Summer Highlights

FILM

JULY 2 He said he'd be back. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

JULY 11 Sean Connery is among The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

JULY 11 Jack Black's a down-and-out rocker-turned-substitute teacher in School of Rock. Hilarity ensues.

JULY 18 Exorcist: The Beginning. That about says it all.

JULY 25 Angelina Jolie is back (and hopefully has a smarter script) in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.

JULY When Harry Met Lloyd: Dumb and Dumberer opens, quenching the burning thirst for a prequel.

AUG. 1 Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan reteam for American Wedding, the third installment of the American Pie series.

AUG. 1 The long-awaited Freaky Friday update arrives with Jamie Lee Curtis.

AUG. 8 Scream's Wes Craven and Dawson's Creek's Kevin Williamson sink their teeth into the werewolf tale Cursed.

SEPTEMBER Hayden Christensen takes a break from lightsabers, playing a plagiarizing journalist in Shattered Glass.

TBA Johnny Depp stars as the author of Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie's Neverland; Kate Winslet plays the girl who inspired Wendy.

TELEVISION

JUNE Say it ain't so! The sixth and final season of HBO's Sex and the City kicks off.

SEPT. 21 TV's A-listers celebrate themselves at the 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

BOOKS

JULY 8 WWE champion Mick Foley (Mankind) body-slams the literary world with his coming-of-age novel Tietam Brown.

SEPTEMBER Jonathan Lethem follows up 1999's Motherless Brooklyn with The Fortress of Solitude.

SEPTEMBER Nobel laureate Toni Morrison teams with son Slade for the first in a series called Who's Got Game?

STAGE

AUG. 14 Off Broadway hit Little Shop of Horrors returns, but this time it's on Broadway.