This summer boasts a strong lineup of potential summer blockbusters. Here are the top 10 we have our eyes on:

Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark of Stark Enterprises in this comic book adaptation for the big screen. It’s set to turn a lot of heads. It will be interesting to see how it compares with the other comic book movies due out this summer.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: Not necessarily one I’m personally looking forward to after seeing the first, but a very big movie nonetheless. Who knows. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised this time around. The first wasn’t that bad but it could have been a lot better.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Harrison Ford is back as Indy in the 4th installment of the highly successful franchise. Let’s hope he can still crack that whip and take punches to the face. Shia LaBeouf will also appear this time around. He’s been rising fast and this movie likely will do good things for his career.

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There are two rules in Hollywood that cannot be broken. Rule #1, if a movie makes a lot of money then sequels are a must. Rule #2, If the 2nd and 3rd movies made money dispite being ridiculously bad, surely a 4th will.

That being said, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and company are back for a true sequel to the original Fast & The Furious movie. Vin Diesel skipped out on #2 to move on to bigger and better franchises such as “The Chronicles of Riddick” and Disney’s “The Pacifier”, both highly successful in the box office and very smart moves for him. Meanwhile, “2 Fast 2 Furious” and “Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift” were both released and were TERRIBLE. Not wanting to end on an extremely low note, the producers of the franchise have apparently decided to pay the big bucks required to get Vin Diesel back for a 4th. Maybe just maybe the 2nd and 3rd just lacked this crucial element. We’ll see. Hopefully the 4th feels more like the 1st and we can forget the middle two. If not then maybe at least the series can be laid to rest once and for all. If Vin Diesel can’t save it then nothing will, and that’s not saying it’s necessarily “savable” in the first place.

Heath Ledger was filming the movie “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” when he died tragically in January. Unfortunately there was no way the movie could be completed with just the scenes that had been filmed so far. Ledger still had many scenes to film and his death left a huge hole in the production. The producers have come up with a very interesting way of preserving Ledger’s final role while also keeping the movie intact.

Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell will each play a different version of Tony, Ledger’s character in different seasons of his life. Apparently Ledger had completed enough scenes for this to work. The movie deals with magic and somehow will be rewritten a bit in order to match the new multiple personalities cast. It will definitely be an interesting way to complete the film and I’m sure Ledger’s fans will appreciate the extra work required to make this happen.

“I Am Legend” is immediately among Will Smith’s greatest movies. There are plenty of points in the movie where fans of the book will nitpick, but honestly if you watch it for what it is, a movie, then you’ll walk away quiet satisfied and then some. While it doesn’t follow the plot of the book to a T, it does capture the overall feel and sense of emptiness that one would expect to see in a such a world.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet and are bugged by minor spoilers then don’t read any further. While I won’t go into major plot spoilers I will touch on some basic plot elements.

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Steve Carrell of “40 Year Old Virgin” and “The Office” is showing a new side in his latest persona “Dan” in the movie “Dan in Real Life”. He plays a newspaper columnist who’s life has come to a halt for the most part. In his column he gives advice for people in similar situations but when it comes to his own life he’s become a little too laid back. Lost his spark per say.

Through the course of the movie he takes several steps to move his life forward, back in the right direction. It’s an everyday story that will leave most viewers feeling satisfied. It’s funny, witty, casual, awkward, and an all around good time. He’s not the “Michael Scott” jerk Steve Carrel that we’ve come to know and love/hate. Instead he feels a lot more down to earth. Somebody you don’t feel bad about rooting for. “Dan in Real Life” is one for the entire family.