Summer entertainment excites eager audiences

Summer is quickly approaching with many new movies, concerts, and television shows.    Movie viewers are in for an action-packed summer with riveting, new installments from beloved series.  All different genres will be addressed in concerts this upcoming summer with country artists to pop punk bands touring nearby. Even when a movie isn’t playing or a concert isn’t going on, people can tune into much-anticipated, returning television shows.

 

Transformers 4: Age of Extinction

Director Michael Bay collaborated with Steven Spielberg on this film, which promises a bold plot line, according to The BREATHEcast Sneak Peek.  Age of Extinction, which comes out June 27, is the first of a new trilogy with Dinobots. Mark Wahlberg will take over Shia LeBeouf’s role as Cade Yeager and Nicola Peltz will star as his daughter, Tessa Yeager.  Cade, an inventor, and Tessa will make a significant discovery, leading to the ultimate destruction of the Autobots, Decepticons, and a mysterious politician.

 

X-Men: Days of Future Past

All of the original X-men characters will team up with the younger characters in X-Men: First Class to fight an epic war for survival, according to X-Men Official Website.  Directed by Bryan Singer, Days Of Future Past will come out on August 23.  The well-known cast, which includes Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, and many others, is much-anticipated by audiences.

 

Jupiter Ascending

Starring Channing Tatum as Caine and Mila Kunis as Jupiter Jones, the science-fiction, adventure film was directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski.  Astounding visuals are in store for audiences when the movie comes out on July 18. The movie follows Jupiter who was born with the promise of a great future but finds herself only dreaming of such amazing things. However, when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, goes after Jupiter and gets her back on track with her destiny, Jupiter realizes that she is next in line in her family to receive a remarkable inheritance that will give her the power to affect the cosmos forever.  More information is available at The Official Movie Website.

 

The Expendables 3

Patrick Hughes directed this third installment of The Expendables franchise, according to The Movie Insider Overview.  The movie hits theaters on August 15.  Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham star as Barney Ross and Lee Christmas. Their mission is to defeat Conrad Stonebanks, the cutthroat co-founder of The Expendables, and save the President of the United States with an army of young, tech-savvy action figures.

 

 

Concerts

 

Date
Place
Venue
Website

Beyonce
July 5
Philadelphia, PA
Citizens Bank Park
All Tour Dates

Beyonce
July 7
Baltimore, MD
M&T Bank Stadium
All Tour Dates

Bruno Mars
July 12
Hershey, PA
Hershey Park Stadium
All Tour Dates

Fall Out Boy & Paramore
July 19
Hershey, PA
Hershey Park Stadium
All Tour Dates

One Direction
August 13
Philadelphia, PA
Lincoln Financial Field
All Tour Dates

One Direction
August 14
Philadelphia, PA
Lincoln Financial FIeld
All Tour Dates

One Direction
August 11
Washington, DC
Nationals Park
All Tour Dates

Miley Cyrus
August 2
Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Center
All Tour Dates

Miley Cyrus
August 4
Pittsburgh, PA
Venue TBD
All Tour Dates

Warped Tour
July 9
Scranton, PA
Toyota Pavilion
All Tour Dates

Warped Tour
July 15
Burgettstown, PA
First Niagara Pavilion
All Tour Dates

Warped Tour
July 22
Columbia, MD
Merriweather Post Pavilion
All Tour Dates

Florida Georgia Line
August 1
Philadelphia, PA
Citizens Bank Park
All Tour Dates

Jason Aldean
August 1
Philadelphia, PA
Citizens Bank Park
All Tour Dates

Luke Bryan
August 15
Philadelphia, PA
Lincoln Financial Field
All Tour Dates

Katy Perry
August 4 & 5
Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Center
All Tour Dates

Firefly Music Festival
June 19 – June 22
Dover, DE
The Woodlands
All Tour Dates

 

 

Returning Television Shows

 

Date
Channel
Time

Pretty Little Liars
June 10
ABC Family
8 p.m.

Switched At Birth
June 16
ABC Family
8 p.m.

The Fosters
June 16
ABC Family
9 p.m.

Teen Wolf
June 23
MTV
10 p.m.

Big Brother
June 25
CBS
8 p.m.

Big Brother
June 26
CBS
9.m.

Big Brother
June 29
CBS
8 p.m.

 

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