANCOCK:

Columbia Pictures. Release Date July 2, 2008 Starring Will Smith, Charleze Theron and Jason Bateman

Will Smith takes on the superhero genre as a hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public. He then enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image.

THE DARK KNIGHT:

Warner Brothers/Legendary Pictures. Release Date: July 18, 2008 Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Michael Caine

Synopsis: Batman and Lt. Jim Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent to fight crime in Gotham City while a new foe emerges in the form of a psychotic bank robber known only as The Joker.