EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is taking advantage of an open weekend in the early-summer 2026 release calendar and moving its Hugh Jackman comedy formerly known as Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie from November 13, 2026, next year to May 8, which is Mother’s Day weekend. Also, the movie going forward will now be known as The Sheep Detectives.
The preceding weekend, the first frame of summer, has 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2 opening as well as Warner Bros/Legendary’s live-action/animation title Animal Friends starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Momoa.
The Sheep Detectives follows George Hardy (Jackman), a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand, never suspecting that not only can they understand but they argue for hours afterwards about whodunnit. When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it. The local cop Tim Derry (Nicholas Braun), on the other hand, never has solved a serious crime in his life, so the sheep conclude they will have to solve it themselves — even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn’t as simple as it appears in books.
Directed by Kyle Balda and written by Craig Mazin, the pic also stars Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Tosin Cole, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Conleth Hill and Mandeep Dhillon.
Producers are Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Production companies are Working Title Films and Three Strange Angels.