David Corenswet “Superman” partial poster.
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After the big year at the box office in 2024 for films like Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Moana 2 and Wicked, Hollywood is hoping for more success in 2025 on the blockbuster front.
The movie business starts sharpening its fang for big business in 2025 in January with Wolf Man, and the first big superhero movie of the year takes flight in February with Captain America: Brave New World.
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The summer movie season’s offerings include the return of Tom Cruise with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in May, as well as the Superman reboot and Fantastic Four: First Steps in July.
The fall features return of the Tron franchise with Tron: Ares in October, as well as the second half of Wicked with Wicked: For Good in November and the third Avatar film Avatar: Fire and Ash in December.
Here’s a rundown of 25 big films coming to theaters in 2025.
January
Wolf Man (Jan. 17): Director Leigh Whannell reboots another Universal Monsters franchise favorite with Wolf Man after success with The Invisible Man in 2020. Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner.
Flight Risk (Jan. 24): Mel Gibson returns to the director’s chair for the first time since 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge for this high-flying action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as an assassin tasked with eliminating a target (Topher Grace) while in flight with a federal agent (Michelle Dockery).
February
Captain America: Brave New World (Feb. 14): After taking up the mantle of Captain America at the end of Avengers: End Game, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) is back for another big screen adventure, this time facing off against President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford), who shows his menacing side as the Red Hulk.
The Monkey (Feb. 21): Hot off the success of the horror hit Longlegs, writer-director Osgood Perkins adapts this Stephen King tale about gruesome deaths that start happening when twin brothers discover their father’s toy monkey in the family attic. The Monkey stars Theo James, Elijah Wood and Tatiana Maslany.
March
Disney’s Snow White (March 21): Following controversies including Peter Dinklage’s complaint over stereotype casting of the Seven Dwarfs and star Rachel Zegler’s pointed observations about the storyline of the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney’s live-action hit is finally seeing the light of day.
Zegler plays the title character while Gal Gadot stars as the Evil Queen. The Seven Dwarfs, meanwhile, are all computer-animated.
April
A Minecraft Movie (April 4): Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers and Sebastian Hansen star in the big-screen adaptation of the blockbuster video game that’s set in a mystical wonderland where anything is possible, as long as it is built with blocks.
A Minecraft Movie also stars Jennifer Coolige, Danielle Brooks, Jemaine Clement and Kate McKinnon.
May
Thunderbolts (May 2): Marvel’s supervillains assemble—a la DC’s The Suicide Squad—for the second Marvel Cinematic Universe release in 2025.
Among the antiheroes going to covertly work for the government are Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), the Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour) and Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weisz).
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (May 23): After the underwhelming reception in theaters for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 in 2023, director Christopher McQuarrie and star/producer Tom Cruise dropped Dead Reckoning Part 2 from the follow-up film and reconfigured it to become The Final Reckoning.
The film appears to be Cruise’s final Mission as an IMF agent, where he will be joined by Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Greg Tarzan Davis. Also featured in the all-star cast are Hannah Waddingham, Katy O’Brian, Indira Varma, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Vanessa Kirby, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett.
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Karate Kid: Legends (May 30): After he wraps up part three of the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai, Ralph Macchio is leaping back to the big screen 41 years after The Karate Kid for Karate Kid: Legends.
The new beginning of the franchise finds the worlds of the original and remake of The Karate Kid intersecting, where Macchio teams with the remake’s sensei Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) recruits Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso to train a new karate kid (Ben Wang). Karate Kid: Legends also stars Joshua Jackson and Ming-Na Wen.
June
Ballerina (June 6): Ana de Armas joins the John Wick movie universe with Ballerina as Eve, a ballerina and trained assassin looking to avenge the death of her father.
Set before the events of John Wick 4 and the apparent death of the title character, Ballerina also stars Keanu Reeves as Wick, as well as franchise regulars Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston and the late Lance Reddick. Ballerina also stars Catalina Sandino Moreno, Gabriel Byrne and Normas Reedus.
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How to Train Your Dragon (June 13): After a series of hit animated movies, Hiccup and Toothless are soaring back to the big screen in live-action form in How to Train Your Dragon.
Mason Thames and Nico Parker assume the lead roles of Hiccup and Astrid in the new film, while Gerard Butler—who voiced Hiccup’s father, Stoick, in the animated version—reprises the character in the live-action version.
Elio (June 13): Disney-Pixar shoots for the stars in their latest computer-animated production, about a young boy named Elio Solis (Yonas Kibreab) who is fascinated by outer space getting into misadventures with alien lifeforms. The voice cast also includes Zoe Saldana, Brad Garrett, Shirley Henderson and Jameela Jamil.
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28 Years Later (June 20): Director Danny Boyle reunites with his 28 Weeks Later writer Alex Garland for this zombie horror sequel where the rage virus continues to rage on. Cillian Murphy reprises his role of Jim from 2002’s 28 Weeks Later for 28 Years Later, which also stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.
M3GAN 2.0 (June 27): Following the success of M3GAN in 2022, the robotic AI menace is back for M3GAN 2.0 for more high-tech terror. Allison Williams reprises the role of robotics engineer, Gemma, who created M3GAN, while Amie Donald brings the creepy doll back to life with the aid of the voice of Jenna Davis.
July
Jurassic World Rebirth (July 2): The Jurassic Park franchise is getting rebooted for the second time with Jurassic World Rebirth, which is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion.
Jurassic World Rebirth features a new cast, including Jonathan Bailey, Scarlett Johansson, Rupert Friend and Ed Skrein, and is directed by Godzilla filmmaker Gareth Edwards.
Superman (July 11): David Corenswet stars as Clark Kent/Superman in the first film in the new DC Universe from director James Gunn, where the Man of Steel faces off against his classic foe Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult).
Metropolis is also populated by several characters in Superman’s orbit, including Daily Planet journalists Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisnodo) and Perry White (Wendell Piere) and other DC characters including Guy Gardner/Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion), Rex Mason/ Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan) and Kendra Saunders, Hawkgirl (Isabella Merced).
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (July 18): Another ‘90s horror movie franchise is coming back—a la Scream—with a reboot of 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, where a group of teens is pursued following a horrifying incident from their pasts.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. are reprising their roles from the original for the reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer, where they will be joined by franchise newcomers Madelyn Cline and Nicholas Alexander Chavez.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (July 25): After two different iterations of The Fantastic Four for Fox/Marvel, the First Family of Superheroes is making its debut in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Set in a retro-futuristic 1960s, the new MCU Fantastic Four stars Pedro Pascal as Dr. Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing.
Ralph Ineson also stars as the Fantastic Four’s nemesis Galactus, while Jennifer Garner plays the planet-eating force’s herald, Shalla-Bal/The Silver Surfer.
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August
Freakier Friday (Aug. 8): Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back as mother and daughter Tess and Anna Coleman 22 years after the body-switching comedy hit Freaky Friday in Freakier Friday.
Anna has a daughter of her own and is about to gain a step-daughter for the sequel, which also features the return of Freaky Friday co-stars Mark Harmon and Chad Michael Murray. Julia Butters and Manny Jacinto are among the new cast members joining the original cast for the sequel.
Nobody 2 (Aug. 15): Bob Odenkirk reprises former assassin-turned-family man-turned assassin again Hutch Mansell in Nobody 2, the sequel to 2021’s Nobody.
Returning for the sequel are Connie Nielsen as Hutch’s wife, Becca, as well as Christopher Lloyd and RZA as Hutch’s father and brother, David and Harry. Joining the original cast for Nobody 2 are Sharon Stone, John Ortiz and Colin Hanks.
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September
‘The Bride’ (Sept. 26): Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal fleshes out her take on Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein character The Bride of Frankenstein by setting the horror tale in 1930s Chicago.
Jessie Buckley stars as the title character in The Bride, while Christian Bale plays Frankenstein’s monster. The cast also includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Julianne Hough, Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz and John Magaro.
The film is unrelated to Guillermo del Toro’s version of Frankenstein, which the director is making for Netflix. It is uncertain at this point whether del Toro’s film will have a theatrical run before it debuts on Netflix.
Jared Leto in “TRON: Ares.”
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October
TRON: Ares’ (Oct. 10): The second reboot of the TRON franchise stars Jared Leto as Ares and the return of Jeff Bridges’ Kevin Flynn from 1982’s TRON and 2010’s TRON: Legacy.
Unlike the first two films, which follows adventures from the real world into the digital world, TRON: Ares follows the sophisticated computer program Ares on a dangerous mission from the digital world into the real world, thereby creating people’s first encounter with an AI being.
Directed by Joachim Rønning, TRON: Ares also stars Jodie-Turner Smith, Gillian Anderson and Evan Peters.
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in “Wicked.”
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November
The Running Man (Nov. 7): Glen Powell assumes the role of Ben Richards in the remake of the 1987 action hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as wrongfully accused police officer who can get a release from prison by taking part in a deadly game show.
Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is directed by and co-written by Edgar Wright and also stars Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian, Lee Pace, William H. Macy and Sean Hayes.
Wicked: For Good (Nov. 21): Formerly known as Wicked: Part Two, the movie musical Wicked: For Good continues to follow the story of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande). After Elphaba defies gravity at the conclusion of Wicked, she and Glinda fly headlong into a collision course with destiny where they become the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch of the North, respectively.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, Wicked: For Good is a continuation of the adaptation of the classic Broadway musical from 2003 starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth.
Sam Worthington in “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
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December
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Dec. 19): Written and directed by James Cameron, Avatar: Fire and Ash is the third film in the filmmaker’s sci-fi series following 2009’s Avatar and 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water.
Set once again on the distant planet of Pandora, Avatar: Fire and Ash will feature the return of several cast members via performance capture from the first two films, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, as well as Kate Winslet from Avatar: The Way of Water.
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