After a big year in 2024 at the box office for films like Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Moana 2 and Wicked, Hollywood is hoping for more good luck 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.
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 look at 25 big movies coming to theaters in 2025.
Wolf Man (Jan. 17): Director Leigh Whannell is reviving Universal Monsters’ favorite franchise with Wolf Man after good luck 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).
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 (February 21): Building on the good fortune of the horror film Longlegs, writer-director Osgood Perkins adapts this Stephen King story about gruesome deaths that begin to happen when two brothers notice their father’s toy monkey in the family attic. The Monkey stars Theo James, Elijah Wood and Tatiana Maslany.
Disney’s Snow White (March 21): After controversies that included Peter Dinklage’s complaint about the stereotypical casting of the Seven Dwarfs and star Rachel Zegler’s pointed observations about the script of the 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from Snow White, Disney’s live-action hit. After all it sees the light of day.
Zegler plays the title character, while Gal Gadot plays the Evil Queen. The Seven Dwarves, on the other hand, are all computer animated.
A Minecraft Movie (April 4): Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers and Sebastian Hansen star in the big-screen adaptation of the hit video game set in a mystical wonderland where it’s possible, as long as it’s built with blocks . Training
A Minecraft movie stars Jennifer Coolige, Danielle Brooks, Jemaine Clement, and Kate McKinnon.
Thunderbolts (May 2): Marvel supervillains come in combination – to the taste of DC’s The Suicide Squad – for the time being Marvel Cinematic Universe will premiere in 2025.
Among the antiheroes who will secretly work for him 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 disappointing theatrical reception of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 in 2023, director Christopher McQuarrie and star and producer Tom Cruise pulled Dead Reckoning Part 2 from the follow-up film. . and reconfigured it to The Final Reckoning.
The film appears to be Cruise’s last assignment as an IMF agent, where he will be joined by Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Greg Tarzan Davis. The star-studded cast also includes Hannah Waddingham, Katy O’Brian. , Indira Varma, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Vanessa Kirthrough, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett.
Karate Kid: Legends (May 30): After completing the third component of Cobra Kai’s sixth and final season, Ralph Macchio returns to the big screen 41 years after The Karate Kid for Karate Kid: Legends.
The new beginning of the franchise discovers the intersection of the worlds of the original and the remake of The Karate Kid, where Macchio teams up with the remake’s sensei, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) and recruits Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso to exercise a new karate kid (Ben Wang). . Karate Kid: Legends also stars Joshua Jackson and Ming-Na Wen.
Ballerina (June 6): Ana de Armas joins the John Wick cinematic universe with Ballerina as Eve, a dancer and assassin seeking to avenge her father’s death.
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.
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 take on the lead roles of Hiccup and Astrid in the new film, while Gerard Butler, who played Hiccup’s father Stoic in the animated edition, reprises the character in the live-action Array edition.
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.
28 Years Later (June 20): Director Danny Boyle reunites with his 28 Weeks Later screenwriter, Alex Garland, for this zombie horror sequel where the rage virus continues to rage. Cillian Murphy reprises his role as Jim from 2002’s 28 Weeks Later for 28 Years Later, starring 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.
Jurassic World Rebirth (July 2): The Jurassic Park franchise is rebooted for the second time with Jurassic World Rebirth, which takes place years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion.
Jurassic World Rebirth features a new cast, 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).
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 the retro-futuristic 1960s, the new MCU Fantastic Four stars Pedro Pascal as Dr. Reed Richards/M. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. like Ben Grimm/The Thing.
Ralph Ineson also plays Galactus, the sworn enemy of the Fantastic Four, while Jennifer Garner plays the planet-devouring force, Shalla-Bal/The Silver Surfer.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in “Freakier Friday. “
Freakier Friday (August 8): Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan return as mother and daughter Tess and Anna Coleman 22 years after the hit body-change comedy Freaky Friday on 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.
Persona 2 (August 15): Bob Odenkirk reprises former killer-turned-family man and killer Hutch Mansell in Persona 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.
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 1: Jesse Buckley and Christian Bale are seen on the set of ‘The Bride’ on May 1, … [+] 2024 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
“The Bride” (September 26): Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal develops her interpretation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein character, The Bride of Frankenstein, through the horror story in 1930s Chicago.
Jessie Buckley plays 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, Penelope Cruz and John Magaro.
The film has no relation to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein edition, which the director is making for Netflix. It’s unclear at this time whether del Toro’s film will play in theaters before its debut on Netflix.
Jared Leto in “TRON: Ares. “
TRON: Ares (October 10): The second reboot of the TRON franchise stars Jared Leto as Ares and Kevin Flynn returning from Jeff Bridges of 1982’s TRON and 2010’s TRON: Legacy.
Unlike the first two films, which focus on adventures from the real world to the virtual world, TRON: Ares focuses on the computer program Ares on a dangerous project from the virtual world to the real world, creating the first meeting of people. with an AI being.
Directed by Joachim Rønning, TRON: Ares stars Jodie-Turner Smith, Gillian Anderson and Evan Peters.
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in “Wicked. ”
The Running Man (November 7): Glen Powell takes on the role of Ben Richards in the remake of the hit 1987 action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a wrongly accused police officer who is able to secure the release of a criminal by participating in a fatal 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 (November 21): Formerly known as Wicked: Part Two, the musical movie Wicked: For Good continues to stick to the tale of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande). After Elphaba defies gravity at the finish of Wicked, she and Glinda fly headlong into a collision course with fate where they the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch, respectively. Witch of the North.
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.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash (December 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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