{"id":2619,"date":"2011-02-27T15:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2011-02-27T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T20:03:22","slug":"sony-pictures-releases-2012-summer-movie-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/sony-pictures-releases-2012-summer-movie-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures releases 2012 Summer Movie Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/page-images\/Sony-Pictures-logo.jpeg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1298685075579\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony&#8217;s Columbia Pictures has release there full summer  schedule for 2012, and we&#8217;ve got a lot of fun highly anticipated films  to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Men in<\/em> <em>Black 3<\/em><\/strong> in 3D (May 25)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Amazing Spider-Man<\/strong><\/em> in 3D (July 3)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I Hate You, Dad <\/strong> <\/em>(June 27)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Here<\/em> <\/strong><em><strong>Comes the Boom<\/strong> <\/em>(July 27)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Recall <\/strong>(August 3rd)<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the full press release below which has a  little bit more information on each of the films above. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>CULVER CITY, Calif., February 25, 2011 \u2013 Summer 2012 is heating up  for moviegoers as Columbia Pictures adds three highly anticipated films  to its summer slate, it was announced today by <strong>Jeff Blake<\/strong>, chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures.\u00a0 Joining the strong summer line-up that already includes\u00a0<em>Men in<\/em> <em>Black\u2122 3<\/em> in 3D (May 25) and\u00a0<em>The Amazing Spider-Man\u2122<\/em> in 3D (July 3), the studio will release\u00a0<em>I Hate You, Dad<\/em>, starring <strong>Adam Sandler<\/strong> and <strong>Andy Samberg<\/strong>, on June 22,\u00a0<em>Here<\/em> <em>Comes the Boom<\/em>, starring <strong>Kevin James<\/strong>, on July 27, and a re-imagining of\u00a0<em>Total Recall<\/em>, starring <strong>Colin Farrell<\/strong>, on August 3.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the announcement, Blake said, \u201cNot only do we have two of our most exciting franchises back in theaters with\u00a0<em>Men in Black 3 <\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,  but the three movies we added to the slate today round out a fantastic  schedule.\u00a0 We love comedy in the summer and you can\u2019t ask for better  stars than Adam Sandler and Kevin James.\u00a0<em>Total Recall<\/em> has us  excited not only because of its incredible pedigree \u2013 we love the  original story and the first film \u2013 but we think this new project will  really hit home with a new generation of moviegoers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>I Hate You, Dad<\/em> centers on a father (Sandler) who moves in  on the eve of his son\u2019s (Samberg) wedding and promptly begins feuding  with the bride-to-be. \u00a0Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo and Heather Parry  are producing, Barry Bernardi serves as executive producer, with the  screenplay by David Caspe and David Wain &amp; Ken Marino.<\/p>\n<p>In the comedy\u00a0<em>Here Comes the Boom<\/em>, Kevin James stars as a  high school biology teacher who moonlights as a mixed-martial arts  fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school\u2019s music program.\u00a0  Director Frank Coraci, who recently directed James in\u00a0<em>Zookeeper<\/em>, which Columbia and MGM are co-financing and will be released\u00a0 this summer, re-teams with the star.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Here Comes the<\/em> <em>Boom<\/em> is  produced by Todd Garner and Kevin James.\u00a0 Executive producers are Jeff  Sussman, Marty Ewing and Sean Robbins.\u00a0 The screenplay is written by  Allan Loeb &amp; Kevin James.<\/p>\n<p><em>Total Recall<\/em> is a new, contemporized reimagining of the  science fiction saga.\u00a0 The film will be directed by Len Wiseman and  produced by Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe, with Ric Kidney on-board as  executive producer.\u00a0 The short story \u201cWe Can Remember It for You  Wholesale\u201d by Philip K. Dick served as the source for the 1990 Motion  Picture screen story by Ronald Shusett &amp; Dan O\u2019Bannon and Jon Povill  and screenplay by Ronald Shusett &amp; Dan O\u2019Bannon and Gary Goldman,  with the updated screenplay being written by Kurt Wimmer and Mark  Bomback and James Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s Columbia Pictures has release there full summer schedule for 2012, and we&#8217;ve got a lot of fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}