Classic studio Westerns are thin on the wide calendar. The clearest upcoming entry is Paramount's The Rescue. This page also notes limited Western billings such as A Prayer for the Dying and explains adjacent neo-Western or frontier titles.
Cross-genre titles appear on more than one FilmBase page when that helps readers browsing mood—for example a heist comedy under both Action and Comedy—without changing the studio listing or distributor.
Movies
The Rescue
Paramount Pictures presents The Rescue. Official Paramount materials and the film's site describe a modern Western about a rodeo cowboy rescuing his kidnapped daughter, directed by Potsy Ponciroli and starring Brandon Sklenar.
Metacritic's calendar matches the wide Western listing. It is the primary wide Western listing.
A Prayer for the Dying
Metacritic lists A Prayer for the Dying as a limited Quiver Western.
Limited Westerns often play select markets; confirm showtimes on Quiver's booking list.
Neo-Western and frontier-adjacent titles
Some thrillers and dramas adopt Western iconography without a Western genre billing on calendars. FilmBase only promotes titles that distributors themselves label Western or that official synopses describe as modern Westerns.
Horizon and other previously discussed franchise Westerns are omitted here unless a firm upcoming weekend appears on current calendars.
Amazon MGM / Orion crime on the frontier of genre
A Colt Is My Passport is neo-noir crime set in 1978 Detroit, not a Western, and belongs on Film-Noir/Crime pages. It is mentioned only to avoid miscategorization.
Readers seeking horse-and-horizon stories should prioritize The Rescue.
TV Series / New Seasons
Yellowstone-universe TV context
Paramount+ continues related modern-ranch dramas such as seasons noted on Den of Geek's calendar (for example Tulsa King Season 4 on), which are crime/drama rather than classic Western.
They are adjacent viewing for Western audiences, not period oaters.
Sheriff Country Season 2
Den of Geek lists Sheriff Country Season 2 on CBS. It is a contemporary broadcast drama with Western-adjacent small-town lawman framing.
Included as broadcast adjacency, not a classic Western series.
The Rescue and a thin trail
Paramount's The Rescue is the wide Western listing that official studio materials and Metacritic's calendar agree. Paramount describes a modern Western about a rodeo cowboy rescuing his kidnapped daughter, with Potsy Ponciroli directing and Brandon Sklenar starring. That single clear listing is more useful than a list of rumors.
A Prayer for the Dying's limited Quiver opening adds a near-term specialty Western billing. Broadcast and streamer dramas with ranch or sheriff framing—Sheriff Country Season 2, Tulsa King Season 4—are listed as adjacency only, because they are not classic oaters.
Neo-noir crime such as A Colt Is My Passport is intentionally kept off the Western page despite period setting talk elsewhere; Detroit 1978 contract-killer noir is not a Western.
Waiting on the trail
After The Rescue's Paramount listing, the wide Western calendar is quiet in the sources FilmBase checked. That quiet is real, not an omission of secret titles. Limited Westerns such as A Prayer for the Dying may continue to appear on weekly specialty calendars.
Modern ranch dramas on Paramount+ and CBS scratch a related itch for some viewers but are filed as drama/crime on those networks' own materials. FilmBase keeps them in a short adjacency note so Western readers are not misled into expecting classic oaters. When a studio announces another wide Western—period or modern—it will get a full title card with Sources.
Sources
- Paramount Pictures - The Rescue
- Metacritic movie release calendar
- Den of Geek TV premiere dates calendar
- Deadline - A Colt Is My Passport