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ON EARTH
• JURASSIC WORLD
Owen (Chris Pratt) must stop a genetically engineered dinosaur–created to attract visitors to failing theme park Jurassic World–from killing everybody
• TRIGGER WARNING
Neil Gaiman’s anthology of short fiction includes fairy tales and ghost stories
• TOMORROWLAND
Frank (George Clooney) and Casey (Britt Robertson) travel to a parallel universe known as Tomorrowland, where whatever they do affects their lives on Earth
• ANT-MAN
Con man Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) dons a supersuit that allows him to shrink in scale but increase in strength
• TERMINATOR GENISYS
Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) travels back in time from 2029 Los Angeles to help the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) from a newer model that’s trying to crush her
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Max (Tom Hardy) and Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) fight to survive in post-apocalyptic Australia
• HEROES REBORN
Ordinary people become aware they have special abilities–much as they did in NBC’s 2006 version
• AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
After a peacekeeping superrobot goes berserk, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans) and company must smack it into submission
• THE FANTASTIC FOUR
A group of scientists (Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell) are accidentally mutated into superhumans
• SEVENEVES
Neal Stephenson’s newest novel explores what happens when the moon blows up, forcing Earth’s survivors to endure a meteoric storm
• SUPERGIRL
Kara Zor-El arrives on Earth–from Krypton–where she must hide the powers she shares with her famous cousin Superman
SOMEWHERE TOTALLY MADE UP
• PAN
After the orphan Peter is spirited away to Neverland, he must rely on friends like Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara) and battle Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman)
• THE DOORS OF STONE
The latest addition to Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicle series follows a magician who hunts down the mysterious group that murdered his family
• THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2
Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and the rest of the District 13 rebel army wage war on Panem’s nefarious Capitol city
• A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: THE WINDS OF WINTER
George R.R. Martin is almost done with the long-awaited sixth novel in the series that inspired HBO’s Game of Thrones
IN SPACE
• HALO 5: GUARDIANS
Players assume the role of Master Chief, who returns to fight aliens across different fictional planets
• THE MARTIAN
In Ridley Scott’s epic, an astronaut (Matt Damon) struggles to survive after being stranded on Mars
• 400 DAYS
A group of astronauts (Ben Feldman, Dane Cook and others) who think they’re on a simulated mission to test the psychological effects of deep-space travel exit the ship to find themselves on a distant planet
• DARK MATTER
Syfy’s latest follows a crew that wakes up in deep space with no memory of their mission–or their identities
• NO MAN’S SKY
Players explore an infinite galaxy, navigating ancient ruins and fighting off potential predators
• STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
Thirty years after the death of Darth Vader, we return to a galaxy far, far away
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Write to Eliana Dockterman at eliana.dockterman@time.com