What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: May 18 thru May 24, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Summer is officially starting to flex a little, as this week’s releases aim to test the box office with a handful of high-profile blockbusters. But the small screen isn’t exactly sitting this one out either, with a fresh batch of TV premieres looking to make their mark as the summer season gets underway.
As always, we’ve rounded up the new movies and shows arriving over the next few days, whether you’re heading out to the theater, staying in for a streaming binge, or just trying to figure out what’s worth adding to the watchlist. So scroll down and see what catches your eye. The summer lineup is only getting started.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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The Boys: Season 5 - Finale Episode
(Tues, May 19th — *One-Night Big Screen Event)
“Superheroes are done!” Well, at least in the blood-soaked world of Amazon’s darkly twisted superhero satire The Boys, which has spent five seasons serving up some of the wildest and most subversive jabs at the genre. Now, for a special one-night big-screen event, fans can watch Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Annie (Erin Moriarty), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) make one last push to bring down Homelander (Antony Starr) for good.
🎥 The Secret World of Arrietty
(Tues, May 19th — re-release; *IMAX One-Night Event)
Tiny people, big trouble, and one very risky friendship. This Studio Ghibli favorite returns in a newly restored 4K IMAX presentation, following Arrietty, a tiny Borrower living beneath the floorboards of an ordinary home. When a lonely boy discovers her hidden world, curiosity turns dangerous as Arrietty must protect her family while stepping into a friendship that could change everything.
🎥 Stolen Kingdom
(Thurs, May 21st — limited release; in LA)
Disney adults, urban explorers, and black-market collectors turn the Magic Kingdom into a true-crime funhouse in this wild documentary about a missing high-value animatronic and the obsessive subculture surrounding it. What begins as fan devotion soon slips into trespassing, theft, and jaw-dropping confessionals from people who may have taken their love of the parks way too far. Turns out pixie dust has a street value.
🎥 Ask E. Jean
(Thurs, May 21st — limited release; in NY)
E. Jean Carroll gets the documentary treatment in this portrait of a trailblazing journalist, advice columnist, and courtroom fighter. Directed by Ivy Meeropol, the film traces Carroll’s life from media personality to public figure who took on Donald Trump in court and won... twice!
🎥 The Mandalorian and Grogu
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)
A galaxy far, far away finally returns to the big screen with this pulpy space-western adventure, as Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and his Force-sensitive foundling Grogu track Imperial holdouts across a lawless post-Empire frontier. With Sigourney Weaver joining as a New Republic colonel and Jeremy Allen White suiting up via motion capture as Rotta the Hutt, this big-screen chapter brings Star Wars back to its scrappy gunslinger roots.
🎥 Passenger
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)
The open road turns into a dead-end nightmare in this supernatural horror thriller from horror director André Øvredal. Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell star as a van-life couple whose dream getaway spirals after they witness a deadly roadside accident and find themselves stalked by a demonic presence that refuses to let them outrun it. Melissa Leo co-stars as a fellow traveler who knows the road hides something far worse than bad directions.
🎥 I Love Boosters
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)
High fashion gets a five-finger discount in this darkly satirical caper from Sorry to Bother You filmmaker Boots Riley. Keke Palmer stars as the leader of the Velvet Gang, a stylish crew of Oakland boosters lifting designer goods from luxury boutiques and flipping them for people priced out of the fantasy. But when Demi Moore’s fashion mogul becomes their biggest target, this Robin Hood hustle turns into a sharp, absurdist takedown of capitalism in couture.
🎥 Tuner
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)
Leo Woodall stars as a gifted piano tuner whose extraordinary hearing turns into a very dangerous side hustle. While apprenticing under a veteran tuner played by Dustin Hoffman, he discovers he can crack safes by sound alone, pulling him into New York’s criminal underworld. What starts as a rare talent quickly becomes a costly temptation.
🎥 Saccharine
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)
A killer diet trend takes a ghostly turn in this Australian supernatural horror film from Relic filmmaker Natalie Erika James. Grey’s Anatomy’s Midori Francis stars as a lovelorn medical student who falls into a bizarre weight-loss craze built around eating human ashes, only to find herself haunted by the person she’s consuming.
🎥 Corporate Retreat
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)
Team-building gets a body count in this darkly comic survival thriller, as a group of ambitious tech executives find their luxury desert retreat turning into a blood-soaked corporate nightmare. Alan Ruck, Rosanna Arquette, Odeya Rush, Ashton Sanders, Sasha Lane, and more enter a sadistic game where office politics give way to primal instinct. Consider it the ultimate performance review, with termination taking on a whole new meaning.
🎥 Giant
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)
Prince “Naz” Hamed steps into the ring in this British underdog boxing drama starring Amir El-Masry as the flashy, fearless British-Yemeni fighter who rose from Sheffield kid to one of the most electric boxers of the ’90s. Pierce Brosnan co-stars as tough-love trainer Brendan Ingle, with Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, executive producing.
🎥 Reckless
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)
Scott Adkins punches his way through one very messy second chance in this darkly comic British action thriller about an ex-con hunting down his share of a long-buried heist. But with the law closing in, old associates circling, and Vinnie Jones and Nicole Deon adding to the trouble, staying free might be tougher than surviving the job.
🎥 Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 35th Anniversary
(Fri, May 22nd — re-release)
James Cameron’s sci-fi action classic returns to theaters for its 35th anniversary, bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reprogrammed cyborg protector back to the big screen. Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, Edward Furlong’s John Connor, and Robert Patrick’s liquid-metal T-1000 still make this one of the great sequels in blockbuster history. Some movies age well. This one comes back stronger.
🎥 Legally Blonde: 25th Anniversary
(Sun, May 24th and Wed, May 27th — re-release; via Fathom Ent.)
Elle Woods heads back to the big screen for an anniversary re-release, proving once again that pink, confidence, and legal brilliance make a pretty unbeatable combo. Reese Witherspoon’s beloved comedy follows Elle as she enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex, only to discover she’s far more than anyone expected. What starts as a romantic mission becomes a masterclass in self-respect.
