Summer Movie Season 2026 Looks INSANE (ft Jacqueline Coley)

Summer movie season 2026 is here and it's like Hollywood looked at the release calendar and chose violence.

This week on Pop Culture Weekly, Rotten Tomatoes editor and Scene on the Screen host Jacqueline Coley joins me to break down the absolutely stacked, mildly chaotic, and potentially billion-dollar-filled summer movie lineup. We’re talking Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Spielberg’s new alien movie Disclosure Day, Toy Story 5, horror movies born from internet lore, the return of theatrical re-releases, and why movie theaters might actually be having a major comeback moment.

We also get into:

• Which movies could completely dominate the summer

• The surprise titles nobody should underestimate

• Why fandoms are basically running Hollywood now

• The future of blockbuster movies

• Why some sequels crash and burn while others explode

• And why I will absolutely continue defending terrible movies if they entertain me enough

Plus, Jacqueline explains why “the summer box office season is nicheifying,” which honestly sounds fake but is somehow completely accurate.

If you love movies, movie theaters, pop culture chaos, or just hearing two film nerds spiral about the future of Hollywood for an hour, this episode is for you.

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