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 and updates on genre films, streaming and theatrical.
Sci Fi Movie Premieres This Week:
Not only does this week bring another of the Summer’s Blockbusters–a pretty big one at that–it also delivers several more films to the theaters and streaming of interest to sci fi and fantasy fans. On Friday, the next big Steven Spielberg sci fi entry arrives as his highly-anticipated alien encounter movie Disclosure Day has its premiere. Also in wide release across theaters is the disaster movie romp Stop!That!Train! which throws in plenty of sci fi elements with its humor. In limited release in theaters and also On Demand, the eco-horror film Kraken arrives on Friday. And also in limited release (and On Demand) is the sci fi indie film O Horizon.
Hitting streaming today on Disney+ is the director’s cut of the 2008 feature film The X-Files: I Want to Believe. And arriving on streaming at Netflix on Friday is the 2025 Mexican animated fantasy film I Am Frankelda. You can see highlights for the week below, and you can watch trailers and get info for all the current and upcoming sci fi and fantasy films at this link.
Disclosure Day (In Theaters, June 12th): 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.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Isabelle Fuhrman, Josh Hutcherson, Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Raoul Bhaneja
O Horizon (In Theaters-Limited, June 12th): Abby (Maria Bakalova), a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father, drowns her grief by spending her days working with a monkey named Dorey. Abby meets a programmer, Sam, who has created a technology that reconnects Abby with her beloved father. Her relationship with her digitized dad then forces her to re-examine everything from her romantic relationships to her life’s work.
Directed by: Madeleine Rotzler
Starring: Maria Bakalova, David Strathairn, Paulina Porizkova, Maggie Grace, Adam Pally, Avi Nash
I Am Frankelda (Streaming-Netflix, June 12th): Frankelda, a determined 19th-century Mexican writer, journeys into her subconscious to face the monsters she’s written about. Guided by a tormented prince, she must restore the balance between fiction and reality before it’s too late.
Directed by: Madeleine Rotzler
Starring: Mireya Mendoza, Arturo Mercado Jr., Luis Leonardo Suárez
Sci Fi Movie News of Note:
A big screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is in the works, and it has some high profile names attached. Ridley Scott will be onboard as director and Hugh Jackman is attached to play Long John Silver. Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials) is writing the script, and while no studio is attached to the project at this point, this one is drawing plenty of interest.
Progress has been slow on the long-anticipated Edge of Tomorrow sequel, but a recent update suggests there may be movement on that front. Word is that Charlize Theron has been approached to join the film in an undisclosed role, though nothing has been confirmed on that. Both Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt have been busy with other projects, but with Cruise now finished with the Mission: Impossible franchise, he may be able to free up time for the sequel.
Project Hail Mary is still in the Top 20 at the Box Office, but its theatrical run is coming to an end and it will be hitting streaming shortly, arriving on MGM+ on June 18th. The film was produced by Amazon MGM Studios, and apparently it is headed to that platform to help promote that second-tier service.
In production news, filming has wrapped on the reboot of The Exorcist directed by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting on Hill House) and starring Scarlett Johansson. That one currently has a release date set for March 12, 2027.
In casing news, Jason Momoa has exited from the lead role of the video game based movie Helldivers for undisclosed reasons. Interestingly enough, it is staying in Hell as he is joing the non-genre entry Hells Angels.
Recent Trailers
Ice Cream Man (In Theaters, August 7): Ice Cream Man follows an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.
Directed by: Eli Roth
Starring: Ari Millen, Charlie Storey, Karen Cliche, Charlie Zeltzer, Sarah Abbott, Dylan Hawco, Noah Belson, Benjamin Byron Davis
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