Big Summer Movies Hit Silver Screen
SYDNEY: Movie fans are counting down the minutes to "Gone in 60 Seconds." It opens tomorrow, the next big movie in a summer that has already breaking records, thanks to "Gladiator" and "Mission: Impossible 2." Lauren Hunter reports on the hot fun heading our way.</s>LAUREN HUNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's going to be a sizzling summer on the silver screen, and check out who's coming.</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Come on, we're having a party. Do you want to come and join the party?</s>GEORGE CLOONEY, ACTOR: It's as compelling a story as I know.</s>ANGELINA JOLIE, ACTRESS: It's the jones for speed.</s>SEAN AND MARLON WAYANS, COMEDIANS: Hilarious!</s>MEL GIBSON, ACTOR: It's a transportation to another time, another place.</s>JIM CARREY, ACTOR: It's all me.</s>HUNTER: Well, not really. For Jim Carrey, it's actually "Me, Myself & Irene." That's one of more than 100 films released this summer, a traditional 15-week period that makes up nearly 40 percent of the year's total box office take.</s>ANNE THOMPSON, WEST COAST EDITOR, "PREMIERE" MAGAZINE: The studios spend more than they do any time of the year, and the idea is to score.</s>HUNTER: In the crucial 4th of July slot, George Clooney in "The Perfect Storm," the true story of a fishing crew caught in a force-12 gale.</s>CLOONEY: Everybody was throwing up like crazy. They gave us clear plastic barf bags. Here's a new recommendation: not clear plastic from now on.</s>HUNTER: Clooney's competition? Mel Gibson in "The Patriot," a father-son saga set against the backdrop of the American Revolution. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE PATRIOT") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: This is not the conduct of a gentlemen.</s>GIBSON: I'll take that as a compliment.</s>GIBSON: It's got all the big stuff, too, but it's a small, very personal story.</s>HUNTER: Twenty-nine years later, the baddest private detective ever is back -- Samuel L. Jackson in "Shaft."</s>SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ACTOR: Cool, and tough and semi-sexy -- a different kind of hero for a different time. He is a bit more volatile and a bit more violent.</s>HUNTER: Nicolas Cage and Giovanni Ribisi are brothers with a fondness for stolen cars and Angelina Jolie in "Gone in 60 Seconds."</s>JOLIE: Racing Ferraris around and learning how to, like, steal a car, and hanging out with Nic and Giovanni, you know -- that ain't a job.</s>HUNTER: Men in dresses are big, literally. Martin Lawrence is "Big Momma" and Eddie Murphy is, well, pretty much everyone in "Nutty Professor</s>II: The Klumps." It's Bruce Willis, young and old, in Disney's "The Kid." Scary movie parodies, what else? -- scary movies, and Brendan Frasier sells his soul to Elizabeth Hurley's Satan in "Bedazzled." It's a psychological thriller for Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer in "What Lies Beneath," and a sci-fi thriller in "Hollow Man."</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: We come up with a formula for invisibility.</s>HUNTER: Jennifer Lopez' scientist gets in other people's minds in "The Cell." And superpowered mutants inhabit earth in "X-Men." Plenty of animated fare this summer, including "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," the "Pokemon" sequel, "Rocky & Bullwinkle," and "Chicken Run," with Mel Gibson as the voice of Rocky.</s>CLOONEY: If I was competing, I wouldn't want to go up against Mel Gibson.</s>GIBSON: Well, he's going to have his work cut out for him trying to beat the rooster there.</s>HUNTER: Hollywood's hoping this summer's box office will be something to crow about. Lauren Hunter, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.</s>SYDNEY: "ER's" departing Julianna Margulies is 34 today. Nancy Sinatra's boots are still made for walking at 60. And comedian Jerry Stiller of "King of Queens" is 71.