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October 2026 Movie Releases: The Big Openings, Weekend by Weekend

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October 2026 movie releases open with Verity and Digger on October 2 and close with The Mongoose and Disney’s IMAX documentary Everest: The Other Side on October 30, with Street Fighter, Clayface and Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun in between. The month’s first two weekends are already in the books, and the calendar below shows what is still to come.

The short version: Two star-driven films for adults kicked the month off, Universal’s horror film Other Mommy took the second weekend, and the back half leans on a video-game adaptation, a DC horror film and two literary adaptations. Dates, distributors and credits come from the Box Office Mojo and The Numbers release schedules as they stood on October 11, and grosses for the October 9 weekend are Sunday estimates. Release dates do move, so check your theater’s listings before you go.

October 2026 movie releases at a glance

Opens Film (distributor) Director / leads
Oct. 2 Verity (Amazon MGM) Michael Showalter / Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson
Oct. 2 Digger (Warner Bros., also IMAX) Alejandro González Iñárritu / Tom Cruise
Oct. 9 Other Mommy (Universal) Rob Savage / Jessica Chastain
Oct. 9 The Social Reckoning (Sony) Aaron Sorkin / Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong
Oct. 9 Angel and the Badman (Angel Studios) Julio Quintana / Tommy Lee Jones, Zachary Levi
Oct. 9 (expands) Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Amazon MGM) Bassam Tariq / Mahershala Ali
Oct. 16 Street Fighter (Paramount, also IMAX) Kitao Sakurai / Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, Callina Liang
Oct. 16 Whalefall (20th Century) Brian Duffield / Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams
Oct. 16 Sense and Sensibility (Focus) Georgia Oakley / Daisy Edgar-Jones
Oct. 23 Clayface (Warner Bros.) James Watkins / Tom Rhys-Harries, Naomi Ackie
Oct. 23 Klara and the Sun (Sony) Taika Waititi / Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams
Oct. 23 Wildwood (Fathom) Travis Knight / Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Carey Mulligan
Oct. 23 Wicker (Black Bear) Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer / Olivia Colman
Oct. 23 A Talent for Murder (Bleecker Street) Anton Corbijn / Helen Mirren
Oct. 30 The Mongoose (Samuel Goldwyn) Mark Vanselow / Liam Neeson
Oct. 30 (expands) The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Sony Classics) Noah Segan / John Turturro
Oct. 30 (IMAX) Everest: The Other Side (Disney) Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

“Wide” here means the distributor booked a nationwide release from opening day. Smaller titles also carry a wide label on the trackers, and many more are listed as limited or special engagements, and a couple, noted below, open small and expand later in the month.

October 2: Verity and Digger

Amazon MGM’s Verity, directed by Michael Showalter from Nick Antosca’s adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel, stars Dakota Johnson as Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer hired to finish the books of the author Verity Crawford, played by Anne Hathaway, with Josh Hartnett as Jeremy Crawford. It opened to $32,031,011, The Numbers reports, and had reached $53,861,000 by its second Sunday. Our guide to the Verity cast and their roles covers who plays whom.

Digger, from Alejandro González Iñárritu, opened the same day for Warner Bros. in regular and IMAX auditoriums. Tom Cruise stars, and The Numbers’ synopsis describes a story about the most powerful man in the world racing to prove he is humanity’s saviour before a disaster he caused destroys everything. Against a listed production budget of $125,000,000, it opened to $8,001,856. TheWrap called it “last weekend’s high-profile bomb” in its preview of the following weekend, and by October 11 its domestic total was $14,433,000.

October 9: Other Mommy, The Social Reckoning and Angel and the Badman

Rob Savage’s Other Mommy, adapted from a Josh Malerman novel and produced by James Wan, stars Jessica Chastain as a mother and, in TheWrap’s words, as “a vicious doppelganger who is haunting her daughter.” Universal released it on 3,365 screens, and the weekend chart shows an estimated $27,500,000 opening, comfortably ahead of the $24 million TheWrap said projections pointed to.

Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed The Social Reckoning for Sony, a companion to his 2010 film The Social Network. Mikey Madison plays the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, Jeremy Allen White plays the Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, and Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg. TheWrap expected it to open more than 50% below The Social Network’s $22.4 million; the estimate came in at $5,500,000 from 2,606 theaters. For the original’s full run, see our breakdown of The Social Network’s box office.

Angel Studios’ Angel and the Badman, directed by Julio Quintana with Tommy Lee Jones, Zachary Levi and Neal McDonough, added an estimated $2,063,407. Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, with Mahershala Ali, expanded wide the same day after a limited start on September 25, and Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk began a limited run before its listed wide date of October 16. Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, took $124,000 from 4 screens for Neon and is scheduled to go wide on October 28.

October 16: Street Fighter, Whalefall and Sense and Sensibility

Paramount’s Street Fighter is the month’s biggest franchise swing, in regular and IMAX theaters. Kitao Sakurai directs an ensemble led by Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji as Ryu and Callina Liang as Chun-Li, with Jason Momoa as Blanka; the official synopsis sets it in 1993, when the estranged fighters are pulled back into the World Warrior Tournament. Our Street Fighter cast guide lists the full roster.

The same Friday brings Whalefall from 20th Century Studios, Brian Duffield’s adaptation of the Daniel Kraus novel with Josh Brolin and Austin Abrams, and Focus Features’ Sense and Sensibility, directed by Georgia Oakley, with Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor Dashwood, Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne and Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood.

October 23: Clayface, Klara and the Sun and a crowded Friday

This is the busiest date of the month. Warner Bros. releases Clayface, a DC Universe horror film directed by James Watkins from a script by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. Tom Rhys-Harries plays Matt Hagen, a B-movie actor whose attempt to stay relevant leaves him able to reshape his own face and body; TheWrap flagged it as one of the IP-driven horror titles Other Mommy will compete with as Halloween approaches.

Sony has Klara and the Sun, Taika Waititi’s film of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel, with Jenna Ortega as Klara and Amy Adams. Wildwood, directed by Travis Knight from Colin Meloy’s novels, arrives through Fathom Entertainment with a cast that includes Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali. Also opening: Black Bear’s Wicker, directed by Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer, with Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgárd and Peter Dinklage; Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder, with Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith; and Amazon MGM’s Ali G: Who Iz I?, with Sacha Baron Cohen, which Box Office Mojo lists as wide.

October 30: Halloween weekend

The month ends with Liam Neeson in The Mongoose, directed by Mark Vanselow for Samuel Goldwyn Films, and the wide expansion of Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, starring John Turturro, which Sony Pictures Classics opens in limited release a week earlier. Disney’s Everest: The Other Side, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, is booked in IMAX, with the mountaineer Hilaree Nelson among its documentary subjects.

What the first two weekends tell us

Genre and source material are carrying the month so far. The two films built on bestsellers with a clear hook, Verity and Other Mommy, opened at $32,031,011 and an estimated $27,500,000. The two original, issue-driven dramas, Digger and The Social Reckoning, opened at $8,001,856 and an estimated $5,500,000. TheWrap noted that The Social Reckoning revisits The Wall Street Journal’s 2021 reporting on Meta’s internal documents. If you would rather stay home, our list of new Netflix movies in October 2026 covers the streaming side of the month.

Frequently Asked Questions

What movies come out in October 2026?

Wide releases include Verity and Digger (Oct. 2), Other Mommy, The Social Reckoning and Angel and the Badman (Oct. 9), Street Fighter, Whalefall and Sense and Sensibility (Oct. 16), Clayface, Klara and the Sun, Wildwood, Wicker and A Talent for Murder (Oct. 23), and The Mongoose (Oct. 30).

When does Street Fighter come out?

Paramount releases Street Fighter in theaters, including IMAX, on October 16. Kitao Sakurai directs, with Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji and Callina Liang.

When does Clayface come out in theaters?

Warner Bros. lists Clayface for a wide domestic release on October 23. James Watkins directs, and Tom Rhys-Harries plays the title character.

What was the number one movie the weekend of October 9?

Other Mommy, with an estimated $27.5 million opening from 3,365 theaters, ahead of Verity in its second weekend, according to The Numbers’ Sunday estimates.

Who directed Digger with Tom Cruise?

Alejandro González Iñárritu. Warner Bros. released it on October 2 in regular and IMAX theaters.

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