Box office tills are ringing again, with film fans flocking back to cinemas ahead of the first proper blockbuster summer in three years.
Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, Jurassic World Dominion and Minions 2 are still filling the multiplexes, but can Hollywood keep the momentum going over the school holidays?
Here we take a look at the movies that are most likely to tempt us in from the sunshine...
The Railway Children Return
In cinemas: July 15
This wartime sequel to the 1970 E Nesbit classic is on track to charm kids and stoke warm memories for accompanying adults.
Jenny Agutter returns as Bobbie, once a plucky Edwardian teen, now a kindly wartime granny in a picturesque Yorkshire village.
She takes in three evacuee siblings from Salford who help a black American GI on the run from racist US military police.
Bullet Train
In cinemas: August 3
It’s the summer’s second train movie, but a lot more action-packed than The Railway Children Return.
Brad Pitt plays Lady Bug, the “world’s unluckiest assassin” who is persuaded to take “a simple job” by his handler (Sandra Bullock).
He must collect a mysterious briefcase from a luggage rack on a Bullet Train. But he soon discovers there are other assassins on board who all seem to be after the case.
DC League of Super Pets
In cinemas: July 29
Superman's best friend springs into action in this family friendly off-shoot from DC Comics’ Justice League.
Krypto The Superdog (voiced by Dwayne Johnson), is his crime-fighting wingman and affectionate best mate.
But when his master (John Krasinski) along with the rest of Justice League are kidnapped and a pet transforming meteor hits an animal pound, the hairy sidekick must lead a pack of rookie heroes to save the day.
The Invitation
In cinemas: August 26
Bram Stoker’s Dracula gets a modern makeover in this horror starring Nathalie Emmanuel.
The Game Of Thrones star plays Evie, an American who discovers she has a long lost cousin after taking a DNA test.
As she has no other known relatives, she’s delighted to be invited to a wedding at the chap’s English country estate.
But it turns out the devilishly handsome aristocrat (Thomas Doherty) is harbouring a dark secret and left out some very important details on that invite.
If you’re looking forward to the twist, don’t watch the trailer as it gives away most of the plot.
The Gray Man
In cinemas: July 15, Netflix July 22
Ryan Gosling leads this action-packed adaptation of Mark Greany’s best-selling spy thriller, reportedly the most expensive movie ever made for Netflix.
The La La Land star is Court Gentry aka Sierra Six, a former CIA agent, now freelancing as a shadowy assassin.
When Gentry uncovers dark agency secrets, the hunter becomes the hunted as a moustachioed former colleague (Captain America star Chris Evans) sets off a global manhunt involving the world’s greatest assassins.
Ana de Armas also stars.
The Forgiven
In cinemas: September 2
Writer-director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, Calvary) returns with a pitch black comedy set in Morocco.
Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain play a bickering couple who are heading to a weekend-long party at a plush estate owned by an eccentric gay couple (Matt Smith and Caleb Landry Jones).
But moral dilemmas surface when a drunken Fiennes hits and kills a local boy with his car.
Based on a novel by Lawrence Osborne, The Forgiven is a twisted, and very chatty, tale of redemption.
Where The Crawdads Sing
In cinemas: July 22
Expect love triangles, Gothic intrigue and twisty courtroom action in this adaptation of Delia Owens’s best-selling mystery novel.
British actress Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Kya, a mysterious young woman who grew up alone in the marshlands of North Carolina.
Two young men take an interest in her and when one of them is found dead in the woods, the outsider becomes the prime suspect.
Daisy found fame in BBC hit drama Normal People and this could be the film that catapults to her movie stardom. Reese Witherspoon produces and Taylor Swift has written the theme song.
Joyride
In cinemas: July 29
Oscar-winner Olivia Colman stars in a quirky road movie about a troubled new mum on the run in Ireland with her new baby.
On her way to an important meeting, her character Joy (get it?) hooks up with a 12-year-old thief (newcomer Charlie Reid).
Over the course of a series of wacky adventures involving a stolen taxi, the pair form an unlikely but deep relationship.
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
In cinemas: August 19
Could the sequel to the British sleeper hit of 2019 prove the movie equivalent of that tricky second album?
And that’s also the plot. After singing at Glastonbury, the lads grapple with fame and struggle to find a second set of salty hits.
Band leader Jim (James Purefoy) also has to deal with the death of his dad (David Haymans) and find someone else to join.
Three Thousand Years of Longing
In cinemas: September 2
Idris Elba is a genie who jumps out of a bottle in an Istanbul hotel room to grant three wishes to Tilda’s Swinton’s academic.
As she contemplates any loopholes in the offer Elba’s ancient genie regales her with tales.
George Miller’s last film was the brilliant Mad Max: Fury Road, but this adaptation of A.S Byatt’s story The Djinn In The Nightingale’s Eye is very different. The dark fantasy received a six-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.
Nope
In cinemas: August 12
Jordan Peele, the twisted genius behind Get Out and Us, is back with what could be another scary satire.
So far details have been left deliberately vague. All we all know is that Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play “the only black horse trainers in Hollywood” and end up witnessing something very spooky in the desert.
The mysterious trailer suggests some form of extraterrestrial terror that can suck horse trainers into the sky.
But with Peele in charge we certainly shouldn’t take anything for granted.
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