Hey folks, Harry here... Paramount Pictures has picked up the U.S. Domestic Distribution rights to a film that I'm all sorts of gaga over. WORLD OF TOMORROW!!! The script is just amazingly geeky cool. Paramount picked it up because they didn't really have a huge film in place for next summer, since MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3 is taking its time, to make sure its done right. So... what does next summer look like?

At this point, it'll kick off with VAN HELSING on May 7th - the first big horror action adventure of the summer.

Next we'll get Warner Brothers' enormous Wolfgang Petersen's TROY which stars every major piece of drool-inducing man-flesh on the planet on May 21st.

Then on Memorial Day weekend you have two big ones. HELLBOY, which I seem to have heard something about, I just can't remember at the moment. Oh and the film that has the entire internet buzzing, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW from Fox. What? Oh, that's the Roland Emmerich film that is essentially an end of the world type of film. It really has been quiet on that film thus far, but both will butt heads on May 28th.

Then with his Summer Debut, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN will show up on June 4th where it will have to do battle with GARFIELD. Personally, Fox would have to be suicidal to keep Garfield on the same date as a Harry Potter film, I bet it'll move.

June 18th will bring SHREK 2 to John Cleese and Julie Andrews' home in this CG update of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". It is so strange, the other day I got a SHREK 2 baseball cap. It has the number 2 embroidered into the cap with two antennaes coming out of the top curve of the 2. I showed it to my nephew and asked what it was. He said, "SHREK!" Amazing.

June 25th brings David Twohy's huge THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK with Vin Diesel - notably absent this summer.

Then for the July 4th weekend, opening on July 2nd you have SPIDER-MAN 2 set to completely rewrite all box office opening records.

The biggest showdown of next summer will definitely be when Alex Proyas and Will Smith's filmic translation of Asimov's I, ROBOT opens against the defining film sequal of our times... SERIOUSLY DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? This hot and heavy showdown is supposed to begin on July 16th.

THE THUNDERBIRDS is due on July 23rd.

Then August is fuzzy at this point. The only major release I see scheduled is M. Night Shymalan's THE WOODS on August 30th, which I find an odd date for release of an M. Night film... Of course at this point there are no major films to compete against him in September and most of October, but that'll get filled up.

So if I were going to plug WORLD OF TOMORROW into next Summer, I'd pick June 11th. At this stage, there's a hole in the release schedule there, and frankly from Memorial Day to till the release of THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK release on June 25th, there isn't a major cool adult geek film in release. The programming against it is major family entertainment like Potter, Garfield and Shrek... but for my money, they just don't appeal at near the level of a great action adventure film which WORLD OF TOMORROW sets out to be.

I can't wait to see more on this film. With it and HELLBOY hitting the same summer, you'll have two geeky geek projects hitting that will be bringing us things we've always wanted to see. H.P. Lovecraft/Mike Mignola glory.... and 30's Super Science Fiction realized better than we've ever seen it. High Geek Fetish. Yup. Can't wait!