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Oct 16, 2026 · limited
William Greaves' newly restored 1972 footage of Harlem Renaissance artists and thinkers gathered at Duke Ellington's townhouse, remembering and debating the movement they built.
Starring Arna Bontemps, Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, James Van Der Zee, Eubie Blake
Documentary · History
Illustrative photo · Jeremy YapTrailer not yet released
Kordell Stewart: Slash & Burn
Oct 27, 2026
The rise of Steelers quarterback Kordell 'Slash' Stewart, and the decades-long toll of a false, malicious rumor that followed him.
Starring Kordell Stewart
Documentary · Sports
Nov 6, 2026 · limited
Veterans of the first Black special-operations team of the Vietnam War reunite to tell a story history overlooked, and to see whether facing the past can heal them.
Documentary · History · War
Pictured: Taye Diggs · Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0Trailer not yet released
Terry McMillan Presents: Paradise with You
Sat, Nov 7, 2026
A football star near retirement heads to Nevis to reset his life and ends up competing for the same estate as a decorator rebuilding hers after a betrayal.
Starring Taye Diggs, Heather Hemmens, Cynthia Bailey
Romance · Drama
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Black American films coming to AMC, Regal, Cinemark and theaters nationwide.
Oct 9, 2026 · select theaters, expanding
An actress whose early promise stalled gets one last shot at a comeback, from a director she once clashed with, while money trouble and her brother's crisis pull at her.
Starring Rosalind Eleazar, Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, Chris Rock
Comedy-drama
Oct 16, 2026 · limited
William Greaves' newly restored 1972 footage of Harlem Renaissance artists and thinkers gathered at Duke Ellington's townhouse, remembering and debating the movement they built.
Starring Arna Bontemps, Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, James Van Der Zee, Eubie Blake
Documentary · History
Nov 6, 2026 · limited
Veterans of the first Black special-operations team of the Vietnam War reunite to tell a story history overlooked, and to see whether facing the past can heal them.
Documentary · History · War
Nov 13, 2026 · limited
A modern retelling of the Nativity: a young couple's faith and relationship are tested when Mary unexpectedly becomes pregnant.
Starring Ashley Olivia Fisher, Aspen Kennedy, Rotimi, Lil Rel Howery, Clifton Powell
Drama · Faith
Dec 11, 2026 · select theaters
A reimagining of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway set in Lagos: as Clarissa prepares to host a party, memories of her youth and an old love return.
Starring Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Ayo Edebiri, Toheeb Jimoh
Drama · Literary adaptation
Jan 15, 2027 · theaters & IMAX
In the kingdom of Orïsha, Zélie fights to restore the magic a brutal monarchy stripped from her people, with her brother and the king's own children at her side.
Starring Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, Cynthia Erivo, Regina King
Fantasy · Action · Adventure
Mar 5, 2027 · theaters & IMAX
A polished thief who steals looted artifacts back for their rightful owners is chased heist to heist by a former FBI agent while a dangerous rival closes in.
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Adria Arjona, Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone, Danai Gurira
Heist · Thriller · Romance
Pictured: Shameik Moore · Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA · CC BY 2.0Trailer not yet released
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Jun 18, 2027 · theaters & IMAX
Hunted by the Spider Society and cut off from his friends, Miles Morales fights across the multiverse to get home and protect his family.
Starring Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Animation · Superhero · Action
Aug 6, 2027
An R-rated biopic following Calvin Broadus Jr. from the West Coast hip-hop scene to worldwide fame as Snoop Dogg.
Starring Jonathan Daviss, Camron Jones, Lauren London, Algee Smith
Biopic · Music · Drama
Aug 20, 2027
A gifted, sheltered dance student finds inspiration, love and a new family in New York City's subway Litefeet scene.
Starring Storm Reid, Ceyair Wright, Leslie Odom Jr., Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Woody McClain
Drama · Dance · Romance
Aug 27, 2027
A man descends into abandoned tunnels beneath New York City and discovers a disturbing hidden society.
Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Ben Mendelsohn
Horror · Thriller
Films coming exclusively or first to Netflix.
Oct 9, 2026 · Netflix & select theaters
When a Los Angeles mayoral candidate's son is kidnapped, he and his wife have hours to raise the ransom, and every choice could destroy them.
Starring Kerry Washington, Ben Affleck, Gillian Anderson, Ray Fisher, Steven Yeun
Thriller · Crime
Pictured: Fantasia Barrino · Jyle Dupuis from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Trailer not yet released
Tyler Perry's The Gospel of Christmas
Nov 11, 2026
A struggling pastor inherits his family's failing church in a rough New York neighborhood and must rediscover his faith to save it, and his community, by Christmas.
Starring Fantasia Barrino, Tank, Shirley Caesar, Fred Hammond, Yolanda Adams
Holiday · Drama · Musical
Dec 4, 2026 · Netflix (theaters Nov 27)
Ava DuVernay's follow-up to 13th traces 150 years of fights over the 14th Amendment and the question of who gets to belong in America.
Starring Stacey Abrams, Sherrilyn Ifill
Documentary
Illustrative photo · Toni PomarTrailer not yet released
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Dec 11, 2026
An estate-approved portrait of the artist, built from family and friends' memories, unseen works and rare archival footage.
Starring Jeanine Heriveaux, Lisane Basquiat
Documentary · Biography · Art
Pictured: Taraji P. Henson · PhilipRomanoPhoto · CC BY-SA 4.0Trailer not yet released
Give Me Some Sugah
Dec 16, 2026
Based on the viral true story of a South Side Chicago bakery owner who discovers a regular customer is her long-lost son.
Starring Taraji P. Henson, Joey Bada$$, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Russell Hornsby, Alexis Louder
Drama · Faith · True story
Originals, urban dramas, thrillers and relationship movies, the ones most people miss.
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We'll add titles as soon as they're officially announced. Recent Tubi releases are under “Just released.”
Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock, HBO Max, STARZ, ALLBLK, Lifetime and more.
Illustrative photo · Jeremy YapTrailer not yet released
Kordell Stewart: Slash & Burn
Oct 27, 2026
The rise of Steelers quarterback Kordell 'Slash' Stewart, and the decades-long toll of a false, malicious rumor that followed him.
Starring Kordell Stewart
Documentary · Sports
Pictured: Taye Diggs · Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0Trailer not yet released
Terry McMillan Presents: Paradise with You
Sat, Nov 7, 2026
A football star near retirement heads to Nevis to reset his life and ends up competing for the same estate as a decorator rebuilding hers after a betrayal.
Starring Taye Diggs, Heather Hemmens, Cynthia Bailey
Romance · Drama
Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 8/7c
A church-going single mother fights insurers and doctors after her basketball-prodigy son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, and turns to her ex for help.
Starring Tisha Campbell, Charles Malik Whitfield, AJ Johnson, Jaden Lucas Miller
Drama · Family · Faith
Pictured: Tamera Mowry-Housley · The Housley Life · CC BY 3.0Trailer not yet released
Mistletoe and Mimosas
Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 8pm
A consultant inherits her late uncle's struggling Christmas bar and battles the manager of a trendy rival club in 12 Days of Christmas contests, until the rivalry turns romantic.
Starring Tamera Mowry-Housley, Kristoffer Polaha, Jennifer Robertson
Holiday · Romantic comedy
Sat, Nov 21, 2026 · 8/7c
A D.C. executive returns to Martha's Vineyard, reconnects with her old summer love, and joins the fight to save a historic Oak Bluffs inn.
Starring Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Janet Hubert
Romance · Drama
Illustrative photo · Russel BailoTrailer not yet released
A Memorable Christmas
Fri, Dec 4, 2026 · 9pm ET
A commercial real estate attorney home for Christmas learns her own firm plans to tear down the community center where she teaches girls to dance.
Starring Asia'h Epperson, Mike Merrill, Kamel Goffin, Stephen Cofield Jr.
Holiday · Romance · Drama
Fri, Dec 18, 2026 · 8pm
A music historian chasing an interview with a legendary singer and an attorney reclaiming his family's signed Nat King Cole sheet music collide at a museum's Christmas gala.
Starring Mishael Morgan, B.J. Britt, Holly Robinson Peete
Holiday · Romance
Released in the last 90 days and available now.
Out Jul 17, 2026
A former convict takes over a struggling Southeast D.C. youth boxing gym, building toward a title bout between two young fighters who are best friends.
Starring André Holland, Wendell Pierce, Samira Wiley
Sports · Drama
Out Jul 24, 2026
An ad executive told he's too old for a promotion crashes a younger friend's Miami bachelor weekend, with escalating chaos.
Starring Kevin Hart, Mike Epps, Teyana Taylor, Katt Williams, Andy Garcia
Comedy
Out Jul 24, 2026 · theaters; digital Aug 4, DVD Sep 15
Estranged friends try to steal an antique from a haunted house and have to work together to survive what lives there.
Starring Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, King Bach, Karlous Miller
Comedy · Horror
Illustrative photo · Huong DoOut now
I Know Where You Live
Out Jul 24, 2026
After ending a relationship with a man who wasn't who he seemed, a woman starts getting threatening messages suggesting he's watching from inside her home.
Starring Apryl Jones, Oshea Russell, Johnell Young
Thriller
Out Aug 21, 2026 · theaters
Three friends drive across the Midwest searching for a friend who has gone off the grid, and the trip changes them.
Starring Denée Benton, Mars Storm Rucker, Dezi Bing, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Regina Taylor
Drama · Road movie
Out Sep 4, 2026 · theaters
In 1966 Mississippi, a by-the-book Black FBI agent teams with a Mafia hitman turned informant to hunt the Klansmen who killed civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer.
Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Wahlberg, Nicole Beharie, Giancarlo Esposito
Crime · Thriller · Historical drama
Out Sep 9, 2026
The couples of Perry's marriage franchise reunite at Lake Como for a wedding, and old wounds and generational tensions come back up.
Starring Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Jill Scott, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White
Comedy · Drama
Out Sep 11, 2026 (limited) · Sep 18 wider
A 12-year-old boy in Watts, Los Angeles, tries to reach his distant father.
Starring J. Alphonse Nicholson, Danielle Brooks, Bodhi Dell
Drama
Out Sep 24, 2026
DeSean Jackson's NFL career told through decades of home video shot by his older brother, and the family behind it.
Starring DeSean Jackson, Byron Jackson
Documentary · Sports
Out Sep 25, 2026 · expanding nationwide
A devout father who works as a hitman races across Houston to keep his three children safe after his wife dies.
Starring Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Tramell Tillman, Tiffany Boone
Crime · Thriller · Drama
Out Oct 2, 2026
A single mother and former prison officer grows close to a reformed ex-con who once protected her during a prison riot.
Starring Naomi Baker, Jay Reeves, Tamberla Perry, Danielle Moné Truitt
Romance · Drama
Officially announced or in production, expected 2027 or later.
To Be Announced
An ambitious young woman is seduced by a powerful Washington couple and drawn into a world of sex, power and murder.
Starring Kerry Washington, Colman Domingo, James Marsden, Chloe East
Thriller
Dec 15, 2028 (announced)
The third Black Panther film, with an adult T'Challa II taking up the mantle.
Starring David Jonsson
Superhero · Action
To Be Announced
A romantic dramedy about a couple entering the empty-nest years, inspired by Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.
Starring Nia Long, Larenz Tate, Blair Underwood, Laz Alonso, Susan Kelechi Watson
Romance · Comedy · Drama
To Be Announced
After a 1980 plane crash kills members of the U.S. Olympic boxing team, a Marine sergeant rebuilds the squad for the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
Starring Jamie Foxx, Malachi Beasley, Algee Smith, Shea Whigham
Sports · Drama · Biography
To Be Announced (expected 2027)
A bank guard, a teller and a master thief are pulled into a deadly game of cons and double-crosses.
Starring Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Danai Gurira
Thriller · Heist
To Be Announced
The fourth Friday film, centered on gentrification and holding on to community in South Central Los Angeles.
Starring Ice Cube, Mike Epps
Comedy
To Be Announced (reported late 2027 or 2028)
A follow-up to the 2026 Michael Jackson biopic, expected to cover the later years of his life.
Starring Jaafar Jackson
Biopic · Music
To Be Announced
A sequel to the 2025 buddy comedy, with Keke Palmer and SZA expected to return.
Starring Keke Palmer, SZA
Comedy
To Be Announced
Whoopi Goldberg returns as Deloris in a third Sister Act film for Disney+.
Starring Whoopi Goldberg
Comedy · Musical
To Be Announced
Galleria and Chanel take Galleria's daughter and her friends to volunteer at an African wildlife sanctuary in a new chapter of the franchise.
Starring Leah Sava' Jeffries, Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan, Lynn Whitfield
Musical · Family
To Be Announced
A Netflix action comedy starring and produced by Kevin Hart and John Cena.
Starring Kevin Hart, John Cena
Action · Comedy
To Be Announced
A damaged firefighter reunites with his first love during a rescue and becomes fixated on saving her from her powerful husband, while his fractured memory makes him doubt what's real.
Starring Taylour Paige, Shamier Anderson, Lucien Laviscount, Nadine Ellis, Peter Parros
Thriller · Drama · Romance
Illustrative photo · Felix MooneeramAnnounced
Untitled Jordan Peele film
To Be Announced
Jordan Peele's fourth film as director, following Nope. Plot and cast are under wraps.
Horror · Thriller
Pictured: Kevin Hart · Eva Rinaldi · CC BY-SA 2.0Announced
Untitled Kevin Hart & Henry Cavill spy comedy
To Be Announced
Two rival spies meet when their wives become friends in a Lamaze class, and their double lives collide on the road to fatherhood.
Starring Kevin Hart, Henry Cavill, Aja Naomi King
Action · Comedy
To Be Announced
A newly widowed woman is dragged to the Hamptons by her best friends and sister on what would have been her 30th anniversary.
Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox
Comedy
Everything, in date order
| Movie | Release date | Platform | Genre | Main cast | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Misty Green | Oct 9, 2026 · select theaters, expanding | Theaters (A24) | Comedy-drama | Rosalind Eleazar, Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick | An actress whose early promise stalled gets one last shot at a comeback, from a director she once clashed with, while money trouble and her brother's crisis pull at her. | Confirmed |
| Animals | Oct 9, 2026 · Netflix & select theaters | Netflix | Thriller, Crime | Kerry Washington, Ben Affleck, Gillian Anderson, Ray Fisher | When a Los Angeles mayoral candidate's son is kidnapped, he and his wife have hours to raise the ransom, and every choice could destroy them. | Confirmed |
| Once Upon a Time in Harlem | Oct 16, 2026 · limited | Theaters (NEON) | Documentary, History | Arna Bontemps, Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, James Van Der Zee | William Greaves' newly restored 1972 footage of Harlem Renaissance artists and thinkers gathered at Duke Ellington's townhouse, remembering and debating the movement they built. | Confirmed |
| Kordell Stewart: Slash & Burn | Oct 27, 2026 | HBO Max | Documentary, Sports | Kordell Stewart | The rise of Steelers quarterback Kordell 'Slash' Stewart, and the decades-long toll of a false, malicious rumor that followed him. | Confirmed |
| Soul Patrol | Nov 6, 2026 · limited | Theaters (Kino Lorber) | Documentary, History, War | — | Veterans of the first Black special-operations team of the Vietnam War reunite to tell a story history overlooked, and to see whether facing the past can heal them. | Confirmed |
| Terry McMillan Presents: Paradise with You | Sat, Nov 7, 2026 | Lifetime | Romance, Drama | Taye Diggs, Heather Hemmens, Cynthia Bailey | A football star near retirement heads to Nevis to reset his life and ends up competing for the same estate as a decorator rebuilding hers after a betrayal. | Confirmed |
| Tyler Perry's The Gospel of Christmas | Nov 11, 2026 | Netflix | Holiday, Drama, Musical | Fantasia Barrino, Tank, Shirley Caesar, Fred Hammond | A struggling pastor inherits his family's failing church in a rough New York neighborhood and must rediscover his faith to save it, and his community, by Christmas. | Confirmed |
| God With Us | Nov 13, 2026 · limited | Theaters (limited) | Drama, Faith | Ashley Olivia Fisher, Aspen Kennedy, Rotimi, Lil Rel Howery | A modern retelling of the Nativity: a young couple's faith and relationship are tested when Mary unexpectedly becomes pregnant. | Confirmed |
| One Last Shot | Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 8/7c | Lifetime | Drama, Family, Faith | Tisha Campbell, Charles Malik Whitfield, AJ Johnson, Jaden Lucas Miller | A church-going single mother fights insurers and doctors after her basketball-prodigy son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, and turns to her ex for help. | Confirmed |
| Mistletoe and Mimosas | Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 8pm | Hallmark Channel | Holiday, Romantic comedy | Tamera Mowry-Housley, Kristoffer Polaha, Jennifer Robertson | A consultant inherits her late uncle's struggling Christmas bar and battles the manager of a trendy rival club in 12 Days of Christmas contests, until the rivalry turns romantic. | Confirmed |
| Love on the Vineyard | Sat, Nov 21, 2026 · 8/7c | Lifetime | Romance, Drama | Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Janet Hubert | A D.C. executive returns to Martha's Vineyard, reconnects with her old summer love, and joins the fight to save a historic Oak Bluffs inn. | Confirmed |
| 14th | Dec 4, 2026 · Netflix (theaters Nov 27) | Netflix | Documentary | Stacey Abrams, Sherrilyn Ifill | Ava DuVernay's follow-up to 13th traces 150 years of fights over the 14th Amendment and the question of who gets to belong in America. | Confirmed |
| A Memorable Christmas | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 · 9pm ET | AspireTV | Holiday, Romance, Drama | Asia'h Epperson, Mike Merrill, Kamel Goffin, Stephen Cofield Jr. | A commercial real estate attorney home for Christmas learns her own firm plans to tear down the community center where she teaches girls to dance. | Confirmed |
| Clarissa | Dec 11, 2026 · select theaters | Theaters (NEON) | Drama, Literary adaptation | Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Ayo Edebiri | A reimagining of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway set in Lagos: as Clarissa prepares to host a party, memories of her youth and an old love return. | Confirmed |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | Dec 11, 2026 | Netflix | Documentary, Biography, Art | Jeanine Heriveaux, Lisane Basquiat | An estate-approved portrait of the artist, built from family and friends' memories, unseen works and rare archival footage. | Confirmed |
| Give Me Some Sugah | Dec 16, 2026 | Netflix | Drama, Faith, True story | Taraji P. Henson, Joey Bada$$, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Russell Hornsby | Based on the viral true story of a South Side Chicago bakery owner who discovers a regular customer is her long-lost son. | Confirmed |
| Hearts All Aglow | Fri, Dec 18, 2026 · 8pm | Hallmark Channel | Holiday, Romance | Mishael Morgan, B.J. Britt, Holly Robinson Peete | A music historian chasing an interview with a legendary singer and an attorney reclaiming his family's signed Nat King Cole sheet music collide at a museum's Christmas gala. | Confirmed |
| Children of Blood and Bone | Jan 15, 2027 · theaters & IMAX | Theaters (Paramount) | Fantasy, Action, Adventure | Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, Cynthia Erivo | In the kingdom of Orïsha, Zélie fights to restore the magic a brutal monarchy stripped from her people, with her brother and the king's own children at her side. | Confirmed |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | Mar 5, 2027 · theaters & IMAX | Theaters (Amazon MGM) | Heist, Thriller, Romance | Michael B. Jordan, Adria Arjona, Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone | A polished thief who steals looted artifacts back for their rightful owners is chased heist to heist by a former FBI agent while a dangerous rival closes in. | Confirmed |
| Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse | Jun 18, 2027 · theaters & IMAX | Theaters (Sony Pictures) | Animation, Superhero, Action | Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry | Hunted by the Spider Society and cut off from his friends, Miles Morales fights across the multiverse to get home and protect his family. | Confirmed |
| Snoop | Aug 6, 2027 | Theaters (Universal) | Biopic, Music, Drama | Jonathan Daviss, Camron Jones, Lauren London, Algee Smith | An R-rated biopic following Calvin Broadus Jr. from the West Coast hip-hop scene to worldwide fame as Snoop Dogg. | Confirmed |
| Get Lite | Aug 20, 2027 | Theaters (Paramount) | Drama, Dance, Romance | Storm Reid, Ceyair Wright, Leslie Odom Jr., Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor | A gifted, sheltered dance student finds inspiration, love and a new family in New York City's subway Litefeet scene. | Confirmed |
| Molepeople | Aug 27, 2027 | Theaters (Paramount) | Horror, Thriller | LaKeith Stanfield, Ben Mendelsohn | A man descends into abandoned tunnels beneath New York City and discovers a disturbing hidden society. | Confirmed |
| An Innocent Girl | To Be Announced | Netflix | Thriller | Kerry Washington, Colman Domingo, James Marsden, Chloe East | An ambitious young woman is seduced by a powerful Washington couple and drawn into a world of sex, power and murder. | Announced |
| Black Panther III | Dec 15, 2028 (announced) | Theaters (Marvel Studios) | Superhero, Action | David Jonsson | The third Black Panther film, with an adult T'Challa II taking up the mantle. | Announced |
| Don't Ever Wonder | To Be Announced | Netflix | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Nia Long, Larenz Tate, Blair Underwood, Laz Alonso | A romantic dramedy about a couple entering the empty-nest years, inspired by Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite. | Announced |
| Fight for '84 | To Be Announced | Netflix | Sports, Drama, Biography | Jamie Foxx, Malachi Beasley, Algee Smith, Shea Whigham | After a 1980 plane crash kills members of the U.S. Olympic boxing team, a Marine sergeant rebuilds the squad for the 1984 Los Angeles Games. | Announced |
| Here Comes the Flood | To Be Announced (expected 2027) | Netflix | Thriller, Heist | Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Danai Gurira | A bank guard, a teller and a master thief are pulled into a deadly game of cons and double-crosses. | Announced |
| Last Friday | To Be Announced | Theaters | Comedy | Ice Cube, Mike Epps | The fourth Friday film, centered on gentrification and holding on to community in South Central Los Angeles. | Announced |
| Michael (sequel) | To Be Announced (reported late 2027 or 2028) | Theaters (Lionsgate) | Biopic, Music | Jaafar Jackson | A follow-up to the 2026 Michael Jackson biopic, expected to cover the later years of his life. | Announced |
| One of Them Days 2 | To Be Announced | Theaters (TriStar / Sony) | Comedy | Keke Palmer, SZA | A sequel to the 2025 buddy comedy, with Keke Palmer and SZA expected to return. | Announced |
| Sister Act 3 | To Be Announced | Disney+ | Comedy, Musical | Whoopi Goldberg | Whoopi Goldberg returns as Deloris in a third Sister Act film for Disney+. | Announced |
| The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen | To Be Announced | Disney+ / Disney Channel | Musical, Family | Leah Sava' Jeffries, Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan | Galleria and Chanel take Galleria's daughter and her friends to volunteer at an African wildlife sanctuary in a new chapter of the franchise. | Announced |
| The Leading Man | To Be Announced | Netflix | Action, Comedy | Kevin Hart, John Cena | A Netflix action comedy starring and produced by Kevin Hart and John Cena. | Announced |
| Tyler Perry's Confabulation | To Be Announced | Netflix | Thriller, Drama, Romance | Taylour Paige, Shamier Anderson, Lucien Laviscount, Nadine Ellis | A damaged firefighter reunites with his first love during a rescue and becomes fixated on saving her from her powerful husband, while his fractured memory makes him doubt what's real. | Announced |
| Untitled Jordan Peele film | To Be Announced | Theaters (Universal) | Horror, Thriller | — | Jordan Peele's fourth film as director, following Nope. Plot and cast are under wraps. | Announced |
| Untitled Kevin Hart & Henry Cavill spy comedy | To Be Announced | Netflix | Action, Comedy | Kevin Hart, Henry Cavill, Aja Naomi King | Two rival spies meet when their wives become friends in a Lamaze class, and their double lives collide on the road to fatherhood. | Announced |
| Women Like Us | To Be Announced | Netflix | Comedy | Whoopi Goldberg, Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox | A newly widowed woman is dragged to the Hamptons by her best friends and sister on what would have been her 30th anniversary. | Announced |
Editors' picks
Our editorial picks from the verified titles above. Rankings are opinion; the facts behind each film are in its card.
Theaters (Paramount) · Jan 15, 2027 · theaters & IMAX
Theaters (Amazon MGM) · Mar 5, 2027 · theaters & IMAX
Netflix · Dec 4, 2026 · Netflix (theaters Nov 27)
Netflix · Dec 16, 2026
Theaters (Universal) · Aug 6, 2027
Netflix · Nov 11, 2026
Theaters (Paramount) · Aug 20, 2027
Theaters (Sony Pictures) · Jun 18, 2027 · theaters & IMAX
Netflix · To Be Announced (expected 2027)
Netflix · To Be Announced
Theaters (Paramount) · Out Sep 4, 2026 · theaters
Theaters (Amazon MGM Studios) · Out Sep 25, 2026 · expanding nationwide
Netflix · Oct 9, 2026 · Netflix & select theaters
Theaters (Amazon MGM) · Mar 5, 2027 · theaters & IMAX
Tubi · Out Jul 24, 2026
Hulu · Out Jul 17, 2026
Netflix · To Be Announced
Netflix · To Be Announced (expected 2027)
Theaters (Paramount) · Aug 27, 2027
Theaters (Rich Spirit) · Out Sep 11, 2026 (limited) · Sep 18 wider
Netflix · Out Sep 9, 2026
Netflix · To Be Announced
Netflix · Out Jul 24, 2026
Lifetime · Sat, Nov 21, 2026 · 8/7c
Lifetime · Sat, Nov 7, 2026
Hallmark Channel · Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 8pm
Hallmark Channel · Fri, Dec 18, 2026 · 8pm
Netflix · To Be Announced
Theaters (Saban Films) · now digital · Out Jul 24, 2026 · theaters; digital Aug 4, DVD Sep 15
Netflix · Out Oct 2, 2026
Where to look
The deepest slate of Black-led originals right now, anchored by Tyler Perry's deal (dramas, holiday and faith films), plus Kevin Hart, Higher Ground and major documentaries like Ava DuVernay's 14th.
Its fall 'Love of a Lifetime' slate and producing deals with Taye Diggs, Tisha Campbell, Queen Latifah and Taraji P. Henson make it a steady source of Black romance and family movies.
Free, with a steady stream of Black-led Tubi Original thrillers and relationship dramas. Its 'Black Storytelling' collection is the easiest place to browse. New monthly lists post around the 20th.
BET+ closed as a standalone service on July 22, 2026. Its library, including Tyler Perry and BET originals, now lives in the BET Hub on Paramount+.
A streamer built for Black audiences, acquired in 2026 by Macro Media. Watch for new originals under its new ownership.
Its Countdown to Christmas lineup includes several Black-led holiday romances each year.
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