Lots of July Movie Sci-Fi

You want superheroes? We got three, all different as can be. You want the unexplained, the unknown? Check. Family-friendly fantasy action-adventure? Of course, and in 3D yet. Heck, we've even got silly sci-fi comedy.

This month has a traffic jam of sci-fi movies lined up. At the top of the list, opening today (July 2), is Hancock, with Will Smith as an alien who has trouble conforming to the expectations placed on him as a superhero.

• About Hancock
• Image Gallery
• Trailers, Clips, and Video

Opening next week is the first of two (!) Brendan Fraser movies in less than a month, Journey to the Center of the Earth, opening July 11. Journey, a loose adaptation of the classic Jules Verne novel, is the latest experiment in mass-audience 3D technology.

• About Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Image Gallery
• Trailers, Clips, and Video

The rest of the month features a wide array of genre films, a couple of them the culmination of a long anticipation. I'll be posting more on these films individually in the next few days:

• Hellboy II (July 11), Guillermo del Toro's sequel to the 2004 hit featuring the Dark Horse Comics hero
• Meet Dave (July 11), featuring Eddie Murphy as a human-shaped ship operated by a tiny crew led by a tiny Eddie Murphy
• The Dark Knight (July 18), the all-star sequel to Batman Begins (2005)
• Space Chimps (July 18), an animated children's film
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe (July 25) has the longest lead time of any of the sequels – it's been ten years since The X-Files (1998) and six years since the show closed out.

And just around the corner in August are a few more interesting titles, including:

• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Aug. 1), the third in the series (the last, The Mummy Returns, came out in 2001), this time set in China and featuring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh alongside Brendan Fraser and John Hannah (but, sadly, not Rachel Weisz)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Aug. 15), the deluxe animated introduction to a new Clone Wars TV series
• Death Race (Aug. 22), Paul W.S. Anderson's long-troubled dystopic remake of the cult classic Death Race 2000 (1975); this one features Jason Statham and Joan Allen (!).

More to come on all these films, including new image galleries and updates to the video links as new goodies become available.