Anticipated Films for 2025
by jacob_wollner | created - 31 Oct 2022 | updated - 1 week ago | PublicThis is a list of anticipated films for 2025 including popular, festival favorites, and award season prospects. Let me know if any should be added.
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2. Untitled Tom Cruise/SpaceX Project
Pre-production
Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman travel far beyond Earth to film the first ever Hollywood motion picture in outer space
Director: Doug Liman | Star: Tom Cruise
3. Fast X: Part 2 (2025)
Action, Crime, Thriller | Pre-production
Plot kept under wraps.
Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Jason Statham, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Momoa
4. The Fantastic Four (2025)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
One of Marvel's most iconic families makes it back to the big screen, the Fantastic Four.
Director: Matt Shakman | Stars: Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, Julia Garner, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
5. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2026)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
Plot under wraps.
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Tenoch Huerta
6. Wicked: Part Two (2025)
Family, Fantasy, Musical | Pre-production
Follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo
7. How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
Action, Adventure, Comedy | Filming
Follows a young Viking as he aspires to hunt dragons, and how he becomes unexpectedly a friend of a young dragon.
Director: Dean DeBlois | Stars: Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn
8. Tinker Bell
Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Announced
A live-action spin on the character Tinker Bell.
Star: Reese Witherspoon
9. Superman (2025)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Filming
Follows the titular superhero as he reconciles his heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way in a world that views this as old-fashioned.
Director: James Gunn | Stars: Isabela Merced, Nathan Fillion, Nicholas Hoult, David Corenswet
10. Tron: Ares (2025)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Filming
Showcases Ares, Leto's computer program, on a journey from the digital world to the human one.
Director: Joachim Rønning | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Evan Peters, Cameron Monaghan, Jared Leto
11. Minecraft (2025)
Action, Adventure, Family | Post-production
The malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, prompting a young girl and her group of unlikely adventurers to set out to save the Overworld.
Director: Jared Hess | Stars: Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Jennifer Coolidge, Kate McKinnon
13. M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Filming
Plot under wrap.
Director: Gerard Johnstone | Stars: Violet McGraw, Allison Williams, Ivanna Sakhno, Jenna Davis
14. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two (2025)
Action, Adventure, Thriller | Post-production
The 8th entry in the long running Mission Impossible franchise.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Katy O'Brian, Tom Cruise, Hannah Waddingham, Vanessa Kirby
15. Riddick: Furya
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Filming
It follows Riddick as he returns to his home world, a place he barely remembers and one he fears might be left in ruins. He finds other Furyans fighting for their existence against a new enemy.
Director: David Twohy | Star: Vin Diesel
16. Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Post-production
Plot kept under wraps. Fourth movie in the Captain America franchise.
Director: Julius Onah | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rosa Salazar, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson
17. Thunderbolts (2025)
Action, Adventure, Crime | Filming
A group of supervillains are recruited to go on missions for the government.
Director: Jake Schreier | Stars: Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, Olga Kurylenko, Sebastian Stan
18. Blade (2025)
Action, Fantasy, Horror | Pre-production
Plot under wraps.
Director: Yann Demange | Stars: Mia Goth, Mahershala Ali, Delroy Lindo
19. Creed IV
Action, Drama | Pre-production
Director: Michael B. Jordan | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Michael B. Jordan, Mila Davis-Kent
20. Snow White (2025)
Adventure, Drama, Family | Post-production
Live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney animated film 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'.
Director: Marc Webb | Stars: Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Martin Klebba, Andrew Burnap
22. Avatar 3 (2025)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Post-production
Sequel of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The plot is unknown.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang
23. Top Gun 3
Action | Announced
Plot kept under wraps.
Stars: Glen Powell, Tom Cruise, Miles Teller
24. Michael (2025)
Biography, Drama, History | Post-production
The story of the famous musician Michael Jackson, known as the King of Pop.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Miles Teller, Kat Graham, Colman Domingo, Nia Long
25. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
Action, Adventure, Family | Pre-production
It follows Kara Zor-El's story and her darker origin before she finally made her way to Earth.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Star: Milly Alcock
26. Jurassic World 4 (2025)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
Plot under wraps.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey
27. Ballerina (2025)
Action, Thriller | Post-production
A young female assassin seeks revenge against the people who killed her family.
Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ian McShane
28. Mickey 17 (2025)
139 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | Post-production
To stop his substitute clone Mickey8 from supplanting him, Mickey7, an expendable robot, is dispatched to an icy planet to settle it.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie
29. Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Event Film (2025)
Crime, Drama, Thriller | Filming
Plot under wraps
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Wood Harris, Teyana Taylor
30. The Bride (2025)
Drama, Horror, Romance | Filming
In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change.
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz
31. The Smashing Machine (2025)
Biography, Drama | Pre-production
The story of mixed-martial arts and UFC champion Mark Kerr.
Director: Benny Safdie | Stars: Emily Blunt, Dwayne Johnson, Lyndsey Gavin
32. Untitled Daniels/Universal Event Film (2026)
Pre-production
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
33. Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
A story that is set 25,000 years before Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) as focuses on the discovery of the Force.
Director: James Mangold
34. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
Comedy, Drama, Romance | Pre-production
The fourth in the series of British romantic comedies.
Director: Michael Morris | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Leo Woodall, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
35. The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection - Chapter I (2025)
Drama | Pre-production
A sequel to The Passion of the Christ (2004) focuses on the events that occurred three days between the crucifixion and resurrection when Jesus Christ descended to Abraham's Bosom to preach and resurrect Old Testament saints.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Francesco De Vito
36. The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection - Chapter II
Drama | Pre-production
Plot unknown. Second part to the 'The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection'.
Director: Mel Gibson | Star: Jim Caviezel
37. The Running Man
Sci-Fi | Announced
The futuristic United States of 2025 when the world has become a dystopia.
Director: Edgar Wright | Star: Glen Powell
38. The Naked Gun (2025)
Action, Comedy | Pre-production
Based off the widely popular comedy franchise The Naked Gun and television series "Police Squad!" by Jim Abrahams and David Zucker and Jerry Zucker.
Director: Akiva Schaffer | Stars: Liam Neeson, Paul Walter Hauser, Pamela Anderson, Cody Rhodes
39. Untitled Damien Chazelle Project
Thriller | Announced
Plot kept under wraps.
Director: Damien Chazelle
40. Knives Out 3
Comedy, Crime, Drama | Pre-production
Plot unknown. Sequel to 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery'.
Director: Rian Johnson | Star: Daniel Craig
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