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New in UK Cinemas: July 2026

Pictured: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

Here is what is worth keeping an eye on at the cinema across the UK in July 2026. I have stuck to the releases most people will actually have on their radar, the bigger titles and the ones building a real head of steam, rather than listing every last thing playing on a single screen somewhere.

In UK cinemas this month

Wednesday 1 July

Minions & Monsters (2026). A chaotic yellow creature accidentally rises to stardom in Hollywood, triggers a catastrophic monster outbreak, and must rally its absurd companions to prevent planetary disaster. Adventure starring Pierre Coffin and Trey Parker.

Friday 10 July

Evil Dead Burn (2026). A grieving widow stays with her husband's family only to find herself battling demonic forces that transform them into monstrous creatures, forcing her to honour the bonds she made in marriage even beyond the grave. Horror starring Souheila Yacoub and Tandi Wright.

Saturday 11 July

Moana (2026). A young woman from Motunui sets out across the ocean with a demigod companion to save her struggling island community. Family starring Catherine Lagaʻaia and Dwayne Johnson.

Friday 17 July

The Odyssey (2026). A legendary king undertakes a treacherous voyage across mythological seas, facing divine intervention and monstrous obstacles that test his wit and resolve on his arduous path back home after war. Adventure starring Matt Damon and Tom Holland.

Wednesday 29 July

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). Peter Parker struggles to maintain his crime-fighting mission as Spider-Man whilst living in a world that has forgotten his true identity, forcing him to confront a dangerous and unexpected transformation that could be key to defeating an invisible new threat to the city. Science fiction starring Tom Holland and Zendaya.

Cinema schedules have a habit of shifting, so do check your local listings before you head out. Enjoy the big screen.

Release dates from TMDB for the UK, and subject to change. Trimmed to the more widely known releases.

Verena (2026)

Tobee Collins made Verena with no filmmaking experience at all. None. He taught himself to write, to shoot, to light, to edit and to score, and then went and did every one of those jobs himself: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor and composer. It was his first film, and it

Mad God (2021)

There are films that arrive with a straightforward pitch and deliver more or less what they promise, and then there are films like Mad God. Phil Tippett's feature debut as director is something else entirely: a stop-motion nightmare three decades in the making, resurrected from a shelved

Saltburn (2023)

British cinema has always had a complicated relationship with its own class system, from the kitchen-sink dramas of the 1960s through to the heritage pictures that followed, and Emerald Fennell's Saltburn arrives very much in that tradition, even as it does its best to tear the wallpaper

It Was Just an Accident (2025)

Jafar Panahi has spent much of the last fifteen years making films under conditions that would stop most directors outright. Arrested in 2010, banned from filmmaking and from leaving Iran, he has continued to work anyway, producing features on the quiet and smuggling them out to festival circuits while the

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