IMDb Staff Picks: The Most Anticipated Movies and Series of 2025
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- CreatorsMatt DufferRoss DufferStarsMillie Bobby BrownFinn WolfhardWinona RyderIn 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries.
- CreatorDan EricksonStarsAdam ScottBritt LowerZach CherryMark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsRobert PattinsonSteven YeunMichael MonroeMickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
- DirectorHaruo SotozakiStarsNatsuki HanaeYoshitsugu MatsuokaHiro ShimonoThe Demon Slayer Corps plunge into Infinity Castle to defeat Muzan. However, the remaining Hashiras and the Demon Slayers who survived Tanjiro's Final Selection are pitted against the remaining members of the Twelve Kizuki first.
- DirectorDean DeBloisStarsMason ThamesNico ParkerGerard ButlerAs an ancient threat endangers both Vikings and dragons alike on the isle of Berk, the friendship between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and Toothless, a Night Fury dragon, becomes the key to both species forging a new future together.
- CreatorNick SantoraStarsAlan RitchsonMaria StenMalcolm GoodwinItinerant former military policeman Jack Reacher solves crimes and metes out his own brand of street justice. Based on the novels by Lee Child.
- DirectorJames GunnStarsNicholas HoultRachel BrosnahanNathan FillionFollows the titular superhero as he reconciles his heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way in a world that views this as old-fashioned.
- DirectorsJared BushByron HowardStarsJason BatemanFortune FeimsterGinnifer GoodwinBrave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers.
- DirectorJon M. ChuStarsCynthia ErivoAriana GrandeJeff GoldblumFollows 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.
- StarsHudson ThamesEugene ByrdColman DomingoThe animated series follows Peter Parker on his way to becoming Spider-Man in the MCU, with a journey unlike we've ever seen and a style that celebrates the character's early comic book roots.
- CreatorsCraig MazinNeil DruckmannStarsPedro PascalBella RamseyBrendan RozarioAfter a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsAaron Taylor-JohnsonRalph FiennesJack O'ConnellA group of survivors of the rage virus lives on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsZoe SaldañaKate WinsletSigourney WeaverSequel of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The plot is unknown.
- DirectorRian JohnsonStarsCailee SpaenyDaniel CraigJosh BrolinBenoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet. Sequel to 'Glass Onion (2022)'.
- DirectorNisha GanatraStarsJulia ButtersJamie Lee CurtisChad Michael MurrayYears after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsTom BurkeCate BlanchettMichael FassbenderWhen intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
- StarsGary OldmanJack LowdenKristin Scott ThomasFollows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.
- DirectorJonathan EusebioStarsKe Huy QuanAriana DeBoseMustafa ShakirA realtor is pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner-in-crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past and the history he never fully buried.
- DirectorAmy BergStarsJeff BuckleyBen HarperNever-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley's inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsRalph InesonMia GothOscar IsaacDr. Pretorius tracks down Frankenstein's monster, who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before, in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
- DirectorSteve WolshStarAlexander WardTaking place 18 months after the events at the UNEEDA Warehouse in Louisville, KY, a new Trioxin 2-4-5 leak puts a small Pennsylvania town on the brink of a zombie outbreak during Christmas 1985.
- CreatorRian JohnsonStarsNatasha LyonneBenjamin BrattSimon HelbergCharlie has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can't help but investigate and solve.
- CreatorMark L. SmithStarsTaylor KitschBetty GilpinDane DeHaanIt follows the gritty and adventurous exploration of the birth of the American West, the violent collisions of cults, religion, and men and women fighting for control of the new world.
- CreatorsEric NewmanNoah OppenheimMichael SchmidtStarsRobert De NiroJesse PlemonsLizzy CaplanIn the midst of crisis: how can we discover the truth when it seems that the world is being destroyed by uncontrollable forces? Also, to what extent are conspiracy theories our own inventions or products of our imagination?