“Disclosure Day”
Steven Spielberg returns to science fiction with “Disclosure Day,” which is enough to make it one of the defining question marks of the summer. Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, and Josh O’Connor star, with David Koepp writing, and the premise teases a world forced to confront proof that humanity is not alone. Spielberg has visited extraterrestrial awe, terror, and contact before, from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T.” to “War of the Worlds.” This sounds pitched toward a contemporary anxiety: what happens when revelation belongs to the whole planet at once?
Premiere Date: June 12, 2026, via Universal Pictures.
“Maddie’s Secret”
John Early writes, directs, and stars in “Maddie’s Secret,” his feature directorial debut, playing a food influencer secretly struggling with bulimia. The cast includes Kate Berlant, Eric Rahill, Kristen Johnston, Claudia O’Doherty, Conner O’Malley, Vanessa Bayer, and Chris Bauer, which already signals a comedy willing to get strange fast. Early has spent years perfecting a specific comic narcissism—performative sweetness curdling into hysteria, insecurity, cruelty, and worse—and “Maddie’s Secret” sounds like a natural extension of that persona into amusing melodrama (Read our review).
Premiere Date: June 12, 2026, via Magnolia Pictures.
“Rose of Nevada”
Analog filmmaker Mark Jenkin follows the creepy, lo-fi “Enys Men” with “Rose of Nevada,” another eerie Cornish mystery built around the sea, memory, and time that refuses to behave. George MacKay and Callum Turner star as two men who join the crew of a fishing boat that vanished 30 years earlier and has now mysteriously returned to a remote village. The locals see the ship as a good omen for a struggling community, but one voyage sends the men into a stranger temporal loop, where they are mistaken for the original crew. Jenkin’s cinema thrives on 16mm grain texture, handmade sound, and haunted landscapes, and this premise gives him an intriguing ghost story that centers on labor, folklore, and history repeating itself (Read our review).
Premiere Date: June 19, 2026, via 1-2 Special.
“Leviticus”
“Leviticus” brings religious extremism, queer desire, and supernatural horror into one volatile package. Written and directed by Adrian Chiarella, and premiering at Sundance earlier this year, the film follows two teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most—each other. The premise has a sharp emotional and genre hook: desire becomes both refuge and threat in a community shaped by homophobia and religious control (Read our review).
Premiere Date: June 19, 2026, via NEON.
“The Death of Robin Hood”
Michael Sarnoski follows “Pig” and “A Quiet Place: Day One” with “The Death of Robin Hood,” an A24-backed reinvention of the folk hero starring Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett, and Noah Jupe. The premise strips away the usual swashbuckling romance: Robin Hood, gravely injured after a life of crime and violence, is offered a chance at salvation by a mysterious woman. Sarnoski has already shown an affinity for the private ache of wounded men, grief, and myth, and hell, summer could use a bruised, mournful legend.
Premiere Date: June 19, 2026, via A24.
“Toy Story 5”
Pixar returns to its most beloved franchise with “Toy Story 5,” and this time the threat is not abandonment, or the metaphysics of childhood ownership: it’s the obsolescence and threat of technology and screen addiction. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Tony Hale, and Greta Lee lead the voice cast, with Andrew Stanton directing. The idea of Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the gang confronting a screen-based rival is almost too obvious. Still, Pixar’s best “Toy Story” films have turned obvious childhood transitions into existential crises. Craig Robinson, Shelby Rabara, and Conan O’Brien are among the new voice cast.
Premiere Date: June 19, 2026, via Walt Disney Studios.
“Girls Like Girls”
Hayley Kiyoko adapts her hit single and bestselling novel with “Girls Like Girls,” a coming-of-age romance set over one sun-drenched summer. The story follows Coley, a new girl in town, as she falls in love for the first time and learns to accept herself. Maya da Costa and Myra Molloy star, with Kiyoko writing and directing, and the film includes new music from the artist. The ingredients are familiar—summer, first love, self-discovery, and small-town vulnerability—but the queer personal authorship gives this one a clearer identity than a generic teen romance.
Premiere Date: June 19, 2026, via Focus Features.
“Supergirl”
After her breakout turn in “House of the Dragon,” Milly Alcock takes on Kara Zor-El in “Supergirl,” directed by Craig Gillespie and written by go-to DC screenwriter Ana Nogueira. The cast includes Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, and Jason Momoa as the anti-hero Lobo, and the film is one of the major early tests of the new DC screen era. The challenge is not just introducing Supergirl, but separating her from Superman’s shadow in a way that feels emotionally and visually distinct. And her insouciant, punk-rock attitude seems like the way forward.
Premiere Date: June 26, 2026, via Warner Bros.
“The Invite”
“The Invite” sounds like the kind of adult comedy studios barely make for theaters anymore: one disastrous dinner, one strained marriage, upstairs neighbors on the way, and everything getting worse. Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, the film stars Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, Olivia Wilde, Rashida Jones, and Penélope Cruz, giving it a loaded ensemble before anyone sits down at the table. Dinner-party comedies are pressure cookers by design. and they usually create a false promise of civility, and then let resentment, lust, insecurity, and class anxiety do the fun damage (Read our review).
Premiere Date: June 26, 2026, via A24.
“Jackass: Best and Last”
The title “Jackass: Best and Last” sounds like both a warning and a promise. Jeff Tremaine directs, with Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Dave England, Danger Ehren, Poopies, Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, Rachel Wolfson, and others returning for what is being positioned as the final mainline “Jackass” film. The movie mixes new stunts with never-before-seen footage—is this like a quasi best-of TV episode??— and a look back at the franchise’s 25-year history, giving the usual body punishment a farewell-tour charge.
Premiere Date: June 26, 2026, via Paramount Pictures.
June Honorable Mentions:
“The Little Sister” (June 5 — Hafsia Herzi); “Jinsei” (June 5 — Ryuya Suzuki); “Office Romance” (June 5, Netflix — Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein); “Stop! That! Train!” (June 12, Bleecker Street — RuPaul); “The Six Billion Dollar Man” (June 12); “Promised Sky” (June 12); “Find Your Friends” (June 12, Shudder — Helena Howard, Bella Thorne); “O Horizon” (June 12, Variance Films — Maria Bakalova, David Strathairn); “Mare’s Nest” (June 24 — Ben Rivers); “Romería” (June 26 — Carla Simón); “Bouchra” (June 26 — Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki); “Drunken Noodles” (June 26 — Lucio Castro); “Couture” (June 26); “Strung” (June 26, Peacock — Chloe Bailey, Lynn Whitfield); “Lucky Strike” (June 26, Roadside Attractions/Saban Films — Scott Eastwood, Colin Hanks).
