Lionsgate is scheduled to release the film in the United States on September 2, 2026.
Premise
After the death of Shiloh Hunter [a], her sister Jax agrees to a tribute proposed by Shiloh’s daring friend, Luce. The two travel to Thailand to conquer a treacherous plank walk on Mount Kwan, but a sudden rockslide leaves them trapped at a terrifying 3,000-foot height, forcing them to push their limits and cooperate to stay alive.[2][3]
After her mother’s death, Paige’s grandfather becomes her guardian. When criminals demand that Paige’s grandpa join them for one last job, she has a choice: let her grandpa return to his criminal ways or enlist her three best friends.
When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers breaks loose in the desert, a badass army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.
Development began in August 2018 with Chris McKay as producer and Jon and Josh Silberman writing the screenplay. Green was hired to direct in December 2019, and Burch, Slater, and Gunn joined the following year. Cena, Forte, and Condor were cast in early 2022. Live-action filming took place in New Mexico from March to May 2022. Warner Animation Group, Keylight Pictures, and Gunn’s production company, Troll Court Entertainment, produced the film.
Warner Bros. Discovery initially shelved Coyote vs. Acme in November 2023 to obtain a tax write-off, but later reversed its decision and allowed the filmmakers to seek other distributors following public backlash. After several unsuccessful negotiations with various distributors, Ketchup Entertainment acquired the rights for $50 million in March 2025, after previously acquiring the North American distribution rights to Warner Bros. Animation‘s The Day the Earth Blew Up (2024).
Coyote vs. Acme screened at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25, 2026, and is scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on August 28, 2026. The film has received positive reviews.
Plot
In 1992, in a world where cartoon characters co-exist amongst humans, Acme Corporation scientist Dr. Peter Lorre leaks a message to an unknown contact before being captured and imprisoned inside an Acme portable hole.
In the present day, Wile E. Coyote, tired of unsuccessfully pursuing the Road Runner over the years, stumbles upon a television ad for Avery, Jones & Maltese, a personal injurylaw firm in Albuquerque specializing in cases of cartoon violence involving Acme products. Wile E. meets with senior partner Kevin Avery, who wants to sue Acme over the defective devices used to chase the Road Runner. While Kevin’s niece and intern Paige is eager to take Acme to court, Kevin prefers to settle to avoid a risky trial. However, Wile E. forces a trial in a meeting with Acme’s legal counsel Buddy Crane, a successful attorney and Kevin’s rival from Harvard.
The firm attempts to summon the Road Runner to testify, but he evades them. Meanwhile, Acme executive Foghorn Leghorn warns Buddy to prevent the trial revealing any corporate secrets. After a poor first trial session, Kevin receives a tip from an anonymous whistleblower to meet with Daffy Duck, a former Acme employee who conveys the warning Dr. Lorre sent him in 1992 about “Project Sisyphus.” Wile E. encourages Kevin to believe he can win the same way Wile E. believes he will catch the Road Runner. Though this inspires Kevin, he soon realizes Wile E.’s real motive for the trial was to capture the Road Runner on the stand. Paige meets with Dr. Lorre’s wife Granny, who explains Dr. Lorre did product development at Acme, along with their pet bird Tweety, who is now forced to serve as a mercenary for Acme.
The team discovers the whistleblower is Bugs Bunny, who reveals Project Sisyphus is a product testing program formerly headed by Dr. Lorre, using cartoon violence on subjects like Wile E. to improve Acme’s products for humans. When Dr. Lorre protested the ethics, they silenced him. On Bugs’ suggestion, Kevin tries to get Project Sisyphus on the record by questioning Acme’s head of PR, Tasmanian Devil, on the stand, but Acme’s legal team sabotages him, and the judge dismisses the case. However, Kevin reveals the conspiracy to the press, prompting the government to call a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. Wile E. only agrees to join when Kevin claims the Road Runner will be there. The night before the hearing, Kevin admits the truth after being badgered about it and scolds Wile E. for his obsession with the Road Runner, prompting Wile E. to storm out. While wandering the streets, Wile E. narrowly evades Tweety’s attempt to eliminate him. Kevin tries to rescue him but gets knocked out and separated.
Kevin rejects Buddy’s last attempt to bribe him into quitting and gives an impassioned speech at the hearing, admiring Wile E.’s determination despite repeated failures. Wile E. arrives, having overheard, and reconciles with Kevin. Taking advantage of Foghorn’s pomposity, Kevin gets him to publicly admit to Project Sisyphus, but Foghorn argues that cartoons like Wile E. aren’t important enough for anyone to care if they are harmed. However, the Road Runner arrives and testifies to the harm Acme products have caused Wile E. over the years and further explains that, as Wile E.’s friend, he misses him and hopes he will come home soon, which moves Wile E. so much that he refrains from trying to capture him. Senator Elmer Fudd declines to pursue federal charges due to Wile E. being the sole plaintiff. However, with nothing to lose, Kevin, Paige, and Wile E. activate the Rube Goldberg-like trap Wile E. had set for the Road Runner, humiliating the Acme team and winning public favor.
On their return to Albuquerque, the firm is inundated with cartoons seeking to sue Acme for damages. Public support and further leaks from Bugs launch a federal investigation that exposes the full extent of Project Sisyphus, leads to the arrests of Foghorn and Buddy, frees Dr. Lorre, and reunites Granny and Tweety. Wile E. bids goodbye to Kevin and Paige, now a partner at the firm, before reuniting with the Road Runner. The pair immediately set off on another chase.
Tone Bell as Sal Maltese, an ally of Wile E. Coyote and partner of Kevin and Dottie. He is named after Looney Tunes screenwriter Michael Maltese (also a co-creator of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner).[10][8]
Luis Guzmán as the judge overseeing the trial between Wile E. Coyote and the Acme Corporation. [11]
Martha Kelly as Dottie Jones, an ally of Wile E. Coyote and partner of Kevin and Sal. She is named after Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones (who was also one of the co-creators of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner).[10][8]
P. J. Byrne as Bill Pellicano, an Acme Corporation lawyer[12]
Director Dave Green confirmed that many Looney Tunes characters will appear “in significant supporting roles and in bit cameos” throughout the film.[14]
In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus wipes out humanity. Survivors face roaming scavengers called Reapers. Protagonist Hig, a pilot, survived the flu but lost his wife.
Nine years after an influenza pandemic and a subsequent blood disease kill most of the human population, Hig lives at an abandoned airport in Erie, Colorado. He shares the settlement with his aging dog, Jasper, and Bangley, an armed survivalist. Hig continues to mourn his wife, Melissa, who died from the flu while pregnant.[2]
Hig and Bangley maintain a defensive perimeter around the airport. Hig patrols the surrounding area in the Beast, his vintage Cessna 182, while Bangley operates the settlement’s weapons and fortifications. Their relationship is uneasy: Bangley regards strangers as threats, whereas Hig remains reluctant to abandon compassion. Against Bangley’s advice, Hig regularly delivers supplies to a nearby community of Mennonites affected by the blood disease.
Three years before the novel’s main events, Hig heard a faint radio response from the airport at Grand Junction, Colorado. He does not investigate because Grand Junction lies beyond the aircraft’s point of no return, meaning he cannot reach it and return with the fuel he carries.
During a hunting and fishing trip in the mountains, Jasper dies peacefully in his sleep. Hig buries him and remains away from the airport longer than expected. On his journey home, nine armed men follow him. Bangley observes the pursuers from the airport and directs Hig into an ambush in which the attackers are killed.
Jasper’s death leaves Hig without his closest connection to his former life. He decides to investigate the transmission from Grand Junction despite the possibility that he will not be able to return.[3]
While flying west, Hig notices livestock, cultivated land, and a stone house in an isolated canyon. After coming under fire and landing nearby, he is captured by an elderly former Navy SEAL known as Pops. Pops’s daughter, Cima, persuades him to release Hig. Cima is a physician who survived the pandemic but lost her husband.
Hig remains in the canyon for several weeks and gradually earns their trust. He and Cima begin a romantic relationship. Because drought is threatening the canyon’s water supply, Pops and Cima agree to leave with Hig and relocate to the Erie airport.
The three travel to Grand Junction to obtain aviation fuel. A voice from the control tower instructs Hig to land, but he notices a cable stretched across the runway as a trap for approaching aircraft. He lands beyond the cable, after which the occupants of the tower fire at the group. Pops returns fire and kills them. The group refuels the aircraft and continues towards Erie.
On returning to Erie, Hig, Cima, and Pops discover that the airport has been attacked and partially destroyed. Bangley is initially missing but is eventually found alive and seriously wounded. He explains that fourteen attackers assaulted the compound and that he survived by using the settlement’s heavy weapons. Cima treats his injuries, and he recovers.
The four survivors establish a new community at the airport. Pops and Bangley become friends, while Cima begins providing medical care to nearby Mennonite families. Hig and Cima continue their relationship.
Hig later sees large jet aircraft flying overhead, but his attempts to contact them go unanswered. Their presence suggests that other survivors may exist, although their origin and the condition of wider civilization remain unknown.
It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 13, 2026, and is scheduled for limited release in the United States on August 28, 2026, before a wide release on September 4.
Premise
Wendy’s life falls apart when she insists on taking space from her boyfriend, Jack. During the break, she unexpectedly runs into her ex, Chuck.
Nika and Madison is a Canadian crime thriller film, directed by Eva Thomas and released in 2025.[1] The film stars Ellyn Jade and Star Slade as the titular Nika and Madison, two indigenous women who are forced on the run after a police officer’s attempt to sexually assault Madison leaves the officer hospitalized in a coma.
Fearing they won’t be believed, two young Indigenous women go on the run after one’s defense of the other results in a violent attack against a police officer.
Insidious: Out of the Further is scheduled for release in the United States on August 21, 2026, from Sony Pictures Releasing.
Premise
Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in her childhood home, discovers she can travel into the Further, a purgatorial realm of lost souls. When something evil comes after her, she realizes she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.
The film is scheduled for release on August 21, 2026.
Synopsis
Three childhood best friends, Jane, Coco, and Sophie, embark on some much-needed pampering during a luxury girls’ getaway. But when their trainwreck friend, Mel, turns up, the relaxation quickly descends into chaos with hilarious consequences.
Set in a near-future society ruled by sentient A.I., a private eye investigates a murder case only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord. As the detective’s identity slowly unravels, his world spirals into a hypnotic meltdown.
Cast
Andrzej Konopka as Jan 623, a detective working for The Head
The End of Oak Street is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on August 14, 2026.
Premise
After a mysterious cosmic event uproots Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to a location with prehistoric creatures, the Platt family soon discovers that their survival depends on sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.[3]
In September 2023, before the release of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, a third Paw Patrol film was announced to be in development with a planned 2026 release date. Returning crew members were announced soon after, including Brunker as a director. Mikros Image in Montreal, like its predecessors, returned to handle the animation, this time collaborating in Paris, with the casting of Grace, Hudson, and Feimster being announced the following year. The film is based on the Dino Rescue sub-theme of the main show.
Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie had an early release in Japan on July 24, 2026, and is scheduled to be released on August 14 in Canada by Elevation Pictures and worldwide by Paramount Pictures.
Premise
The Paw Patrol end up in an unknown world filled with dinosaurs. With the help of their new friend Rex, they save the endangered species from Mayor Humdinger’s plan to mine the island for its resources.
Voice cast
Carter Young as Marshall, a clumsy Dalmatian and Chase’s best friend who serves as a firefighting pup. Young replaces Christian Corrao from the series and the second film and Jesse Gervasi from the series.[5]
McKenna Grace as Skye, a cockapoo and one of Marshall’s and Chase’s closest friends who serves as the team’s aviator pup. Grace reprises her role from the second film.
Hayden Chamberlain as Rex, a friendly paraplegicBernese Mountain Dog who has been stranded on the island for years and is an expert in all things dinosaur-related. Rex was introduced in the series during the Dino Rescue sub-series, and Chamberlain replaces Austin Farley from the series.[5]
Rain Janjua as Chase, a German Shepherd and Marshall’s best friend since childhood who serves as a police pup. Janjua replaces Luke Dietz from the series, Christian Convery from the second film, and Iain Armitage from the first film.[5]
Henry Bolan as Ryder, a young boy who leads the Paw Patrol. Bolan replaces Benjamin Sivcevic from the series and Finn Lee-Epp from the second film.[5]
Lucien Duncan-Reid as Rubble, an English Bulldog who serves as a construction pup. Duncan-Reid reprises his role from both the series and the Rubble and Crew series, replacing Luxton Handspiker from the Rubble and Crew series and the second film.[5]
William Desrosiers as Rocky, a mixed-breed dog who serves as a recycling pup. Desrosiers replaces Billy Quinn from the series and Callum Shoniker from the previous films.[5]
Nylan Parthipan as Zuma, a chocolate Labrador who serves as an aquatic rescue pup. Parthipan reprises his role from the second film and voiced Wheeler from the Rubble & Crew series.[5]
It had its world premiere at the 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 10, 2025, and is scheduled for a limited release on August 14, 2026, before going wide in the United States on August 21, 2026.
Synopsis
Kateri’s life takes a tragic turn as she loses her mother and leaves foster care. Reuniting with her former foster parent, Amziah, changes everything: he becomes her mentor and reveals hidden skills when a devastating situation arises. Kateri relies on her newfound strength to seek justice.
American Doctor is a 2026 documentary film directed by Poh Si Teng. The film follows three American physicians of diverse backgrounds who travel to Gaza to provide medical aid during the conflict.
It premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2026, and is scheduled for release in the United States on August 14, 2026, by Watermelon Pictures.
Premise
The film follows three American physicians of different backgrounds. Dr. Mark Perlmutter is a Jewish American orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina; Dr. Thaer Ahmad is a Palestinian American emergency physician from Chicago; and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon from California of Pakistani Parsi heritage.[3] The three doctors operated primarily out of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis during two visits to Gaza, before and after the 2025 cease-fire.[4]
In an opening scene, Perlmutter demands that Teng show an unblurred photograph of babies killed in a missile strike, arguing that blurring the images would obscure the reality of events.[4] The film documents the doctors’ work in operating rooms and hospital corridors, their media appearances upon returning to the United States, and the death threats some received as a result of their public advocacy.[5] The film also documents the particular difficulty Ahmad faced gaining entry to Gaza due to his Palestinian heritage, despite holding the same American credentials as his colleagues.[6]
The film will be released theatrically by A24 in the United States on August 7, 2026. It received positive reviews from critics.
Premise
In 1975, a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain wants to be a writer but takes a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant, learning under the tutelage of a Brazilian-born restaurateur.[3][4]
Late Fame explores the impact of newfound fame on Ed Saxberger, the author of a poetry collection that received little notice upon release but gained appreciation years later among a group of artists, including Gloria, an actress eager to gain his attention.
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be top-selling “Cookie Queens,” navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.
