Digger

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Oil tycoon Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) receives bad news from the team of his oil rig in Greenland. The excessive digging they have been conducting on the island by virtue of a backdoor deal spearheaded by the United States government has caused a build up of methane, resulting in an explosion that dislodges an ice shelf six times the size of Washington DC. According to scientific expert Dr. Nirav Ganesh (Riz Ahmed), the ice shelf will be drifting southeast and is bound to collide with Norway’s southwestern coast in three days, unleashing a tsunami that will result in millions of deaths in coastal cities along the North Sea. An emergency meeting is held with President Compson (John Goodman) of the United States in which they discuss their options. Should they blow up the ice shelf? Warn Europe? Wash their hands clean of the responsibility? Their problem gets even more complicated when another ice shelf, this time on the Bering Strait, detaches itself and drifts straight toward a collision course with Alaska.

Verity

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World-renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) is taking some time off despite constant pressure from her publishing house to churn out another bestseller. The truth is she figured in a car accident and is physically and mentally unable to write, which prompts her husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) to seek a ghostwriter who can organize his wife’s disorganized thoughts in the form of notes and hopefully come up with a novel from there. Published but unrenowned novelist Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) is hesitant to step in, fearing that Verity’s readership will feel the difference in voice and tone. After some convincing from Jeremy as well as a payday that her penurious life cannot refuse, Lowen moves in with the Crawfords and meets the now catatonic and paralyzed writer. As she organizes her notes and finds a secret unpublished manuscript, the pressure almost drives her mad, seeing Verity stalking her around the house, unable to determine whether it’s real or hallucination.

Forgotten Island

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1990’s, the Philippines. Two schoolmates find a best friend in each other, one being a natural born genius and the other a free spirit raised by her grandmother Lola Fatima (Dolly de Leon). Jo (H.E.R.) grows up without much plan in life despite her inclination toward the arts, taking on a part-time job as a fastfood cashier and mascot. Raissa (Liza Soberano), on the other hand, will be flying to California to go to Caltech. As they spend their last night together at the beach reminiscing about the good old times, their arguments are interrupted by a portal which takes them to the forgotten island of Nakali where Jo’s Lola claimed to have gone in the past and even befriended a Kapre or two. Lost and confused, Jo and Raissa are found by a were-dog named Raww (Dave Franco), who takes them to the only creature on the island who he thinks could help them, a memory demon called Batiba (Jenny Slate) who trades favors for memories. Things get complicated when Raissa finds herself with wings which she is said to have stolen from the dreaded Manang (Lea Salonga), a hostile Manananggal feared by everyone on the island.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

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Peter Parker (Tom Holland) lives his life alone fighting street-level crime. After the spell that left his identity forgotten by everyone he finds it hard to go on without his ex girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon), who have already moved on with their lives without any memory of him. He detects a curious case of “possession” when Scorpion (Michael Mando) is sent to the Department of Damage Control and later breaks out with the help of an unknown superpowered individual with mind control abilities. The assailant tries to get into his mind but somehow he can resist it. His immunity is short-lived, though, when his DNA starts to mutate. His arachnid hormones are overwhelming his human side and he is now able to shoot webs directly out of his wrists without need of blasters. He seeks the help of Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) to come up with an inhibitor, but can he really stop a transformation that is naturally meant to happen?

The Odyssey

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After the events of the Trojan War, Ithaca is left without a king as Odysseus (Matt Damon) fails to return after almost two decades. His wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) remains queen but is pursued by dozens of suitors who are growing impatient with her reluctance to remarry. The circumstances become especially perilous for their son Telemachus (Tom Holland) who has come of age and is now the subject of every assassination plot of every ambitious suitor wanting to win the hand of the queen. One such suitor is Antinous (Robert Pattinson), who hatches a plan for a roadside ambush. Meanwhile, Odysseus tries to recall the misadventures of his crew while stranded on nymph Calypso’s (Charlize Theron) island, not aware that he has been stuck there for seven years and counting. When he finally makes his way home, he has to confront his wife’s suitors, and so he decides to come back incognito.

Moana (2026)

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Moana (Catherine Laga'aia) of Motunui is the headstrong daughter of Village Chief Tui (John Tui) who always warns her against venturing beyond the reef due to his bad experience of losing a loved one to the waves. However, when the island is ravaged by an unknown disease claiming its flora and fauna, Gramma Tala (Rena Owen) reveals to her granddaughter how she has been chosen by the ocean to restore the heart of Te Fiti, the island mother goddess who chose to disappear and forsake her people when that very same heart was stolen by Maui (Dwayne Johnson), a shapeshifting demigod who has gone on exile somewhere to save face. Left without a choice, Moana embraces her people’s long-forgotten history as wayfinders to find Maui to accompany her in restoring the heart that she believes will save her people from the looming famine and natural disasters which they believe to be demigod's fault.

Supergirl

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Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock) spends the days leading to her 23rd birthday on an intergalactic pub crawl, seeking planets orbiting a red sun to nullify her powers and make her ordinary so that the liquor would have the desired inebriating effect. Her cousin, Superman (David Corenswet), never fails to initiate contact just to check in on her but she brushes him off most of the time. She meets orphan Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley) at some random intergalactic bar. The girl seeks revenge for the murder of her family by the Brigand leader Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts). Their goals begin to align when Kara’s dog Krypto is shot by Krem with a poisoned arrow. They travel the galaxy to find him, meeting more colorful personalities along the way which include Lobo (Jason Momoa), a bounty hunter who is also after Krem of the Yellow Hills for the reward.

Leviticus

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Teenager Naim (Joe Bird) and his mom Arlene (Mia Wasikowska) move to a small town after the death of his father. The center of their life in the new community is that of a religious cult cum support group. There he meets fellow teenager and classmate Ryan (Stacy Clausen), with whom he makes out as they explore an abandoned mill one boring afternoon. When Naim sees Ryan kissing the pastor’s son Hunter (Jeremy Blewitt), he goes straight to his dad and tells on them, leading to a religious gay conversion therapy ritual with a “deliverance healer”. What starts off as a stupid game for the two boys immediately becomes a nightmare when both Ryan and Hunter vomit and convulse. Life is no longer the same after that as they are haunted by a doppelganger, in the form of the person they hold dear to their heart, trying to kill them. It doesn’t take long before Arlene takes her own son to the “deliverance healer” to cure him of his homosexuality.

Toy Story 5

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Cowgirl rag doll Jessie (Joan Cusack) is now in charge of all the toys in the household of Bonnie (Scarlett Spears), the little girl to which they all belong and who finds it hard to make friends. When her parents give her a frog-designed tablet named Lilypad (Greta Lee), her toys are faced with the realization that the age of playtime is over now that screens have become children’s primary plaything. Distressed, Jessie asks help from Woody (Tom Hanks) who now spends most of his time outdoors rescuing abandoned toys. As Jessie gets lost and is returned to her original owner’s address, Woody and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) go on a rescue mission to bring her back to Bonnie. But does Bonnie even want her back now that her eyes are constantly glued to Lilypad’s screen? And so begins an existential crisis for toys finding themselves living in the smartphone era.

Disclosure Day

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Cybersecurity analyst turned whistleblower Daniel Kellner (Josh O'Connor) is on the run. In his backpack are thumb drives that contain multiple footage of extraterrestrials on Earth that the company he used to belong to has kept secret for decades. Another rogue co-worker, Hugo Wakefield (Colam Domingo), is instructing him where to go and what to do, sending his men to rescue him every time he gets caught. Wardex has been reverse engineering alien technology and its leader Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) is against full disclosure, having the same belief as Daniel’s girlfriend, ex-novitiate Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson), that the truth will be detrimental to the human race. Somewhere in Missouri, weather girl Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) is visited by a cardinal bird during breakfast, after which she spontaneously speaks in Russian, Korean, and in an unrecognized language full of clicks, much to the shock of her musician boyfriend Jackson (Wyatt Russell).

Obsession

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Music store employee Baron "Bear" Bailey (Michael Johnston) has always had feelings for co-worker Nikki Freeman (Inde Navarrette), but he doesn’t have the guts to admit it. While their friend Ian (Cooper Tomlinson) wants to be supportive, he believes that such an admission might affect their friendship and result in awkwardness among their group. Their other co-worker Sarah Harper (Megan Lawless) has the same dilemma because she has feelings for Bear but is not sure how to handle it. Looking for a necklace he can give to Nikki at a crystal shop, Bear finds a shelf of One Wish Willows, which is advertised as an effective wish fulfillment charm. Just say your wish, snap the willow, and voila! As Bear screws up his one chance with Nikki when he takes her home one night, the One Wish Willow is his last resort, wishing for the best but not convinced that it’ll work.

Scary Movie

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Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) now lives as a recluse in her heavily fortified home as protection from Ghostface but her daughters will become the reason for her to come out of retirement. Tuesday Campbell (Savannah Lee Nassif) is stabbed and hospitalized, causing her prescription drug addicted sister Sara (Olivia Rose Keegan) to seek out their estranged mother for help. Sara’s sus boyfriend Jack (Cameron Scott Roberts) also suggests they find Doofy Gilmore (Dave Sheridan) because he might know how to deal with the killer. Ghostface’s return to town brings the original gang back together at Brenda Meek’s (Regina Hall) house, along with reformed homosexual Ray (Shawn Wayans) and forever high Shorty (Marlon Wayans), as their children try to hatch a plan to get rid of Ghostface for good. What they don’t know is that the killer is actually one of them. Will they figure out who before it is too late?

Backrooms

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Failed architect Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is forced to operate a furniture shop to make ends meet. He blames his wife for their dire financial situation, citing her midlife law school decision for their money woes and their reluctance to have a baby. All of this, he channels through role playing every time he visits his shrink for therapy. Psychologist Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve) has ghosts of her own, what with an agoraphobic mother who ended up in a mental institution when she was still a kid. Her profession is her way of processing her own grief and trauma while helping her patients deal with their own. When Clark finds a strange portal to a series of backrooms at the basement of his store, he recruits his employee Kat (Lukita Maxwell) and her boyfriend Bobby (Finn Bennett) to go back and investigate with him, but things do not go according to plan…

Masters of the Universe

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When disfigured warlock Skeletor (Jared Leto) attacks Eternia, its king Randor (James Purefoy) and queen Marlena (Charlotte Riley) are taken hostage, but their young son is ushered into a portal by the Sorceress (Morena Baccarin) guardian of Castle Grayskull. 15 years later, Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) is a disgruntled employee who is obsessed with finding the Sword of Power he lost when he crashed on Earth. While he is good at his job, the threat of being fired looms as HR takes wind of his strange sword fetish. An anonymous tip leads him to his sword at a toy store. He gets hold of it and is arrested for theft but is ambushed by an alien creature along the way. He is saved by his childhood friend Teela (Camila Mendes), who takes him back to Eternia on her ship, but they arrive in a home that he no longer recognizes to meet the remaining underground resistance that will fight the enemy.

Mortal Kombat II

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Two decades ago, Outworld emperor Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford) annexed Edenia by killing its king and taking his daughter as his own hostage princess. Kitana (Adeline Rudolph) grows up spiteful of his adoptive father but obedient, trained in the art of combat by her bodyguard Jade (Tati Gabrielle) who is ever loyal to her emperor. Meanwhile, Lord Raiden (Tadanobu Asano) continues his search for a fifth fighter as Mortal Kombat looms near. In addition to Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee), Liu Kang (Ludi Lin), Jax (Mehcad Brooks), and Cole Young (Lewis Tan), they recruit has-been actor and martial artist Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) who reluctantly agrees to what he considers to be a suicide mission. As battles are fought and fighters meet death, some old rivals and friends resurface, making the process even more complicated for Earthworld’s chosen heroes. Will they prevail or will Shao Kahn add yet another realm to his collection?

The Devil Wears Prada 2

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20 years after her short stint at Runway, Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is now a successful journalist who gets fired along with her entire team just as she is receiving an industry award. Her rousing speech coincides with an article debacle at Runway, with the CEO of the parent company blaming Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) for the mishap. Andy is hired on the spot to be the new Features head to clean up her ex-ex-boss’ mess. While Nigel (Stanley Tucci) is welcoming, Miranda remains cold and aloof, which takes Andy two decades back to square one in a constant attempt to win her approval. Along the way they run into Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt) who is now a senior executive at Dior which means she has power over them through the ads that her company runs on their magazine pages. Toss in a couple of management and ownership changes and it’s like Andy never really left. Will she stay for good this time around?

Mother Mary

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Pop diva Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) simply cannot hide her dissatisfaction with the costume options for her latest concert. When it comes to clothing choices for her performances, nobody dresses her better than Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), her erstwhile collaborator and fashion designer friend forced to take a step back when their artistic visions regarding her career drifted apart to irreconcilable territory. Repentant and desperate, Mother Mary flies all the way to the UK to seek Sam’s help, and she is reluctantly welcomed to her barn/makeshift fashion workshop after she barges in unannounced. After a bit of taunting, Sam agrees to craft a dress for her, but not until they settle the ghost of their past, a literal vermillion clothlike entity that has haunted both of them at different times in the past few years. They carry out a fashion forward exorcism, all in search of that perfect dress worthy of her stage comeback.

Project Hail Mary

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Molecular biologist Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) finds himself in the company of two dead astronauts in a spaceship light years away from Earth. Awakening from an induced coma means suffering from retrograde amnesia. He explores the ship as some memories begin to come back to his mind. Finally he remembers how he was approached by Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) who leads Project Hail Mary, a global initiative to send three scientists on a one-way suicide mission to Tau Ceti, 11 lightyears away from Earth. That solar system’s sun is the only one unaffected by dimming brought about by Astrophage, a sun-eating cell that breeds on Venus thanks to the abundance of carbon dioxide there and forms an infrared line toward the sun called the Petrova Line. Estimates indicate that Earth has a maximum of 30 years before global cooling slashes half of the population due to the resulting famine. Alone, Ryland arrives at Tau Ceti to find an alien spacecraft with a rock alien life form who is there on a similar mission.

The Bride!

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Stuck in some stream of consciousness limbo, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) argues that there were many things she wanted to say but couldn’t in her novel Frankenstein. She then decides to possess a human being so she could finish her work. She spots Aida (Jessie Buckley), an escort who gets entangled in a mafia ruckus that ends with her death. Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster who now goes by the name of Frank (Christian Bale) approaches scientist Dr. Cornelia Euphronius (Annette Bening) and begs her to “create” a companion for him. Although reluctant at first, she agrees and they dig up a cadaver at the cemetery, which happens to be Aida’s. As Aida is brought back to life for the sole purpose of becoming Frank’s wife, she disagrees. What follows is a whirlwind courtship marked by violence and social change, resulting in detective Jake Wiles (Peter Sarsgaard) and his assistant Myrna Mallow (Penelope Cruz) hunting them down.

Hoppers

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Japanese-American college student Mabel Tanaka (Piper Curda) has always been a problem child, but in a good way. Her grandmother teaches her the importance of nature early on, which leads her to a path of environmental activism, much to the chagrin of Beaverton city mayor Jerry Generazzo (Jon Hamm) who is up for reelection. He thinks he has it in the bag through his pet project, a freeway that will run through a local forest glade where Mabel spent much of her childhood with her late grandmother. Mabel discovers an experiment by her professor who has invented a technology called “hopping” where they create robotic animals they can transfer their consciousness to so they can observe wild animals by blending in. Mabel gets her hands on a beaver robot and blends in with the animals at the glade, trying to convince them to come back and live there once again to prevent its destruction.