A rom-com starring Zendaya and Robert Pattison, the final Dune movie, Daisy Edgar-Jones doing Austen, a Greek epic from Christopher Nolan, Emerald Fennell’s long-awaited Wuthering Heights, and the small matter of a Devil Wears Prada sequel… 2026 is bursting at the seams with must-see big-screen releases. These are the 16 to add to your calendar.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (January 16)
The blood-soaked zombie saga continues in this Nia DaCosta-directed installment, with Ralph Fiennes’s iodine-soaked doctor, Alfie Williams’s intrepid teen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s tormented father, and Jack O’Connell’s Jimmy Savile-obsessed cult leader. Heads will roll.
The Moment (January 30)
Charli XCX’s concert mockumentary about a spiralling pop star, helmed by Aidan Zamiri, will feature everyone from Kylie Jenner and Rachel Sennott to Alexander Skarsgård and Shygirl. Prepare for Brat winter.
Wuthering Heights (February 13)
Emerald Fennell’s provocative take on Emily Brontë’s windswept Gothic romance will see Margot Robbie’s Cathy driven mad by Jacob Elordi’s mutton-chopped Heathcliff. Complete with elaborate costuming, extravagant sets, and a score courtesy of Charli XCX, it’s sure to be a bodice-ripper like no other.
The Bride! (March 6)
Just before she (presumably) wins her best-actress Oscar for Hamnet, Jessie Buckley will take another big swing in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s retelling of Bride of Frankenstein, this time transplanted to ’30s Chicago. With Christian Bale as the monster, and the likes of Penélope Cruz, Jake Gyllenhaal, Annette Bening, and Peter Sarsgaard filling out the supporting roles, it’s set to be a rip-roaring ride.
The Drama (April 3)
An A24 romance from Dream Scenario’s Kristoffer Borgli, casting Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as an engaged couple whose relationship is thrown into confusion upon the discovery of unsettling truths just days before their wedding? Say no more.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (May 1)
It’s taken 20 years to get here, but just three days before the 2026 Met Gala, we will, in fact, be returning to the Runway offices, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci in tow. David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna are both back as director and writer, respectively, while newcomers to the cast include Simone Ashley and Kenneth Branagh, as the latest Mr Priestly.
I Love Boosters (May 22)
Sorry to Bother You’s Boots Riley brings his distinctive brand of surrealist humor to this tale of a ring of shoplifters who target a cutthroat fashion maven. Expect bonkers visuals, a razor-sharp script, and an ensemble led by Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, LaKeith Stanfield, and Demi Moore.
Disclosure Day (June 12)
Steven Spielberg’s follow-up to 2022’s The Fabelmans is a return to his sci-fi roots: a UFO movie spearheaded by Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson. As crowd-pleasing summer blockbusters go, it should be a corker.
The Odyssey (July 17)
Blockbuster season will continue with Christopher Nolan’s swaggering return to the big screen after the Oscar juggernaut that was Oppenheimer. With Matt Damon as Odysseus, accompanied by Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, and Mia Goth, in this stately rendering of Homer’s classic, the 2027 Oscar campaign surely begins now.
Sense Sensibility (September 11)
If you love Ang Lee’s 1995 Austen adaptation starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, rest assured that this swooning update from Blue Jean’s Georgia Oakley seeks to do it justice. Daisy Edgar-Jones, born to run through fields in bonnets and floaty, empire-waist gowns, leads the charge alongside Esmé Creed-Miles (the daughter of Samantha Morton, no less), Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw, as the requisite flighty matriarch.
Practical Magic 2 (September 18)
Another sequel almost three decades in the making, Susanne Bier’s witchy romp will reunite Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Stockard Channing, and Dianne Wiest for more hijinks. Ideal pre-Halloween fare.
The Social Reckoning (October 9)
The Social Network’s Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin pens and directs this continuation of the sinister parable. Jeremy Strong inherits the part of Mark Zuckerberg from Jesse Eisenberg, while Jeremy Allen White is coming on board as Jeff Horwitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter who authored Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Toxic Secrets, and recent Academy Award winner Mikey Madison will play Frances Haugen, the whistleblower whose cooperation with him changed everything.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (November 20)
The latest in the nerve-jangling franchise—featuring Glenn Close, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Kieran Culkin, Billy Porter, and Maya Hawke—is this Francis Lawrence-helmed prequel to the original, centered on the 50th Hunger Games, for which each district must send twice the number of tributes to the Capitol as usual. Let the battle commence.
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (November 26)
Greta Gerwig’s enchanting prequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will tell the origin story of this magical world, with Emma Mackey as the White Witch, Daniel Craig as the titular magician, Carey Mulligan as his sister, and Meryl Streep voicing Aslan. After the blockbuster success of Barbie, expectations are sky high.
Dune: Part Three (December 18)
The blistering, billion-dollar trilogy concludes with Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, et al, with the addition of Anya Taylor-Joy as our lead’s sister, and Robert Pattinson, reportedly, as a devious new villain. If anyone can land this plane—explosive set pieces, sand worms and all—it’s Denis Villeneuve.
Werwulf (December 25)
He gave us nightmares with Nosferatu, and now Robert Eggers—along with a quartet of actors from that spine-chiller: Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, and Ralph Ineson—returns to torment us once again. Our setting is 13th-century England and our subject a mysterious creature who stalks the foggy countryside, ready to pounce on errant villagers. What could be more Christmassy?
