Far From the Madding Crowd

PG-13

Romance

Release date: May 1, 2015

Stars: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge

The basics: Mulligan plays a woman wooed by three suitors – an earnest shepherd, a swashbuckling flirt and a wealthy older landowner – in this handsome and well-acted adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel.

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Tangerines

Unrated

Drama

Release date: May 1, 2015

Stars: Lembit Ulfsak, Giorgi Nakashidze, Mikheil Meskhi

The basics: In a war-torn corner of the Caucasus Mountains, an Estonian farmer (Ulfsak) nurses two wounded fighters, and bitter enemies, back to health. The anti-war film was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: May 1, 2015

Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, James Spader

The basics: A guardian robot (voiced by Spader) turns against its creator, Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man (Downey Jr.), who must rally his fellow superheroes to fight this artificial intelligence gone bad.

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About Elly

Unrated

Drama

Release date: May 8, 2015

Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini

The basics: Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation,” “The Past”) sets up a mystery, precipitated by the disappearance of a young teacher during a seaside outing with friends.

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D Train

R

Comedy

Release date: May 8, 2015

Stars: Jack Black, James Marsden

The basics: On the occasion of his 20th high school reunion, an average Joe (Black) becomes obsessed with a former classmate (Marsden), who is now a Hollywood actor. Dark comedy — and an awkward sexual encounter — ensues.

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Hot Pursuit

PG-13

Comedy

Release date: May 8, 2015

Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara

The basics: Policewoman Witherspoon plays escort to Vergara’s wife-of-a-druglord on the lam in this odd-couple road movie.

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Welcome to Me

R

Comedy

Release date: May 8, 2015

Stars: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack

The basics: An emotionally unstable woman (Wiig) uses $86 million in lottery winnings to buy herself a talk show centered on her mundane life.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

R

Action/Adventure

Release date: May 15, 2015

Stars: Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult, Charlize Theron

The basics: Not quite a sequel, yet not exactly a reboot, George Miller’s fourth lap around the “Mad Max” track stars Hardy in the role originated by Mel Gibson. Here, the taciturn loner does battle with bloodthirsty bad guys in a post-apocalyptic world where gasoline is king (and Theron is queen).

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Pitch Perfect 2

PG-13

Comedy

Release date: May 15, 2015

Stars: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson

The basics: A competitive a capella group attempts to redeem itself after an embarrassing loss in this sequel to the 2012 hit. The comedy marks the feature directorial debut of actress Elizabeth Banks.

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Good Kill

R

Drama

Release date: May 22, 2015

Stars: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz

The basics: A drone pilot wrestles with his conscience in this drama, which reunites star Hawke with his deep-thinking “Gattaca” director Andrew Niccol.

I'll See You in My Dreams

PG-13

Romance

Release date: May 22, 2015

Stars: Blythe Danner, Sam Elliott

The basics: A widow (Danner) tentatively re-enters the dating pool, only to discover that the water is fine. Soon she’s making waves with a sexy septuagenarian (Elliott).

Poltergeist

PG-13

Horror

Release date: May 22, 2015

Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris

The basics: Why did producer Sam Raimi decide to remake the classic ghost tale, which has already given birth to two lackluster sequels? Because, as the film’s paranormal expert (Harris) says of the ectoplasmic protagonists: “They already know what scares you.”

Slow West

R

Drama

Release date: May 22, 2015

Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee

The basics: A young Scottish man (Smit-McPhee) searching for a lost love in late-19th-century Colorado is taken under the wing of a laconic bounty hunter (Fassbender) in this atmospheric Western.

Tomorrowland

PG

Family/Kids

Release date: May 22, 2015

Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson

The basics: A teenage girl (Robertson) finds herself in possession of a mysterious pin, unlocking a portal to a parallel universe. Her guide to this dangerous new world is a reclusive inventor (Clooney). Co-written by Damon Lindelof, whose credits include “Lost” and “Star Trek Into Darkness,” and director Brad Bird, whose résumé stretches from “The Simpsons” to the “The Incredibles,” the film promises to deliver more than kiddie fluff.

San Andreas

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: May 29, 2015

Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino

The basics: After California registers a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s search-and-rescue pilot swings into hero mode, giving new meaning to the phrase “when the big one hits.”

Insidious: Chapter 3

PG-13

Horror

Release date: June 5, 2015

Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Lin Shaye

The basics: The prequel to two earlier films about malevolent spirits from a supernatural realm known as The Further leads viewers even deeper into the domain of the damned.

Love & Mercy

PG-13

Drama

Release date: June 5, 2015

Stars: Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti

The basics: Dano and Cusack play Beach Boy Brian Wilson at different points in his life, jumping between the surf group’s rise in the 1960s and Wilson’s 1980s struggle with mental illness.

Spy

R

Comedy

Release date: June 5, 2015

Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Rose Byrne

The basics: McCarthy’s deskbound CIA agent finally gets a shot at field operations in this fish-out-of-water yukfest from writer-director Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”).

Jurassic World

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: June 12, 2015

Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard

The basics: Have the developers of dino-centric theme parks learned nothing from three “Jurassic Park” movies? In the futuristic amusement park of the title, a genetically engineered beast is introduced, wreaking predictable havoc.

Madame Bovary

R

Romance

Release date: June 12, 2015

Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Ezra Miller

The basics: In this 19th-century bodice-ripper, Wasikowska plays Gustave Flaubert’s tragic heroine, who flees from an unhappy marriage into a lover’s arms.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

PG-13

Comedy

Release date: June 12, 2015

Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke

The basics: This Sundance favorite, which took home both the Grand Jury Prize and the audience award, follows the bittersweet friendship between a high-school oddball (Mann) and a classmate with leukemia (Cooke).

Dope

R

Comedy

Release date: June 19, 2015

Stars: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Zoë Kravitz

The basics: The college aspirations of a poor but high-achieving black teen (Moore) from Inglewood, Calif., take a comic detour when drugs enter the picture.

Inside Out

PG

Family/Kids

Release date: June 19, 2015

Stars: The voices of Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Lewis Black

The basics: Poehler, Kaling, Hader and Black voice some of the emotions rattling around inside the head of an 11-year-old girl in this animated comedy from Pixar.

Big Game

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: June 26, 2015

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila

The basics: When Air Force One is shot down over Finland by terrorists, a 13-year-old boy (Tommila) comes to the rescue of the U.S. president (Jackson).

Ted 2

R

Comedy

Release date: June 26, 2015

Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried

The basics: The trash-talking teddy bear (voiced by director and co-writer MacFarlane) returns, going to court to prove his humanity in this sequel to the raunchy 2012 comedy.

Infinitely Polar Bear

R

Drama

Release date: June TBD

Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana

The basics: In the semi-autobiographical tale from writer-director Maya Forbes, Ruffalo plays a bipolar father struggling to raise two daughters when his wife (Saldana) goes off to graduate school.

Magic Mike XXL

R

Comedy

Release date: July 1, 2015

Stars: Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Jada Pinkett Smith

The basics: Tatum’s title character reunites with his stripper pals from the 2012 hit, inspired by Tatum’s real-life past as an exotic dancer.

Terminator: Genisys

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: July 1, 2015

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney

The basics: The fifth big-screen outing in the seemingly indestructible sci-fi franchise about killer robots introduces a wrinkle in the fabric of the time-traveling tale, which jumps from 1984 to 2029 (and in between): Maybe John Connor — whose role in the salvation of humanity has never been in doubt — isn’t the solution, but the problem.

The Gallows

PG-13

Horror

Release date: July 10, 2015

Stars: Cassidy Gifford, Pfeifer Brown

The basics: Yet another low-budget fright-fest in the found-footage genre, “The Gallows” centers on teenagers who put on a play 20 years after one production of the show in which its star was killed.

Minions

PG

Family/Kids

Release date: July 10, 2015

Stars: The voices of Sandra Bullock, Michael Keaton, Jon Hamm

The basics: The lovable henchmen (hench-creatures?) from the “Despicable Me” movies get their own prequel in an animated comedy featuring a new supervillain, voiced by Bullock.

Self/less

PG-13

Drama

Release date: July 10, 2015

Stars: Ben Kingsley, Matthew Goode, Ryan Reynolds

The basics: A scientist (Goode) offers the prospect of immortality to a billionaire with cancer (Kingsley), agreeing to transplant the dying man’s consciousness into a healthy body (Reynolds). But the dying man finds the new body, er, occupied.

Ant Man

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: July 17, 2015

Stars: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll

The basics: Expect action and laughs from this screenplay (written by Adam McKay and Rudd) based on the Marvel comic books about an insect-size superhero (Rudd).

Mr. Holmes

PG

Drama

Release date: July 17, 2015

Stars: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker

The basics: The basics: McKellen plays Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved sleuth, now 93 and suffering from incipient dementia, in this drama based on novelist Mitch Cullin’s “A Slight Trick of the Mind,” about inter-generational friendship.

Trainwreck

R

Comedy

Release date: July 17, 2015

Stars: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader

The basics: In her first big-screen starring role, Schumer is a happy-go-lucky commitment phobe who discovers, to her chagrin, that she’s falling for Mr. Right (Hader). Judd Apatow directed, from a script by Schumer.

Paper Towns

PG-13

Romance

Release date: July 24, 2015

Stars: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne

The basics: Wolff and Delevingne, a British supermodel, star in an adaptation of a YA novel by John Green (“The Fault in Our Stars”) about a boy whose crush disappears.

Pixels

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: July 24, 2015

Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad

The basics: Old-school gamers do battle with aliens who have devised weapons in the form of Pac-Man and other antique video game characters in this sci-fi comedy.

Southpaw

R

Drama

Release date: July 24, 2015

Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker

The basics: Gyllenhaal’s troubled, musclebound boxer is the physical opposite of the emaciated sociopath he played in “Nightcrawler” in director Antoine Fuqua’s drama about a widower struggling to regain custody of his daughter.

The Gift

R

Drama

Release date: July 31, 2015

Stars: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton

The basics: Edgerton makes his directorial debut with a psychological thriller about a married couple (Bateman and Hall) whose life is upended by the appearance of an old friend (Edgerton) with secrets from the husband’s past.

Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: July 31, 2015

Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner

The basics: When his spy organization disbands, superagent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF teammates go freelance to defeat a syndicate of international supervillains. Let’s hope this reunion of Cruise and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie is more successful than their 2012 collaboration, “Jack Reacher.”

Fantastic Four

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: Aug. 7, 2015

Stars: Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Miles Teller

The basics: After critical flops with the first two “Fantastic Four” films, Hollywood tries yet again to make these action heroes happen, reimagining their origin story as a drama about the burden of superpowers.

Masterminds

PG-13

Comedy

Release date: Aug. 7, 2015

Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig

The basics: Galifianakis and Wiig play larcenous yokels in a crime caper (inspired by an actual 1997 heist) from “Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess.

Ricki and the Flash

PG-13

Comedy

Release date: Aug. 7, 2015

Stars: Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Rick Springfield

The basics: Jonathan Demme (“Rachel Getting Married”) directs a script by Diablo Cody (“Juno”) about a middle-aged rock singer (Streep) trying to reconnect with the daughter she left behind, played by Streep’s real-life daughter (Gummer).

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

PG-13

Action/Adventure

Release date: Aug. 14, 2015

Stars: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander

The basics: Cavill and Hammer play unlikely allies — an American and a Soviet spy, respectively — in this Cold War-era ad­ven­ture based on the 1960s TV series. It’s directed by Guy Ritchie, whose “Sherlock Holmes” movies prove he’s no slave to source material.

Straight Outta Compton

R

Drama

Release date: Aug. 14, 2015

Stars: Corey Hawkins, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti

The basics: Former N.W.A. members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre produced this biographical drama about the rise of the seminal gangster-rap group, which, in a bit of clever casting, stars Ice Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., as his father.

Underdogs

Not yet rated

Family/Kids

Release date: Aug. 14, 2015

Stars: The voices of Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Morrison, Ariana Grande

The basics: Oscar-winning Argentine director Juan José Campanella (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) turns to animation in this fantasy about foosball-table soccer players coming to life.

Sinister 2

R

Horror

Release date: Aug. 21, 2015

Stars: Shannyn Sossamon, James Ransone

The basics: In this horror sequel, a new family gets terrorized by Bagul, the bogeyman from the first film who feeds on children’s souls (and the hard-earned cash of horror fans starved for an original concept).

Hitman: Agent 47

R

Action/Adventure

Release date: Aug. 28, 2015

Stars: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto

The basics: After the box-office success (but critical failure) of the 2007 film based on the “Hitman” video game, a fresh director (Aleksander Bach) tries his hand at adapting the adventures of a genetically engineered assassin (Friend, replacing Paul Walker, who died before shooting began).

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

R

Drama

Release date: August TBD

Stars: Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard

The basics: The buzz out of Sundance was strong for this coming-of-age drama about a girl’s affair with her mother’s boyfriend, based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s acclaimed 2002 graphic novel.

Grandma

R

Comedy

Release date: August TBD

Stars: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner

The basics: Paul Weitz reunites with Lily Tomlin, who stole the spotlight in the director’s 2013 “Admission,” for a comedy about a lovable crank who helps her teenage granddaughter get an abortion.

No Escape

R

Action/Adventure

Release date: Sept. 2, 2015

Stars: Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, Lake Bell

The basics: Wilson is an American businessman in an unnamed Southeast Asian country whose family is endangered when a revolution erupts. Will the veteran funnyman be able to shed his goofball persona for the role of a gun-toting action hero? Let’s hope that the film’s title is not prophetic.

Dark Places

R

Drama

Release date: Summer TBD

Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloë Grace Moretz

The basics: Based on the second novel by Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), the thriller stars Theron as a woman who witnessed — and survived — her family’s murder when she was a little girl. Now grown, she is pursued by a group of amateur sleuths seeking to exonerate her brother, who has been serving a life sentence for the crime.