Get your kicks in 2026

While 2025 may be a sleepy year for Amazon’s in-theater offerings, the studio will be wide awake during 2026. Hopkins said that 14 films are on deck next year, running the gamut of genres and featuring a bevy of big-name stars.

The parade of theatrical titles starts Jan. 23 with the release of Mercy, a sci-fi thriller starring Chris Pratt, a familiar Prime Video presence courtesy of the streaming series The Terminal List and the Covid-era streaming feature The Tomorrow War.

Another sci-fi production, Project Hail Mary, follows in March, headlined by Ryan Gosling and directed by the Spider-Verse team of Phil Lord and Chris Miller. “It’s an insanely ambitious story that’s massive in scope,” the Barbie star told the CinemaCon audience about why the Interstellar-meets-E.T. yarn needs to be seen on the big screen. “We tried to put it on a TV once—it doesn’t fit.”

Amazon is also expecting big things from its live action version of Masters of the Universe, cueing up a teaser presentation filled with early footage of Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man and Jared Leto as Skeletor. Set for release on June 6 right in the thick of summer blockbuster season, the movie is Amazon’s bid for IP-based franchise worldbuilding in the tradition of the Marvel and DC cinematic universes.

But Amazon executives were also careful to note that they aren’t banking solely on pricey spectacles to lure moviegoers to theaters. Also in the 2026 mix is an adaptation of the Colleen Hoover bestseller Verity starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson; the Los Angeles-set drama Crime 101 with Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry; and Is God Is, a road movie described as a “mix of Greek tragedy, Afropunk, and spaghetti Western.”

“This presentation is just a glimpse of what’s to come,” Wilson said at the end of the night, vowing that—just like James Bond—Amazon will return to future CinemaCons. Maybe next time, they’ll reveal who gets to inherit the Aston Martin… and that license to kill.