On July 7, Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest from Walt Disney Pictures. He’s in debt to Davey Jones, the captain of the ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman. If Jack can’t pay off his debt, he must spend his life after death as a servant. Meanwhile, Will Turner (played by Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (played by Keira Knightley) attempt to get married, only to get pulled into Jack’s misadventures once again.

Kristen Bell (TV’s Veronica Mars) stars in Pulse, a horror film due in theaters on July 14 from The Weinstein Company. Pulse is based on the 2001 Japanese flick by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Seance, Bright Future) and is another American remake of today’s popular Japanese ghost movies like The Ring. Co-written by Wes Craven (director of Red Eye and the Scream movies), Pulse takes the concept of computers being infected by viruses to a new level. In the film, common wireless technology connect reality to the realm of ghosts. An evil spirit uses that technology to worm its way into our realm. Once the connection is made between the real world and the other side, it’s permanent. Whenever people use a cell phone or log on to read e-mail, they get infected with a virus that drains them of their vitality and will to live. Soon after, they sink deeper and deeper into depression until they commit suicide.

The story follows a group of college students who find out that a computer hacker has pirated a strange wireless signal. When one of their friends suddenly kills himself only to reappear as a ghostly image on a computer screen, the students race to find a way to try to stop the deadly virus.

M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village) came up with a bedtime story for his children. Now a Warner Brothers film, Lady in the Water will hit theaters on July 21.

Paul Giamatti (Sideways) stars as Cleveland Heep, a man who tries to blend in with the woodwork at the Cove apartment complex. One day he discovers a mysterious woman named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard of The Village) living in the passageways under the complex’s swimming pool. But Story isn’t what she seems to be. Cleveland finds out that she’s a nymph-like fantasy creature from a bedtime story, called a “narf.”

Story is trapped in our world and desperately wants to return to her own magical land. However, it’s a dangerous journey and she hesitates to make it. To make matters worse, she’s being stalked by monsters trying to stop her in her tracks.

However, there’s something in her favor. Story has unique powers of perception that reveal the fate of the people who live in the Cove apartment complex, and they begin to discover powers of their own. Their destinies are tied to Story’s own fate. Time grows short for Story—if she doesn’t find a way to go back to her world soon, that chance will be gone forever. Story discovers a series of codes that can set her free. Cleveland and his neighbors put their own lives at risk to help her decipher those codes. Demons follow Cleveland into the Cove, and he must face them to play his part in saving Story’s magical world and his own.

On August 4, Calista Flockhart (TV’s Ally McBeal) stars in Fragile: A Ghost Story from MGM. The story takes place at Mercy Falls Children’s Hospital, a 100-year-old facility that is scheduled to go out of business. Before that can happen, all of its young patients must be shipped off to other hospitals. But that process is delayed when a railroad accident injures so many people that all the other hospital beds fill up, leaving no room for the children who need to be transferred. For now, they must remain at Mercy Falls.

The problem is that the children’s hospital is already being dismantled, and most of its staff has left. Flockhart plays Amy, a young nurse from London sent to help the understaffed hospital. Amy soon finds out that the children at Mercy Falls are afraid of a mysterious apparition they call “the mechanical girl.” They say it lives up on the third floor, which has been closed off from the rest of the hospital for the past 40 years.

Amy struggles solve the mystery of the mechanical girl while trying to keep her young pat-ients safe from attacks that seem intended to keep them admitted to Mercy Falls forever.