It's hard out there for a summer movie not tied to a lucrative franchise. Some two dozen reboots, sequels, video-game adaptations and comic-book spectacles will hit theaters over the course of the next four months. It all begins this weekend -- a month and a half before the official start of summer -- when "Captain America: Civil War" inevitably knocks "The Jungle Book" off its box-office perch.
We'll soon find out whether there's another "Jurassic World"-sized behemoth on our hands. The 13 potential cash cows we've targeted merely scrape the surface. There's also new "X-Men," "Alice in Wonderland," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Ice Age" and "Star Trek" installments on the horizon -- not to mention "The Angry Birds Movie," "Warcraft," "The Legend of Tarzan" and, for some reason, a CGI-laden "Ben-Hur" redo.
Next week we'll preview some under-the-radar titles whose noise and visual effects won't scorch your senses, but here are a handful of big-budget releases worth marking your calendar for.-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.