The 92 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 (and 5 Movies We Already Love)

It doesn’t look like Crime 101 is going to reinvent the wheel, but this action-thriller, based on a book by Don Winslow, looks like a very solid entry in the genre that we’re going to call “Somewhat Resembles a Michael Mann Film.” And with Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, and Barry Keoghan leading the cast, we’re going to be on board.

One of our coolest directors, Gore Verbinski, makes his grand return with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die—his first movie since 2016’s A Cure For Wellness. If you don’t know Verbinski by name, you should know several of his movies: the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, The Ring, and Rango are among the standouts. Good Luck follows Sam Rockwell as a man who claims to be from the future and fighting off a rogue artificial intelligence. Uh, yeah, we’re in on that.

We’re always in on Glen Powell, and How to Make a Killing marks his first foray into A24’s world as a leading man. The black comedy comes from Emily the Criminal director John Patton Ford and follows Powell as a man who decides to take out a few members of his family in order to increase his chance at making a whole bunch of money via inheritance. The supporting cast joining Powell isn’t too shabby either: Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick, Ed Harris, and Topher Grace are all along for the fun.

Psycho Killer is a serial killer movie from Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker. We’re loyal enough to the classics for that to be enough to pique our interest on its own.

The latest film in the long-running Scream franchise marks the grand return of series stalwart Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, along with several new cast members who could all be our latest evil Ghostface killer. It’s unfortunate that previous stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega departed the series, as their story in Scream and Scream VI was strong and seemed unfinished. But a Scream movie is a Scream movie, so we’ll check it out and see how things go for ourselves.

Remember when Norbit came out in 2007, and was so bad that people seemed to think it cost Eddie Murphy his Dreamgirls Oscar by proxy (Alan Arkin ended up winning in that category for Little Miss Sunshine)? That doesn’t seem likely to happen for Jessie Buckley, who will see The Bride! come out in theaters a little more than a week before she’s likely to take home the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Hamnet. The Bride! comes from director Maggie Gyllenhaal, and looks like a Joker and Harley Quinn style take on the Frankenstein story that everyone should be familiar with by now. With Christian Bale as The Monster and Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jake Gyllenhaal among others in the cast, The Bride! seems likely to be pretty damn cool.

Could this be A24’s next huge horror hit? Undertone follows a supernatural podcaster who gets sent some particularly spooky recordings. A simple premise like that sometimes makes for the best-executed horror movies.

When The Martian came out in 2015 it was a major sensation—and Project Hail Mary could run that playbook back. Based on the novel by Andy Weir (who also wrote The Martian), Project Hail Mary is a story of space exploration and a regular guy (played by Ryan Gosling) who gets involved. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who are responsible for the Spider-Verse movies and directed 21 Jump Street) are behind the camera for this one. It could be the year’s first really big hit.

Forbidden Fruits follows a secret coven of witches operating in a shopping mall. Like, guys, some premises you just have to accept for how good they are and see them out.

Whitney Springs finds Kendrick Lamar in a musical comedy adventure that he made together with the creators of South Park. Again, we kind of just have to see this one out, and we imagine you’re on board as well.

2018’s Ready or Not was one of the most fun horror films of the last decade, and now eight years later we get to see Samara Weaving’s lead sucked back into the same twisted, bloody, violent games. The supporting cast—including David Cronenberg (!!!), Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and The Pitt‘s Shawn Hatosy—is fantastic. The movie should be a blast.

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya will star together in three films this year, the first of which is A24’s mysterious The Drama. We don’t really even know what this is about, outside of a newly-engaged couple coming into… some problems. The teaser is perfect—it barely tells us anything but is super intriguing—and A24 has already planted some very fun viral marketing. Director Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario) has shown a knack for making weird, darkly funny movies, and this one seems to be just that.

Steven Soderbergh is, quite frankly, a genius mastermind of cinema. For someone to work as often and as well as he does just speaks volume to how one-of-a-kind talented he is. After releasing two movies in 2025, he’s back once again with The Christophers, a movie about a family who hires a forger to complete their estranged father’s art in order to sell it. Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel lead this one.

Talk about working a lot… let’s mention Guy Ritchie. Ritchie’s output the last few years (on both the big and the small screen) has been undeniable, and In The Grey marks his latest major action adventure flick. The movie is about a couple extraction specialists on an adventure, but we’re enticed by the cast, which finds Ritchie reunited with Henry Cavill and Eiza Gonzalez to go along with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rosamund Pike.