Sony Pictures has announced that Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man 4, starring Tom Holland, has a new release date of July 31, 2026. We don’t have the movie’s official title yet, nor do we know its plot. But we do know that Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton will helm the fourth Spidey chapter for the MCU.
The only logical reason for delaying Spider-Man 4 could be Christopher Nolan’s epic, The Odyssey, which is set to premiere on July 17, 2026.
The delay gives Spider-Man 4 some extra distance and helps secure its box-office performance. Holland also stars in The Odyssey, which features talents like Matt Damon, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway, and more. The project, a feature adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, comes from Universal.
Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers have written the fourth Spider-Man movie, having previously written Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
Speaking of No Way Home, the movie marks Tom Holland’s last appearance as Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, in the MCU—an action-packed, nostalgic extravaganza that also starred Zendaya, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Jamie Foxx, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire. It went on to gross over $1.9 billion globally.
Jon Watts directed No Way Home as well as Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) for the MCU. Stay tuned for more updates.