One of the highlights of summer is the major influx of box office heavy-hitters – letting us beat the heat on muggy summer days sitting in the air-conditioned dark of a movie theater with a box of popcorn and a trough filled with soda. Here are some of the release dates and movies coming out in the summer of 2010.

JUNE 23

Knight & Day – Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard

JUNE 25

GrownUps – Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade

JUNE 30

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – Robert Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, Taylor Lautner

Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back

JULY 9

Predators – Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne

Despicable Me – Steve Carrell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Kristin Wiig, Julie Andrews

The Kids Are All Right – Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore

JULY 14

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Nicolas Cage

JULY 16

Inception – Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Wantanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page

JULY 23

Ramona and Beezus – John Corbett, Sandra Oh, Selena Gomez, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Duhamel

JULY 30

Dinner for Schmucks – Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis

Charlie St Cloud – Zac Efron, Kim Basinger

AUGUST 6

The Other Guys – Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Dwayne Johnson

Step Up (3D)- Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani

AUGUST 13

The Expendables – Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World - Michael Cera

Eat Pray Love - Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup

AUGUST 20

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang -Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhall, Rhys Ifans

Takers – Matt Dillon, Chris Brown

Pirahna 3D – Elizabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames

The Switch – Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman