Sci Fi Movies This Week: Weekly column racking 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:
This week brings a juggernaut to the Box Office with Avatar: Fire and Ash (the third film in the franchise) getting its release on Friday. But if you are not interested in a Hollywood Blockbuster, you might want to check out No More Time, The Plantation, and/or Suffer which release On Demand on Friday (more on those at our Sci Fi Movie Schedule page). In addition, Johnny Jay also put together a short list of prior films that might act as a salve to the Blockbuster Overload in the theaters. Also on Friday, this year’s reboot of The Running Man will be available to rent and purchase On Demand, and Tina Romero’s Queen of the Dead will have its streaming premiere on Shudder.
Avatar: Fire and Ash (In Theaters, Dec 19): James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully, Na’vi warrior Neytiri, and the Sully family.
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Sci Fi Movie News
Last week, we reported that Steven Spielberg’s new UFO movie was being teased with a mysterious billboard, and the initial trailer for that–to be titled Disclosure Day–was released on released on Tuesday. Below is the synopsis (such as it is) and the trailer is above:
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people.
We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.
It will hit theaters on June 26th.
Filming has wrapped on Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter which stars Ryan Gosling. Following is the synopsis provided for the film:
Set five years after the events of 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a Jedi (Gosling) trains his 15-year-old nephew (Flynn Gray) as his Padawan. They’re on a mission while being pursued by two villains — one male, one female. The Padawan’s mother also plays an important role in the story, and there’s another major female character as well.
Lucasfilm refers to it as “an all-new standalone adventure” and “an entirely original story set in a period of time never before explored in Star Wars”. Along with Gosling, the film also stars Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, and Amy Adams. Post-production will apparently take a while for this one because the current premiere date is scheduled for May 2027.
Markiplier’s sci fi/horror film Iron Lung has been picked up by several of the major theater chains like AMC, Cinemark, and Regal. That film had received limited release in a few theaters in December to positive audience response, and now it will be getting a wider distribution with a premiere date set for January 30th. You can read more about the film and see the trailer at this link.
In production news, the Paranormal Activity revival from James Wan that we previously reported on is moving forward. That film appeared in the most recent Production Weekly listings and will likely be looking at a theatrical premiere at some point in 2026.
Be sure to follow our Sci Fi Movie Schedule page to keep up with all the upcoming genre releases.
