Tom Hanks has been busy in 2026 returning to his roots in the newest Toy Story movie, where he reprises his role as Woody for the fifth and possibly final time. Toy Story 5 has already become a massive hit at the box office, grossing over $875 million during its first few weeks in theaters, and it’s estimated to be the next film of the year to reach the fabled $1 billion global milestone. Hanks can also be seen narrating a new docuseries, World War II With Tom Hanks, which is releasing new episodes regularly over on the History Channel. Hanks narrates the show as he takes audiences through the most crucial moments of WWII. This is far from Hanks’ first experience in a World War II project, though.
One of Hanks’ most famous projects came in the 1990s when he teamed up with Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan, the visceral World War II epic co-starring Matt Damon and Vin Diesel. Even still to this day, Saving Private Ryan is hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made, and one of the best collaborations between Hanks and Spielberg. Back in 2020, Hanks took his talents to Apple TV for the straight-to-streaming WWII naval thriller, Greyhound, which has quietly become one of the biggest streaming hits of the decade so far. It’s been well over five years since Greyhound began streaming on Apple TV, but the film is still sitting comfortably in the top 10, and it doesn’t look poised to go anywhere anytime soon. Apple TV is also hard at work on a Greyhound sequel, which will likely be released sometime in 2027.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
What Is ‘Greyhound’ About?
The official synopsis for Greyhound, which also stars Stephen Graham, reads as follows: “In the early days of World War II, a first-time Navy captain leads an Allied convoy of thirty-seven ships across the treacherous North Atlantic, where German U-boats lurk unseen beneath the waves. Commander Ernest Krause must guide his crew through the deadliest stretch of ocean, ‘the Black Pit,’ beyond the reach of air cover. Tom Hanks stars in this taut, immersive thriller of nerve, duty, and survival at sea.” Both Hanks and Graham are confirmed to return and star in Greyhound 2, which is being written once again by Hanks. Elisabeth Shue will also star opposite Jack Patten, who recently played Robin Hood in the hit MGM+ historical series of the same name.
Check out Greyhound on Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Tom Hanks’ future projects.
