The new year brings a long roster of big movie titles to look forward to, from major franchise installments to spine-tingling horrors to cult-favorite reboots and remakes.
Adding to the excitement, 2025 will also see the debut of a highly anticipated superhero blockbuster, a Holiday-appropriate musical, and a brilliant black comedy among other cinema gems.
Here’s a month-by-month breakdown of the most-talked-about films in 2025.
January 2025
Wolf Man
Image credits: Blumhouse Productions
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Sam Jaeger, Matilda Firth, Ben Prendergast, Zac Chandler
Director: Leigh Whannell
Release Date: January 17, 2025
Genre: Horror Thriller, Dark Fantasy, Body Horror
Production Companies: Blumhouse Productions, Universal Pictures, New Zealand Film Commission, Rialto, Cloak & Co
We’re seeing more horror on the silver screen this year. Wolf Man is the latest lupine reboot of the legendary franchise from horror giant Blumhouse and creative writer-director Leigh Whannell.
The 2025 wolf thriller follows the story of a San Francisco husband and father named Blake (played by Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott) and his wife Charlotte (played by Emmy winner Julia Garner).
The couple and their young daughter visit Blake’s inherited, remote childhood home in rural Oregon following the sudden vanishment of his father. An unseen animal soon attacks the family and causes them to barricade themselves inside the house desperately.
As she sees Blake behaving weirdly and transforming into a humanoid creature, things become more terrifying for Charlotte.
February 2025
Captain America: Brave New World
Image credits: Marvel Studios
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Shira Haas, Danny Ramirez, Carl Lumbly, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Julius Onah
Release Date: February 14, 2025
Genre: Superhero Action, Sci-Fi Adventure, Fantasy Epic
Production Company: Marvel Studios
No Valentine? No problem. Captain America is finally soaring to theaters on Valentine’s Day after a delay in production due to extensive reshoots (per IMDb).
Marvel’s newest blockbuster stars Anthony Mackie as our favorite childhood superhero. After meeting newly elected US President Thaddeus Ross, he finds himself in the midst of a complicated global incident.
As the narrative develops, Sam Wilson’s Captain America attempts to uncover the hidden motives behind a wicked international plan.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Hugh Grant, Leo Woodall, Casper Knopf, Mila Jankovic, Colin Firth, Elena Rivers
Director: Michael Morris
Release Date: February 13, 2025
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Miramax, StudioCanal
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the rom-com fix we need this Valentine. Based on a 2013 novel by Helen Fielding, Michael Morris’s film adaptation follows the story of widow and single mother Bridget Jones, who jumps back into the dating pool.
Life seems to finally smile at her as she works as a screenwriter and even gets pursued by a younger stud, but he’s not the only one interested in her.
The film marks the fourth installment in the beloved franchise and promises the same (if not more) fun we had while watching Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), and Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016).
March 2025
Mickey 17
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Michael Monroe, Steven Yeun, Patsy Ferran, Cameron Britton
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Release Date: March 7, 2025
Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure, Dark Comedy, Space Thriller
Production Companies: Warner Bros., Plan B Entertainment, Kate Street Picture Company, Offscreen
Director Bong Joon Ho is releasing “the most human story” he has ever made in cinemas this March. Starring Robert Pattinson, the most handsome man in the world (per Daily Mail), the story follows Mickey Barnes as he signs up to become an “expendable” and embarks on a life-threatening journey to colonize the ice world Niflheim.
The highly-anticipated Sci-Fi film is satirical at heart. “Ultimately, the story is about how pathetic humans can be,” Bong explained to Empire. “It’s almost like you can smell every human character in the film — their piss stains and their smelly socks.”
Pattinson teased the black comedy to Entertainment Weekly and expressed enthusiasm for portraying “two very fun characters.” The Twilight star added, “Mickey 17 is someone who has the lowest expectations of his life, and yet the world keeps pushing those expectations to the point where he has a job that tortures him every day.
And then 18 comes along, and he’s got frontal lobe damage and no self-control, libido out of control. It’s like playing an evil brother or twin.”
The Woman in the Yard
Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Russell Hornsby, Estella Kahiha, Okwui Okpokwasili
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Release Date: March 28, 2025
Genre: Psychological Horror, Mystery Thriller, Dark Drama
Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions
The Woman in the Yard is sure to give you the heebie-jeebies. Dressed in black from top to toe, the mysterious lone appears out of the blue on a family’s front lawn. She’s sitting right there in the middle of the day, creepily warning, “Today’s the day.”
Blumhouse has already produced over 200 hair-raising horror hits that grossed nearly $6 billion at the global box office (per Blumhouse). This time, the production giant is bringing gruesome horror right to your front yard with the release of the Jaume Collet-Serra-helmed thriller.
The plot follows a grieving woman named Ramona, who hardly survives a car crash. Following her husband’s death, she is now left with two young sons to raise in her rural farmhouse, but the woman in the yard has other plans for the troubled family.
The abnormal figure creeps closer and closer to the family’s home as the mother rallies to protect herself and her kids from the nearing woman. No one knows who she is, why she appears, or when she will disappear, but one thing is for sure: You will never look at your front lawn the same again.
April 2025
A Minecraft Movie
Cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Jemaine Clement, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Hansen (whole cast)
Director: Jared Hess
Release Date: April 4, 2025
Genre: Action Adventure, Fantasy Comedy, Family
Production Companies: Warner Bros., Vertigo Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment
Those who dig everything Minecraft can get excited about the release of a live-action film based on the beloved classic sandbox video game.
A Minecraft Movie is about a strange portal that suddenly pulls four misfits — Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Natalie (Myers), Henry (Hansen), and Dawn (Brooks) — into the Overworld: an outlandish, cubic wonderland where the only ruler is your imagination.
To leave this magical world and return home safely, the group embarks on an unconventional journey with Steve (Black), an expert crafter.
As they try to master the new world and protect it from Piglins and Zombies, their quest puts the creativity of all five to the test; after all, it’s the only skill they need to return to the real world.
Sinners
Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Lola Kirke, Michael B. Jordan
Director: Ryan Coogler
Release Date: April 18, 2025
Genre: Supernatural Horror, Thriller, Drama
Production Companies: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Discovery, Proximity Media
Sinners have a promising premise: Twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) start anew in their Mississippi hometown after leaving their troubled past behind. Little do they know that their lives are about to take an even darker turn.
The supernatural thriller, which takes place in the 1930s Jim Crow–era South, is Coogler’s fifth film with actor Jordan, who stars in the excitingly dual role of the twin brothers. It also marks Coogler’s first foray into horror after taking the helm of Black Panther and Creed, and he already seems onto something big.
The first teaser trailer was fairly thrilling, but the second one didn’t shy away from revealing bloodied fangs of smiling vampires.
Warner Bros. Pictures teased that the twin brothers will discover “an even greater evil” after returning to their hometown.
Now, we know for a fact that the evil in question is none other than a host of sinister vampires.
May 2025
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Cast: Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Tramell Tillman, Hannah Waddingham
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Release Date: May 23, 2025
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller
Production Companies: Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media
When the odds seem impossible, the mission calls for nobody else but Tom Cruise. The record-breaking Mission: Impossible franchise speaks for itself, amassing millions of dollars for each of its high-sounding releases (per Box Office Mojo).
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the forthcoming film is the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise and might be our last goodbye to the legendary series. “I need you to trust me… one last time,” Cruise teased in the Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning trailer.
With shooting locations like Tokyo, Patagonia, and an ancient Middle Eastern city, the action spy film picks up right where Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning left off. It follows the story of Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team caught in a life-or-death battle against the so-called “Entity,” an ultra-advanced, self-aware rogue AI with a powerful ability to predict the probable future.
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Cast: Tony Todd, Brec Bassinger, Gabrielle Rose, Richard Harmon
Directors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein
Release Date: May 16, 2025
Genre: Supernatural Horror, Slasher
Production Companies: Inzide Media, Practical Pictures, New Line Cinema
Fans of the Final Destination franchise will be “treated” with the sixth film in the series after over 10 years of wait. The trailer of the supernatural horror film gives viewers the chills with the uncomfortable scene of a tattoo artist maliciously piercing the tongue of his client.
The teaser ends horribly as the artist finds his nose ring attached to a chain from the ceiling fan. He screams for his life before he falls and gets burned alive.
The plot centers around a college student who keeps seeing a weirdly violent nightmare over and over, but only one person can halt the cycle and spare her family the dreadful destiny awaiting them.
Bloodlines will make its bloody splash in a timely manner this May, only a few months following the franchise’s 25th anniversary.
June 2025
28 Years Later
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, Jack O’Connell, Edvin Ryding, Erin Kellyman (whole cast)
Director: Danny Boyle
Release Date: June 20, 2025
Genre: Zombie Horror, Thriller
Production Companies: Columbia Pictures, Decibel Films, British Film Institute (BFI)
Rage-virus-infected zombies will unlock the gates to Hell this summer. Starring Cillian Murphy as bicycle carrier Jim, 28 Days Later was a Hollywood zombie hit in the early aughts and is now making a strong return nearly three decades after the rage virus outbreak.
The post-apocalyptic horror sees survivors living on a small island and ultimately discovering the mainland’s most gruesome secrets.
Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have big plans for the long-awaited 2025 sequel, whose epic teaser trailer became the second top-grossing horror trailer of all time all time (per IMDb).
July 2025
Superman: Legacy
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan, Isabela Merced, Nathan Fillion
Director: James Gunn
Release Date: July 11, 2025
Genre: Superhero, Sci-Fi, Action, Fantasy, Adventure
Production Companies: DC Studios, Warner Bros., The Safran Company
An other-worldly Superman trailer with little to no dialogue has racked up tens of millions of views in record time. The teaser features bruised and bloodied Superman wheezing, gasping, and whistling in sub-zero temperatures, waiting for a real-life Superdog Krypto (finally) to take him “home.”
Fans are to witness some super creative twists to the Man of Steel, as co-head of DC Studios Peter Safran teased The Hollywood Reporter that Superman: Legacy isn't an origin story.
“It focuses on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way. He is kind in a world that thinks that kindness is old-fashioned,” Safran clarified.
August 2025
Nobody 2
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Sharon Stone, Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Hanks
Director: Timo Tjahjanto
Director: Timo Tjahjanto
Release Date: August 15, 2025
Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy, Thriller
Production Companies: 87North, Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, Eighty Two Films, Universal Pictures
Gear up to watch one of the highly-anticipated action-thriller films this summer: Nobody 2. The sequel to the 2021 blockbuster brings Bob Odenkirk back to the screen as the lethal Hutch Mansell. The suburban dad and ex-heartless assassin maintains the image of a typical husband but gradually gets pulled back into his turbulent past.
“Now that he’s back at it in full throttle, how does his family react to this beast?” director Timo Tjahjanto teased the high-stakes sequel (per Empire). “You’ll see a lot of the questions that fathers and husbands ask — ‘How do they react to this other side of me who’s constantly hustling and working for the family?’ It’s gonna be quite a journey.”
The Naked Gun
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Sharon Stone, Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Hanks
Director: Timo Tjahjanto
Release Date: August 15, 2025
Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy, Thriller
Production Companies: 87North, Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, Eighty Two Films, Universal Pictures
Nearly four decades have passed since the release of the all-time cult favorite The Naked Gun, otherwise known as Police Squad. Originally debuted in 1988, the wildly popular slapstick comedy follows the story of clueless cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), who attempts to foil a plot to brainwash innocent people into becoming assassins.
The classic comedy hit is finally getting a refreshingly new reboot this August, with a star-studded cast featuring Liam Neeson, Paul Walter Hauser, Liza Koshy, Kevin Durand, and more.
While no story details about the eagerly-awaited reboot have been revealed, there should be no shortage of wacky adventures, zany antics, and slapstick humor.
September 2025
The Bride!
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale, John Magaro, Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Release Date: September 26, 2025
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Dark Romance, Musical, Monster Horror, Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros.
After nine long decades since its original release, The Bride of Frankenstein is getting an exciting modern remake treatment. Directed by Secretary star Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride! is off to a good start in the casting department, starring the director’s brother Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar winner Christian Bale (Frankenstein’s Monster), Jessie Buckley (The Bride), Peter Sarsgaard, and John Magaro.
The monster remake is set in 1930s Chicago, where lonely Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to create a mate for him. They bring into existence a murdered young woman as the Bride, who sparks unconventional romance and brings about a radical social change in America.
The new version promises an all-new vision compared to the classic monster hit — a valid reason to add The Bride! to your 2025 horror watchlist.
October 2025
Black Phone 2
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies
Director: Scott Derrickson
Release Date: October 17, 2025
Genre: Horror
Production Companies: Blumhouse Productions, Universal Pictures, Crooked Highway
Black Phone might be a kids’ cartoon compared to its upcoming sequel. While not much of the plot details have been revealed so far, we can be “assured” that Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 will be more generous with jump scares compared to the 2021 film, at least according to the director.
“The main difference is that it's a high school coming of age movie, in the same way, that the original movie was a middle school coming of age movie, but those are two very different sorts of things,” Scott Derrickson teased to GamesRadar+.
“You know, a high school coming-of-age movie demands more. It has to be more visceral. It has to be, I think, more graphic, scarier.”
November 2025
Wicked: For Good
Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey (whole cast)
Director: Jon M. Chu
Release Date: November 21, 2025
Genre: Musical, Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Production Companies: Marc Platt Productions, Universal Pictures
The holiday season is about to get more magical with the release of the long-awaited Wicked sequel. The film adaptation of the Broadway hit has grossed an eye-popping $722,747,200 worldwide (per Box Office Mojo) and counting.
This tremendous success is in large part thanks to Ariana Grande’s iconic portrayal of Glinda the Good and Cynthia Erivo as green-skinned Elphaba, the infamous Wicked Witch of the West.
The first part highlights the characters’ life-altering choices, whereas the second half will unravel the “consequences” of these decisions, as director Jon M. Chu revealed to Entertainment Weekly.
Wicked: For Good sees Elphaba reach the full potential of her witchy powers and be declared an enemy of the state by the main antagonists, the legendary Wizard of Oz and Madame Morrible.
Zootopia 2
Cast: Jason Bateman, Fortune Feimster, Ke Huy Quan, Shakira, Ginnifer Goodwin
Directors: Jared Bush, Byron Howard
Release Date: November 26, 2025
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Family, Animation
Production Companies: The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney’s Zootopia hit the $1 billion mark globally (per Box Office Mojo) on a production budget of $150 million. The 3D adventure-comedy film is coming back to cinemas after nearly 10 years since it first debuted.
The second film follows brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and fox Nick Wilde as they unite to solve a new confusing case. This time, the detectives are to crack a case unlike anything they have ever encountered in their careers.
December 2025
Image credits: Lionsgate
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Brandon Sklenar, Michele Morrone, Amanda Seyfried, Ellen Tamaki, Cailen Fu
Director: Paul Feig
Release Date: December 25, 2025
Genre: Thriller
Production Companies: Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate, Hidden Pictures
The cinematic adaptation of The Housemaid, based on the 2022 Freida McFadden novel, will officially be released this Christmas.
The popular thriller centers around a struggling young woman named Millie who leaves her shadowy past behind and seeks a fresh start as a housemaid for a wealthy couple (Nina and Andrew Winchester). It’s just a short matter of time before she learns that the family harbors secrets way more dangerous than her own.
It’s worth mentioning that The Housemaid by McFadden was described as “An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us, and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!” (per Katie Lamb Public Library).