I read few weeks back somewhere that LOTR5 & Shrek 5 were both angling for a ~Dec 18 2026 release with Shrek 5 likely to move to Christmas.
Star Wars (& possibly Marvel in moving dates around of planned releases) have also been looking at those dates so you could have quite a clusterf*** or perhaps a Mexican standoff version of Barbenheimer (StarShreLlum ? GollEkRey?) in that month. Usually they manage to avoid it. Also remembering how MI7 got (part) trampled under Barbenheimer last summer.