Do you need a hand mapping out your epic year of movies in 2025? That's where we come in. Scroll down and take inspiration from the multitude of horrors, family-friendly adventures, action movies and comic book odyssey hearing your way over the next 12 months.
January:
Nosferatu (released January 3rd)
Robert Eggers has cemented himself as a modern master of Gothic horror movies via The Witch (2016) and The Lighthouse (2020) while 2022's The Northman saw him branch out into epic Viking mythology.
He now teams up with IT actor Bill Skarsgard to put a deliciously creepy new spin on the 1922 vampire classic Nosferatu, which is loosely based on Bram Stoker's seminal 1897 novel Dracula. Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson co-star.
We Live in Time (released January 3rd)
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh cook up serious on-screen chemistry in this non-linear weepie from director John Crowley, the man behind the acclaimed 2015 Colm Toibin adaptation Brooklyn.
Watch Garfield and Pugh's lovestruck central couple experience their first-ever meet-cute, followed by a slow-burn romance and many ups and downs. In telling the story out of order, Crowley reminds the viewer that life has a mysterious plan for us all – the key is how we react in the heat of the moment.
Mickey 17 (UK release date TBC)
Bong Joon-ho is possibly the finest director working in cinema right now. From his 2003 debut Memories of Murder, a darkly satirical, ripped-from-the-headlines murder mystery, to the multi-Oscar-winning triumph Parasite (2020), the director excels at keeping us off-balance in that nebulous grey area between humour and horror.
He now adapts Edward Ashton's bestselling sci-fi novel Mickey7 as the offbeat sci-fi movie Mickey 17. Robert Pattinson stars as the eponymous Mickey, an interstellar blue-collar grunt who has himself cloned to ensure his grinding mission at the coalface continues after the previous clone dies. Expect more off-kilter observations about morality and humanity in a film that co-stars Toni Collete, Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun and Naomi Ackie.
February:
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (released February 14th)
Renee Zellweger returns to her signature role as the lovelorn, and utterly loveable, Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. In the previous film Bridget Jones' Baby, the title character gave birth to her son, the father being Bridget's on-off love interest Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
The latter is now tragically out of the picture and Bridget faces the end of her hedonistic singledom as middle-age looms. Unfortunately for her (but fortunately for us the viewers), Hugh Grant's hilariously caddish Daniel Cleaver is about to re-enter the scene...
Captain America: Brave New World (released February 14th)
Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) continues with Captain America: Brave New World as Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), formerly the Falcon, takes over the Captain America mantle from Steve Rogers (Chris Evans).
The fourth Captain America movie appears to be taking its cue from 2014's acclaimed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, conveying the air of a paranoid conspiracy thriller as Wilson clashes with President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford), later to become the rampaging Red Hulk.
Scream 7 (released February 27th)
Do you like scary movies? Well, good news, because the infamous Ghostface killer is back to carve up a whole host of new victims in the seventh Scream movie.
Initiated by the late Wes Craven in collaboration with screenwriter Kevin Williamson, the hit horror franchise found new life under the Radio Silence team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet. More significantly, Scream 7 sees the return of Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott who was absent from film #6 over a salary dispute.
March:
Snow White (released March 21st)
Disney's live-action remake machine continues apace with its glossy take on the groundbreaking 1937 animation.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves cemented Walt Disney's house style after initially being written off as a folly – indeed, it won seven Oscars in a special Academy Awards presentation. Now, Rachel Zegler portrays the plucky Snow White while Gal Gadot plays the cackling Evil Queen who will stop at nothing to see the title character dead.
April:
A Minecraft Movie (released April 4th)
Everyone's favourite 'Peaches' vocalist Jack Black takes the lead role in this adaptation of the world-conquering video game franchise. Black plays Minecraft character Steve and Aquaman's Jason Momoa plays Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison. Will Minecraft mine the success of similar app adaptations like Angry Birds?
May:
Thunderbolts (released May 2nd)
Phase Five of the MCU concludes with Thunderbolts, an action-packed twist on the Marvel team formula. Prepare to meet the Thunderbolts – they're not the Avengers but they pack a punch and the ensemble is packed with enough variation to keep fans interested.
Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova and David Harbour's Red Guardian, both of whom we first met in 2021's Black Widow, take centre stage. Also in the frame: Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier and Julia Louis Dreyfus' Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, among others.
Mission Impossible 8 (released May 23rd)
It feels like only yesterday that we caught our breath with that Tom Cruise bike stunt in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part I (2023). We now get the dramatic conclusion to the global hunt for the Entity, the A.I. program with the capability to determine our planet's future.
Cruise's breakneck IMF agent Ethan Hunt is again joined by Hayley Atwell's Grace and Simon Pegg's Benji, among others, as he continues to fight the Entity's human surrogate Gabriel (Esai Morales). Director Christopher McQuarrie promises to propel us to all manner of global locations, including the snow-bound Arctic, as the action set-pieces continue to escalate in ambition and intensity.
June:
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (released June 6th)
Can the smash-hit John Wick series sustain itself when Keanu Reeves' deadly assassin steps to one side? We'll find out next year but the Ballerina spin-off movie has a big advantage in the form of star Ana de Armas, who more than proved her action chops with her role as Paloma in James Bond movie No Time to Die (2021).
De Armas' eponymous Ballerina takes her stylistic cue from Wick (who appears in this film). Namely, she looks damn stylish sporting natty threads while ruthlessly dispatching armies of goons in strobe-laden nightclubs.
Elio (released June 13th)
Pixar's Inside Out 2 was the biggest hit of 2024 and reminded us all why we fell in love with the studio's films in the first place. Primarily, it's about the arresting visuals mixed with profound, but not preachy, moral lessons and razor-sharp humour.
Pixar's 2025 follow-up movie Elio therefore has a lot to live up to. It's the story of an underdog kid with an active imagination who finds himself inadvertently beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide. Expect the usual eye-popping visuals and trenchant emotional lessons, topped off by a talented voice cast including Jameela Jamil and Zoe Saldaña.
How to Train Your Dragon live-action (released June 13th)
Snow White and Lilo & Stitch aren't the only animations getting a live-action kick in the pants in 2025. DreamWorks' hugely popular How to Train Your Dragon series is also being rendered in flesh and blood terms, starting with the very first entry.
If you're dubious, feel assured by the fact that helmer Dean DeBlois is back behind the camera and composer John Powell is returning to adapt his stirring orchestral melodies. In the live-action role of the Viking-turned-dragon-rider Hiccup: The Black Phone breakout Mason Thames.
28 Years Later (released June 20th)
in 2002, the Danny Boyle-directed, Alex Garland-scripted chiller 28 Days Later revitalised the zombie movie with its raw, cinema-verite style. Of course, it wasn't a zombie film at all but rather the story of a raging plague that gripped the UK, a John Wyndham-esque premise that electrified audiences and resulted in a sequel, 28 Weeks Later (2007).
The latter movie left us hanging as to the global implications of the terrifying Rage virus. We now jump ahead two and a bit decades to witness the inevitably grisly and catastrophic fallout in 28 Years Later. Boyle and Garland are back as creatives, as is the original film's Cillian Murphy. Series newcomers include the luminaries Ralph Fiennes and Jodie Comer.
F1 (released June 25th)
Brad Pitt is in pole position in F1, a sleek, fast-moving racing drama from the Top Gun: Maverick dream team of director Joseph Kosinski, screenwriter Ehren Kruger and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Can this story of a washed-up Formula One driver aiming to return to glory do for the racing track what Maverick did for aerial combat? It remains to be seen but much has been made of the production's on-location filming at the cradle of British motor racing, Silverstone. Damson Idris, Javier Bardem and Kerry Condon co-star.
M3GAN 2.0 (released June 27th)
At the start of 2023, humanoid robot M3GAN memed her way to box office gold in the film of the same name. M3GAN was laced with a refreshing sense of self-aware camp even as it mined our queasy dependency on AI and automation. Now, series creatives Gerald Johnstone, Akiva Schaffer and James Wan are back to resolve the first film's shock twist, which revealed that M3GAN hadn't died at all but evolved...
July:
Jurassic World Rebirth (released July 2nd)
Rogue One and The Creator director Gareth Edwards helms Jurassic World Rebirth, the new instalment of the blockbusting Jurassic World series, itself an offshoot of the Jurassic Park franchise.
Scarlett Johansson leads the all-star cast alongside Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey. The official synopsis is as follows: "Five years after the events of Jurassic World: Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind."
Superman (released July 11th)
DC Studios chief exec and Guardians of the Galaxy helmer James Gunn is back behind the camera to bring us a fresh take on the Man of Steel's origin story. David Corenswet dons the insignia as Krypton's most famous son while Rachel Brosnahan plays his human paramour Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult is the fiendish Lex Luthor.
Expect appearances from fan favourites Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, Metamorpho and more in the first instalment of the DC Universe (DCU), a reboot of the previous DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (released July 25th)
Marvel's OG superhero family the Fantastic Four is set to return to the big screen as the misfit superhero team prepares to make its long-overdue debut in the MCU.
The internet's favourite dad Pedro Pascal will be playing Reed Richards aka the stretchy Mr Fantastic. Pascal will be joined by Napoleon and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman.
Right behind them is Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things) as Johnny Storm AKA The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) as Ben Grimm AKA walking talking rock-humanoid The Thing.
September:
Saw XI (released September 26th)
The limb-lopping Saw series was freshly rejuvenated in 2023's Saw X, which was praised for sneaking more emotional undercurrents into the horrific origin story of master serial killer John Kramer/Jigsaw (Tobin Bell).
Bell returns for Saw XI in which we can expect all manner of ghastly new traps and revelations.
The Bride! (released September 26th)
Actor Maggie Gyllenhaal turns director to bring us her uniquely twisted take on the classic Universal Studios monster movie property The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley portrays the tragic creation The Bride and she's backed by an all-star supporting cast including Christian Bale, Penelope Cruz and Gyllenhaal's real-life spouse Peter Sarsgaard.
November:
Bugonia (released November 7th)
Director Yorgos Lanthimos and actor Emma Stone have cemented an impeccable partnership via their Oscar-winning hits The Favourite (2019) and Poor Things (2024). They also collaborated on the pitch-black anthology movie Kinds of Kindness (2024).
Their new movie is a remake of the quirky South Korean film Save the Green Planet! (2003). Stone plays a pharmaceutical CEO who is kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists convinced that she's about the destroy the world. Expect to be amused, discombobulated and alarmed in the classic Lanthimos/Stone manner.
Wicked Part 2 (released November 21st)
The first part of the epic big-screen Stephen Schwartz adaptation Wicked hit our screens in 2024. Now, we get the climactic instalment in the story of Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo). Will you be walking the yellow brick road back to Cineworld on its release?
Zootropolis 2 (released November 26th)
The utterly delightful Zootropolis was one of Disney's finest stand-alone animations in recent years. It explored a teeming, bustling metropolis inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, a tribal society built on predator and prey, which gave rise to all manner of terrific jokes and potent emotional undercurrents.
Zootropolis 2 is set to pick up with plucky rabbit cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) who must go undercover with her sly fox sidekick Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) in Marsh Market to track down a mysterious reptile.
December:
Avatar: Fire and Ash (released December 19th)
Director James Cameron's Avatar (2009) broke new ground in its use of performance-capture CGI. The pioneering director between The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Titanic (1997) swept us into the lushly exotic world of Pandora, seamlessly mixing live-action performance with all manner of photo-realistic creations.
Avatar became the most financially successful movie of its day and the 2022 sequel Avatar: The Way of Water replicated the success, becoming the third-highest-grossing movie of all time.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is the third out of five proposed Avatar sequels, extending the Pandoran mythology and the destiny of manifold characters including Sam Worthington's Jake Sully, Zoe Saldaña's Neytiri, Sigourney Weaver's Kiri, Stephen Lang's Quaritch and Kate Winslet's Ronal.
We imagine that's enough movies for you to be getting on with, so start mapping out your 2025 calendar now.
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