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.
Summer movie season deals come with Tom Cruise’s return with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in May, as well as the reboot of Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps in July.
The fall includes the return of the Tron franchise with Tron: Ares in October, as well as the second part of Wicked with Wicked: For Good in November and the third Avatar movie Avatar: Fire and Ash in December.
Here’s a look at 25 videos coming to theaters in 2025.
Wolf Man (Jan. 17): Director Leigh Whannell revives 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 on the role of Captain America at the end of Avengers: End Game, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) returns for a big-screen adventure, this time in front of the Preaspectnt Thaddeus. “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford), who shows off his menacing looks as 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): 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.
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 anything is possible, as long as it’s built with blocks. .
A Minecraft movie stars Jennifer Coolige, Danielle Brooks, Jemaine Clement, and Kate McKinnon.
Thunderbolts (May 2): Marvel supervillains come in combination – like DC’s The Suicide Squad – for now the 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 mission as an IMF agent, where he will be joined by Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Greg Tarzan Davis. The all-star 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) 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 successful animated films, Hiccup and Toothless return 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 version, reprises the character in the live-action version.
Elio (June 13): Disney-Pixar is shooting for the stars in its new computer-animated production, about a young man named Elio Solís (Yonas Kibreab) who becomes fascinated and embarks on misadventures with the bureaucracy of extraterrestrial life. The voice cast also includes Zoe. Saldaña, 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 rabies 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 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).
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.
Fantastic Four: First Steps (July 25): After two more iterations of the Fantastic Four for Fox/Marvel, the First Family of Superheroes makes their debut in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe with Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Set in the retro-futuristic 1960s, the new Fantastic Four MCU 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 plays Galactus, the Fantastic Four’s archenemy, 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 swap comedy Freaky Friday in Freakier Friday.
Anna has her own daughter and is set to have a stepdaughter 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 sequel’s original cast.
Nobody 2 (August 15): Bob Odenkirk reprises former family man killer Hutch Mansell in 2021’s Nobody 2, the sequel to 2021’s Nobody.
Returning for the sequel are Connie Nielsen as Becca, Hutch’s wife, as well as Christopher Lloyd and RZA as Hutch’s father and brother, David and Harry. Sharon Stone, John Ortiz and Colin Hanks join the original cast of Nobody 2.
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 City, New York. (Photo via MEGA/GC Images)
‘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 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 edition of Frankenstein, which the director is making for Netflix. It’s unclear at this time that del Toro’s film will be screened in theaters ahead of its Netflix debut.
Jared Leto in “TRON: Ares. “
TRON: Ares (October 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 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 (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 and co-written by Edgar Wright and stars Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian, Lee Pace, William H. Macy and Sean Hayes.
Wicked: For Good (November 21): Previously known as Wicked: Part Two, the musical Wicked: For Good continues to stick to the story of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande). After Elphaba defies gravity at the end of Wicked, she and Glinda are hurtled headlong onto a collision course with destiny where they are the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch of the North, respectively.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, Wicked: For Good is the sequel to the 2003 Broadway musical starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth.
Sam Worthington in ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’.
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 after 2009’s Avatar and 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water.
Set on the remote planet of Pandora, Avatar: Fire and Ash will feature the return of several actors who captured the functionality of the first two films, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, as well as Avatar: The Way of the Wild’s Kate Winslet. Water.
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