The Westpac OpenAir Cinema, a key staple of Sydney summers, is making a welcome comeback, taking over Mrs Macquaries Point from January 9th, 2026 all the way to February 24th, 2026.
As of now, the full program of filmic heat – which you can check out at the bottom of this article – has been announced, and once again, we’re opening with a Timothée Chalamet picture (this time Marty Supreme in place of A Complete Unknown). Other highlights include the following:
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (what we believe to be the greatest film of 2025)
- James Cameron’s hotly anticipated Avatar: Fire & Ash
- Yorgos Lanthimos’ off-kilter sci-fi black comedy Bugonia starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and F1, for those who missed the big-screen experience the first time around (both now streaming, of course)
- Sentimental Value from the director Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World)
- Touching indies Rental Family with Brendan Fraser and The History of Sound with Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor
- A preview of How To Make A Killing starring Glen Powell
- and showing of Chloé Zhao’s gorgeously-shot (and tear-jerking) Hamnet starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley – partially based on the life of William Shakespeare
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Aside from a 350-square-metre screen with a backdrop featuring both the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and what promises to be some cracking summer weather, you can also expect pre-show DJs, as well as an impressive selection of food and beverage options. In previous editions, the latter has been masterminded by notable names such as Kitchen By Mike’s Mike McEnearney and Trippas White Group.
This year, the dining experience will once again include offerings from some of Sydney’s hottest chefs: Luke Nguyen – Culinary Director at Botanic House (and a regular guest chef on MasterChef Australia); Danielle Alvarez – Chef & Culinary Director of the Sydney Opera House event venues (and former Head Chef at Fred’s); plus a harbourside oyster bar with The Chandon Garden.
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Tickets for the 2026 Westpac OpenAir Cinema will officially be available from December 8th, 2025, and will likely sell out quick as with previous years. For reference, back in 2018, over 40,000 tickets were sold within the first two days of pre-sale.
Find out more below.
Westpac OpenAir Cinema Film Program (2026)
- January 9th: Marty Supreme
- January 10th: Hamnet
- January 11th: True South
- January 12th: Is This Thing On?
- January 13th: The Roses
- January 14th: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
- January 15th: Splitsville
- January 16th: Dirty Dancing
- January 17th: Marty Supreme (second screening)
- January 18th: Bugonia
- January 19th: F1
- January 20th: Addition
- January 21st: Regretting You
- January 22nd: Ella McCay
- January 23rd: 10 Things I Hate About You
- January 24th: My Brother’s Band
- January 25th: One Battle After Another
- January 26th: Song Sung Blue
- January 27th: Wicked: For Good
- January 28th: Send Help
- January 29th: The Running Man
- January 30th: Mamma Mia!
- January 31st: Sentimental Value
- February 1st: The History of Sound
- February 2nd: Song Sung Blue
- February 3rd: The Housemaid
- February 4th: Rental Family
- February 5th: Eternity
- February 6th: The Devil Wears Prada
- February 7th: Avatar: Fire and Ash
- February 8th: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
- February 9th: Song Sung Blue (repeat screening)
- February 10th: Wicked: For Good
- February 11th: Crime 101
- February 12th: Wuthering Heights
- February 13th: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- February 14th: Somebody to Love
- February 15th: The Love that Remains
- February 16th: TBC
- February 17th: TBC
- February 18th: How to Make a Killing
- February 19th: Marty Supreme
- February 20th: DJ Ahmet
- February 21st: Hamnet
- February 22nd: I Swear
- February 23rd: Wuthering Heights
- February 24th: TBC
