Entertainment Weekly‘s June issue features a special double issue featuring 4 different covers as the mag gives a sneak peek at the best music, books, TV, and movies of summer 2012.
A lot of people will tell you that summer is the time to head outside and enjoy Mother Nature. We say, nonsense! Why would you want to mess with the heat and all those ants when you could be sitting in an air-conditioned IMAX theater on July 3, when The Amazing Spider-Manopens? Speaking of Spidey, Marvel’s web-slinging superhero swings his way to the top of our annual Summer Must List issue — your essential guide to all of the best movies, TV, music, and books of the season.
The Amazing Spider-Man is more focused on Peter Parker as an existential teen loner, grappling with the mystery of what happened to his dead father. Another difference is a new love interest for our wall-crawler. Mary Jane Watson is out, Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy is in. For those unfamiliar with the Spidey comics, Gwen is Peter’s first true love. Garfield and Stone had never met before she auditioned for the part. But the actress says she and her costar had immediate chemistry — which quickly sparked into an offscreen romance. “A lot of our scenes are scripted,” says Stone. “But there are moments that aren’t, where we were able to find whatever it was we were looking for playing two kids who were falling in love for the first time.”
As for the rest of Your Summer Must List, EW’s got your entertainment guide all plotted out. We take a look at the Mark Wahlberg comedy Ted, Chris Nolan’s latest Batman installment The Dark Knight Rises, Aaron Sorkin’s hugely anticipated TV series Newsroom, the return of Breaking Bad, the all-star country music teaming of Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, the best beach reads, the most awesome Apps, and our essential list of “99 Ways to Spend 99 Days” — a day-by-day breakdown of how to get the most out of the next three-plus months.
Stay up-to-date with us! Follow us on TWITTER, like us on FACEBOOK , subscribe to our RSS FEED or E-MAIL us! We love hearing from you…
