Wuthering Heights
Released 13 February
Although it’s still under wraps bar a couple of salacious, Brontë-baiting teasers, few of the year’s forthcoming releases have generated such feverish anticipation as Emerald Fennell’s take on Wuthering Heights. Starring Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, the casting alone has provoked outrage from purists, and that’s before we even get to a shot in which Cathy appears to be wearing a dress made of red PVC. The director of Saltburn was never going to make a strait-laced adaptation of a literary classic. We’ll have to wait a few more weeks to see the film in all its smouldering, bodice-ripping glory.
Sirāt
27 February
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Few films can claim to be genuinely unexpected. But Sirāt, which premiered at Cannes in 2025 and has made an impressive showing on the Academy Award long lists, floors audiences with its bold and bruising final act. The Spanish-French drama follows a father searching for his daughter in north Africa’s nomadic rave scene. And that’s as much as you should know going into it. Read nothing about the film in advance. Only brace yourself.
The Bride!
6 March Actor turned director Maggie Gyllenhaal trades the elegantly malign psychological thrills of her debut feature The Lost Daughter (2021) for gothic grand guignol extravagance and what looks like a peach of a role for Jessie Buckley. In a story transposed to 1930s Chicago, she plays the Bride to Christian Bale’s Frankenstein’s monster.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
1 May
Meryl Streep returns as autocratic magazine editor Miranda Priestly in a sequel apparently dealing with the travails of print journalism amid falling ad revenue and flatlining readership numbers. Streep is joined by returning cast members Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, plus Lady Gaga, Sydney Sweeney, Stanley Tucci and Kenneth Branagh.
Disclosure Day
12 June
A new film from Steven Spielberg is always cause for a degree of excitement, but there’s a heightened anticipation around Disclosure Day, partly thanks to its archetypal Spielbergian themes. Based on an original idea by the director, and written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park), it returns to the subject of alien visitation with which Spielberg has an enduring fascination (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, War of the Worlds). Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor star.
The Odyssey
17 July
Advance bookings for the latest picture from Christopher Nolan opened in July 2025 – a full year before the film is scheduled to arrive in cinemas. This gives some indication of the buzz around his follow-up to Oppenheimer. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, Zendaya plays Athena and Robert Pattinson takes the role of Antinous in what promises to be a lavish and spectacular interpretation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic.
The Entertainment System Is Down
Release date tbc
With films such as Triangle of Sadness, Force Majeure and The Square, the Swedish director Ruben Östlund has made a career out of savagely skewering wealth and privilege. This satire, set during a long-haul flight on which the entertainment system fails and passengers are confronted by the existential horror of boredom, looks set to follow in this vein. Featuring Kirsten Dunst, Keanu Reeves and Samantha Morton.
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
26 November
Greta Gerwig’s follow-up to the box office phenomenon that was Barbie, this is the first of two films based on CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia novels to which the director has signed up. It’s a Netflix production but audiences will have a chance to see the film in cinemas ahead of its streaming release on Christmas Day 2026. The cast includes Emma Mackey as the White Witch, with Meryl Streep rumoured to be the voice of Aslan.
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