16 Films to Look Forward to in 2026

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)