When Karlous Miller’s character gets out of jail, he convinces his three best friends, played by Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, and King Bach, to celebrate his homecoming at an Airbnb. What they don’t know is that he has a plan to steal a $20 million antique hidden inside the house. What none of them planned for is that the house is haunted. Haunted Heist stars Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, King Bach, Karlous Miller, Brett Gelman, Tony Baker, Ari Dayan, and Tara Terry. Written by Carl Reid and directed by Lil Rel Howery.
A Sad and Beautiful World (Arabic: نجوم الأمل و الألم) is a 2025 Arabic-language romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Cyril Aris in his debut feature film. Set in Beirut, it follows childhood sweethearts Nino (Hasan Akil) and Yasmina (Mounia Akl), who had lost sight of one another, reuniting in their 20s against the backdrop of political turmoil and social collapse in present-day Lebanon.[1]
Penny Lane’s latest feature documentary, “Wild Inside,” about the Eurasian eagle-owl named Flaco who escaped from the Central Park Zoo, generating a global following and launching a million memes, will have its world premiere on July 29 in New York’s Central Park at a special outdoor screening.
The event is free and open to the public, and the setting is appropriate since Central Park was the site of the zoo where Flaco lived in captivity and where he was seen after vandals damaged his enclosure, leaving a hole from which he escaped.
The film will open at Manhattan’s IFC Center on July 31 and play at select theaters nationwide, including a series of one-off screenings for International Owl Awareness Day on Aug. 4. HBO Documentary Films is producing the picture.
“Wild Inside” will be the second film directed by Lane to be released theatrically by Sandbox Films. The studio released Lane’s SXSW award-winning “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” in U.S. theaters in 2023. Her other credits include “Listening to Kenny G,” “Hail Satan?” and “Our Nixon.”
Nolan began writing The Odyssey in March 2024, secured the project with Universal Pictures by October, and the film was announced in December. Casting occurred from late 2024 through early 2025, and Damon was confirmed for the lead role in February 2025. Nolan studied several translations of the Odyssey. He depicted a realistic interpretation of Greek mythology, drawing inspiration from the epic historical films Andrei Rublev (1966) and Ran (1985), as well as the films of special effects artist Ray Harryhausen. Filming took place from February to August 2025 in Morocco, Greece, Italy, Scotland, Iceland, Western Sahara, and Malta, as well as at the Universal Studios Lot in Los Angeles. With an estimated budget of $250million, the film is among the most expensive of Nolan’s career and the first to be shot entirely on IMAX‘s 70 mm film cameras. Leading up to the film’s release, the costume and production designs, accents, dialogue, and casting choices sparked critical discussion and scrutiny regarding historical accuracy in the source material and the depicted setting.
The Odyssey premiered on July 6, 2026, at the Empire Leicester Square in London, ahead of a theatrical release by Universal Pictures on July 17 in the United States and the United Kingdom. The film will be available in IMAX and multiple premium large formats.
Premise
The Odyssey follows Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, on his long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War, chronicling his encounters with mythical beings such as the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and the nymph Calypso, while he attempts to reunite with his wife, Penelope.[3]
Matt Damon as Odysseus: The legendary Greek king of Ithaca.[4] Director Christopher Nolan described Odysseus as complicated, “an amazing strategist, [and] a very wily person”. He was interested in his cleverness and inventiveness, particularly citing Odysseus’s characterization in the 2017 translation of the Odyssey by British-American classicist Emily Wilson.[5] To prepare for the role, Damon underwent an extensive training regimen and a strict diet to become “lean but strong”, which included no longer consuming gluten and reducing his weight to 167 pounds (76 kilograms).[6] He also grew a full beard for a year, after Nolan declined to use artificial facial hair because he wanted to capture “the physicality of real hair”.[7][6]
Tom Holland as Telemachus, Odysseus’s son and the prince of Ithaca, who is determined to find his father[8][9]: 55
Travis Scott as a bard, whom Nolan included because he wanted to allude to how the Odyssey had been retold through oral poetry, which he analogized to rapping, Scott’s profession[12]
Elliot Page as Sinon, a Greek soldier and Odysseus’s cousin who fought in the Trojan War alongside him[16][17]
In FOOD ROOTS, Emmy Award-winning Chicago restaurateur Billy Dec journeys through his mother’s native 7641 Islands of the Philippines to learn recipes from his last living elders, encountering culinary and cultural treasures and family secrets.
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez is a 2026 American documentary film directed by David Alvarado. It chronicles the life and career of Luis Valdez, the playwright and director known as the father of Chicano theater.
The documentary utilizes split-screen visuals and is guided by a “Pachuco narrator” (Edward James Olmos) who provides candid commentary on Valdez’s struggle against political resistance and industry skepticism.[3]
As her mother Sandy (Gretchen Mol) grapples with an uncertain diagnosis, autistic 22-year-old Margarita (a revelatory Lillian Carrier) must reluctantly grow up.
The film later became a major streaming success on Disney+, ranking among the most-watched films in the United States during the early 2020s.[8] A sequel, Moana 2, was released in 2024, with a third film in development. A live-action remake was released in 2026.
Plot
On the Polynesian island of Motunui, the inhabitants worship the goddess of nature, Te Fiti: a living island who, long ago, brought life to the ocean using a pounamu stone as her heart and the source of her power. One day, Maui, the shape-shifting demigod of the wind and sea and master of wayfinding, stole Te Fiti’s heart to give humanity the power of creation. This caused Te Fiti to disintegrate, and Maui was attacked by Te Kā, a volcanic demon. Maui lost both the heart and his magic fish hook to the depths of the sea.
A thousand years later, the ocean chooses Moana, the daughter of Motunui’s chief Tui, to return the heart to Te Fiti. Tui and Sina, Moana’s parents, try to keep her away from the ocean to prepare her to become the island’s chief. Sixteen years later, blight strikes the island, killing vegetation and shrinking the fish catch. Moana suggests going beyond the island’s reef with her pet pig, Pua, to find more fish and discover what is happening, but Tui forbids it.
Moana tries to conquer the reef, but is overpowered by the tides and shipwrecked. That afternoon, Moana’s grandmother Tala shows her a secret cavern of ships and reveals Motunui’s people were voyagers until Maui stole Te Fiti’s heart; the ocean was no longer safe without it. Tala explains Te Kā’s darkness is destroying the island, but it can be cured if Moana finds Maui and has him restore the heart of Te Fiti. Having been given the heart by the ocean, Tala gives it to Moana. Tala later becomes gravely ill and tells Moana to find Maui.
Moana sets sail on a camakau from the cavern along with her dimwitted pet rooster, Heihei, who stowed away on it. They are caught in a typhoon and shipwrecked on an island, where she finds Maui, who boasts about his achievements. She demands Maui return the heart, but he refuses and traps her in a cave before leaving on her boat. She escapes and confronts Maui, who reluctantly lets her on the camakau. They are attacked by Kakamora, coconut pirates who seek the heart, but Moana and Maui outwit them.
Moana realizes Maui is no longer a hero since he stole the heart and cursed the world, and convinces him to redeem himself by returning the heart. However, Maui first needs to retrieve his fishhook in Lalotai, the Realm of Monsters, from Tamatoa, a giant coconut crab. While Moana distracts Tamatoa, Maui retrieves his hook, only to find himself unable to control his shape-shifting. He is overpowered by Tamatoa, but Moana’s quick thinking allows them to escape with the hook. Maui reveals his first tattoo was earned when his human parents abandoned him as an infant, and the gods, taking pity on him, granted him his powers. After reassurance from Moana, Maui teaches her the art of way-finding, regaining control of his powers, and the two grow closer.
They arrive at Te Fiti’s island, only to be attacked by Te Kā. Moana refuses to turn back, resulting in Maui’s hook being badly damaged. Unwilling to lose his hook again, Maui abandons Moana, who loses hope and tearfully asks the ocean to find someone else to restore the heart. The ocean obliges and takes the heart, but Tala’s spirit appears, inspiring Moana to find her true calling. Moana retrieves the heart and sails back to confront Te Kā. Maui returns, having had a change of heart, and buys Moana time to reach Te Fiti by fighting Te Kā, destroying his hook in the process. Upon being unable to find Te Fiti, Moana realizes Te Kā is Te Fiti, but corrupted without her heart. The ocean clears a path for Moana, allowing her to return the heart to Te Fiti, who heals the ocean and islands of blight. Maui apologizes to Te Fiti, who fixes his hook as well as Moana’s boat before falling into a deep sleep and becoming an island.
Moana bids farewell to Maui and Te Fiti, returning home and reuniting with her parents. After placing a shell on top of the stack of stones placed by all previous chiefs, Moana takes up her role as chieftess and wayfinder, leading her people as they resume voyaging, accompanied by Maui.
Night Nurse is a 2026 American erotic thriller film written, produced, and directed by Georgia Bernstein. It stars Cemre Paksoy, Bruce McKenzie, Eleonore Hendricks, Colleen Rose Trundy, and Mimi Rogers.
At the start of her new job in a luxury retirement community, Eleni is drawn into a series of scam calls targeting the elderly residents. As the community’s strange rhythms close around her, she grows increasingly intimate with her elusive patient, Douglas, until the line blurs between care and desire, devotion and delusion.
Haunted by an accident he caused in high school, a filmmaker is drawn back to his hometown, where he is confronted by former friends and a community that disdains him as he tries to find peace with the hurt he left behind.
A sixth Evil Dead film was announced in February 2024, with Vaniček hired to direct a script he co-wrote with Florent Bernard, while Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert were producers, with Ghost House Pictures producing the project. In December 2024, Vaniček revealed the title to be Evil Dead Burn, with a tentative release scheduled for 2026. Casting began in May 2025, filming began in July, and filming concluded in October that same year in New Zealand.
Evil Dead Burn was theatrically released in France on July 8, 2026, followed by the United States on July 10, in North America by Warner Bros. Pictures, and internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Screen Gems banner. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $26 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.
Plot
At his family’s lake house, Joseph Price researches his late grandfather Benjamin’s studies of the Necronomicon and Deadites. He uncovers the Kandarian Dagger, which Benjamin claims can destroy Deadites. His discovery attracts Deadite Jessica, who murders a pair of fishermen before making her way towards Joseph. Joseph’s brother Will gets into a fight with his wife Alice and drunkenly drives away, crashing into Jessica. As Will burns to death in the car wreck, Jessica recites a passage from the Necronomicon and passes the Deadite possession to Will.
Some time later, Alice, Joseph, his girlfriend Thya, his parents, Susan and Edgar, and his grandmother, Polly, reunite for Will’s cremation. Alice struggles to bond with Susan and Edgar, who blame her for the crash. After the service, Edgar privately visits Will’s coffin before he is cremated. Will’s Deadite-possessed corpse breaks out of the coffin, burns Edgar, and kills the cremator. The family returns to the lakehouse where Edgar slowly succumbs to possession. During a tense family dinner, Edgar stabs the family dog Max to death and collapses. Joseph and Thya attempt to drive him to the hospital, but he causes the car to crash and murders Thya while Joseph flees. At the house, Alice stumbles upon Benjamin’s research and nearly reads from the Necronomicon before she is attacked by a possessed Max.
Joseph arrives at the house when Thya suddenly appears, now also a Deadite. The family lock her in the basement and try to flee but are forced to retreat when Edgar and Max confront them. While the others barricade the house, Thya tricks Polly into letting her out. Thya brutally attacks the entire family, trying to track down the dagger. Joseph manages to kill Thya. Polly, possessed by a Deadite after her encounter with Thya, manipulates a traumatized Susan into letting Deadite Edgar inside. Susan kisses Edgar and begins to succumb to Deadite possession as she tries to convince Joseph to reveal the dagger’s location.
Edgar attacks the family, breaking his promise to Susan to leave Joseph alone. Alice hides during the chaos and has flashbacks to being abused by Will during their marriage. She arms herself with a rotary saw and finds Susan, only to be ambushed by Polly. Polly deafens Alice’s right ear, but Alice manages to subdue Polly with a stair lift. Joseph succumbs to his wounds at the hands of Edgar and dies while Alice and Susan flee to the bathroom. Alice ties Susan up and confronts her about Will’s abusive past. Susan admits her hatred of Alice and becomes fully possessed. Alice fends her off and escapes to the attic, where she finds the Kandarian dagger. Deadite Joseph attacks her, but she manages to kill him, releasing his body from possession.
Alice flees to the roof pursued by Susan and Edgar but drops the dagger. Climbing back into the house via the chimney, she manages to decapitate Susan and fatally wound Edgar with the saw before setting the house on fire. Alice kills Max with the dagger before collapsing. Will arrives at the burning house and pursues Alice to a building site. After a lengthy struggle, Alice manages to trap Will in a pit filled with tar and kill him with a jackhammer and the dagger. Paramedics arrive as the sun rises and rescue Alice.
In a mid-credit scene, the still-possessed Polly is revealed to have escaped the house and is found by a motorist crawling away. Polly scratches the motorist’s leg, passing on the Deadite possession.
In a post-credit scene, the daughter of the crematorium’s manager finds Ellie Bixler‘s unclaimed ashes before Deadite Ellie appears and kills her.
The film was announced in July 2024, after the release of Despicable Me 4, with Coffin and Lynch returning to direct and write, respectively, and Chris Meledandri producing alongside Bill Ryan.[5]John Powell is set to compose the score, marking his third collaboration with Illumination following The Lorax (2012) and Migration (2023) and the first Despicable Me installment not to be scored by Heitor Pereira.
Minions & Monsters premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 21, 2026, and will be theatrically released in the United States on July 1 by Universal Pictures. The film has received generally positive reviews and has grossed $10.3 million.
Plot
At a film history museum, as a group of people was being given a tour of the building, a little girl spots two statues of Minions. The tour guide reveals their names as James and Henry and begins telling their story.
A different tribe of Minions from the one that would go on to serve Gru is on a hunt to serve the world’s greatest villains but, in many different ways, winds up killing their masters by mistake. James, who is more artistic with a passion for painting and drawing, quickly develops a close friendship with two other minions, Henry and Ed. Among the many masters the Minions served was a wicked warlock, who was killed by a monster after Henry summoned it from his spellbook, which he then takes along with him.
While fighting each other in the desert, the Minions stumble across a train robbery, deciding to chase after the robber to become his henchmen. However, it was revealed that the robbery was all a staged performance meant for a Hollywood film production. Though the film’s director, Max, was furious with the Minions, film executives Frank and Elwood became enamored of their antics, so Max hired the Minions to star in his films. The Minions soon became a global phenomenon, appearing in several silent films and living a life of Hollywood stardom.
When sound film came along, the Minions were unable to adapt to the new technology because their language was incomprehensible. Having cost the studio millions in failed film material, the Minions were banned from Hollywood. Not wanting to give up on his passion, James comes up with the idea of making his own movie titled Minions and Monsters, in which the Minions would fight giant creatures. The tribe’s leader, Dick, rejects James’ idea and leads the rest of the Minions back to find a new evil master, but Henry and Ed break away to help James make his film a reality. When it was pitched to Max, he allowed James to work on the movie. Ed gets the idea to use the warlock’s old spellbook to summon a squid monster to use for the film, but is surprised that it is much smaller than expected. The monster, Goomi, sees James’ idea and offers to help him find the perfect monsters for the movie.
Meanwhile, Dick and the other Minions decide to work for a futuristic alien robot named Dort, who is determined to invade Earth. Even when Dort’s cracks begin to show, Dick believes that he is the one to lead them. While trying to start his conquest for world domination, he ends up falling in love with women’s rights activist Debbie, forcing the Minions to help Dort and Debbie become a couple instead.
Goomi leads James, Henry, and Ed to a frozen fortress and frees the sea monsters Phillip and Howard, from them to star in James’ movie, secretly using it as a front to summon Irene, a large orange blob monster. Henry overhears this and tries to alert James, but Phillip and Howard kidnap him and use him in a scene in the movie where Goomi summons Irene, and James consents. Just as shooting begins, Irene breaks out and begins wreaking havoc, with Goomi revealing his true nature.
While on a date in the park with Debbie, Dort and the other Minions oversee Irene. Dort cowardly refuses to fight the monster, forcing the Minions to fight Irene themselves. Irene succeeds in swallowing Henry, with James entering her to rescue him, while the Minions take over from the military in holding her off. At first they succeed in tearing her apart, but Irene reconstructs herself. However, a redeemed Dort re-emerges with the other minions in a spacecraft, then petrifies Irene; Henry and James cast a spell to send Goomi, Phillip, and Howard back to where they were once trapped. The public hails the Minions as heroes.
As Ed had captured the entire battle on film, James’ movie had its world premiere months later and received a standing ovation from the audience. The tour guide finishes telling the story, revealing that James and Henry directed the film.
Based on the true story of one courageous woman’s journey from stardom as a gifted artist in glamorous 1930s Shanghai through war and revolution and back again, sustained by her gift for beauty and an epic love that would not die.
Overview
Attractive, intelligent, and gifted, and one of China’s most famous female painters and poets, Lianxia “Ziyi” Zhou and her talented husband, Wanping Xu, took Shanghai by storm in the 1930s as part of an iconic circle of famous artists and writers that included the world-famous Chang Dai-chien, Xu Beihong, Xu Zhimo, Jiang Biwei, Lu Xiaoman, Wu Hufan, Bertrand Russell, and Pearl Buck. They redefined the conventions of the time and shaped the cultural path China has followed to this day. But when the world around them erupted into war, a cruel twist of fate tears Ziyi and Wanping apart and plunges her and their five children into dire straits that left them struggling to survive. Walking in beauty, with a heart inspired by art and by the love for her country and her missing husband, Ziyi kept her family and her dreams alive in a nation ravaged by war and political strife. Until a miracle happened.
The documentary is being advertised, in part, as unearthing the enigma—a boast emboldened by never-before-seen photographs, excerpts from notebooks, and personal correspondences. But while “Saved by the Beauty of the World” captivates the senses and moves the heart, it fails to meaningfully mine the deeper layers of the poet’s elusive life.
If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself—and her readers—to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, Oliver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention, presence, and the human relationship with the natural world—issues that feel especially pressing in an era of climate crisis, digital distraction, and social fragmentation.
Featuring interviews with her close friends, including John Waters, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her.
Commentators brood about Oliver’s “dark and broken” childhood; friends speak in ominous but vague tones about her second partner; in an archival interview with journalist Maria Shriver, Oliver speaks of being a victim of childhood sexual assault. This is about the extent of what we learn about her upbringing, which Oliver desperately wanted to leave behind. All the blank spaces suggest that perhaps she succeeded.
As the poet Nick Flynn put it, “I know there’s a lot more to her life than just waking up in the morning and going up for a walk. What is the storm?” This is a common critique of Oliver’s poems, but it could also apply to this film.
The most intimate access made available to the audience is Oliver’s 40-year-long romantic partnership with the photographer Molly Malone Cook, affectionately called “M,” whom she met while living at Edna St. Vincent Millay’s home, Steepletop, in New York. The couple later moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, the chilly, oceanside landscape that inspired so much of the poet’s work.
A film featuring Supergirl entered development as part of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) franchise in August 2018, and the character was introduced in the 2023 film The Flash, portrayed by Sasha Calle. Plans for the standalone project were altered when Gunn and Safran became co-CEOs of DC Studios in October 2022. A new Supergirl film was announced in January 2023 as an adaptation of the 2021–22 comic book miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. Nogueira was hired by November 2023; Alcock was cast in January 2024 to debut in the first DCU film, Superman (2025); and Gillespie joined that May. Filming took place from January to May 2025 at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and in London and Scotland, England.
Kara Zor-El celebrates her 23rd birthday by traveling across the galaxy with her dog Krypto. Along the way, she meets the young Ruthye Marye Knoll and encounters a tragedy that leads her on a “murderous quest for revenge.”[3][4][5]
Cast
Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El / Supergirl:
The cousin of Superman who was raised on a chunk of the destroyed planet Krypton and watched everyone around her die, making her a more jaded person than her cousin, who was raised on Earth by loving parents.[6][7][8] Because Kryptonians are healed and gain powers from yellow suns, Supergirl likes to party on planets with red suns, where she can get drunk.[4] Producer James Gunn envisioned Supergirl as a “pixie-ish, but very attitudinal character”.[9] Both Gunn and Gillespie described her as an antihero.[10]
David Corenswet as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman:
Supergirl’s cousin is a Kryptonian survivor who lives on Earth as a superhero.[13][5] Gillespie stated that his relationship with Kara can sometimes be “this almost older-sibling dynamic, and that can be adversarial,” and noted that whereas Superman is gentle and patient, Kara is uncertain.[14]
The Invite is a sharp, funny, and emotionally honest chamber comedy-drama about a married couple whose tense relationship takes an unexpected turn during an evening with their neighbors. Set almost entirely in one apartment, it blends biting humor with raw explorations of love, sex, and commitment. Critics praise Olivia Wilde’s direction, stellar performances, and witty script, calling it both entertaining and surprisingly moving, making it well worth watching.
Allen expressed interest in doing a fifth main Toy Story film in February 2019, and while Hanks said in May that Toy Story 4 was the final film in the series, the possibility of a fifth film had not been ruled out. Development on a fifth film was confirmed in February 2023, with Hanks and Allen set to return. Stanton was announced as the director in June 2024 and was confirmed to be writing it two months later. It is the first main film in the series without any involvement from co-creator John Lasseter, who left Pixar in late 2018. The franchise’s composer, Randy Newman, returned to score the film, marking his tenth collaboration with Pixar, joined by Taylor Swift, who contributed the single “I Knew It, I Knew You” to the soundtrack. Toy Story 5 had its world premiere in Los Angeles on June 9, 2026, and is scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on June 19.
Premise
After Woody left Bonnie to stay with Bo Peep and help abandoned toys find owners,[b]Jessie became the leader of Bonnie’s room, with Buzz Lightyear as her second-in-command. However, a now-eight-year-old Bonnie has become enamored with her new favorite plaything, a frog-like tablet named Lilypad. Now Buzz must have Woody return to help them overcome Lilypad.[2][3]
In addition, Krys Marshall is cast in an undisclosed role.[15] Additionally, Capital Breakfast presenters Jordan North and Siân Welby have a cameo in the UK version of the film as a garden gnome and an inflatable flamingo, respectively.[16]
The film premiered at the 73rd Sydney Film Festival on June 12, 2026, and will be released in the United States on June 19, 2026, by A24. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
Premise
An aged Robin Hood grapples with his past life of crime and murder while in the hands of a mysterious woman after being critically injured.
Shoot The People is a documentary capturing photographer and activist Misan Harriman’s journey documenting global protest movements that drive social change. Renowned for his wide-ranging work — including powerful breakthrough images from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and capturing the Palestinian liberation movement on film — Harriman also made history as the first Black man to photograph a British Vogue cover.
A traveler documenting global activists fighting for equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and more. Gain insights into their challenges and strategies for change through interviews and frontline photography.
The film follows Harriman as he highlights the resilience of grassroots activists fighting for equality, civil rights, and social justice. The film showcases the intersectionality of these movements and their collective power. With historical context, interviews with activists, and explorations of digital activism, the documentary reveals how Harriman’s lens brings the world’s activism to light, inspiring viewers to recognize their own power in shaping a more just society.
Girls Like Girls is a 2026 coming-of-age romance from Hayley Kiyoko, adapted from her song and novel, following new-girl-in-town Coley over one transformative summer as she experiences first love and learns self-acceptance. With heartfelt themes of identity and emotional growth, new music from Kiyoko, and a focus on LGBTQ+ representation, it promises a tender, inspiring watch for fans of romantic and personal discovery stories.
In April 2024, it was reported that Spielberg’s next project would be a UFO film, with Koepp writing the screenplay. Within the next few months, Universal Pictures was announced as distributor, and Blunt was cast in the lead role. Filming took place from February to May 2025 in Atlanta, New Jersey, and New York.
Disclosure Day premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on June 2, 2026,[3] and will be theatrically released in the United States on June 12, 2026.[4] The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for Spielberg’s direction, Blunt’s performance, John Williams‘ musical score, storytelling, and visuals.[5]
Premise
As a massive government conspiracy unravels, a targeted whistleblower races against time to bring about the extraordinary event that will change human history forever: the day of ultimate alien disclosure.[6]
The Furious (Chinese: 火遮眼[5]) is a 2025 English-language Hong Kong action film directed by Kenji Tanigaki. Starring Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou, Jeeja Yanin, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga, and Yayan Ruhian, the film follows an ordinary tradesman Wei (Xie) whose daughter is kidnapped, and with journalist Navin’s (Taslim) help, he has to fight a criminal empire on his way to rescue.
The film had its world premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2025 and will be theatrically released in Hong Kong on 12 June 2026.
Cast
Xie Miao as Wang Wei, an ordinary tradesman whose daughter is kidnapped[6][7]
Set in the small farming community of Three Oaks, Michigan—home to the nation’s largest Flag Day parade—FLAG DAY is a verité portrait of ritual, identity, and belonging in an era of deep political division. Somewhere between tradition and transformation lies this village, whose annual parade has become a pageant of American aspiration and memory. Over the course of Flag Day weekend, the film immerses viewers in the lives of a diverse cross-section of townspeople: veterans, local business owners, marching bands, and volunteers who, for one weekend each June, create an event that is at once nostalgic and reflective of the tensions of our time. Their stories reveal both the beauty and the fragility of community life in a time of polarization. FLAG DAY was filmed in an observational, verité style, capturing moments of humor, conflict, and grace as the community prepares for its defining ritual.
Following the cancellation of a sequel to the 1987 film, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced another live-action film in September 2009, with Escape Artists producing. Following multiple changes to the writer and director roles and the casting of Noah Centineo, the rights were transferred to Netflix in January 2022, with Kyle Allen cast as He-Man and the Nee Brothers announced as directors and co-writers with Callaham. In May 2024, the rights were bought by Amazon MGM Studios, with Knight replacing the Nee brothers. The same month, Galitzine was cast to replace Allen, while the rest of the cast was announced throughout the year. Principal photography occurred in London, England, from January to June 2025.
Masters of the Universe premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on May 18, 2026, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 5, 2026, by Amazon MGM Studios and internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing International. [a]
Plot
After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power of King Grayskull leads Prince Adam Glenn back from his mother’s home planet, Earth, to his father’s home planet, Eternia, where he discovers his home has been destroyed and is now under the rule of the powerful warlord and sorcerer Skeletor. In order to reclaim his family legacy and save the world, Adam must join forces with his closest allies, Teela and Man-At-Arms, and embrace who he is truly meant to be: He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe.
Camila Mendes as Teela, Duncan’s adoptive daughter and captain of the guards of Eternia, who serves as Adam’s lieutenant and love interest.
Eire Farrell as young Teela.
Jared Leto as Keldor / Skeletor, a skull-headed, blue-skinned warlock and the tyrannical ruler of Eternia whose fiendish grip on the planet forces Prince Adam to embrace his true destiny as He-Man.
Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, a sorceress who betrayed Eternia for Skeletor’s cause. On Earth, she poses as Adam’s former college professor and mentor, Evelyn Powers.
James Purefoy as King Randor, the ruler of Eternia, Marlena’s husband, and Adam’s father, who was usurped by Skeletor.
Charlotte Riley as Queen Marlena Glenn, an ex-astronaut from Earth, co-ruler of Eternia, Randor’s wife, and Adam’s mother, who was usurped by Skeletor.
Idris Elba as Duncan / Man-At-Arms, Teela’s adoptive father and King Randor’s trusted general, who fights with his vast array of weapons and gadgets as one of Adam’s heroic warriors.
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as Malcolm / Fisto, Duncan’s younger brother and Teela’s adoptive uncle, who fights with his distinctive metal right hand as a heroic warrior.
Kristen Wiig as the voice of Roboto, one of the Heroic Warriors who possesses great strength and resilience with her mechanical body.
Sasheer Zamata as Suzie, Adam’s friend and co-worker on Earth.
Gary Martin as the voice and motion capture of Beast Man, one of Skeletor’s top lieutenants, who has the power to mind-control creatures.
Christian Vunipola as Hussein, Adam’s roommate.
James Wilkinson as Mekaneck, a heroic warrior who can extend his mechanical neck to great lengths.[3]
A sixth Scary Movie film was announced in 2024, and later that same year, it was revealed to involve the Wayans family for the first time since their departure from the franchise following the release of Scary Movie 2 (2001), due to creative conflicts with the original producers.
Scary Movie is scheduled for release in the United States by Paramount Pictures on June 5, 2026.
Premise
A group of friends reunites when a masked killer they encountered 26 years ago returns.[3]
Additionally, Jon Abrahams reprises his role as Bobby Prinze, Cindy’s ex-boyfriend from the first film, while Anthony Anderson—who appeared in Scary Movie 3 (2003) and Scary Movie 4 (2006)—and Felissa Rose have also been cast.
The Last Whale Singer is a 2025 animated fantasy film written and directed by Reza Memari. The film follows Vincent, an orphaned humpback whale who is the son of the legendary last Whale Singer. It premiered at Schlingel International Filmfestival in Chemnitz, Germany, on September 28, 2025.
Plot
Vincent, a teenage humpback whale, is the orphaned son of Humphrey, the last Whale Singer, whose magical song once protected the oceans. Burdened by the loss of his parents, Vincent doubts his own abilities. When the monstrous Leviathan escapes from a melting iceberg, threatening all marine life with its deadly ink, Vincent must go on an adventurous journey to find his own song to save the oceans, joined by Walter, his finicky suckerfish nanny, and Darya, a brave, deaf orca.
The film began under the working title RC16 in March 2024, with the official title announced as Peddi in March 2025. Principal photography commenced in Mysuru on 22 November 2024, with filming in Hyderabad, Colombo, Kanyakumari, and Pune continuing until November 2025. The original score and soundtrack are composed by A. R. Rahman.
The film is scheduled to be released theatrically on 4 June 2026 in standard Dolby Cinema, IMAX, D-Box, 4DX, ScreenX, ICE, MX4D, PXL, PCX, 2D, 3D, and EPIQ formats.
Plot
Peddi is a 2026 Telugu-language sports action drama set in 1980s rural Andhra Pradesh, where a determined villager uses sport to safeguard his community’s dignity against a powerful rival. Featuring Ram Charan in a rugged, transformative role alongside Janhvi Kapoor, the film blends intense action, emotion, and social themes, underscored by A. R. Rahman’s music. With grand production values and strong early buzz, it’s positioned as a major pan-India entertainer worth watching.
Power Ballad had its world premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival on March 1, 2026, and is scheduled to be released in select theaters on May 29, before expanding wide on June 5.
Premise
Rick Power, a wedding singer, meets washed-up former boy band singer Danny Wilson at a wedding one night, and they bond over a jam session. After the jam session, Danny steals one of Rick’s songs, and it becomes a number-one hit. This brings Danny back into the public eye, leading Rick to seek revenge and recognition.
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, Pressure follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Group Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice: launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
Favreau and Filoni wrote a fourth season of The Mandalorian by February 2023, but production was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. During this time, Lucasfilm reevaluated its plans for the franchise and decided to prioritize a Mandalorian film over the fourth season. The Mandalorian and Grogu were announced in January 2024, with Favreau directing and co-writing with Filoni and Kloor, and Pascal reprising his role from the series. Filming began in California in August 2024 and was completed by December of that year. Further casting was revealed around and after filming, including the return of various characters from The Mandalorian and other Star Wars media.
The Mandalorian and Grogu premiered on May 14, 2026, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, and it is scheduled for release in the United States on May 22.
Premise
Following the fall of the Galactic Empire, during a period where remaining Imperial warlords threaten the galaxy, the New Republic enlists Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu to rescue Rotta the Hutt in exchange for information from the Hutt clan on a New Republic target.[4][5]
Cast
Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin / The Mandalorian:
A Mandalorian and veteran bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy,[6] whose face is often hidden by a helmet.[7] Pascal said the film marked the start of a new chapter after the end of The Mandalorian’s third season (2023), in which Djarin agreed to work for the New Republic. Pascal said this gave the character a chance to combine his bounty hunter skills with doing “what he knows is right” by working for “the good guys.”[8] After the third season showed Djarin paying penance for removing his helmet, which goes against the Mandalorian creed, the film unmasks the character again. Director Jon Favreau said they did not make this decision lightly and were balancing the established story with their wish to show more of Pascal’s face. Pascal felt the unmasking was justified in the film.[7]
Grogu:
The Mandalorian’s ward, who is an infant of the same species as Yoda. Grogu is created with animatronics and puppetry, augmented with visual effects.[9][10] Producer Kathleen Kennedy said the character was a “perfect example of a character that has to emote and you have to feel connected to” them without hearing them speak.[11]
Jeremy Allen White as Rotta the Hutt:
The son of the deceased crime lord Jabba the Hutt. White provides the voice for Rotta,[12] speaking in Galactic Basic (represented by English) and Huttese. He took inspiration from Jabba’s voice in previous Star Wars media. Unlike previous Hutts, Rotta is a physical threat who participates in gladiator-style fights. Favreau compared him to Adonis Creed from the Creed films, saying both characters live in the shadow of their famous fathers.[13]
Niki White is the apprentice to New York City piano tuner Harry Horowitz, a friend of his late father. Once a gifted musician, Niki suffers from hyperacusis and can no longer play piano, wearing ear protection at all times against loud noises. After Harry forgets the combination to his safe, Niki teaches himself to open it with his heightened hearing, discovering a talent for safecracking.
While tuning at a music conservatory, Niki meets Ruthie, a driven student pianist. At a wealthy client’s home, he interrupts a trio of Israeli thieves and breaks into the safe for them, earning a job offer from their leader, Uri. With Harry’s encouragement, Niki strikes up a romance with Ruthie after repairing her treasured piano and reveals that it took years of exposure therapy to manage his sensitivity to sound.
When Harry is hospitalized after a heart attack, Niki accepts Uri’s offer, determined to save Harry and his wife, Marla, from debt. Proving himself on Uri’s own safe, Niki joins Uri, his accomplice Yoni, and nephew Benny as they use their security company to rob wealthy homes. Overcoming Ruthie’s misgivings about their relationship, Niki gives her a stolen watch and introduces her to Marla and the bedridden Harry, secretly paying his hospital bills.
The film premiered at the 2026 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 12, 2026, and will be released theatrically in the United States by Neon on May 22. It received positive reviews from critics.
Premise
In a surreal version of the San Francisco Bay Area, a group of shoplifters, known as “boosters,” take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven after she steals their designs.
It had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2025. It is scheduled for release on May 22, 2026, by Abramorama.
Production
E. Jean Carroll previously declined attempts to make a documentary about her; however, her mind changed after being asked by Ivy Meeropol and after viewing her work.[1][2]Graydon Carter and Sheila Nevins are among the executive producers.[3] Some backers asked to have their names removed from the project due to the political environment.[4]
