Sci Fi Movies This Week: Weekly column tracking what is coming in the current week in the way of sci fi, fantasy, and horror releases as well as news on genre films.
Premiering This Week:
Two sci fi comedies hit the theaters this weekend with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die arriving in wide release on Friday and Cold Storage showing up in limited theatrical engagement. Also in limited release is the horror entry Mimics, and arriving On Demand is Nuptials and The Haunted Forest. Premiering on Shudder is the original horror film Honey Bunch, which will be available for streaming on Friday. Below are some highlights, and you can read more about these and see the trailers for all the upcoming sci fi and fantasy films at this link.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (In Theaters, Feb 13): A man claiming to be from the future takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world.
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz
Cold Storage (In Theaters-Limited, Feb 13): A darkly comedic sci-fi-action film follows a deadly micro-organism that will stop at nothing to spread.
Directed by: Jonny Campbell
Starring: Liam Neeson, Joe Keery, Gavin Polone, David Koepp
Sci Fi Movie News of Note
Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) is turning his attention to Stephen King again as he will be writing and directing a reboot of The Mist. Following is the description of the property from Deadline:
In The Mist, a small town in Maine is consumed by a thick mysterious fog from which creatures emerge to attack the townsfolk. A group of survivors hole up in a local grocery store. As often happens with King’s fiction, anarchy and societal reordering brings out the best in some, and the absolute worst in others, sparking mob mentality and empowering unhinged extremists who become as dangerous as the horrors outside.
This story was previously adapted by Frank Darabont in 2007, and there was also a television series in 2017 that lasted one season. Production has begun on the film, which could have it on track for a 2027 release.
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are officially returning to The Mummy franchise, with the premiere for the next installment set for May 2028. There have been ongoing talks with the actors about returning to the film series which got started in 1999, and Variety has confirmed that they are now onboard. Universal previously tried to reboot that franchise in 2017 with Tom Cruise in the lead, but that proved to be a disappointment at the Box Office, and the studio is now going back to the prior version which had much more success. No story details have been revealed at this point, and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream VI) have been attached as directors.
Disney has announced that it has taken a loss of $170 million on its live-action adaptation of Snow White. That film had controversy surrounding it when star Rachel Zegler made negative comments about the original animated version, and when audiences did not react too well to the CGI-animated dwarves. The Mouse House had success with last year’s Lilo & Stitch, though, which grossed over $1 billion at the Box Office, so the failure of Snow White will likely not deter them from future live-action adaptations.
The Production Weekly listings for February 12th have an entry for Starman which could be the reboot of that 1984 film that Shawn Levy (A Night at the Museum) has been working on. Also showing up is Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots which is the Vin Diesel film based on the 1960’s board game.
You can see the Box Office results for sci fi and fantasy films from this previous weekend at this link.
Recent Trailers
Project Hail Mary (In Theaters, March 20, 2026): Ryland Grace is a school-teacher-turned-astronaut who wakes up from a coma, alone, on a space station with no memory of who he is or his mission. His memory returns in bursts and he pieces together that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to reverse the impact of a space event that had already hurled our planet into the early stages of an Ice Age. As details of the mission unravel, Grace must call on all of his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he might not have to do it alone…
Directed by: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Drew Goddard, Nikki Baida, Milana Vayntrub, Lucy Kitada, Ken Kao
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