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Moviegoers anxious to find out whether Zach Cregger’s second major feature, Weapons, has, as they say, the juice—that is, whether Cregger’s follow-up to his 2022 breakout horror hit Barbarian will nail the same nasty-smart satiric combination that made the previous movie so much more than the simple “Airbnb rental gone wrong” flick it initially looked like—are in luck. Weapons, which stars Josh Brolin and Julia Garner, was previously slotted to show up in theaters in January of 2026, in that cold, fallow period where horror movies occasionally strike gold. Now, though, a pretty major schedule shuffle at Warner Bros. means the movie—about a small Florida community where kids suddenly disappear in the middle of the night—is coming this year, landing in a plum August 8 spot.
“But wait!” encyclopedic memorizers of the Warner Bros. film release schedule are now demanding. “Wasn’t August 8 reserved for Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie, One Battle After Another?” And indeed it was, as Deadline notes that the film—Anderson’s second adaptation of Thomas Pynchon, this time starring Leonardo DiCaprio—has been bumped back a month, and now opens on September 26. That, in turn, will displace Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new movie The Bride!, with the musical monster movie getting knocked back to 2026. (Specifically March 6, 2026.) And while there’s presumably not a ton of audience overlap between “Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale play singing versions of Frankenstein’s various creations” and “Bill Hader cashes in for a Dr. Seuss adaptation,” The Bride!‘s move has caused The Cat In The Hat to move up by a week, and it’ll now debut on February 27. Deep breath!
Not everything on the upcoming schedule is getting jumbled around—Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is still set for February 13, 2026, and that Mortal Kombat sequel we’d managed to entirely forget about will still arrive on October 24, 2025. (Also: Superman‘s not going anywhere from its July 11, 2025 tentpole spot.) But it’s still exciting news for Cregger, who will now get a much sooner chance for people to see whether he can cement “Whitest-Kids-U’-Know-guy-has-massive-success-with-genre-movies” as the next phase of his career.
