With 2025 but a distant memory, it’s time to get stuck into a huge year of entertainment. To help with this daunting task, we’ve provided a handy, alphabetised guide to the big releases and trends coming in the next 12 months, from AI’s continued rise to a whole lot of Zendaya

Bad news: the intellectual property equivalent of The Terminator is here to obliterate the concept that the mug who actually wrote something matters somewhat. Better news: cinemas are fighting back against AI with films anxious about the new tech, including Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (13 February), in which a man apparently from the future (Sam Rockwell) wants to warn people about an incoming AI hellscape, followed by The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (title says it all really), from the film-makers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, in March. Then, later in the year, Luca Guadagnino unveils Artificial, his biopic of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. Catherine Bray

“If it was all up to me then you know we’d be touring till the day we die … but UNFORTUNATELY it’s not,” mused Liam Gallagher recently on X after fielding questions about Oasis’s plans for 2026, hinting perhaps that it was up to the boss (Noel). Still, rumours persist that the band are planning huge summer shows, likely at Knebworth, the apex point of their Britpop dominance back in 1996. A 30-year anniversary would make (financial) sense. Another fan of the Hertfordshire country estate – he played three shows there in 2003 – is Liam’s old foe Robbie Williams, who will attempt to tap into the fumes of reheated Britpop fever with February’s guitar-heavy album called – you guessed it! – Britpop. Featuring a picture on the cover of a noticeably refreshed Williams after he’d gatecrashed the Oasis camp at Glastonbury in 1995, complete with red Adidas tracksuit, bleached hair and missing tooth, it’s apparently the album he always wanted to make after being booted out of Take That. “It was the peak of Britpop,” he said recently of that time, “and a golden age for British music.” While Britpop (the movement) was marked by fierce chart rivalries, Williams delayed Britpop (the album) from its original October 2025 release date to avoid being bested by Taylor Swift. Michael Cragg