Warner Bros on Friday put some big tentpoles on the release calendar, starting with the anticipated J.J. Abrams sci-fi movie The Great Beyond starring Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega, which is going November 13 this year in Imax. The pic joins Paramount’s Johnny Depp-starring, Ti West-directed Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol on that date.
This is the first time we’re getting news about The Great Beyond, which has been shrouded in secrecy. Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Merritt Wever and Samuel L. Jackson also star.
The rest of the movies revealed by Warner Bros are bound for 2027: Sam Esmail’s Panic Carefully on February 26 next year; the Tim Miller-directed Keanu Reeves movie known as Shiver currently going August 13; and the buzzed-about prequel The Conjuring: First Communion from the Peter Safran Company and Atomic Monster on September 10, the prized Warners post-Labor Day launch date for genre pics.
Panic Carefully, also written by Mr. Robot architect Esmail, stars Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Tyree Henry, Ben Chaplin, Aidan Gillen, Joe Alwyn, Naledi Murray and Elizabeth Olsen. Warners will have Imax screens on that date, which will see the pic going up against Universal’s CoComelon Movie.
Miller and Reeves’ project is reportedly set in the Caribbean Sea, with the protagonist a smuggler slumming on a job as he contends with dead bodies, pirates and sharks, all within a time loop. Warners was closing in on the Ian Shorr-scripted package back on Halloween. The movie as of now will face off on that release date against a Universal Blumhouse title.
Little is known about The Conjuring: First Communion, which comes from director Rodrigue Huart, from a script by Richard Naing & Ian Goldberg. It’s not certain if Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga’s the Warrens are coming back. Warners previously had this September date in 2027 on hold.
The new Warner Bros release dates below:
- THE GREAT BEYOND in Imax will be released 11/13/26
- PANIC CAREFULLY in Imax will be released 02/26/27
- AN UNTITLED TIM MILLER/ KEANU REEVES FILM will be released 08/13/27
- THE CONJURING: FIRST COMMUNION will be released 09/10/27
