Several highly anticipated movies slated for 2026 are predicted to be both massive commercial successes and serious contenders for the Best Picture Oscar. They’re expected to achieve this by becoming widely beloved by audiences and earning nominations in many different award categories.
From 2011 to 2018, ABC’s Once Upon A Time captivated audiences for seven seasons by putting a fresh, live-action spin on classic fairy tales. In 2014, during its fourth season, the show brought the characters of Frozen – Elsa and Anna – into the mix, continuing their story and introducing them to the already established world of reimagined Disney characters in Storybrooke.
Ryan Gosling plays the main character, Ryland Grace, in the movie Project Hail Mary, which is based on the popular novel by Andy Weir. The sci-fi adventure is expected to be a huge hit, and it cost a significant amount to make – a reported $248 million. To simply cover its costs, the movie will need to earn between $500 and $600 million when you factor in the roughly $248 million production budget and around $250 million for marketing.
Audiences have been following Stacy Clyburn as she adjusts to life in the Montana countryside, a place her late husband, Preston, often escaped to and cherished. Despite the change, Stacy is committed to making Montana her permanent home, hoping to feel closer to Preston’s memory there. After organizing a memorial service for Preston with friends in New York, Stacy decides where she will live going forward.
The team behind MobLand is incredibly strong. Director Guy Ritchie is well-known for his successful gangster films, and Tom Hardy first gained recognition playing similar characters – he even portrayed both Kray twins. Although MobLand is a completely new story, it originally started as a potential spin-off connected to another popular crime show.
Brendon played Xander Harris, a close friend of the main character Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) and often made fun of the vampire Angel (David Boreanaz). He was a regular cast member throughout all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Other key actors in the series included Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Stewart Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield, and the late Michelle Trachtenberg.
The second film based on the popular stage musical is now available to stream on Peacock and is quickly becoming a hit, according to FlixPatrol. Like the first movie, it had a theatrical release on November 21st before becoming available digitally on December 31st.
Some viewers find it an expensive and slow-moving show that deviates too much from the original stories. Regardless of how you feel, it’s clear that Amazon’s series, created by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, heavily relies on Peter Jackson’s films as inspiration. The series is set in Middle-earth’s Second Age, thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit.
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The 1990 film Misery is a brilliantly crafted blend of psychological thriller and horror, effectively building tension from Stephen King’s 1987 novel about the dangers of obsessive fandom. Directed by Rob Reiner and written by William Goldman, it’s widely considered one of the best movie adaptations of King’s work. Kathy Bates gives a captivating and unsettling performance as Annie Wilkes, a truly memorable and frightening villain – arguably one of the most iconic antagonists in Stephen King’s extensive collection of characters.