Every Movie Trailer From The 2026 Super Bowl, Ranked By Anticipation
We still might not fully “get it” on this side of the Atlantic, but the Super Bowl continues to be the most sought-after place for advertisers to sell their wares—the kind of rarefied airtime that only the wealthiest companies can afford.
Want to see Serena Williams unsubtly flog a weight-loss drug? How about 30 seconds of Matthew Broderick selling his soul to AI? Or what about a de-aged Joey from Friends and a de-aged George from Seinfeld joining a de-aged Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in a Dunkin' Doughnuts-themed reenactment of a scene that once helped them win an Oscar? There is still only one place to go!
Even in an era when many of these adverts pop up simultaneously online, there’s still something exciting about seeing them live—and especially the 30-second promos for the biggest upcoming movies of the year. In the list below, which I’ve ranked from least to most anticipated, you’ll find the nine movie trailers that played in the early hours of Monday morning during Superbowl VX—a group of titles that contains new additions to beloved franchises, an original film from one of the greatest living directors, and a sequel that nobody asked for and absolutely everybody’s dying to see.
Surprisingly, one thing you won’t see is the final, rumoured, and apparently Robert Downey Jr.-focused teaser for Avengers: Doomsday. Read on to discover more about the others and use the guide below to find out where and when you can see them in theatres and on services like Netflix, Prime Video and elsewhere.
A pretty straightforward one to start with. Minions & Monsters is the seventh feature film in the Despicable Me franchise and the third Minions spinoff overall. It’s directed by franchise originator Pierre Coffin—who also voices the little yellow guys—and takes place in 1920s Hollywood, where a group of Minions go to make it in the movie industry but end up encountering, well, monsters!
The Super Bowl spot is actually a teaser for a longer trailer that was released online simultaneously. Style-wise, I like this one. It’s smart and minimal and clearly made specifically with the Super Bowl in mind, so bonus points for all that. The film itself? I’m sure it’ll be fun, and I’m sure it'll make Illumination another gazillion dollars.
With six movies and a TV show released in the last 30 years, we probably didn’t need the amount of plot that was crammed into this one-minute Super Bowl teaser for Scream 7. Yes, Neve Campbell is once again back as Sydney Prescott and is once again running away from a knife-wielding killer in a Ghostface mask, apparently with her daughter (who is being played by McKenna Grace) in tow.
All that said, there does seem to be a more horror-forward tone to this one (just check out those creepy drawings in the psychiatric hospital), so perhaps all the talk of “burning” things down really does mean a rejig of the franchise’s self-aware tone—or maybe this killer just likes a bit of arson. All will be revealed in just a few weeks—and yes, I’ll be lining up to see it.
When Universal Pictures and Nintendo teamed up for The Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2023, they probably didn’t expect it to become the 15th highest-grossing movie of all time.
If they had, they may have decided to keep a few more bits of classic Mario IP for the sequel. Not to worry, the trailers so far have introduced us to Rosalina (Brie Larson), Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie), a Mad Max-looking sand bike sequence and, as was hinted in the first movie’s post-credit sequence, Yoshi!
This new micro-promo sees the adorable dino saving baby Mario from a T.rex attack after the little tyke plays the apex predator’s teeth like a xylophone. Looks fun!
The first Pixar of 2026 is set to be Hoppers, a movie from We Are Bears creator Daniel Chong. It’s the story of a teenage girl who uses a new technology to move her consciousness into a robotic beaver to help save a local habitat from an evil corporation. This new 30-second spot basically covers most of what we saw in previous trailers—except this time at breakneck speed.
Speaking at the D23 conference recently, Chong explained that the movie was inspired by both Avatar and the Mission: Impossible movies, so expect some action sequences along with all the humour and feels that the studio does best.
As a longtime Star Wars fan and Mando appreciator, I’m not entirely sure what to make of The Mandalorian and Grogu just yet. With its surprisingly sketchy CGI and Jeremy Allen White-voiced Jaba, the first trailer really didn’t feel like anything we’d seen in Star Wars before—but there’s every chance that’s a good thing.
This new 30-second spot is actually even stranger: a snowy sequence in which our two heroes ride a wagon led by Tauntauns. There’s a voiceover that sounds like Sam Elliot, which kind of makes the whole thing feel like an advert for Ford or Bud Light. Given that the spot was made especially for the Super Bowl, however, I’m guessing that’s the joke—in which case, respect.
When the teaser trailer for Supergirl was released a couple of months ago—with Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-el waking up with what looked like a super-hangover as her super-dog took a super-piss—it confirmed that Craig Gellespie’s first foray into the DCU would be very much in the style of head honcho James Gunn’s galaxy-hopping Guardians movies.
This new, 45-second spot starts with a more brooding, heroic tone before plunging back into chaotic scenes of spaceships and lasers. It looks like a pretty good time.
With less than two months to go until Project Hail Mary’s release, this new “final trailer” was never going to reveal much that we hadn’t seen before—and let’s be honest, if you’re as much a fan of Phil Lord and Chris Miller as I am, you’re probably already seated for this one.
The Lego Movie and Spider-Verse directors have yet to miss, and this new sci-fi —based on a novel by Andy “The Martian“ Weir and co-starring Ryan Gosling, an alien called Rocky and the great Sandra Hüller—looks like an absolute blast.
Movie fans will be in for a treat this June with the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s first original science fiction movie since A.I. The first trailer, released last month, led with Josh O’Connor, some eerie woodland creatures and a scene in which a weathercaster (Emily Blunt) appears to start talking in an alien tongue.
This new minute-long spot continues to tease out the mystery with images of crop signs and Eve Hewson’s character asking, “Are they people?” I’m not entirely sold on this CGI deer situation just yet, but I am counting down the days for this one nonetheless.
Trailer prognosticators had expected most of the movies on this list to have something lined up for the Super Bowl, but nobody was expecting a full-on, content-heavy, hilariously redacted trailer for Netflix’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth, which is still honestly one of the most unusual projects in recent memory.
The movie, which was written by Quentin Tarantino and adapted from his own novel, is a spinoff sequel to QT’s 2019 masterpiece, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, with Brad Pitt reprising the role that won him an Oscar, but it’s being directed by none other than David Fincher.
How these two aesthetically dissimilar and big-egoed filmmakers have agreed on the tone is anyone’s guess, but the trailer does suggest that Fincher has gone back to the rich browns and greens of his 1970s-set classic, Zodiac. Elisabeth Debicki also looks divine in the period setting—apparently playing Booth’s manager. If Netflix and Cannes can work out their differences, expect this one to premiere on the Croisette before releasing late summer. This is all great news!
