This year has been a jam-packed one for movies, with the blockbuster success of family film continuing thanks to Lilo & Stitch, Zootropolis 2 and the irrepressible A Minecraft Movie.
Plus, let’s not forget that an animated sequel barely anyone would have seen in the UK has ended up the fifth highest-grossing film of all time.
Meanwhile, superheroes struggled to soar with James Gunn’s Superman just about taking flight while Marvel’s Thunderbolts* ended up the studio’s second lowest-performing release ever at the box office.
Snow White ended up an expensive PR disaster for Disney too, as Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite follow-up Mickey 17 sank without trace and Dwayne Johnson’s best actor Academy Award hopes aren’t as healthy as hoped after The Smashing Machine’s poor performance.
But with Christmas over and done with and our thoughts turning to January, here’s a look at some of the biggest, boldest and most talked about films set for release in 2026…
Wuthering Heights
It’s the most fervently discussed movie of 2026 after fans were stirred up first by director Emerald Fennell casting Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles, and then by the decidedly raunchy first trailer for Wuthering Heights.
And did you clock the inverted commas around the title on the poster? Internet sleuths demand to have their theories confirmed.
But coming from the same mind that brought you Saltburn and it looks like (from the very small snippet we’ve seen so far) this adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel will be anything but your average staid period drama.
And I, for one, can’t wait for it to rip up the rulebook – who wants to see what we’ve seen before already, several times on screen, from this new interpretation?
