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  • Our 10 Most Anticipated Movies of Early 2026

    The new year is almost here, and before we start thinking about Star Wars, The Avengers, or Christopher Nolan, let’s slow things down a bit. While the rest of 2026 is obviously loaded with very exciting, very big movies, the next three months have some pretty interesting, intriguing, and highly anticipated films too. Plenty to hold our interest before the more traditionally blockbuster-filled months.

    Like what, exactly? Below are our 10 most anticipated genre films releasing from January through the end of March.

    10. Night Patrol (January 16)

    Justin Long, Jermaine Fowler, CM Punk, and more star as Los Angeles police officers who find themselves face-to-face with some very unnatural things in the middle of a gang war. We’ve heard that things get really wild and that it’s a very good time.

    9. Mercy (January 23)

    When he’s framed for the murder of his wife, Chris Pratt has to use an advanced law-enforcement AI that he himself invented to prove his innocence in a very short amount of time. The trailers have been cool, so we’re hoping for a ride.

    8. Hoppers (March 6)

    Any time Pixar releases a movie, you have to take notice, and its first 2026 release (the other being Toy Story 5) is the hilarious-looking story of a woman who puts her consciousness in an animal and mistakenly convinces them to try and overtake humanity.

    7. Send Help (January 30)

    The legendary Sam Raimi returns to the genre that made him famous with this intense-looking thriller about two co-workers who end up deserted on an island together. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien star, and we’re praying for a little of that Raimi magic.

    6. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (February 13)

    Sam Rockwell stars in this bonkers-looking time travel tale about a man who is sent into the past to try to save the future. Or something like that. It seems insane, and we can’t wait.

    5. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (March 27)

    We loved Radio Silence’s 2019 film about a woman stuck in the middle of a family’s sick game, and now we are counting the days to its follow-up, which returns to the story soon after the events of the first. Add a bunch of new actors into the mix, and this could be as special as the original.

    4. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (January 16)

    Nia DaCosta’s follow-up to last year’s excellent Danny Boyle sequel appears as if it’s taking the 28 Years franchise to some bold new places. Plus, the buzz is so good about this one, Sony has already greenlit its sequel.

    3. The Bride! (March 6)

    The year 2025 brought us one great Frankenstein movie, and we think 2026 is going to do the same. Maggie Gyllenhaal returns to the director’s chair with this punk rock take on the classic monster story from the woman’s point of view. Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley and Batman himself, Christian Bale, star as the creatures.

    2. Scream 7 (February 27)

    It’s a bummer that Scream 7 won’t directly follow the story set up by the previous two Scream movies, but we’re still holding out hope. Neve Campbell is back in an expanded role, and franchise co-creator Kevin Williamson directs for the first time in the series. Both suggest good things. Also, each Scream film brings its own unique surprises, so we’re expecting nothing less from this one.

    1. Project Hail Mary (March 20)

    For the first time in over a decade, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing a new film, and this one looks special. It’s based on a book by The Martian author Andy Weir; Ryan Gosling stars as a man trying to save the world in deep space. To do so, he’ll have to team up with an alien. If the movie is half as wonderful as the book, this one is going to be an all-timer.

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  • Why the New ‘Project Hail Mary’ Trailer Has That Big ‘Spoiler’ in It

    When Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary was first released, it happened about 170 pages into a 470-page novel. That’s when the author decided it was time to reveal what his story was really about. Oh, sure. It was about a man named Ryland Grace waking up in space with amnesia and slowly figuring out that the fate of the planet is in his hands. But, also, it’s about Ryland meeting an alien.

    Well, as you probably know, that book is becoming a movie starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. And, after just teasing it in the first trailer, its latest trailer prominently features the alien who Ryland nicknames “Rocky.” According to Weir, who is also a producer on the film, there was discussion about holding back the reveal, but ultimately, the studio decided against it.

    “It’s really more a marketing decision by Amazon MGM, but the idea was no one’s going to walk into that theater and not know about Rocky,” Weir told Polygon. “This is not a Darth Vader is Luke’s father kind of situation. This is a core, central element of the plot that everybody’s going to be talking about and that everybody who’s read the book already knows about.”

    Lord and Miller, who are making their return to directing for the first time in over a decade, agree. “You can’t tell this story without introducing Rocky, because the heart of the story is the relationship between him and Grace,” Miller said in a Reddit AMA. “As fans of the book, you know Rocky is the second lead of this movie. And what’s shown in the trailer is just a glimpse of what’s to come. Rocky is such a beautiful and ‘amaze-‘ing character, and we were all very thoughtful about what to show and when. You all know how much more there is to this story and relationship than what is shown in the trailer, and we’re excited for everyone to see where it goes!”

    Plus, as Weir said in his interview, “All trailers are designed to put butts in seats, and we want those butts in those seats. We want people to go, ‘Now I want to know what’s going on.’” And, by revealing that Gosling spends most of his screentime with an alien, you get a double dose of intrigue. Will this astronaut be able to save the world? And, also, how the heck is he going to interact with a rock alien?

    The answers to those questions, however, are the real spoilers and are certainly going to be held for March, when Project Hail Mary comes to theaters. Or, you know, the book has been out for over four years, so you could always check that out, too. We’d recommend it.

    Project Hail Mary opens March 20, 2026, and we cannot wait.

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  • Project Hail Mary is Lifting Off with Ryan Gosling in March 2026

    Project Hail Mary is Lifting Off with Ryan Gosling in March 2026

    Image: Ballantine Books

    Years ago, Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel Project Hail Mary was being optioned as a film with Ryan Gosling in the lead role. After years of no significant news on the project, Amazon MGM’s ready to bring the adaptation to theaters, and it’s even locked down a release date: March 20, 2026.

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    No other major films—if any movies, period—have that called dibs on that day, according to Deadline. At time of writing, a start date for production hasn’t been locked down; last year, cameras would reportedly start rolling in early 2024 over in the UK, but that was before the Hollywood strikes came along and threw any plans out of whack as it has with other productions. What hasn’t changed, though, is the talent behind the camera: the movie’s still to be directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and like The Martian in 2015, be working off a screenplay written by Drew Goddard.

    Project Hail Mary released in 2021 as the technically fourth (and most recent) novel in Weir’s career. Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a school teacher-turned-astronaut who wakes up from a coma riddled with amnesia and aboard the titular space station. Eventually, he starts to put his memories back together, where he realizes he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system to reverse a solar dimming event that could wipe out humanity. Like The Martian, it received pretty good reviews, and became a finalist at the 2022 Hugo Awards’ Best Novel category.

    Back when it released in 2020, we thought Hail Mary was a pretty solid read, especially for those who got onboard with Weir through The Martian. In some ways, it’s doing the same things as that book on a bigger scale, but it was also just as engrossing as Martian, so can you really be mad at it? Count as curious to see what comes of the film on March 20, 2026. If you haven’t read it yet, it might not hurt to do so ahead of time, even if it’s just to beat the rush at bookstores and libraries.

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