Summer Blockbusters

"SALT"
When an informant accuses Evelyn Salt of being a double-agent, she must go on the run and escape her compatriots to prove her innocence. That means dying her hair, jumping off bridges, crashing cars, and busting some heads. "Salt" reunites Jolie with her "The Bone Collector" director Phillip Noyce, and from the footage it looks like it could be the start of her own "Bourne Identity"-type series. "Salt" opens July 23.


"KNIGHT AND DAY"
Interestingly, Tom Cruise was going to play the lead in "Salt" before he left that serious spy thriller for this movie that balances action with a fair dose of humor. And it pairs him with another actress who has earned her action hero credentials: Cameron Diaz. The trailer shows Cruise injecting some of the loopiness that earned him great reviews in "Tropic Thunder," and Diaz gets be more than just the damsel in distress. "Knight and Day" will be released for the Fourth of July weekend.


"THE EXPENDABLES"
For pure machismo, you can't top the combination of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and Jet Li. They lead the mercenaries of "The Expendables," written and directed by Stallone. Their group of tough guys also includes Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews and UFC Champ Randy Couture. Plus, the movie is the first time Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have appeared in a movie together. The ultra-masculine "Expendables" hits screens on August 13.



"THE A-TEAM"
23 years after the TV show went off the air, "The A-Team" is back. The setting has been modernized -- the team served in the Middle East, not Viet Nam -- but the characters and their individual styles are mostly the same, right down to B.A. Baracus' Mohawk and custom van. The action in the trailer looks completely over the top, but it's all in keeping with the show's not-so-serious mood. "The A-Team" rolls into theaters on June 11.


"PRINCE OF PERSIA SANDS OF TIME"
Set in medieval Persia, the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world. Which is why after the prince was tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, it's up to the prince and the princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time.