What will be the biggest movie highlights in 2025? We take a look at the new year and, based on reservations, show you what most movie fans are looking forward to besides Avatar 3.
As in previous years, we at Moviepilot are looking at the most reserved films of 2024 to find out which cinema and streaming highlights you are most looking forward to. 25 films, covering everything from action and sci-fi adventures to horror and fantasy, already point to a varied new year. Stars like Brad Pitt as a Formula One driver and Clint Eastwood in what is likely to be his last directorial effort want to delight film fans. (Data as of December 23, 2024)
Rank 25 to 16 of the 2025 film highlights
Platz 25: F1 – Kinostart: 26. Juni 2025
Platz 24. Queer – Kinostart 2. Januar 2025
Platz 23: Like a Complete Unknown – Kinostart: 27. Februar 2025
Platz 22: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – Netflix-Start: noch unbekannt
21. Criminal Squad 2 – in theaters January 16, 2024
20. The Fantastic Four: First Steps – in theaters July 24, 2024
19. Thunderbolts* – in theaters May 1, 2025
18. Babygirl – in theaters January 30, 2025
17. The Amateur – in theaters April 10, 2025
16. Juror 2 – in theaters January 16, 2025
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Rank 15 to 6 of the film highlights of 2025
Rank 15: Final Destination 6: Bloodlines – Release date: May 15, 2025
Rank 14: Return to Silent Hill – Start date: still unknown
Rank 13: Havoc – Start date: still unknown
12: Captain America 4: Brave New World – in theaters February 13, 2025
11: Wolf Man – in theaters January 23, 2025
10: The Electric State – on Netflix March 14, 2025
9. From the World of John Wick: Ballerina – in theaters June 5, 2025
8. The Brutalist – in theaters January 30, 2025
7. Mission: Impossible 8 – The Final Reckoning – in theaters May 21, 2025
6. Tron: Ares – in theaters October 9, 2025
5. The most anticipated films of 2025: The Incredibles 3
A gang of thieves returns in 2025: In Now You See Me 3, Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) once again brings together the cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher magicians, to teach us how to be amazed as they pull off their next heist thriller after Now You See Me (2013) and Now You See Me 2 (2016). Stars Morgan Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan and Mark Ruffalo from the previous films are also back on board.
Reservations: 154
Cinema release: December 17, 2025
4th place among the most eagerly awaited films of 2025: Mickey 17
After being repeatedly postponed, the time has finally come in 2025: the crazy sci-fi adventure Mickey 17 by Parasite director Bong Joon-ho is coming to cinemas. Robert Pattinson plays the expendable worker Mickey, who is sent to colonize an ice planet. Whenever he is killed, a new clone of himself is simply awakened. It only becomes problematic when suddenly two Mickey copies fight simultaneously for the chance to exist.
Pre-orders: 170
Theatrical release: December 17, 2025
3rd most anticipated movie of 2025: Avatar 3
At the end of 2025, James Cameron is following up his science fiction epic on the planet Pandora and once again visually demonstrates what cinema can do in Avatar 3: Fire and Ash. After exploring the forest in Avatar (2009) and the water in Avatar 2: The Way of Water (2022), the first concept images for part 3 already showed nomadic air tribes of the Na’vi, but not yet the opposing clan of the fiery Ash People.
Reservations: 263
Cinema release: December 17, 2025
2nd place most anticipated movies 2025: Nosferatu
Nosferatu – The Undead is the remake of the 102-year-old fantasy horror film Nosferatu, a symphony of horror with which F.W. Murnau brazenly made his own unauthorized Dracula copy in 1922. Director Robert Eggers has already proven his flair for thrilling and eerie works with atmospheric films such as The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman, and so the reviews from overseas have already celebrated his new version of the vampire classic as a “mesmerizing, macabre masterpiece”.
Reservations: 280
Theatrical release: June 19, 2025
Number 1 of the most anticipated films of 2025: 28 Years Later
The fact that the recently released first trailer broke viewership records should make it clear: After 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007), many horror fans are looking forward to seeing how the post-apocalyptic world in which zombie-like infected people became a danger when they ran will continue in 28 Years Later in 2025. Especially since Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) returned to the franchise after Part 1 and once again wrote the script with Alex Garland (Civil War).
Predictions: 281
Theatrical release: June 19, 2025
During the course of 2025, other highlights will surely be added that no one currently has on their radar. We have left out films such as Riddick 4: Furya and The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection, which have been noted with great interest but whose release in 2025 is not yet certain.
