Amazon MGM Studios' sci-fi thriller 'Mercy', starring Chris Pratt and directed by Timur Bekmambetov, has been moved from its August 2025 release date to January 2026. The film will now premiere on January 23, 2026, after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.
Amazon MGM Studios' upcoming sci-fi thriller Mercy , directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starring Chris Pratt, has reportedly been shifted from its original August 15, 2025, release date to January 23, 2026, according to Deadline. This move leaves Universal’s Nobody 2 with Bob Odenkirk as the sole big-budget release in August, while positioning Mercy in a less crowded theatrical window early in 2026. Mercy will arrive a week after the Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday weekend, which will see major releases like Warner Bros.’ Weapons, Sony’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and an untitled Disney movie hitting cinemas.The film is set in a near future where capital crime rates have skyrocketed. It follows Pratt as a detective accused of a violent crime who must fight to prove his innocence. The star-studded cast alongside Pratt includes Rebecca Ferguson (Dune, Mission: Impossible), Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country), Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders, The Mummy), Chris Sullivan (This Is Us), Kenneth Choi (9-1-1), Kylie Rogers (Beau Is Afraid), Rafi Gavron (A Star Is Born), and Jeff Pierre (Walker).Last year, when speaking to Collider's Steve Weintraub, Ferguson spoke about the enjoyable experience she had working on the movie and with Bekmambetov. 'The character was intriguing, but the director and the producer, so Timur and the producer, Chuck Rovan, who did Oppenheimer, it was the conversations with them about where they wanted to take the character of Maddox,' she said. Ferguson also described Pratt as 'the loveliest, kindest, and very smart human being,' adding that 'I'm not saying that I'm shocked. It's just, like, I'm so happy to be working with such lovely people. I feel very lucky,' she added, before saying that his smarts and love for fun made him such an endearing collaborator.'He's such a goofball with a very high intelligence,' she said. Ferguson also shared a story from when the cast was rehearsing that demonstrated Pratt's ability to think on the fly: 'We hadn't started filming , but when we were rehearsing, he left the room, and I threw him a one-liner and he just threw one back within a second, and I thought, ‘His mind is very active.’' Mercy will now open on January 24, 2026. You can see Rebecca Ferguson in Silo, which is currently streaming on Apple TV+. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on the movie
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