The 26 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 Featuring Hispanic Talent

Last year, we curated the 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 Featuring Hispanic Actors. This year, we expanded the list to include Latino writers, filmmakers, and producers. The difference in a year has been that Latino talent is now being included in shaping how movies get made for Hollywood’s biggest studio films.

Here are 26 movies in 2026 featuring Hispanic talent that show where we are, and where we’re headed.

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SUPERHEROES

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW (Warner Bros./DC)
Release: June 26, 2026
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Milly Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Momoa
Written by: Ana Nogueira

Brazilian-American writer Ana Nogueira wrote the $200 million Supergirl screenplay, making her the first Latina woman to sole-write a superhero film for a major studio. Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, a Mexican-born writer, broke that ground for Latino men with Blue Beetle in 2023, also for Warner Bros.

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (Sony/Marvel)
Release: July 31, 2026
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Starring: Tom Holland, Liza Colón-Zayas, Michael Mando, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jon Bernthal

Liza Colón-Zayas won her Emmy playing a Puerto Rican chef in a Chicago kitchen. Now she’s making her MCU debut in a new Spider-Man film. She joins the film in an undisclosed role, with set reports suggesting she plays a New York City police captain working alongside Spider-Man.

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY (Marvel/Disney)
Release: December 18, 2026
Directors: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Danny Ramirez, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth

Three Latino heroes in the same Avengers lineup, and that has never happened before. Pedro Pascal returns as Reed Richards. Colombian-American Danny Ramirez suits up as the new Falcon. Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta Mejía reprises Namor, the Talokan King.

SCI-FI & ADVENTURE

PROJECT HAIL MARY (Amazon MGM)
Release: March 20, 2026
Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller

Cuban-American filmmaker Phil Lord co-directs this adaptation of Andy Weir’s sci-fi bestseller. Lord and his partner Chris Miller won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which centered a half-Puerto Rican, half-Black protagonist in Miles Morales. Now they move back into live-action, with Ryan Gosling as a lone astronaut trying to save Earth.

THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE (Universal/Illumination)
Release: April 1, 2026
Directors: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Brie Larson

Argentine-British actress Anya Taylor-Joy returns as Princess Peach in the sequel to the $1.3 billion animated hit. Born in Miami, raised in Buenos Aires, Taylor-Joy holds Argentine and British citizenship and speaks fluent Spanish. The sequel takes the action into outer space, expanding the franchise beyond the Mushroom Kingdom for the first time.

THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU (Disney/Lucasfilm)
Release: May 22, 2026
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Allen White

Pedro Pascal headlines the first Star Wars theatrical release in nearly seven years, and the first to hit IMAX. He carries the entire film as Din Djarin. Pascal will headline a Star Wars film and co-star in an Avengers film in the same calendar year. No Latino actor has done that before.

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (Amazon MGM/Sony)
Release: June 5, 2026
Director: Travis Knight
Starring: Camila Mendes, Nicholas Galitzine, Jared Leto, Idris Elba

Camila Mendes plays Teela in this live-action He-Man reboot, with Brazilian-born Morena Baccarin also in the cast. Two Brazilian-American women sharing a $150 million franchise film is the kind of milestone that deserves headlines.

THE ODYSSEY (Universal/Warner Bros.)
Release: July 17, 2026
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matt Damon, John Leguizamo, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson

Colombian-American actor John Leguizamo, born in Bogotá and raised in Queens, will be representing Latino culture in arguably the most ambitious film of this decade. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic was shot entirely on 70mm IMAX cameras. Leguizamo is only Nolan’s second Latino co-star in a major role after Nestor Carbonell in The Dark Knight.

THE GREAT BEYOND (Warner Bros.)
Release: November 13, 2026
Director: J.J. Abrams
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Glen Powell, Samuel L. Jackson, Emma Mackey

Mexican and Puerto Rican actress Jenna Ortega co-leads J.J. Abrams’s return to directing in this sci-fi mystery about an author who discovers the fantasy world he created is real. Warner Bros. is betting Ortega can open a film without a franchise name attached. Given her run from Wednesday to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, they are probably right.

DUNE: PART THREE (Warner Bros./Legendary)
Release: December 18, 2026
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Javier Bardem, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy

Oscar-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem returns as Stilgar in Denis Villeneuve’s conclusion to the trilogy. Bardem’s Stilgar is one of the most memorable characters of the franchise. Anya Taylor-Joy also expands her role as Alia Atreides.

ANIMATION

HOPPERS (Disney/Pixar)
Release: March 6, 2026 (Now in theaters)
Director: Daniel Chong
Starring: Jon Hamm, Piper Curda, Eduardo Franco, Melissa Villaseñor

Melissa Villaseñor and Eduardo Franco, both of Mexican descent, are part of the voice cast ensemble. Villaseñor, the first Latina cast member in Saturday Night Live history, voices Ellen Bear. Franco, who broke out in Stranger Things as Argyle, voices Loaf the Beaver. The story follows a young woman who transfers her consciousness into a robotic beaver.

TOY STORY 5 (Disney/Pixar)
Release: June 19, 2026
Director: Andrew Stanton
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Scarlett Spears

Puerto Rican actress Scarlett Spears is eight years old and voices Bonnie in Toy Story 5, marking the first Latina to play the character in the franchise’s history. The film pits Woody and Buzz against a high-tech tablet named Lilypad that is making toys obsolete.

AVATAR AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER (Paramount+)
Release: October 9, 2026
Directors: Lauren Montgomery, Steve Ahn, William Mata
Starring: Roman Zaragoza, Dave Bautista, Steven Yeun

Mexican-American and Indigenous actor Roman Zaragoza built his career playing a 1,000-year-old ghost on CBS’s Ghosts. Now he voices Sokka in Paramount’s animated Avatar Aang continuation, a casting that actually makes sense. The production matches voice actors to their characters’ backgrounds.

THE CAT IN THE HAT (Warner Bros. Animation)
Release: November 6, 2026
Directors: Alessandro Carloni, Erica Rivinoja
Starring: Bill Hader, Xochitl Gomez, America Ferrera, Tiago Martinez, Quinta Brunson

Three Latino actors voice lead roles in a Dr. Seuss film adaptation for the first time in the franchise’s history. Xochitl Gomez voices lead character Gabby. America Ferrera voices the mother. Tiago Martinez voices brother Sebastian. No previous Dr. Seuss film has ever centered a Latino family. Here’s to another mainstream milestone for Latino representation.

ACTION

CRIME 101 (Amazon MGM)
Release: February 13, 2026 (Now in theaters)
Director: Bart Layton
Starring: Monica Barbaro, Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan

Monica Barbaro, whose father is Italian-American and whose mother is of Mexican descent, stars alongside Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry in this Los Angeles heist thriller. She plays an elusive jewel thief plotting the score of a lifetime along the 101 freeway.

THE BLUFF (Amazon Prime Video)
Release: February 25, 2026 (Now streaming on Prime Video)
Director: Frank E. Flowers
Starring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Karl Urban

This Caribbean-set period thriller is a Dominican-run family operation. Zoe Saldaña executive produces along with her sisters Cisely and Mariel Saldaña under their Cinestar Pictures banner. Puerto Rican actor Ismael Cruz Córdova co-stars as the lead’s husband.

I LOVE BOOSTERS (NEON)
Release: March 12, 2026 (Premiered at SXSW 2026)
Director: Boots Riley
Starring: Eiza González, Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore

Mexican actress Eiza González plays a major supporting role in Boots Riley’s surrealist crime comedy about professional shoplifters targeting a fashion power broker. She holds her own in every frame alongside Keke Palmer and Demi Moore.

IN THE GREY (Black Bear)
Release: April 10, 2026
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Eiza González, Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rosamund Pike

Eiza González leads alongside Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Rosamund Pike in Guy Ritchie’s action thriller about elite operatives chasing a stolen fortune. Two major action films in one year suggests a major studio lead role is not far off.

REENACTMENT (TBD)
Release: TBD 2026
Director: Grant Singer
Starring: Ana de Armas, Benicio del Toro, Cameron Diaz

Three prominent Latino actors lead a single film for the first time, and none of them are playing “the Latino character.” They are the protagonists. Cuban-born Ana de Armas and Cameron Diaz, whose father is of Cuban descent, headline alongside Puerto Rican Oscar-winner Benicio del Toro. Filming began in Los Angeles in January 2026.

DRAMA

MAGELLAN / MAGALHÃES (Janus Films)
Release: January 9, 2026 (Now in limited theatrical release)
Director: Lav Diaz
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Dario Yazbek Bernal

Mexican actor Gael García Bernal leads this reimagining of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition. The film centers on power, conquest, and consequence, reframing a story that is usually told from the colonizer’s perspective. At almost 3 hours, director Lav Diaz is known for films that demand patience. This majestic film is one of them.

DIGGER (Warner Bros.)
Release: October 2, 2026
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki

Two of Mexico’s greatest filmmakers reunite. Alejandro González Iñárritu directs Tom Cruise and Lubezki shoots this film described as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions,” all on 35mm VistaVision. Their collaboration has produced some of the most visually ambitious work of the last two decades.

BUNKER (TBD)
Release: TBD 2026 (In post-production)
Director: Florian Zeller
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Paul Dano

Florian Zeller wrote this specifically for Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, married in real life, playing a married couple on screen for the first time. Bardem is an architect commissioned to build a bunker for a tech billionaire. Cruz’s character starts questioning their marriage. Spain’s most powerful acting couple is worth the price of admission.

KLARA AND THE SUN (Sony Pictures)
Release: TBD 2026
Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, Natasha Lyonne

Jenna Ortega leads this adaptation of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about an Artificial Friend who tries to save her teenage owner from illness. Taika Waititi directs.

MÉXICO 86 (Netflix)
Release: TBD 2026
Director: Gabriel Ripstein
Starring: Diego Luna, Karla Souza, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Álvaro Guerrero

Diego Luna leads an all-star Mexican cast in this satirical comedy about Mexico’s audacious bid to host the 1986 World Cup after Colombia dropped out. A Mexican story about Mexicans outsmarting the global sports establishment, told by Mexican filmmakers, released during a World Cup year. This should be great!

COMEDY

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE (Briarcliff)
Release: February 13, 2026 (Now available on digital)
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Michael Peña, Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Juno Temple, Zazie Beetz

Mexican-American actor Michael Peña stars alongside Sam Rockwell in Gore Verbinski’s sci-fi comedy about a man from the future who takes diner patrons hostage to recruit them for a mission to stop a rogue AI. This is Verbinski’s first feature in more than ten years.

THE GALLERIST (TBD, Sundance Premiere)
Release: TBD 2026 (Premiered at Sundance, January 24)
Director: Cathy Yan
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K. Brown, Zach Galifianakis

Jenna Ortega delivers a praised performance as Kiki, the overburdened assistant, in Cathy Yan’s art-world satire about a desperate gallerist who conspires to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami. This is Ortega’s third film on this list. Having three major studio films in one year confirms she is the most in-demand young Latina actress working today.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which 2026 movies feature Hispanic and Latino actors?
Avengers: Doomsday, The Mandalorian and Grogu, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Dune: Part Three, Toy Story 5, The Odyssey, Masters of the Universe, and Super Mario Galaxy all feature Hispanic or Latino talent in significant roles. At least 26 major films in 2026 feature Hispanic or Latino talent in front of or behind the camera, spanning franchise blockbusters, prestige dramas, festival films, and animated features.

What Pedro Pascal movies are coming out in 2026?
Pedro Pascal stars in The Mandalorian and Grogu (May 22) and Avengers: Doomsday (December 18), making him the first actor to headline a Star Wars theatrical release and star in an Avengers film in the same calendar year.

What Jenna Ortega movies are coming out in 2026?
Jenna Ortega appears in three major studio films in 2026: The Great Beyond (November 13), Klara and the Sun (TBD), and The Gallerist (TBD, premiered at Sundance).

How is Latino representation in Hollywood changing in 2026?
At least 26 major films in 2026 feature significant Hispanic or Latino talent in front of or behind the camera. This includes three Latino heroes in the same Avengers lineup for the first time, the first Latina to voice Bonnie in Toy Story, the first Latina woman to sole-write a major studio superhero film, and the first Dr. Seuss adaptation to center a Latino family.

What Mexican movies are coming out in 2026?
One of them is México 86, a Guatemalan-Mexican political comedy/thriller directed by Gabriel Ripstein and starring Diego Luna, Karla Souza, Daniel Giménez Cacho, and Álvaro Guerrero. The movie tells the story of Mexico’s bid to host the 1986 World Cup after Colombia dropped out.