Mike Fleming has already scooped extensively on all these movies. Here’s the Sony news release with Summer 2012 dates:
CULVER CITY, Calif., February 25, 2011 – Summer 2012 is heating up for moviegoers as Columbia Pictures adds three highly anticipated films to its summer slate, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures. Joining the strong summer line-up that already includes Men in Black™ 3 in 3D (May 25) and The Amazing Spider-Man™ in 3D (July 3), the studio will release I Hate You, Dad, starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, on June 22, Here Comes the Boom, starring Kevin James, on July 27, and a re-imagining of Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell, on August 3.
Commenting on the announcement, Blake said, “Not only do we have two of our most exciting franchises back in theaters with Men in Black 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man, but the three movies we added to the slate today round out a fantastic schedule. We love comedy in the summer and you can’t ask for better stars than Adam Sandler and Kevin James. Total Recall has us excited not only because of its incredible pedigree – we love the original story and the first film – but we think this new project will really hit home with a new generation of moviegoers.”
I Hate You, Dad centers on a father (Sandler) who moves in on the eve of his son’s (Samberg) wedding and promptly begins feuding with the bride-to-be. Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo and Heather Parry are producing, Barry Bernardi serves as executive producer, with the screenplay by David Caspe and David Wain & Ken Marino.
In the comedy Here Comes the Boom, Kevin James stars as a high school biology teacher who moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school’s music program. Director Frank Coraci, who recently directed James in Zookeeper, which Columbia and MGM are co-financing and will be released this summer, re-teams with the star. Here Comes the Boom is produced by Todd Garner and Kevin James. Executive producers are Jeff Sussman and Marty Ewing. The screenplay is written by Allan Loeb & Kevin James.
Total Recall is a new, contemporized reimagining of the science fiction saga. The film will be directed by Len Wiseman and produced by Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe, with Ric Kidney on-board as executive producer. The short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick served as the source for the 1990 Motion Picture screen story by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon and Jon Povill and screenplay by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon and Gary Goldman, with the updated screenplay being written by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback and James Vanderbilt.



Is this new “reimagining” of Total Recall going to be some PG-13 rated junk? Yet another weak remake on the horizon…
Where is Ghostbusters 3?? Is Murrary not doing it after all? Give us Ghostbusters 3 already! Screw Men in Black
Why? They already jumped the shark with the second one. What would make you think a 3rd would be any good?
Kevin James as a MMA fighter??? uhmmm……okay that could be funny or it could not be if it’s anything like when Jack Black played the wrestler…..that was really bad.
“contemporized reimagining” The first film takes place in the future, so does that mean the remake takes place in the past? My head hurts…I’d rather see AARPArnold in a true sequel than another forced attempt at a Colin Ferrell star vehicle.
Total Recall Starring The Rock.
“We love comedy in the summer and you can’t ask for better stars than Adam Sandler and Kevin James.” Jeff Blake, 2011.
I’ll give Jeff credit, he managed to sum up Hollywood’s toxic irrelevance in one unforgetable sentence.
Nailed it.
Isn’t “The Bourne Legacy” scheduled on August 3rd?
GB2 was alright. Sure not as groundbreaking as the first but a solid flick none the less. It can be quite funny despite the over use of montage and weak climax. GB2 needs to be given more love and another shot by audiences. I laugh everytime. There are TONS of deleted scenes from GB2 so Sony if your reading this release GB2 on blu-ray with all the deleted scenes. Oh and make GB3 alreadly
Kevin James should actually be very good as an MMA fighter. Kevin is a fan of mixed martial arts and it is well known that he attends many of the UFC events. In fact, he was a fan of MMA long before it became as mainstream as it is today. Kevin was regularly seen at events dating way back. In fact he also had Bas Ruten on his King of Queens shows multiple times back when Bas was at his peak of popularity in terms of his being recognized as a champion fighter. Now of course Bas is well known all over the world but having been on Kevin’s show because the two of them are good friends shows how involved Kevin is in the world of MMA. He is one of the original fans, old school, much like myself. Kevin can be seen wearing MMA shirts and sweat shirts once in a while on King of Queens, in particular he wore a Bas Ruten shirt that has the figure of Ruten doing his post fight leap in the air kicking his legs out to the sides. On James’ web site, Kevin is doing the same leap, which is a nod to the great Ruten.
I should also note that Kevin had Dan Henderson, Randy Couture, Quinton Jackson and I think a couple of other guys on King of Queens. They are all world champions top level fighters and in fact were involved in a fight scene (dream or thought scene) where Kevin was thinking about what would happen if he and his fellow IPS drivers were to fight a rival group of drivers of another courier company.