MAY 27

MADAGASCAR The latest Dream-Works animation extravaganza.

JUNE 3

CINDERELLA MAN Ron Howard takes on the story of underdog boxer Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe) whose defying-the-odds victories brought America together during the Depression.

JUNE 10

MR. & MRS. SMITH Taking a break from making tabloid headlines, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play a pair of married assassins who are each hired to kill the other. Doug Liman (“Swingers,” “The Bourne Identity”) directs.

JUNE 15

BATMAN BEGINS The Schumacher Era is officially dead. Movie geeks across the world rejoice! Christopher Nolan (“Memento”) wipes the slate clean and rips the nipples off the Batsuit in his take on how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) first donned the caper and cowl. Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and Cillian Murphy costar.

JUNE 22

HERBIE: FULLY LOADED The magical car goes bananas yet again, this time with the help of Lindsay Lohan and ex-Batman Michael Keaton.

JUNE 24

BEWITCHED Nora Ephron’s comedy stars Will Ferrell as a down-and-out actor cast as Darrin in a remake of the television staple. Nicole Kidman plays the actress who gets cast as Samantha who, unbeknownst to her costar, really is a witch. Clever high concept, or lazy low concept?

JUNE 28

WAR OF THE WORLDS Steven Spielberg returns to aliens, only these don’t like music or Reese’s Pieces. Tom Cruise plays everyman Ray Ferrier, who takes on the unknown forces from somewhere beyond.

JULY 1

REBOUND Martin Lawrence plays a college hoops coach who’s blackballed after a public meltdown. Hoping to redeem himself, he takes a job coaching a group of junior high school kids. Hijinks presumably ensue.

JULY 8

FANTASTIC FOUR Marvel’s oldest comic gets a highly anticipated big-screen treatment. The Four, led by Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) must stop that Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon) from world domination.

JULY 13

HUSTLE & FLOW This year’s grand jury prize winner at Sundance, “Hustle and Flow” stars Terrence Dashon Howard as a pimp who finds redemption in his ongoing quest for rap stardom. Produced by John Singleton.

JULY 15

THE WEDDING CRASHERS Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play a pair of womanizers who find themselves over their head when Wilson falls in love with one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of a politician’s daughter. Christopher Walken costars.

JULY 22

THE ISLAND Michael Bay’s first movie without producer Jerry Bruckheimer finds Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson on the run when they discover that they’re actually clones to be harvested for parts.

JULY 29

STEALTH “Fail-safe” meets “Wargames” in Rob Cohen’s (“XXX”) action picture. Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel star as Navy pilots who must bring down a jet piloted by an artificial computer that’s gone bonkers.

AUGUST 5

DUKES OF HAZZARD The Duke Boys, everybody’s favorite Confederates outrun Boss Hogg yet again in this adaptation of the television show. Johnny Knoxville, Sean William Scott, and Burt Reynolds star.

AUGUST 12

DOMINO Tony Scott’s film tells the true story of Domino Harvey (daughter of Laurence) who rejects the celebrity lifestyle to become, of all things, a bounty hunter. Featuring Kiera Knightley, Christopher Walken, Lucy Lui, and Tom Waits, among others; written by the ultracool Richard Kelly (“Donnie Darko”).

AUGUST 26

THE CONSTANT GARDENER

From the co-director of “City of God,” comes this drama chronicling the investigation of a murder in Kenya. Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, and Danny Huston star.

SEPTEMBER 2

THE WOODS A teenager (Agnes Bruckner) is sent to a boarding school deep in the forest, where she begins to have horrifying visions of the deaths of her classmates. Lucky Mc-Kee – who made “May,” the criminally underseen, best horror film of this young century – directs.

OUTDOOR SCREENINGS

Watching movies in the open air with several hundred of your closest friends is one the quintessential summer experiences available in the city. The Bryant Park screenings are an institution, and the movies in Brooklyn Bridge Park are becoming one. Other programs present movies on the West Side piers or rooftops throughout Brooklyn.

MOVIES IN BRYANT PARK

* June 20 The Way We Were (1973)
* June 27 The Fly (1958)
* July 4 White Heat (1949)
* July 12 The Gay Divorcee (1934)
* July 18 Touch of Evil (1958)
* July 25 Suspicion (1941)
* August 1 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
* August 8 The Odd Couple (1968)
* August 15 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
* August 22 Jaws (1975)

MOVIES IN BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK

* July 7 Key Largo
* July 14 Gidget
* July 21 A Fish Called Wanda
* July 28 Dr. No
* August 4 Mermaids
* August 11 Chinatown

All dates subject to change.