Happy New Year! There’s nothing quite like the clean slate a fresh year can bring us, and when it comes to what 2026 movie releases are on the way, there’s a lot of big releases to be excited for. A lot of the movies I’m most excited about are adaptations of existing stories, like book adaptations for Project Hail Mary and Sunrise on the Reaping, DC Comics’ Supergirl, or Christopher Nolan’s telling of the Greek epic, The Odyssey, but I want to talk about which sequels have caught my eye the most as 2026 begins.
As it goes with Hollywood, there’s a lot of sequels on the way, with my current count (of those with official release dates) at twenty-three. But, which five movies am I most ready to buy a movie ticket and popcorn for? Let’s get into it (in release order).
