On the heals of a packed holiday box office that saw Wicked: Part One versus Gladiator II followed by Moana 2 ahead of Thanksgiving and then A Complete Unknown and Babygirl leading the Christmas Day releases, it’s time to look ahead at key dates for the most anticipated movies of 2025.
January kicks it off with combination of theatrical releases like the Christopher Abbott-starring Wolf Man and streamer offerings including Netflix’s Back In Action starring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz as well as Prime Video’s You’re Cordially Invited starring Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. February marks the first of the Marvel films releasing in 2025 — Captain America: Brave New World — as well as the return of Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones in the franchise’s fourth installment Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy streaming on Peacock.
Scroll on to see Deadline’s 30 most anticipated films and their release dates.
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‘Wolf Man’ – Theaters – January 17, 2025
Image Credit: Getty Images Leigh Whannell returns to the genre for this new take on the classic monster Wolf Man with Christopher Abbot playing the titular role alongside Julia Garner. The plot centers on Abbott’s character, originally set to be played by Ryan Gosling, hounded by a formidable predator.
Wolf Man will arrive January 17, 2025. The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse, having previously helmed the 2020 pic The Invisible Man. The film is written by Whannell & Corbett Tuck and Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo. Jason Blum is producing.
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‘Back in Action’ – Netflix – January 17, 2025
Image Credit: Netflix Cameron Diaz makes her return to acting as she teams with Jaime Foxx in this action comedy for Netflix about a married couple who are pulled back into espionage after their secret identities are exposed. The action flick also stars Andrew Scott, Glenn Close, Jamie Demetriou, McKenna Roberts, Rylan Jackson and Kyle Chandler.
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‘You’re Cordially Invited’ – Prime Video – January 30, 2025
Image Credit: Prime Video Viewers will be in need of a romantic comedy after the holidays are over, and Prime Video has just the thing: a pairing of Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon as they fight over a date and venue for the weddings of their daughters, played by Geraldine Viswanathan and Meredith Hagner.
Jimmy Tatro, Stony Blyden, Leanne Morgan, Rory Scovel, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Ramona Young, Jack McBrayer, Fortune Feimster and Celia Weston also star.
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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ – Theaters – February 14, 2025
Image Credit: Disney Anthony Mackie returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, marking the first time his character Sam Wilson will carry the Captain America shield. This go-round, his Captain America battles Harrison Ford who plays Thunderbolt Ross aka the Red Hulk.
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‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ – Peacock – February 14, 2025
Image Credit: Jay Maidment/Universal Pictures The fourth Bridget Jones movie, starring Renée Zellweger in the titular role, will arrive on Peacock on Valentine’s Day 2025. Alongside Zellweger, returning cast includes Emma Thompson, who appeared as Bridget’s OB/GYN Dr. Rawling in Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016. Thompson also co-wrote the screenplay for the third installment in the franchise. Hugh Grant, who played Daniel Cleaver one of Jones’ love interests in Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), will also return. Colin Firth appears as Mark Darcy in what look like flashbacks that can be seen in the trailer.
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Leo Woodall (The White Lotus, One Day), Chiwetel Eijofor (Rob Peace), Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers), Josette Simon (Anatomy of a Scandal), Nico Parker (Suncoast, How to Train Your Dragon) and Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie) round out the cast.
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‘The Gorge’ – Apple TV+ – February 14, 2025
Image Credit: Apple Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy team on a new supernatural action tentpole for Apple with Black Phone director Scott Derrickson helming. The film follows two highly trained operatives who become close after being sent to protect opposite sides of a mysterious gorge.
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‘The Legend Of Ochi’ – Theaters – February 28, 2025
Image Credit: A24 /Courtesy Everett Collection This anticipated fantasy film from A24 stars Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, Finn Wolfhard and Emily Watson. Isaiah Saxton’s directorial debut follows a young girl raised to never go outside after dark and fear the reclusive forest creatures known as the Ochi. When a baby Ochi is left behind by its pack, the girl embarks on an adventure to reunite it with its family.
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The feature is based on Saxton’s original characters, world and screenplay and will include an original score by composer and Dirty Projectors founder Dave Longstreth, a frequent collaborator of Saxon’s animation and film studio Encyclopedia Pictura.
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‘Sinners’ – Theaters – March 7, 2025
Image Credit: Warner Brothers Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite for the fourth time in this horror thriller from Warner Bros that has Jordan playing dual roles as twin brothers battling a sinister force in the Jim Crow south.
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Coogler wrote and directed the film after collaborating with Jordan on Fruitvale Station, Creed and Marvel’s Black Panther. From the looks of the first Sinners trailer, the film takes place in the era of prohibition with religious themes and a deadly threat to those who dance with the devil. Hailee Steinfeld also stars the eerie thriller.
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‘The Electric State’ – Netflix – March 14, 2025
Image Credit: Netflix Starring Chris Pratt, Millie Bobby Brown and more, the latest film from the Russo brothers arrives on Netflix March 14, 2025. The film, written by Avengers scribes Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, is adapted from Simon Stålenhag’s illustrated novel, set in the 1990s where sentient robots live in exile after a failed uprising.
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The loaded cast also includes Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander and Woody Norman, with Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci. Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk voice robots.
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‘Snow White’ – Theaters – March 21, 2025
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios The latest Disney live-action remake of a princess film, starring Rachel Zegler (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, West Side Story), arrives in theaters March 21, 2025. Gal Gadot co-stars as the Evil Queen, and of course the seven dwarves Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Sleepy, Happy, Bashful and Doc will be present as well.
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In the trailer for the film, Zegler sings “Waiting on a Wish” and tells the Evil Queen, her stepmother, that kindness is missing in their world. Greta Gerwig (Barbie) and Erin Cressida Wilson (The Girl on the Train) wrote the script, and Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man) directs the film, which is produced by Marc Platt. Tony winner Andrew Burnap plays a new male lead character Jonathan, and the film will feature original songs from EGOT-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen).
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‘A Minecraft Movie’ – Theaters – April 4, 2025
Image Credit: Warner Bros The Minecraft Movie stars Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers and Danielle Brooks alongside the classic Mojang characters from the video game like creepers, skeletons, wolves and more. The action-packed adventure full of block-shaped creatures arrives in theaters April 4, 2025.
Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Brooks) enter the world of creativity and crafting to be guided by Black’s Steve, who lives and breathes the Overworld, which turns out to be in danger.
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‘Mickey 17’ – Theaters – April 18, 2025
Image Credit: Warner Bros Bong Joon Ho’s next film, a science fiction feature starring Robert Pattinson, will hit theaters April 18, 2025 to compete on Easter Weekend with the Michael Jackson biopic Michael.
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Based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, Pattinson stars as the titular character Mickey, an Expendable, or disposable employee on a human expedition to colonize the ice world of Niflheim. He takes on dangerous missions that often result in his death. The number marks the amount of times the character dies in the story, and Bong said at CinemaCon that he kills him 10 times more that in the original novel to make 17. Whenever Mickey dies, he generates a new body that holds most of his memories.
Bong also revealed that Beef Emmy winner Steven Yuen “plays another crazy guy in the movie,” while Naomi Ackie is one of the Mickey girlfriends.
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‘Thunderbolts’ – Theaters – May 5, 2025
Image Credit: Courtesy Marvel Studios Thunderbolts, which stars a motley crew of Marvel antiheros, heads to theaters May 5, 2025. Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour), Yelena Belova/Black Widow (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) and CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) will appear alongside Hannah John-Kamen‘s Ava Starr/Ghost, Wyatt Russell‘s John Walker/U.S. Agent, Olga Kurylenko‘s Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster and Lewis Pullman‘s Bob/Sentry.
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‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ – Theaters – May 9, 2025
Image Credit: Getty Images Sony Pictures’ A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, which will star Margot Robbie in her first post-Barbie film aling with Colin Farrell, follows a pair of stranger and an emotional journey that ties them together. The film will land in theaters on Mother’s Day weekend.
The film hails from Kogonada and was written by Seth Reiss. Movie is produced by Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Ryan Friedkin, Seth Reiss and Youree Henley. EPs are Kogonada, Ilene Feldman and Ori Eisen.
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‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ –Theaters – May 23, 2025
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection The final Mission: Impossible film, formerly known as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two, arrives in theaters to help kick off the summer box office. Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham joins the team led by Tom Cruise along with many from the first film including Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Simon Pegg, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt, Mariela Garriga, Ving Rhames, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny and more. Those making their Mission: Impossible debuts in the eighth installment include Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Katy O’Brian and Stephen Oyoung.
Paramount released a teaser trailer for the final film in the franchise in November 2024, revealing that Angela Bassett has also joined the cast.
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‘Ballerina’ – Theaters – June 6, 2025
Image Credit: Lionsgate Ana de Armas’ turn in Ballerina, a John Wick spinoff film, finally arrives in the summer. Keanu Reeves will make an appearance as the titular figure and assassin. The cast also includes Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, the late Lance Reddick, David Castañeda, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Norman Reedus. The trailer for the film is set to a remix of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer.”
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‘Elio’ – Theaters – June 13, 2025
Image Credit: Disney/Pixar Pixar Animation’s latest film (its 28th!) Elio contains a voice cast that includes Zoe Saldaña, Jameela Jamil, Brad Garrett, Yonas Kibreab and America Ferrera. The film is directed by Coco scribe and co-director Adrian Molina. Elio, an underdog with an imagination, finds himself beamed up to the Communiverse after desperately trying to make contact with space. There, they assume he is Earth’s ambassador to the rest of the universe.
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‘How To Train Your Dragon’ (Live-Action) – Theaters – June 13, 2025
Image Credit: GettyParamount Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Mason Thames and Nico Parker will star as Hiccup and Astrid in Universal’s live-action take on the DreamWorks Animation success that was its How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Gerard Butler, who voiced Stoic the Vast in the animated films, also portrays the live-action version of the Viking. Nick Frost play Gobber, previously voiced by Craig Ferguson.
Julian Dennison (Y2K, Deadpool 2), Gabriel Howell (Nightsleeper, Bodies), Bronwyn James (Wicked, Masters of the Air) and Harry Trevaldwyn (The Bubble, Ten Percent) play Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, respectively.
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‘F1’ – Theaters – June 27, 2025
Image Credit: James Sutton/Getty Images Brad Pitt’s next film, F1, will race into theaters in June. The film also stars Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin, Better Call Saul), Javier Bardem (Skyfall, No Country For Old Men), Tobias Menzies (Manhunt, Outlander), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso, I May Destroy You), Kim Bodnia (Pusher, The Bridge) and Samson Kayo (The Bubble, Our Flag Means Death). Professional drivers who will also star as themselves include Esteban Ocon and Carlos Sainz.
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‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ – Theaters – July 2, 2025
Image Credit: Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment The fourth film in the Jurassic World franchise stars Jonathan Bailey, Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcio-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain and Ed Skrein. With a release date of July 2, 2025, the film is looking at a great window at the box office kicking off the Fourth of July frame in the U.S.
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‘Superman’ – Theaters – July 11, 2025
Image Credit: Warner Bros. / DC Studios James Gunn’s latest take on the Man of Steel is not only launching a franchise but the new DC slate that Gunn oversees along with Peter Safran. Superman stars David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as Superman’s arch nemesis Lex Luthor. María Gabriela de Faría stars as The Engineer. The ensemble includes Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, Sean Gunn, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Isabel Merced and Nathan Fillion.
The trailer for the film became the most-watched trailer for a DC Studios film, according to Gunn.
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‘Fantastic Four: The First Steps’ – Theaters – July 25, 2025
Image Credit: Marvel Marking the first time Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige get their hands on everyone’s favorite foursome since the Fox-Disney merger, Fantastic Four: The First Steps stars Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the Thing.
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‘Freakier Friday’ – Theaters – August 8, 2025
Image Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage/Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney The long-awaited sequel to 2013’s Freaky Friday will arrive in the summer with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis returning as mother-and-daughter dynamic duo. Chad Michael Murray reprises his role from the first film playing Jake, the first love interest of Lohan’s Anna. Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Michell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao also return.
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‘Tron: Ares’ – Theaters – October 10, 2025
Image Credit: Leah Gallo/Disney Tron: Ares revs into theaters in October, with Jared Leto starring in the newest installment of the franchise, directed by Joachim Rønning. Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, Hasan Minhaj, Gillian Anderson and Sarah Desjardins round out the cast.
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‘The Black Phone 2’ – Theaters – October 17, 2025
Image Credit: Getty/Ken Wagon/Alex Kruk/Getty/Mark Thompson Scott Derrickson and Ethan Hawke return for the sequel to the 2021 Blumhouse hit that followed a boy who, after being kidnapped by a serial killer, begins receiving calls from the killer’s previous victims on a disconnected phone.
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‘Predator: Badlands’ – Theaters – November 7, 2025
Image Credit: Gareth Gatrell; Everett Collection Following the success of the 2022 Predator pic Prey, Dan Trachtenberg is back as director and launches a new universe for the iconic character. In Predator: Badlands, the infamous creature faces off against Elle Fanning.
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‘Wicked: For Good’ (‘Wicked: Part Two’) – Theaters – November 21, 2025
Image Credit: Universal Pictures The conclusion to the story as told by Jon M. Chu, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey and many more. Following the soaring ending in Part One of Erivo flying around singing “Defying Gravity,” the second film will release in theaters the weekend before Thanksgiving.
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‘Zootopia 2’ – Theaters – November 26, 2025
Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection Zootopia 2, which follows the original animated film that won the Oscar in 2017, arrives in theaters Thanksgiving week. Shakira will return to voice Gazelle, while Ke Huy Quan will voice a snake named Gary.
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The original film, which featured the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Bonnie Hunt, J.K. Simmons and more, grossed more than $1 billion at the global box office.
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‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ – Theaters – December 19, 2025
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox / Everett Collection Avatar 3, titled Avatar: Fire and Ash, will arrive in theaters the weekend before Christmas. Director James Cameron and stars Zoe Saldaña and Sam Worthington took the stage at D23 2024 to show off concept art and a look at the fire Na’Vi people, as footage was not yet ready.
The ash people have been teased in a few pieces of concept art from the film. “Fire has a symbolic purpose in the film and there’s a culture that is specifically around that concept,” Cameron told Deadline in January 2024. “That’s probably saying too much as we speak.”
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‘Marty Supreme’ – Theaters – December 25, 2025
Image Credit: Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images A year from the theatrical release of A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold starring Timothée Chalamet as the music icon, theaters will get another Chalamet film, Marty Supreme. From A24 and directed by Josh Safdie, it stars Chalamet as ping pong player Marty Reisman. Ronald Bronstein penned the script with Safdie.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler The Creator, Odessa A’zion, Fran Drescher, Sandra Bernhard and Spenser Granese also are in the cast.
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‘The Housemaid’ – Theaters – December 25, 2025
Image Credit: Getty Images Some anticipated films already have Christmas 2025 release dates, and The Housemaid adapted from Freida McFadden’s bestselling book is one of them. The film stars Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. Paul Feig will direct Rebecca Sonnenshine’s screenplay.
Sweeney plays Millie, a young woman struggling in life who gets a chance to start over as housemaid to Seyfried’s Nina and Sklenar’s Andrew, a wealthy couple whose sinister family secrets are discovered by Millie. Michele Morrone, who will also star in Feig’s A Simple Favor sequel, is set to appear as well.