JJ Abrams is again within the director’s chair for the primary time in seven years for the reason that launch of 2019’s “Star Wars Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker,” and Warner Bros. immediately introduced a launch date for what might be his newest authentic concept.
The movie is formally known as “The Nice Past,” and Warner Bros. will launch it in IMAX on November 13, 2026, the studio introduced immediately.
Abrams wrote and directed “The Nice Past” (at one level considered titled “Ghost Author”), and it stars Glen Powell, Jenna Ortega, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Merritt Wever, and Samuel L. Jackson. Plot particulars are nonetheless being saved below wraps. Abrams additionally produced the movie with Tommy Gormley.
“The Nice Past” opens per week after Warner Bros.’ “The Cat within the Hat” animated movie, and it opens one week earlier than “The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.” Paramount on the identical day is releasing its Johnny Depp “Christmas Carol” movie.
Warner Bros. additionally introduced launch dates for 3 different titles on Friday. First is “Panic Rigorously,” additionally being launched in IMAX, and that’s the brand new movie from Sam Esmail, which he additionally wrote and directed. It stars Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Tyree Henry, Ben Chaplin, Aidan Gillen, Joe Alwyn, Naledi Murray, and Elizabeth Olsen; Warner Bros. has set it for launch on February 26, 2027.
WB additionally dated an untitled Tim Miller movie starring Keanu Reeves to open August 13, 2027, and a brand new “Conjuring” movie at New Line Cinema, this one known as “First Communion,” will open September 10, 2027. Rodrigue Huart is directing the newest “Conjuring” movie after 2025’s “Final Rites” grossed practically half a billion {dollars} globally.
Simply because it did in 2025 with tasks like “One Battle After One other,” “Sinners,” and “Weapons,” Warner Bros. is making massive bets on filmmaker-driven, authentic concepts. It has “The Bride!” opening in March and the Tom Cruise collaboration with Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, “Digger,” opening in October. Emerald Fennell subsequent month can be placing her distinctive spin on “Wuthering Heights,” and David Robert Mitchell’s “Flowervale Avenue,” starring Anne Hathaway and in addition produced by Abrams, is due for launch in August.
