June 2026’s release slate explodes with variety, from Spielberg’s UFO thriller Disclosure Day and Pixar’s Toy Story 5 to Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 and James Gunn’s Supergirl. Indian cinema dominates with Ram Charan’s sports drama Peddi, Anurag Kashyap’s dark crime tale Bandar, Imtiaz Ali’s Partition romance Main Vaapas Aaunga, and David Dhawan’s final romcom Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai.
If May was comfort food — beloved franchises, twenty-year sequels, legacy reunions — June is just insane. Well, it is the start of summer blockbusters now, isn’t it?
Spielberg is back, and he is bringing us aliens! Ram Charan is playing a barefoot laborer from Andhra with an A.R. Rahman score and Rajinikanth is doing a sequel we literally cannot wait for.
June is a little all over the place, but with this scorching heat, so are we. So, let’s get into it, shall we?
Release Date: 4 June, 2026
This has been the most anticipated Telugu film of the year, and India loves a good sports film. Peddi is built around a real person: a laborer from Sana's own village named Peddi Raju, who was so naturally talented at cricket and basketball that rival teams would pay him to play for them and win matches. The fictional layer sets it in the Uttarandhra region of the 1980s — semi-period, rural, the community using wrestling and sport as a form of standing up to more powerful forces — with Ram Charan in the lead and A.R. Rahman scoring.
Release Date: 5 June, 2026
At this point, this one has earned its exhausted backstory. A He-Man film has been in development since 2009. Sony had it first, Netflix picked it up in 2022 with Kyle Allen and the Nee Brothers, then Amazon MGM bought it in 2024 and replaced basically everyone. Now, we have Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam, Jared Leto as Skeletor, and Travis Knight in the director's chair.
A prince exiled from Eternia returns to face the warlord who destroyed his home — but the stakes here are genuinely industry-sized. Whether Galitzine, who has been impressive in Red, White & Royal Blue and The Idea of You, can anchor a sword-and-sorcery epic is the real question. The rest of the cast — Camila Mendes, Alison Brie, Kristen Wiig, Morena Baccarin, Idris Elba — is pretty strong too.
Release Date: 5 June, 2026
Twenty-five years is a long time to wait for another Scary Movie. The Wayans brothers built the Scary Movie franchise, exited after the second film. But now, they're finally back for what is being called the sixth installment but is really, structurally, a sequel to the first two films. Anna Faris returns as Cindy Campbell. The masked killer from the original has resurfaced. The premise doesn't aim to reinvent anything, which is probably the correct instinct. The horror-parody genre has a different relationship with audiences in 2026 than it did in 2000 — there are entire internet subcultures doing the work this franchise pioneered — but if anyone knows how to make this land, it's the people who invented it the first time.
Release Date: 5 June 2026
Anurag Kashyap directing Bobby Deol in a crime thriller written by Sudip Sharma (NH10, Udta Punjab, Badlapur) and Abhishek Banerjee — that alone should stop you. The film, whose title translates to Monkey, follows a fading television star accused of rape by an ex-girlfriend, navigating a corrupt legal system that has already decided the verdict. It is inspired by real events, though the specifics remain deliberately vague. Bobby Deol's career has had one of the more remarkable third acts in recent Bollywood memory — from Animal to a string of prestige projects — and this appears to be his most complex role yet. Sanya Malhotra, Saba Azad, and Sapna Pabbi co-star.
Release Date: 5 June 2026
David Dhawan has directed seventy-odd films across four decades, and this is, reportedly, his last. And so we get his reunification with his son Varun Dhawan – their fourth collaboration. The story follows a man who leaves his marriage and finds a new romance abroad, only for shocking revelations to force him back to reckoning with commitment and loyalty. Mrunal Thakur and Pooja Hegde co-star, shot across Mumbai, Goa, Rishikesh, and Edinburgh.
Release Date: 12 June, 2026
Spielberg is seventy-nine years old and has now decided to give us a UFO film. The man who gave us Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. — two films that essentially defined how cinema imagines extraterrestrial contact — has returned to the subject matter that made him famous, and the early word from critics is that it's among his best work in years. Emily Blunt plays a whistleblower racing to expose a massive government conspiracy before she's silenced; Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo fill out the cast. The premise — alien disclosure as a conspiracy thriller rather than a spectacle — is a smart evolution of the genre, and if the early reviews are to be believed, Spielberg hasn't lost a step.
Release Date: 12 June 2026
Imtiaz Ali has made films about roads (Highway), rivers (Rockstar), and airports (Jab We Met, effectively). Now he's making one about trains, which is perhaps the most loaded symbol available in the Indian cultural imagination — and specifically in the context of Partition. Main Vaapas Aaunga is a period romantic drama set in Punjab during Partition, starring Diljit Dosanjh in the lead, reuniting the pair after Amar Singh Chamkila. Sharvari, Naseeruddin Shah, and Vedang Raina co-star.
Release Date: 12 June 2026
Nelson Dilipkumar's sequel to Jailer (2023) arrives with everything you'd expect: Rajinikanth, Sun Pictures, Anirudh Ravichander on music, and a cast that now includes Vidya Balan and S.J. Suryah. The original was a crisply entertaining action comedy — Rajinikanth at seventy-two playing a retired jailer who gets pulled back into action. Sequels to Rajinikanth films have a particular track record, which is to say mixed, but the combination of Nelson's genre instincts and Anirudh's ability to manufacture moments of crowd euphoria is real.
Release Date: 19 June 2026
This is the South Korean film that premiered at Cannes in May. Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula, is back in the zombie-adjacent space, but the premise is more complex than your usual zombie flick: the infected aren't simply aggressive, they evolve, and the protagonist (Jun Ji-hyun) is a biotechnology professor who has to decode their behavior in real time while leading survivors toward an exit. The cast is exceptional — Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Go Soo — if we know anything about good Korean movies, the tension never leaks.
Release Date: 19 June 2026
Seven years after Toy Story 4 appeared to close the book, Pixar has opened it again. Andrew Stanton, who directed Finding Nemo and WALL-E, takes over from Josh Cooley, and the principal voice cast returns intact: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Tony Hale. This is the new premise: with Woody gone, Jessie leads Bonnie's room, but an eight-year-old Bonnie has a new favourite, a frog-shaped tablet called Lilypad. The franchise has always been most interesting when it's about obsolescence and the terror of being replaced — and tablets replacing toys in a child's affection is one of the more pointed metaphors Pixar has reached for in today’s world.
Release Date: 19 June 2026
Homi Adajania directed Cocktail in 2012, which launched Deepika Padukone into a different stratosphere of stardom and gave Diana Penty a perfect debut. The sequel resets the love triangle entirely: Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, and Rashmika Mandanna. The teaser is vague but the songs hint at a romantic triangle between the three characters. Fourteen years between films is an unusual gap for a sequel, and the nostalgia angle is strong here. We have three of the most commercially reliable actors in Hindi cinema right now and Adajania's eye for good style. I think we’ll be fine here.
Release Date: 26 June 2026
This is the second film in James Gunn's DC Universe, following Superman (2025). Milly Alcock, introduced as Kara Zor-El in Superman, takes the lead here in a film adapted from Tom King and Bilquis Evely's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow — a celebrated 2021–22 miniseries that drew directly from Jack Kirby's cosmic mythology. Kara is twenty-three, she meets a young girl named Ruthye. After a tragedy, there is a "murderous quest for revenge."
Release Date: 26 June 2026
Olivia Wilde directs Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton in an English-language remake of the Spanish comedy The People Upstairs (2020), written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones. The original, directed by Cesc Gay, is a sharp and uncomfortable look at a dinner party that dissolves into honesty, jealousy, and bad decisions.