Possibly my favorite trend in movie discourse over the past couple of years is the practice of “name meshing” names of major 2026 movie schedule entries when they’re hitting theaters on the same day. The last few years have seen the epic double feature Barbie + Oppenheimer’s Barbenheimber. (And Wicked + Gladiator II’s Glicked or Wadiator, if you’re nasty.) Now, fans are trolling the nickname potential of three major movies going head-to-head on the 2027 movie schedule: Avengers: Secret Wars, The Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum, and Sydney Sweeney’s The Housemaid's Secret.
