THE ODYSSEY

July 17, 2026

★ Universal Pictures ★

Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Christopher Nolan
Starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron

Official Synopsis: After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Fittingly, The Odyssey is the first film on the list and one of my most anticipated of them all. Nolan’s first film since his Oppenheimer sweep, and his most logistically insane shoot yet — six countries, brand-new IMAX film stock, practical everything. Matt Damon anchors as Odysseus opposite Anne Hathaway’s Penelope and Tom Holland’s Telemachus, with Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, and Lupita Nyong’o filling out a genuinely stacked ensemble of gods and monsters. Early reactions out of the London premiere have been rapturous, calling it his most technically staggering work since Dunkirk.

HER PRIVATE HELL

July 24, 2026

★ MUBI ★

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Written by Nicolas Winding Refn & Esti Giordani
Starring Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth, Shioli Kutsuna, Aoi Yamada, Dougray Scott, Diego Calva, and Hidetoshi Nishijima

Official Synopsis: A hypnotic, unhinged thriller with an original story promising plenty of glamour, sex, and violence.

Refn’s first feature in a decade, made after a near-death experience that he says cracked his creative block wide open. Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton lead a neon-soaked, genre-blending sci-fi horror shot in Tokyo, with Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Body Double) providing his first-ever Refn score. Cannes reactions were fittingly divisive — walkouts alongside a lengthy standing ovation — which honestly sounds about right for the Drive director’s comeback.

I WANT YOUR SEX

July 31, 2026

★ Magnolia Pictures ★

Directed by Gregg Araki
Written by Karley Sciortino & Gregg Araki
Starring Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Johnny Knoxville, Margaret Cho, Roxane Mesquida, Charli XCX, and Daveed Diggs

Official Synopsis: Elliot lands a job for Erika Tracy as her sexual muse.

Araki’s first feature in twelve years, and by all accounts a full return to his New Queer Cinema roots — a campy, deliberately provocative sex comedy starring Olivia Wilde as a dominant artist-provocateur and Cooper Hoffman as her hapless assistant-turned-muse. Charli XCX, Johnny Knoxville, and Margaret Cho play against type in dead-serious supporting roles. Sundance reviews called it a horny, funny corrective to the current moment’s squeamishness around sex on screen.

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY

July 31, 2026

★ Marvel Studios | Sony + Columbia Pictures ★

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Justin Kuritzkes
Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, Mark Ruffalo

Official Synopsis: A forgotten Peter Parker lives alone as a full-time Spider-Man until mounting pressure triggers a dangerous change and a powerful new enemy emerges.

Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, erased from everyone’s memory at the end of No Way Home, has to grapple with an evolving power set and a world that’s moved on without him — plus Jon Bernthal’s Punisher and Michael Mando’s Scorpion circling. Cretton (Shang-Chi) directs, with Zendaya, Mark Ruffalo, and Sadie Sink rounding out the cast. It’s being pitched as a scaled-down, street-level Spidey story after the multiverse chaos of the last installment.

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA

August 7, 2026

★ MUBI ★

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun
Written by Jane Schoenbrun
Starring Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Jack Haven, Patrick Fischler, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor

Official Synopsis: A director making a slasher sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl,’ leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos.

The third film in Schoenbrun’s loose “media trilogy” (after We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow), this one’s a meta slasher about a young queer filmmaker (Hannah Einbinder) hired to reboot a beloved horror franchise, who becomes fixated on the reclusive actress (Gillian Anderson) who played the original’s final girl. It won the Queer Palme at Cannes, and reviews describe it as a genuinely strange, tender meditation on desire and self-discovery wrapped in trashy-on-purpose slasher aesthetics.

ONE NIGHT ONLY

August 7, 2026

★ Universal Pictures ★

Directed by Will Gluck
Written by Travis Braun
Starring Monica Barbaro, Callum Turner, Maya Hawke, Julia Fox, King Princess, Ben Marshall, Ziwe, Molly Ringwald and LeVar Burton.

Official Synopsis: Two New Yorkers search for love on the one night of the year when sex is legal.

Gluck (Easy A, Anyone But You) returns to genre territory with a high-concept rom-com: two strangers try to find love on the one night a year premarital sex is legal. Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner lead, with a deep bench of comedic ringers — Maya Hawke, Julia Fox, King Princess, Molly Ringwald — filling out New York’s most chaotic evening.

THE END OF OAK STREET

August 14, 2026

★ Warner Bros. Pictures ★

Directed by David Robert Mitchell
Written by David Robert Mitchell
Starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery

Official Synopsis: The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown.

Mitchell’s first film since 2018’s Under the Silver Lake, and easily his biggest budget by miles. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor play parents whose suburban street gets ripped from its moorings and dropped into a dinosaur-infested landscape. Mitchell’s history with dread (It Follows) plus a J.J. Abrams-produced mystery box premise makes this one of the year’s more intriguing swings.

COYOTE VS. ACME

August 28, 2026

★ Ketchup Entertainment ★

Directed by Dave Green
Written by Samy Burch
Starring Will Forte, Lana Condor, Tone Bell, and John Cena

Official Synopsis: A story set in the ACME warehouse, the manufacturer of anything and everything used by the Looney Tunes characters.

The film Warner Bros. infamously shelved for a tax write-off, rescued after a fan campaign and finally landing in theaters via Ketchup Entertainment. Will Forte plays Wile E. Coyote’s attorney taking on Acme Corp, with John Cena as opposing counsel and a returning Looney Tunes ensemble voiced by Eric Bauza. Its long, ugly road to release makes this one of the year’s most satisfying underdog stories regardless of how the movie itself turns out.

IDIOTS

August 28, 2026

★ IFC Films ★

Directed by Macon Blair
Written by Macon Blair
Starring Dave Franco, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Mason Thames, Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun, and Peter Dinklage

Official Synopsis: Two rock-bottom drivers transport a wealthy teen to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails their plans.

Blair’s follow-up to The Toxic Avenger reboot, originally shot under the much saltier title The Shitheads. Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. play two men hired to transport a rich, sociopathic teenager (Mason Thames) to rehab, with Peter Dinklage, Kiernan Shipka, and Nicholas Braun adding to the chaos. Sundance reviews called it a Coen-adjacent dark comedy road movie that’s funnier in its first half than its back half — but funny nonetheless.

HOW TO ROB A BANK

September 4, 2026

★ Amazon MGM Studios ★

Directed by David Leitch
Written by Mark Bianculli
Starring Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai, Rhenzy Feliz, Christian Slater, Pete Davidson, and John C. Reilly

Official Synopsis: Bank robbers are posting their heists on social media, causing police to chase them.

Leitch (Bullet Train, The Fall Guy) applies his kinetic action sensibility to a heist story about a crew who post their robberies on social media, unaware they’ve drawn the attention of an FBI agent (John C. Reilly) and a software engineer (Zoë Kravitz). Nicholas Hoult wears a wolf mask and leads a cast that also includes Anna Sawai, Pete Davidson, and Christian Slater — shot on location in Pittsburgh.

BY ANY MEANS

September 4, 2026

★ Paramount Pictures ★

Directed by Elegance Bratton
Written by Sascha Penn
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Beharie, Josh Lucas, LisaGay Hamilton, LaChanze, Ethan Embry, David Strathairn, and Giancarlo Esposito

Official Synopsis: A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi.

Bratton follows his acclaimed debut The Inspection with a true-story crime thriller: a young Black FBI agent (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and a mafia hitman (Mark Wahlberg) form an uneasy alliance investigating the 1966 Mississippi murders of civil rights leaders, including Vernon Dahmer (played by Giancarlo Esposito). Given Bratton’s personal, character-driven approach to his first film, this period crime story feels like a real leap in scale.

RESIDENT EVIL

September 18, 2026

★ Sony | Columbia Pictures ★

Directed by Zach Cregger
Written by Zach Cregger & Shay Hatten
Starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Johnno Wilson and Paul Walter Hauser

Official Synopsis: Follows a hapless courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital. He soon finds himself caught in the middle of an outbreak and must fight through hordes of mutated creatures to survive.

Fresh off Weapons, Cregger takes on a video-game reboot on his own terms — an entirely original story that runs parallel to Resident Evil 2‘s Raccoon City outbreak rather than adapting it directly. Austin Abrams (also of Weapons) plays a medical courier caught in the chaos, with Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, and Kali Reis along for the ride. Cregger’s stated goal is honoring the games’ pacing and vibe rather than past RE movies, which after Barbarian and Weapons feels like a promise worth trusting.

DIGGER

October 2, 2026

★ Warner Bros. Pictures ★

Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, Sabina Berman
Starring Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde, Emma D’Arcy, Robert John Burke, Burn Gorman, Michael Stuhlbarg, and John Goodman

Official Synopsis: The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

Tom Cruise, under heavy prosthetics, plays an eccentric energy tycoon whose company may have triggered a global catastrophe — Iñárritu’s first English-language film since The Revenant, and reportedly Cruise’s first true lead dramatic role in years. Shot entirely on VistaVision by Emmanuel Lubezki, with Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, and Jesse Plemons rounding out the ensemble. Described by its own director as a comedy of catastrophic proportions, this is shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest awards-season wildcards.

VERITY

October 2, 2026

★ Amazon MGM Studios ★

Directed by Michael Showalter
Written by Nick Antosca
Starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett

Official Synopsis: Lowen Ashleigh gets hired by Jeremy Crawford to ghostwrite novels for his bestselling author wife Verity, who’s unable to finish after an accident. Lowen uncovers Verity’s disturbing truths while residing at the Crawfords’ home to work.

Showalter reunites with Anne Hathaway (after The Idea of You) for a Colleen Hoover adaptation, with Dakota Johnson as a struggling writer hired to ghostwrite for an incapacitated bestselling author (Hathaway) — only to discover a manuscript that blurs the line between fiction and confession. Josh Hartnett plays the husband caught in the middle.

FJORD

October 9, 2026

★ NEON ★

Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Written by Cristian Mungiu
Starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve

Official Synopsis: An immigrant Romanian family living in Norway is subject to an investigation and faces the scrutiny of the local judicial system.

Mungiu’s first film outside Romania and his first shot partly in English, inspired by the real case of a Romanian family whose children were removed by Norwegian child welfare authorities. Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve play the couple at the center of the dispute. It won the Palme d’Or after a twelve-minute standing ovation at Cannes, and by all accounts refuses to hand the audience easy answers about who’s right — vintage Mungiu.

THE SOCIAL RECKONING

October 9, 2026

★ SONY | COLUMBIA PICTURES ★

Directed by Aaron Sorkin
Written by Aaron Sorkin
Starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr, and Jeremy Strong.

Official Synopsis: Follows Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, who enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

Sixteen years later, Sorkin returns to the world of The Social Network — this time directing as well as writing — for a companion piece centered on the Facebook Files whistleblower story. Jeremy Strong takes over as an older, more remorseless Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg passed, having soured on the association), opposite Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as the reporter she goes to. Given how much cultural water has passed under the bridge since 2010, this feels less like a sequel and more like a reckoning in the literal sense.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

October 16, 2026

★ Focus Features ★

Directed by Georgia Oakley
Written by Diana Reid
Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw

Official Synopsis: From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.

Oakley (Blue Jean) directs a fresh adaptation of Austen’s debut novel, with Daisy Edgar-Jones as sensible Elinor and Esmé Creed-Miles as impulsive Marianne Dashwood. George MacKay, Caitríona Balfe, and Fiona Shaw round out a starry supporting cast. Oakley’s a distinctive enough voice that a straight period Austen adaptation from her feels like a genuine curiosity rather than just another literary rerun.

WHALEFALL

October 16, 2026

★ 20th Century Studios ★

Directed by Brian Duffield
Written by Brian Duffield & Daniel Kraus
Starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd

Official Synopsis: Follows a scuba diver who, while looking for his father’s remains, is swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has just one hour to get out before his oxygen runs out.

An adaptation of Daniel Kraus’s novel that seemed genuinely unfilmable: a scuba diver (Austin Abrams) searching for his late father’s remains gets swallowed whole by an 80-foot sperm whale and has one hour of oxygen to escape. Josh Brolin plays the father in flashback, with Elisabeth Shue, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd supporting. Duffield’s prior film, the nearly-wordless No One Will Save You, suggests he’s exactly the right director to make this claustrophobic, high-concept premise actually work.

KLARA AND THE SUN

October 23, 2026

★ Sony | Columbia Pictures ★

Directed by Taika Waititi
Written by Taika Waititi & Dahvi Waller
Starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Aran Murphy, Steve Buscemi, and Natasha Lyonne

Official Synopsis: A robot girl designed to prevent loneliness tries to save a heartbroken family of humans.

Waititi adapts Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-longlisted novel, with Jenna Ortega as an “Artificial Friend” android who bonds with a sick, genetically engineered child (Mia Tharia) in a stratified future. Amy Adams plays the mother, with Steve Buscemi and Natasha Lyonne rounding out the cast. Waititi’s called it possibly his most dramatic film to date, which is a notable departure after Thor: Love and Thunder and Jojo Rabbit‘s comic instincts.

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO

November 6, 2026

★ Toho Studios ★

Directed by Takashi Yamazaki
Written by Takashi Yamazaki
Starring Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Miou Tanaka, Sakura Andō, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki

Official Synopsis: Set in 1949, the Shikishima family confronts a fresh catastrophe two years after surviving their previous ordeal with the legendary monster.

A direct sequel to the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One, picking up two years later with the Shikishima family facing a new catastrophe. Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe return, alongside most of the original’s cast, with Yamazaki again directing, writing, and supervising VFX himself. It’s the first Japan-produced Godzilla film to open day-and-date in Japan and North America, shot for IMAX — a big vote of confidence after Minus One‘s historic Oscar win.

WILD HORSE NINE

November 6, 2026

★ Searchlight Pictures ★

Directed by Martin McDonagh
Written by Martin McDonagh
Starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey

Official Synopsis: CIA agents Chris and Lee face a trust-testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during 1973 in Chile.

McDonagh’s first film since The Banshees of Inisherin reunites him with Sam Rockwell for a black comedy about CIA officers dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island right before the 1973 Chilean coup. John Malkovich plays Rockwell’s partner, with Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey filling out the cast. Given McDonagh’s track record with dark comedy and morally compromised men in remote settings, this feels like it’s squarely in his wheelhouse.

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING

November 20, 2026

★ Lionsgate ★

Directed by Francis Lawrence
Written by Billy Ray
Starring Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Mckenna Grace, Whitney Peak, Ben Wang, Maya Hawke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ralph Fiennes, and Glenn Close

Official Synopsis: Revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.

Adapting Suzanne Collins’s prequel novel, set 24 years before Katniss, on the morning of the 50th Hunger Games. Joseph Zada plays a young Haymitch Abernathy, with Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, Jesse Plemons as young Plutarch Heavensbee, and Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman.

BEHEMOTH!

December 4, 2026

★ Searchlight Pictures ★

Directed by Tony Gilroy
Written by Tony Gilroy
Starring Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Will Arnett, Hank Azaria, Matthew Lillard

Official Synopsis: Follows a musician from a family of musicians who returns to Los Angeles. A love letter to the music of the movies and the people who make it.

Gilroy’s first feature since 2012’s The Bourne Legacy — and his first lead film role for Pedro Pascal — centers on a virtuoso cellist returning to Los Angeles after twenty years on the road, with his musical career triggering flashbacks across 25 years of his life. Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Will Arnett, and Hank Azaria co-star, and the score is credited to nine different composers, including Michael Giacchino and Alan Silvestri. Coming off his acclaimed run on Andor, Gilroy returning to something this personal and specific feels like a real event.

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

December 18, 2026

★ Marvel Studios | Walt Disney Pictures ★

Directed by Anthony & Joe Russo
Written by Michael Waldron & Stephen McFeely
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Paul Rudd, Tom Hiddleston, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Simu Liu, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Alan Cumming, Kelsey Grammer, Channing Tatum

Official Synopsis: Heroes from three different worlds must unite when they’re thrust together to confront a catastrophic danger that could destroy everything they know.

The Russos return for their first Avengers film since Endgame, with Robert Downey Jr. back in the MCU as Doctor Doom rather than Iron Man — one of the more dramatic casting swerves in recent Marvel memory. The cast is enormous, folding in X-Men veterans like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen alongside Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Florence Pugh, and dozens more. It’s colliding head-on with Dune: Part Three on the same release date, setting up what could be one of the biggest single box-office weekends ever.

DUNE: PART THREE

December 18, 2026

★ Warner Bros. Pictures ★

Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Written by Denis Villeneuve & Brian K. Vaughan
Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Isaach de Bankolé, Charlotte Rampling, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, and Javier Bardem

Official Synopsis: Emperor Paul Atreides faces the fallout from his ascent to power as political plots and a galaxy-wide holy war endanger the future only he can see.

Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune Messiah, and by his own admission his last word on Arrakis. Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya return as Paul and Chani, now years into his reign as emperor, with Robert Pattinson joining as the shapeshifting villain Scytale and Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Jason Momoa all back or expanded. Villeneuve calls it his most personal film in the trilogy, and going up against Avengers: Doomsday the same weekend is either studio hubris or the best marketing stunt of the year.

WERWULF

December 25, 2026

★ Focus Features ★

Directed by Robert Eggers
Written by Robert Eggers & Sjón
Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Ralph Ineson

Official Synopsis: In medieval Britain, a mysterious creature stalks the foggy countryside, transforming local folklore into terrifying reality as villagers face an ancient supernatural threat.

Eggers’ follow-up to Nosferatu, described by the director himself as the darkest script he’s ever written: a 13th-century folk horror entirely spoken in Middle English, about a man (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) whose family is stalked by a monstrous transformation years after his own encounter with lycanthropy. Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Ralph Ineson — all Eggers regulars — round out the cast, with career cinematographer Jarin Blaschke shooting once again. If Nosferatu‘s awards run is any indication, this is a strong bet for a Christmas Day prestige-horror crossover hit.