2025 has just recently finished, the awards season is well underway, and our Letterbox stats are well in our inbox, but we’re already looking at the 2026 cinema schedule.
2026 sees the return of some of Earth’s mightiest superheroes, Spielberg to the science fiction genre for the first time since 2005, and Tom Cruise to a non-death-defying Ethan Hunt role. Here are some of the biggest films we can’t wait to see in 2026.
Wuthering Heights
Emerald Fennell’s reimagining of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel is already one of the most talked about and divisive films of 2026. Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff, the doomed romance is sure to be a bold take on the classic novel.
Early talk says the film is bold, sexy and sordid. This is worrying to pearl-clutching traditionalists, but exciting to crowds looking for something different from the classic period drama fare. Considering Fennell’s last film, Saltburn, broke the internet, don’t expect your cozy BBC adaptation.
Whether Fennell is going to follow the original story or add her own twist on things is yet to be seen. The casting, trailer and behind-the-scenes photos all indicate that period accuracy was not a priority to the director. With a soundtrack from Charli xcx, elaborate costuming and sweeping sets, Wuthering Heights is going to be hard to ignore.
Wuthering Heights will be released on 13 February 2026.
The Bride!
Maggie Gyllenhaal follows up the dreamy directorial debut The Lost Daughter with an audacious musical reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein story. This time, The Bride is a murderous woman brought to life in 1930s Chicago.
Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as punky, singing Bonnie and Clyde-style criminals, their versions of the well-known characters look bold, audacious and like no version of the monsters seen on screen before. Also starring Annette Bening as her creator, Peter Sarsgaard as a detective and Penelope Cruz, the film was inspired by James Whales’s 1935 The Bride of Frankenstein.
Not a character in Mary Shelley’s original work (the body was never brought to life by Victor Frankenstein), the bride only came about in the Universal monsters era, and even in her own films, she isn’t the leading character. So, The Bride! was made with the intention of giving the iconic horror character her own lease of life and a personality of her own, which there is no doubt the great Jessie Buckley will do.
The Bride! is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 6, 2026
The Drama
The Drama promises to be a dark twist in your standard romcom. Starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a couple about to be married, a dark secret is revealed on the week of their wedding.
Little is known about The Drama, except that it was written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, whose last film was the surreal Nicolas Cage-led Dream Scenario. Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Hailey Gates and Zoë Winters also star in the film.
Plot details are being kept under wraps aside from The Boston Globe publishing an engagement announcement. Warning, Redditors think they have discovered the twist, so tread with caution for spoilers online. Just, don’t go in expecting your standard romantic dramedy.
The Drama is scheduled to be released on April 3, 2026
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
The sequel to Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s horror hit sees Samara Weaving’s final girl face off against new opponents. The 2019 horror saw Grace MacCaullay play a violent game of hide and seek as part of an age-old tradition in her new, wealthy family.
The sequel will take place almost immediately after the original ended only now her sister (Kathryn Newton) is also playing to survive. As her in-laws perished in the first film, Ready or Not 2 has a whole new cast of selfish, rich people. Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nestor Carbonell, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, and David Cronenberg have all joined the cast.
Ready or Not is one of the most innovative, most enjoyable horror films of recent years. With effective satire of the wealthy and a fantastic final girl, the story has only become more relevant as Eat The Rich sentimentality grows. We can’t wait to see how many more violent ways a group of clueless rich people can die in these lethal game of hide and seek.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come premieres April 10, 2026 in theaters
Project Hail Mary
Adapted from Andy Weir’s novel, Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who wakes up on a spaceship with no memory of his past. The former science teacher soon finds out that he is on a mission to save Earth. Part Gravity, part Memento, the film splits itself between the mission and the teacher’s past.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller the film also stars Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, and Milana Vayntrub. Made by the team behind 21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse expect big ideas and weirdness alongside visual epicness.
Project Hail Mary will be released in theaters on March 20, 2026.
Mother Mary
Mother Mary follows Anne Hathaway’s character of a pop diva facing an existential crisis. On the eve of her comeback, she seeks out her old friend, a costume designer played by Michaela Coel.
Other plot details are being kept under wraps, but FKA Twigs, Hunter Schafer, and Kaia Gerber will also star. Hathaway reportedly underwent extensive dance and singing training to embody the popstar. Jack Antonoff and Charli xcx are also reportedly writing original songs for the film.
Directed by The Green Knight’s David Lowery, Mother Mary is being described as a horror/psychological drama/thriller. We’re looking forward to big performance numbers, lavish costumes, and a warped psychosexual dynamic between the two women as they unearth their past.
Mother Mary film is set to hit theaters in April 2026.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs return to the world fashion in the sequel to the much-loved 2006 film. Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Tracie Thoms also return to the world of fashion publications.
Although on-set photos frequently went viral, little is known about the actual plot of this film. We do know Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Simone Ashley, BJ Novak, and Rachel Bloom are joining the cast in unspecified roles.
The Devil Wears Prada is based on Lauren Weisberger’s novel, and while she did write a 2013 follow-up, it’s unclear how closely this sequel will follow that story. The plot is rumored to follow Miranda as she navigates the decline of the traditional publishing industry. She must now court Emily, her former assistant, who is now a high-powered brand executive in the hopes of keeping her publication afloat.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is expected to be in theaters on May 1, 2026.
Disclosure Day
Steven Spielberg excitedly returns to the world of original science fiction with the upcoming Disclosure Day. The first sci-fi film for Spielberg since 2005’s War of The Worlds, the plot is wonderfully under wraps with the trailer giving us a glimpse of UFOs, alien possession, and conspiracy theories.
The official logline for the science fiction thriller asks the audience, “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?” What we do know is it stars Emily Blunt as a meteorologist and Josh O’Connor as some kind of truth seeker. Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson also co-star.
Disclosure Day is set to premiere on June 12, 2026
Supergirl
We first met a messy, drunk Supergirl during last year’s Superman, and in 2026, she gets her own solo outing. Directed by Craig Gillespie for James Gunn’s new DC film universe, Milly Alcock will play Clark Kent’s cousin, who is on her own world-saving mission.
Supergirl is based on the 2022 comic book series by Tom King, although we are unsure how close the film will follow the source material. The comic follows Supergirl, AKA Kara Zor-El, who teams up with a young girl on the quest for revenge against the people who destroyed her world.
Jason Momoa is set to debut a new DC character, now playing Lobo. Matthias Schoenaerts will play the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hills, while David Krumholtz and Emily Beecham will star as Supergirl’s parents.
Supergirl movie is set to be released on June 26, 2026.
The Odyssey
Following his Oscar win for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan tackles a Greek epic with his adaptation of The Odyssey. Based on Homer’s epic poem, it follows Matt Damon’s legendary Greek king on his perilous journey home following the Trojan war. On his long trip, he encounters mythical beings, including sirens, witches, and a cyclops.
The film’s A-list cast includes a who’s who of actors including Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron and Robert Pattinson. While Nolan has dabbled in science fiction and superheroes, this is his first dip into the fantasy genre.
The internet-breaking trailer of the epic scale of the movie hints at the trials the soldiers are about to encounter in their way across sea and land. In the six-minute “prologue” that played before Imax 70mm presentations of Sinners and One Battle After Another, Odysseus and his fellow Greek warriors are seen inside the wooden Trojan horse.
The Odyssey will be released in theaters on July 17, 2026.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Tom Holland returns for his fourth solo outing as Peter Parker. Following No Way Home, where the world forgot him, Spider-Man is now a street-level hero focusing on low-stakes crimes. Zendaya and Jacob Batalon are back as MJ and Ned alongside newbies Stranger Thing’s Sadie Sink and The Bear’s Liza Colón-Zayas in undisclosed roles.
Jon Bernthal is also returning as Frank Castle/The Punisher, the first time he’ll play him on the big screen after appearances on Netflix and Disney+ series. The Hulk is also rumored to appear in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Michal Mando has confirmed he is returning as Scorpion after swearing vengeance against Parker in Homecoming.
MCU fans have questioned the film’s tone and whether we’re going to get another multiversal, epic. From on-set photos and The Punisher’s involvement, it looks like a more stripped-back, street-level story is to be expected.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is scheduled for release on July 31, 2026.
Digger
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s hotly anticipated Tom Cruise film. Little is known about his first English-language film since 2015’s The Revenant, except that it’s about a powerful man who goes on a frantic mission to become humanity’s savior before the disaster he unleashed threatens the world. The comedy will see one man try to desperately undo the wrongs he has done.
Co-starring Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, and Emma D’Arcy, most of us are seated to see Tom Cruise outside of his action hero role. A generation of film fans may have forgotten that Cruise is both an excellent comedy and drama actor, and this seems a great time to show them what they have been missing.
Digger opens on October 6th, 2026.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Based on Suzanne Collins’ fifth book and set 24 years before the original trilogy, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping focuses on Haymitch Abernathy’s experience in the 50th Hunger Games.
The prequel has a stacked cast of actors playing younger versions of much-loved characters from The Hunger Games films. Joseph Zada will star as Haymitch Abernathy (played by Woody Harrelson in the original Hunger Games movies). Meanwhile, Whitney Peak will play his love interest, Lenore Dove Baird.
Elle Fanning will play Effie (played in earlier films by Elizabeth Banks), Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow (who was played by both Tom Blyth and the late Donald Sutherland), Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee (played previously by Phillip Seyour Hoffman), Kelvin Harris Jr. as Beetee Latier (originally by Jeffrey Wright) and Kieran Culkin is starring as the iconic host Caesar Flickerman (played in previous films by Stanley Tucci).
Set two decades before Katniss volunteered, the 50th Hunger Games sees four people from each district take part in the games. It also serves as backstory for many characters and explains why they treated Katniss the way they did in Collins’ original book trilogy.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is scheduled for a theatrical release on November 20, 2026
Avengers: Doomsday
Although the hype is not quite as high as previously Avengers films, fans are lying if they tell you they are not a little bit intrigued about Avengers: Doomsday. The film will center on Robert Downey Jr.’s Doomsday and will see Chris Evans return as Steve Rogers.
How RDJ will play both Iron Man and the villainous Doctor Doom is yet to be explained, although many presume it’s due to a big collision of parallel universes. Although no official plot has been released, the comic titled Ultimate Comics: Doomsday saw the Fantastic Four team up with various Marvel superheroes to stop a mysterious bad guy trying to destroy their timeline.
It’ll be quicker to list who isn’t in this film, but the cast of last year’s Fantastic Four: First Steps and Thunderbolts* are both set to appear alongside Captain America, Thor, and Ant-Man, amongst other MCU favorites.
Avengers: Doomsday is slated to hit theaters on Dec. 18, 2026.
Dune: Part Three
Denis Villeneuve’s third film in his epic Dune series is expected to be bigger and bolder. Dune: Part Three will likely follow the events of Frank Herbert’s second book in the series, Dune: Messiah, which takes place 12 years after the events of Dune.
The book centers on Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, who is now the Emperor. His devoted and loyal fanbase has caused millions of deaths across the universe and now there is a conspiracy to assassinate him. It essentially sees Paul live long enough to be the bad guy. It’s unknown how close Villeneuve will stick to the original plot of Herbert’s book.
Nakoa-Wolf Mamoa (son of Jason) and Ida Brooke are set to portray Leto II and Ghanima, the twin children of Paul Atreides and Zendaya’s Chani. Chalamet and Zendaya are also set to return alongside Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson and Florence Pugh. Added to the cast is Robert Pattinson, who is rumored to be playing the villain, Scytale.
Dune: Part Three will hit theaters on December 18, 2026.
Werwulf
Robert Eggers‘ next film Werewulf is a 13th-century werewolf horror film that sees the director reunite with Nosferatu stars Lily Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Willem Dafoe.
Eggers calls the upcoming film his darkest yet as it follows a mysterious creature who stalks a foggy countryside. Little else is known about the film except that Eggers will remain faithful to the time period and its use of language. We can also presume, given Eggers’ track record, that the film is about old folk tales and some kind of transformation.
Werwulf, is scheduled for release in theaters on Christmas Day, December 25, 2026