Upcoming Movies and TV Shows to Watch this July

July gears up with the hottest lineups of upcoming movies and TV shows.

June was so packed with releases I barely had time to watch everything, and now July is already here with its own stacked lineup. I guess there’s no rest for movie buffs. 

The two I’m most excited about are Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which conveniently drop in the same month. Both feel like proper cinematic events—the kind you actually want to see on the biggest screen you can find.

2026 is shaping up to be a genuinely great year for both film and TV, and July is no exception. Let’s get into it.

1. Minions & Monsters (July 1 — Cinemas)

Set in 1920s Hollywood, a tribe of Minions accidentally crash a film set and become overnight stars. James, the ambitious Minion, decides to make his own monster movie using a stolen spell book from a former villain boss. During the process, he accidentally summons real world-threatening monsters. The whole crew has to band together to fix the chaos they created.

In true Minions fashion, you can expect chaos and ridiculous antics in every scene. 

2. Enola Holmes 3 (July 1 —  Netflix) 

Fans of the Sherlock series and Enola Holmes, gather here. This third installment of the franchise sees Enola, days away from marrying Lord Tewkesbury in Malta, receive devastating news— her brother Sherlock has been kidnapped. 

Enola immediately abandons the wedding to investigate, diving into a web of conspiracies darker and more treacherous than anything she’s faced before. And she does this while wrestling with complicated feelings about becoming a married woman. 

3. Moana Live Action (July 10 —  Cinemas) 

The beloved animated story gets a live-action makeover, following Moana (Catherine Laga’aia) as she answers the ocean’s call and ventures beyond her island’s reef for the first time. She’s accompanied by the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson, reprising his role). It’s the same journey, new faces, and maybe a couple new songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda. 

Disney strikes again with yet another live-action no one asked for, but if the songs are good, we might just check it out — The Rock’s terrible wig aside.  

4. Evil Dead Burn (July 10 —  Cinemas)

This one is for my fellow supernatural horror lovers and fans of the Evil Dead franchise. 

After losing her husband, a woman seeks comfort with her in-laws at their secluded family home. The reunion quickly becomes a family gathering from hell — literally — as her in-laws begin transforming one by one into Deadites. It turns out that the vows she took in life survive, even in death. 

5. Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (July 10 —  Cinema)

Small-town Kansas hairdresser Gail and her fiancé have a celebrity sex-pass agreement: one famous person each, no consequences. Her fiancé promptly uses his pass to sleep with Jennifer Aniston. 

Reeling from the betrayal, Gail flies to Los Angeles to exercise her own pass—find Jon Hamm and sleep with him. What follows is a completely unhinged road trip through Hollywood involving Italian assassins, a paparazzo, John Slattery, and “Weird Al” Yankovic. 

It’s giving the ridiculousness and ranchiness of the early 2000s era of ranchy comedies (from The Hangover movies to American Pie).  

6. Motor City (July 24 — Cinemas)

Set in 1970s Detroit, a working-class romantic is framed by a ruthless gangster after falling for his girlfriend. After years in prison, he returns with exactly one mission: revenge. The film has barely five lines of dialogue in its entire runtime. It’s all action, atmosphere, and Alan Ritchson being enormous and furious, and we’re here for all of it. 

Think John Wick meets Reacher in a period setting.

7. 72 Hours (July 24 — Netflix)

Joe (Kevin Hart) is a 40-year-old marketing exec living a boring life. One day he’s accidentally added to a group chat for a bachelor party being planned by a bunch of Gen Z strangers in Miami. 

Instead of quietly removing himself, he decides this trip is exactly what his flailing career and midlife crisis need — and shows up. What follows is a wild 72 hours of chaos, debauchery, and intergenerational confusion.

It’s been a while since we had Kevin Hart’s brand of comedy. This one could be a fun low-stakes watch. 

8. Her Private Hell (July 24 — Cinemas)

Nicolas Winding Refn’s long-awaited return to feature filmmaking. In a neon-soaked, futuristic metropolis, a mysterious mist descends, unleashing a deadly entity. 

A troubled young woman (Sophie Thatcher) searches for her missing father, while an American soldier (Charles Melton) is on a harrowing mission to pull his daughter out of hell. 

Visually hypnotic, divisive with critics, and unmistakably Refn.

9. The Devil’s Mouth (July 29 — Cinemas) 

Five college friends on a final trip together in Thailand sign up for a guided swim through a remote cave system called The Devil’s Mouth. What starts as a thrill-seeking adventure turns catastrophic when they discover they’re trapped inside with a bull shark and rapidly dwindling oxygen. 

As danger escalates, old tensions and buried secrets rise to the surface. 

If you loved Jaws and The Descent, this movie is for you. 

10. The Odyssey (July 17 — Cinemas)

Christopher Nolan adapts Homer’s epic with the full IMAX treatment and a star-studded cast. 

Odysseus (Matt Damon) is making his way home after the Trojan War, but the gods have other plans. He battles the Cyclops, encounters sirens, a sorceress named Circe (Charlize Theron), is taunted by Poseidon, and falls out with the goddess Athena (Zendaya). 

Meanwhile, his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), wait at home for 20 years for his return. They fight off a threat of suitors who want to claim the throne in Odysseus’ absence. 

It’s the biggest cinematic event of the summer, along with its many casting controversies. 

11. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (July 31 — Cinemas)

And last but not least, the one movie MCU fans have been waiting for all year (after Avengers Doomsday).

Four years after erasing himself from everyone’s memory at the end of No Way Home, Peter Parker is living entirely alone in New York, fully committed to being Spider-Man and nothing else. 

But the pressure of watching MJ and Ned move on without him begins triggering something in him. It spurns into a physical evolution he can’t control, just as a powerful new invisible threat emerges in the city. 

Upcoming Series

Next, we have new releases and returning seasons of popular shows.

House of the Dragon and Interview with the Vampire are still airing every Sunday, but these are the new ones premiering this July.   

1. Elle (July 1 — Amazon Prime)

A Legally Blonde prequel series tracking Elle Woods in high school, specifically the year she moves from Beverly Hills to Seattle. We follow her as she navigates new friendships, first love, family upheaval, and the early formation of the iconic woman we come to know in the original film. 

Produced by the OG Elle, Reese Witherspoon, set in 1995. For fans of the franchise. 

2. X-Men ’97 Season 2 (July 1 — Disney+)

After the devastating events of season one, the X-Men are scattered across different eras in time and fighting to find their way back. Meanwhile, back in the 1990s, new strains of mutant intolerance are rising in their absence and old enemies are making moves. 

The first three episodes drop together, then weekly after that. 

3. Silo Season 3 (July 3— Apple TV+)

This is the penultimate season of the underground dystopian drama. 

In the present, Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) survives her forced “cleaning” but returns to the silo with no memories, as a dangerous new threat closes in. 

Meanwhile, in a parallel storyline set centuries earlier, a journalist and a congressman stumble onto the conspiracy that started it all. And this discovery sets off a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences. 

4. The Westies (July 12 — MGM+)

Set in 1980s Hell’s Kitchen. The Westies are a small, notoriously brutal Irish-American gang who have carved out their territory alongside the Italian mob. They’re outnumbered fifty-to-one but feared by everyone. 

When the construction of the Javits Center promises a financial windfall, internal generational conflict threatens to implode the whole operation just as the FBI starts closing in. 

J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver lead this series, and it’s from the creator of Narcos, so it’s very much on my radar. 

5. Lucky (July 15 — Apple TV+)

Anya Taylor-Joy plays Lucky, a con artist whose million-dollar heist goes sideways. It forces her on the run with both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss (Annette Bening) on her tail.

Based on a New York Times bestselling novel and Reese’s Book Club pick, Lucky looks like a pulse-pounding, stylish thriller with an exceptional cast.

And that’s all, folks. Enjoy your June offerings!