1. Summer Movie Showdown: What Can Top Iron Man?
Angelina Jolie, Will Smith and Batman face off

"It's 'no one knows anything' time," Variety editor Peter Bart says of this year's summer movies, citing screenwriter William Goldman's famous line about how fruitless it is to predict a Hollywood smash. Indeed, when you consider that an unconventional superhero film starring a once-incarcerated ex-drug addict is the number-one movie of the season (Iron Man, at $300 million) and that the Wachowskis' Speed Racer bombed ("It could lose $60 million," says Bart), it is hard to feel like either Angelina Jolie (Wanted, June 27th) or Will Smith (Hancock, July 2nd) is a sure thing. Our pick for the next big one? The spooky Dark Knight (July 18th), with a remarkable turn by the late Heath Ledger.

Illustration: Thomas Fuchs