So with that optimistic spirit in mind, here is a look at some of the summer’s key dates and releases:
This summer in entertainment
Compiled with help from Brian Lowry:
June 8: “Ms. Marvel” premieres on Disney+
June 10: “Jurassic World: Dominion” roars into theaters
June 17: “Lightyear,” Pixar’s “Toy Story” spinoff, hits theaters
June 24: “Elvis” makes its debut
June 26: “Westworld” returns to HBO after a two-year break
July 1: “Stranger Things” drops this season’s super-sized last two episodes, and “Minions: The Rise of Gru” hits theaters
July 8: “Thor: Love and Thunder” arrives in theaters
July 11: The final farewell for “Better Call Saul” begins on AMC
July 15: Netflix launches “The Gray Man” with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling
July 22: Jordan Peele’s “Nope” arrives in theaters
Aug. 17: “She-Hulk” launches on Disney+
Aug. 21: “House of the Dragon,” the “Game of Thrones” prequel, premieres on HBO
This summer in documentary
June 8: “The Janes,” about pre-Roe abortion activists, debuts on HBO Max
June 14: The Jennifer Lopez feature “Halftime” premieres on Netflix
June 19: “Civil: Ben Crump” comes to Netflix
June 26: “Citizen Ashe,” about the trailblazing 3-time Grand Slam tennis pro and humanitarian Arthur Ashe, premieres on TV on CNN
July 1: “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” comes to theaters
July 6: “Fire of Love” opens in theaters
July 15: “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down,” from CNN Films, debuts in theaters
This summer in nonfiction
June 6: James Patterson’s “The Stories of My Life”
June 7: “Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America” by Dan Pfeiffer
June 14: Sen. Raphael Warnock’s “A Way Out of No Way,” Katy Tur’s “Rough Draft,” and Kaitlyn Tiffany’s “Everything I Need I Get from You”
June 28: “Rogues,” a collection of twelve true stories “of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks,” by Patrick Radden Keefe
July 12: Mark Leibovich’s “Thank You for Your Servitude” and Ken Auletta’s “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence”
July 19: Victoria Shepherd’s “A History of Delusions” and Isaac Fitzgerald’s “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional”
August 9: Jared Kushner’s “Breaking History”
August 16: “Raising Lazarus,” about America’s overdose crisis, from “Dopesick” author Beth Macy
August 23: “Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet” by Ali Vitali
This summer in fiction
This summer in tech
Further reading
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/media/summer-2022-preview-media/index.html