Next week, the face-off of the summer takes place in movie theaters when both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” open. Hey, even Tom Cruise of this week’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” plans on taking them in as an unlikely double feature.
A similar match-up took place 35 years ago this week when the unknown quantities of “Die Hard” and “A Fish Called Wanda” opened against each other, both ending up critical and commercial successes.
But mid-July in movie history has been home to many milestone releases over the years. Test your knowledge of them below, with films from 1948 all the way to just last year.
1. Twenty-five years ago, on July 15, 1998, the Farrelly Brothers released “There’s Something About Mary,” their best-reviewed and highest-grossing film. For what fake physical feature was Matt Dillon’s character, Pat Healy, best known?
2. This same week in 2013, the British apocalyptic alien invasion comedy “The World’s End” opened. It was the third movie in the “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, starring Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman and co-writer Simon Pegg (co-star of the “Mission: Impossible” series). What were the previous two genre comedies in the trilogy? …
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