Netflix has announced their 2026 slate of original films, and it includes another Enola Holmes offering, a new directorial effort from Ben Affleck, and whole lotta Tyler Perry films.
Conspicuously absent from the schedule is David Fincher’s THE ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH, which is the sequel to ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD written by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt. No mention of it today, but it’s widely rumored to be getting a short theatrical release in the summer, followed by a Netflix launch. We’ll post as soon as we have any news on that title.
For now, not a lot of detail on premiere dates for much of the slate. But here’s the announced line-up:
Winter 2026
January 9
People We Meet on Vacation
Free-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth) have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else — could they actually be the perfect romantic match?
Director: Brett Haley
Cast: Emily Bader, Tom Blyth, Sarah Catherine Hook, Lucien Laviscount, Miles Heizer, Jameela Jamil, Tommy Do, Lukas Gage, Alice Lee, with Molly Shannon and Alan Ruck
January 16
The Rip
Upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house, trust among a team of Miami cops begins to fray. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything is called into question — including who they can rely on.
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino Moreno, with Scott Adkins and Kyle Chandler
January 21
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart
In the early hours of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, igniting one of the most intense and widely covered missing-person cases in American history. Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is a gripping documentary feature that takes viewers inside the real story — told in Elizabeth’s own words and through exclusive interviews with her family, investigators, and those closest to the case. Blending archival footage and never-before-seen material, the film traces the harrowing nine months of Elizabeth’s captivity at the hands of Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. It explores the psychological and emotional toll on Elizabeth and her family, the relentless media attention, and the community’s tireless search for answers. The documentary not only revisits the events that shocked a nation but also spotlights Elizabeth’s journey of healing and her ongoing mission to inspire and protect others.
Director: Benedict Sanderson
January 22
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
Iroha, a high school student living on her own, has her life upended when she takes in Kaguya, who came from the moon. Eventually, they bond over their shared love of virtual idols a metaverse called Tsukuyomi. But like the original “Princess Kaguya,” Kaguya cannot stay on Earth forever …
Director: Shingo Yamashita
Voice Cast: Yuko Natsuyoshi, Anna Nagase, Saori Hayami, Rie Kugimiya
February 6
Queen of Chess
A Hungarian girl dreams of conquering international men’s chess. After a 15-year battle against world champion Garry Kasparov, Judit Polgár revolutionizes the sport’s patriarchal culture to become one of the greatest chess prodigies in history and the greatest woman chess player of all time.
Director: Rory Kennedy
February 13
Joe’s College Road Trip
In an effort to teach him about the real world, Joe (Tyler Perry) takes B.J. (Jermaine Harris) on a cross-country college road trip where tensions get high but life-changing lessons are learned.
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, Jermaine Harris, Amber Reign Smith
Spring 2026
March 6
War Machine
During the final stage of US Army Ranger selection, an elite team’s training exercise turns into a fight for survival against an unimaginable threat.
Director: Patrick Hughes
Cast: Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Blake Richardson, Keiynan Lonsdale, Daniel Webber
March 20
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
In select theaters Mar. 6
Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders …
Director: Tom Harper
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Sophie Rundle, Ned Dennehy, Packy Lee, Ian Peck, Jay Lycurgo, with Barry Keoghan and Stephen Graham
April 17
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
In this intimate documentary, David Attenborough tells the remarkable story of his first encounter with the baby gorilla Pablo, how that gorilla grew up to be a top silverback, and how Pablo’s direct descendants are doing today. Packed with extraordinary gorilla behavior never filmed before, this is a story of hope and joy.
Director: James Reed
Narrated By: David Attenborough
April 24
APEX
A grieving woman testing her limits in the Australian wilderness is suddenly ensnared in a deadly game with a ruthless predator.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, and Eric Bana
May 8
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova (Sally Field), an elderly widow, forms an unlikely friendship with the curmudgeonly Marcellus — a giant pacific octopus that lives at the aquarium where she works. Unbeknownst to Tova, Marcellus is on a mission to solve a mystery that will heal the widow’s heart and lead her to a life-changing discovery. Based on the best-selling book.
Director: Olivia Newman
Cast: Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Colm Meaney, Joan Chen, Kathy Baker, Beth Grant, Sofia Black-D’Elia
May 2026
Ladies First
A ladies man gets a real wake-up call when he finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women where he goes head-to-head with a fiery female counterpart who makes things far more of a challenge for him.
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Tom Davis, with Richard E. Grant and Fiona Shaw. Also starring Weruche Opia, Kathryn Hunter, Kadiff Kirwan, Bill Paterson.
Summer 2026
Summer 2026
72 HOURS
A forty-year-old executive hopes to save his flailing career by joining a group of twenty-somethings on a wild three-day bachelor party after he’s inadvertently added to their group text.
Director: Tim Story
Cast: Kevin Hart, Marcello Hernandez, Mason Gooding, Teyana Taylor, Ben Marshall, Zach Cherry, Kam Patterson
Summer 2026
Enola Holmes 3
Adventure chases detective Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide on a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before.
Director: Philip Barantini
Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Louis Partridge, Himesh Patel, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, with Henry Cavill and Helena Bonham Carter
Summer 2026
The Whisper Man
Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Alex North. When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as “The Whisper Man.”
Director: James Ashcroft
Cast: Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, Adam Scott, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague. Also starring Acston Luca Porto, Will Brill.
Fall 2026
Fall 2026
Quasimodo
Set in Paris on the eve of the July Revolution (1830), this film reimagines the life of the man said to have inspired Victor Hugo’s iconic character. As the cholera epidemic spreads through the city, Quasimodo (Vincent Cassel) is caught between political turmoil and an impossible love.
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Karim Leklou, Daphné Patakia, Benjamin Voisin, Noémie Lvovsky, Sébastien Pouderoux, Eli Nachmani, and Alexis Rosenstiehl
DECEMBER 2026
Narnia
From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig (Barbie, Little Women), based on the beloved story by C.S. Lewis.
DIRECTOR: Greta Gerwig
Coming Soon
2026
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A family of four are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Greta Lee, Wagner Moura, Gabriel Barbosa, Emma Ho, Noah Alexander Sosnowski, Riley Chung
2026
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
From the bestselling author of A Dog’s Purpose, a tale of a family in crisis where a teenager, her grandfather, and his trusty basset hound struggle to keep the household together at Christmas.
Director: Cathryn Michon
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia, Brooke Lena Johnson, Jennifer Tilly, Ethan Loomis, Kathleen Rose Perkins, and Mary Steenburgen
2026
Animals
When their son is kidnapped, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife find themselves drawn into a web of deception. As they scramble to raise the ransom payment, they’re forced to make choices that could tear their world apart.
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Adriana Paz, Ray Fisher, Matt Gerald, with Luis Gerardo Méndez and Steven Yeun
2026
Best of the Best
Two childhood best friends, Maya (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and Anjali (Priyanka Kedia), join their college’s competitive Bollywood dance team only to discover that the road to winning the national championship is far more raucous and cutthroat than they ever imagined.
Director: Lena Khan
Cast: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Priyanka Kedia, Ankur Rathee, Janina Gavankar, Chaneil Kular, Becky Alex, Shreya Navile, and Hasan Minhaj. Also starring Nihar Duvvuri, Nico Greetham, Amryn Khurana, Tanishq Joshi, Lilly Singh, Saara Chaudry, Sasha Bhasin.
2026
Don’t Say Good Luck
In this coming-of-age dramedy, Sophie Birenbaum (Sunny Sandler) is ready for the spotlight as the lead in her high school musical — until suddenly she’s living with even more drama at home than on the stage.
Director: Julia Hart
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, Stephanie Beatriz, Sunny Sandler, Bebe Neuwirth, and Steve Buscemi
2026
GOOD SEX
After spending a decade in a failed relationship, pragmatic couples’ therapist Ally (Natalie Portman) is turning 40 and reluctantly dipping her toe back into the New York dating scene. But she gets more than she bargained for when she meets two men — one in his twenties and one in his fifties — who show her there is no set formula for good sex.
Director: Lena Dunham
Cast: Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Tucker Pillsbury, Tramell Tillman, and introducing Serene Jackson, with Rashida Jones and Meg Ryan
2026
The Gospel of Christmas
In Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas, a struggling pastor inherits his family’s church in a broken New York neighborhood, but as he battles doubt, temptation, and a sinister adversary, he must rediscover his faith and the power of prayer to save his church, his family, and his community in time for Christmas.
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Fantasia Barrino, Tank, Shirley Caesar, Fred Hammond, the Clark sisters, Smokie Norful, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Ann Nesby, Yolanda Adams, Hezekiah Walker, JeKalyn Carr, and Dax
2026
GUARDING STARS
When a no-nonsense bodyguard is assigned to protect a charming action star over the holidays, sparks fly, secrets unravel, and Christmas gets a whole lot more complicated.
Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Cast: Leighton Meester, Jared Padalecki, Andie MacDowell, Walker Hayes, Noah LaLonde, Toby Sandeman, Rachael Ancheril, Phil Brooks, Ava Max
2026
Heartstopper Forever
Nick and Charlie are inseparable, but with Nick preparing to leave for university and Charlie finding new independence at school, the reality of a long-distance relationship begins to weigh on them. Doubts take hold, and their relationship faces its biggest challenge yet. Meanwhile, their friends are also navigating the ups and downs of love and friendship, confronting the bittersweet challenges of growing up and moving on. Can first loves really last forever?
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Creator/Writer: Alice Oseman
2026
Here Comes The Flood
An unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Danai Gurira, Sean Harris, Moisés Arias, and Justin Kirk
2026
In a Holidaze
After making a romantic mistake of epic proportions, a directionless twentysomething finds herself trapped in a holiday time-loop, forced to relive the same Christmas at her family’s cabin until she discovers what truly makes her happy.
Director: Tiffany Paulsen
Cast: Maddie Ziegler, Rob Lowe, Graham Phillips, and Elias Kacavas
2026
LITTLE BROTHER
A famous real estate agent’s carefully curated world is upended when his eccentric “little brother” unexpectedly reappears.
Director: Matt Spicer
Cast: John Cena, Eric Andre, Michelle Monaghan, Chris Meloni, Ego Nwodim, Sherry Cola, Caleb Hearon, Ben Ahlers, Bryce Gheisar, Pilot Bunch
2026
México 86
Steeped in satire and gallows humor, México 86 chronicles Mexico’s improbable bid to host the 1986 World Cup — an audacious, against-all-odds feat made possible only by pure Mexican ingenuity.
Director: Gabriel Ripstein
Cast: Diego Luna
2026
Miracle: The Boys of ’80
This is the story of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the 1980 US hockey team beat the USSR in the Olympic semifinals at the height of the Cold War to bring home a gold medal. Their iconic underdog story is told with never-before-seen 16mm footage and firsthand reflections from the players who were brought back to the scene of their historic victory.
2026
The Mosquito Bowl
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America’s top college football stars set their fame aside to enlist in the Marines. As they prepare for the brutal invasion of Okinawa, they’ll play in a legendary game featuring some of the greatest players in history — a game that, for many, will be the last they ever play.
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, Tom Francis, Brent Comer, Dominic Bogart
2026
Office Romance
Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein lead a raunchy romantic comedy about a secret office romance and the trouble two workaholics get in when they start thinking with their hearts.
Director: Ol Parker
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein, Betty Gilpin, Amy Sedaris, Tony Hale, Bradley Whitford, Edward James Olmos
2026
Ray Gunn
Director: Brad Bird
2026
Roommates
When a hopeful, naive college freshman, Devon, asks the cool and confident Celeste to be her roommate, a blossoming friendship spirals into a war of passive aggression.
Director: Chandler Levack
Cast: Sarah Sherman, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Kroll, Sadie Sandler, Chloe East, and Storm Reid
2026
SATURN RETURN
Saturn Return is a Chicago-set romance exploring the themes of love, loss, and life’s complicated turns in the 10 years between the aspirational young love of college and the complicated realities of adulthood.
Director: Greg Kwedar
Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Charles Melton, Kim Dickens, Jean Yoon, with David Morse and Will Poulter
2026
Steps
Think you know Cinderella’s “evil” stepsisters? Think again! When misunderstood Lilith (Ali Wong) is blamed for hijacking the Royal Ball with a stolen magic wand, she accidentally turns her sister Margot (Stephanie Hsu) into a frog and leaves the kingdom in the hands of a prince-obsessed mean girl. Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella (and a surprisingly dreamy troll) to save the kingdom, repair the fractured fairytale, and prove that even so-called villains deserve a shot at happily-ever-after.
Director: Alyce Tzue and John Ripa
Voice Cast: Ali Wong, Stephanie Hsu
2026
Swapped
A buddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced by Michael B. Jordan) and a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple) — natural sworn enemies of the Valley — who suddenly swap bodies and must team up (while walking in each other’s feathers and fur) to survive the wildest adventure of their lives.
Director: Nathan Greno
Voice Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan, Cedric the Entertainer
2026
‘Tis So Sweet
Based on the incredible true story of Lenore Lindsey, ’Tis So Sweet follows a Chicago bakery owner who is stunned by an incredible discovery that inspires her to reclaim lost time, heal old wounds, and find purpose in life’s unexpected miracles.
Director: Tasha Smith
Cast: Taraji P. Henson and Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, aka Joey Bada$$ Taraji P. Henson, Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, aka Joey Bada$$, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Russell Hornsby, Alexis Louder, Semaj Prather, Arischa Conner, Angela Davis, Caroline Avery Granger, Tasha Smith, DeVon Franklin
2026
UNABOM
Inspired by true events, UNABOM follows Ted Kaczynski’s (Jacob Tremblay) transformation from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray (Russell Crowe), Kaczynski’s troubled past resurfaces decades later when his manhunt, led by FBI agent Joanne Miller (Shailene Woodley), brings to light the chilling consequences of ambition and isolation.
Director: Janus Metz
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley, Annabelle Wallis, Alexander Ludwig, Steven Ogg, Marc Menchaca
2026
Voicemails for Isabelle
Jill (Zoey Deutch) copes with her sister’s death by leaving her voicemails chronicling her chaotic life in San Francisco. When the number is unknowingly reassigned, an elusive Austin real estate agent begins receiving the hilariously confessional messages.
Director: Leah McKendrick
Cast: Zoey Deutch, Nick Robinson, Nick Offerman, Lukas Gage, Harry Shum Jr., Ciara Bravo, Megan Danso, Toby Sandeman, Leah McKendrick, Spencer Lord, Gil Bellows
2026
Why Did I Get Married Again
In Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Again?, the couples reunite in celebration as Marcus (Michael Jai White) and Angela’s (Tasha Smith) daughter prepares to tie the knot herself. After being apart for quite some time, the two quickly learn that as much as things change, they stay the same. Realizing their children have grown up to be so much like them, they must reflect on the examples they’ve set and ask themselves that age-old question: Why did they get married … again?
Director/Writer: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Jill Scott, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Lamman Rucker, Sharon Leal, Armani Greer, Everett Osborne, Da’Vinchi, Laya Deleon Hayes, Jaden Michael, Charles L. Smith II, Derrick A. King, Sydney Winbush