It would be fair to say that we really don't need an Entourage movie, but we're damn sure going to watch it. HBO's enormously entertaining TV series ended with Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) heading to Paris to marry Sophia (Alice Eve), while E (Kevin Connolly) and Sloane (Emmanuelle Chriqui) headed off into the sunset together, and Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) was left to ponder taking the CEO job at Time Warner. The show had pretty much wrapped everything up in a meaningful and satisfying enough way, so while this movie is a blatant cash-grab, the show's hilarious consistency makes us undeniably eager to see how things have changed for Chase and co. in the last 4 years. Little is known about the plot, and we have no idea whether Alice Eve will even be appearing or be quietly written out, but with pretty much every significant character returning alongside the likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Haley Joel Osment, Martin Landau and Liam Neeson, we should certainly expect another hilarious send-up of Hollywood with as many wry in-jokes and surprise cameos as can be crammed into a feature film. Predicted Rotten Tomatoes Score: 68%
22. Jurassic World (June 12)
After years of speculation and countless stalled attempts to get it moving, the fourth Jurassic Park movie is finally filming, a soft reboot of the franchise to be directed by indie filmmaker Colin Trevorrow. The premise is certainly a doozy, as Jurassic World is now a fully functional dinosaur theme park much like what John Hammond originally envisioned in the first movie, and protagonist Owen (Chris Pratt), a staff member who experiments on velociprators, soon enough finds himself caught up in the sort of mayhem we can only begin to imagine. Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Vincent D'Onofrio and Judy Greer help fill out the cast in what is sure to be one of the mega-hits of 2015. Director Trevorrow is certainly a wild card given his lack of experience in big-scale filmmaking, though the images we've seen so far certainly pique our interest, and it's welcome news that the production will be mixing animatronic dinosaurs with CGI. After two underwhelming sequels, hopefully Jurassic World will restore the franchise's good name and give it great promise for the future. Predicted Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%
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