It feels strange to be talking about 2026 movies when we haven’t even escaped 2025 yet, but here we are! What makes the coming 12 months notable is that it might be the first full calendar year in which the cycle of film production and distribution has not been suffering residual effects from the pandemic in 2020/2021 or the writers’ and actors’ strikes in 2023. As a result, one glance at the upcoming release schedule indicates that 2026 could be the most packed year at the multiplex in a long time.

Even narrowing this list down to fewer than 20 entries was difficult, and the films we list below show the breadth of releases coming our way: everything from Gothic romances to mythological epics to make-or-break superhero spectaculars. As William Goldman famously said, nobody knows anything,

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