October '26 Movie Releases
🎬 Digger
🗓️ Release Date: October 2, 2026
Starring: Tom Cruise, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons
Description: Tom Cruise reunites with Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu for a black comedy the studio is billing as "a comedy of catastrophic proportions." Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, the most powerful man in the world, who launches a frantic, self-inflicted mission to save humanity before the disaster he's caused destroys everything.
🎬 Onslaught (carried over from early September, still in wide release)
🗓️ Release Date: September 4, 2026
Starring: Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall, Michael Biehn
Description: Adam Wingard's blood-soaked action-horror follow-up to The Guest continues its run into October as genetically engineered super soldiers terrorize a desert town — a good option for clients who missed it opening weekend.
🎬 Other Mommy
🗓️ Release Date: October 9, 2026
Description: A psychological horror entry about a family confronting a sinister double of someone close to them. Limited press details so far — worth confirming synopsis closer to your booking date.
🎬 Street Fighter
🗓️ Release Date: October 16, 2026
Starring: Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, Callina Liang, David Dastmalchian, Jason Momoa, Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns
Description: Capcom's iconic fighting franchise gets a live-action reboot in IMAX. Set in 1993, estranged fighters Ryu and Ken are pulled back into action when Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament, only to uncover a deadly conspiracy that forces old friends to become enemies.
🎬 Whalefall
🗓️ Release Date: October 16, 2026
Description: A tense survival thriller following a diver who finds himself trapped inside the mouth of a sperm whale, racing against time and dwindling oxygen to find a way out. Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name.
🎬 Clayface
🗓️ Release Date: October 23, 2026
Starring: Tom Rhys Harries, Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Max Minghella, Eddie Marsan
Description: DC Studios' first horror entry in its "Gods and Monsters" slate. A rising Hollywood actor, disfigured and desperate to restore his face, volunteers as a test subject for an experimental treatment — only to be transformed into a shapeshifting being of living clay, with horrifying consequences.
🎬 Wildwood
🗓️ Release Date: October 23, 2026
Starring: Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina
Description: LAIKA's long-awaited stop-motion epic, 15 years in the making. When her baby brother is taken by a murder of crows into a forbidden forest outside Portland, young Prue McKeel ventures into a hidden, enchanted realm of talking animals, uneasy allies, and dangerous adversaries to bring him home.
🎬 Avengers: Doomsday — Early Fan Events (promotional lead-up)
🗓️ Release Date: Select October dates, ahead of December 18 release
Description: Scattered fan-event screenings and preview content roll out through the month as Marvel builds toward December's Avengers: Doomsday — worth flagging for superhero-devoted clients planning ahead.
🛎️ As always, premieres may open up to 7 days before the listed date, and horror releases in particular tend to cluster around the last two weeks of the month for Halloween. Contact your concierge manager for bookings and confirmed showtimes.
