50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025

Should you want to rekindle that old early-2000s-action-comedy feeling, Netflix is happy to oblige with this throwback starring Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx as a married couple who used to be C.I.A. agents. Then some old enemies still nursing grudges come after them and their family, and guess who’s suddenly not retired from active duty anymore? Speaking of retirement: It’s nice to see Diaz back, kicking asses and taking names and, per the trailer, poppin’ wheelies on motorcycles and then hitting bad guys with said motorcycles.

Steven Soderbergh has never met a genre he didn’t want to tweak, revise and/or give the chopped & screwed treatment to, and this time, one of the most versatile American auteurs working today decides to renovate the haunted-house movie. After a matriarch (Lucy Liu) and her just-south-of-dysfunctional family move into their New Jersey dream home, they begun to suspect that they’re not the only occupants residing in the place. The twist of sorts here: Soderbergh shoots the film from the perspective of the restless spectre whizzing throughout the hallways.

Just your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-takes-girl-away-to-chill-with-friends-in-remote-countryside, boy-eventually-hunts-girl-with-gun romance — you know the drill. The fact that trailers have been crowing that writer-director Drew Hancock’s thriller comes from “the studio that brought you The Notebook … and the creators of Barbarian” give you a hint of the sick sense of humor at work here. We’ll also note that you may want go into this as cold as possible, given that there’s a very big secret at the center of it. Trust us on this. The Boys‘ Jack Quaid is, ironically, the boy; Heretic‘s Sophie Thatcher is the girl; Rupert Friend, Lukas Gage, Never Have I Ever‘s Megan Suri and What We Do in the Shadows‘ Harvey Guillén costar.

You may have forgotten that, in between gracing The Goonies as a child actor and kicking much ass in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Quan worked as a stunt coordinator; this star vehicle for the Oscar winner will certainly remind you that the dude has serious fight-scene chops. A small-town realtor finds that his past as an enforcer for his gangster brother (Daniel Wu) has caught up with him, when some thugs pay a visit in the name of payback. It seems that, once upon a time, he was supposed to whack a fellow criminal associate named Rose (Ariana DeBose) and ended up letting her go. Now they want to whack him. The thing about being a professional killer, however, is that it’s similar to riding a bike: Even if you haven’t done it in years, the skills comes right back to you after a second or two. From the makers of the Bob-Odenkirk-goes-John-Wick movie Nobody (which, it’s worth noting, has its own sequel coming out on August 15th).

Filmmaker/bandleader/human-music-encyclopedia Ahmir Thompson — you know him as Questlove — follows up his invaluable 2021 documentary Summer of Soul with this deep-dive portrait of Sylvester Stewart, the ex-radio D.J. who turned Sly & the Family Stone into one of the most groundbreaking bands of all time. Then he hit a rocky patch in the mid-1970s and never fully recovered. Expect loads of vintage live footage that attests to what a dynamite band they were and why Stone was considered such a revolutionary breaker of musical boundaries, but the doc’s subtitle — “The Burden of Black Genius” — suggests Questlove is also going after bigger cultural game as well.

The first big MCU release of 2025 builds off of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which saw Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) picking up the shield and donning the red, white and blue costume of his former Avengers associate. Our new Captain America must now figure out who’s behind a conspiracy to assassinate President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford, who’s an old hand at this POTUS-under-fire game) involving, among other things, a super soldier turned into a Manchurian Candidate-style sleeper agent. Complicating manners even further: Ross has a tendency to occasionally turn into a red-hued version of the Hulk known in the comics as [checks notes] Red Hulk. Danny Ramirez is Wilson’s literal wingman, having become the new Falcon; Unorthodox‘s Shira Haas is an ex-Black Widow operative; Giancarlo Espositio and Tim Blake Nelson provide the supervillainy.

A top U.S. military sniper (Miles Teller) is given a very specific — and somewhat peculiar — assignment: stand watch over a chasm in the middle of nowhere. On the other side of this giant hole in the ground is another expert marksman (Anya Taylor-Joy) from Eastern Europe, who’s also been tasked with presiding over what’s known as “the gorge.” Neither are supposed to communicate with each other. They eventually form a long-distance–ish bond. Did we mention that what they’re guarding is also “the door to hell”? Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange, Sinister) directs.

Everyone’s favorite wry, pantless bear — sorry, Winnie the Pooh, your reign is finito! — returns, and this time, he’s in South America! After receiving a strange letter from his aunt in Peru, Paddington (once agin voiced by Ben Whishaw) heads down to make sure she’s ok. Good thing he did, too, because it turns out she’s gone missing while searching for the lost city of El Dorado. Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas offer the bear necessities as back-up for the tiny, furry star.

Say what you will about the cinematic-serial-killer-mix-tape that is Longlegs — the movie had a hell of a vibe and a crack marketing campaign. Director Osgood Perkins and his patrons at NEON are applying the same cryptic-plus-creepy formula to his new film, an adaptation of a Stephen King short story about a toy monkey that has tendency to cause mayhem when it claps its cymbals. Which is bad news for Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Sarah Levy and anyone else who is in close proximity to the li’l supernaturally cursed simian guy.

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning behemoth Parasite stars Robert Pattinson as a volunteer astronaut sent to colonize an icy, far-away planet. The mortality rate is high, so our deep-space explorer keeps getting endlessly “copied” after deaths by interstellar accidents, cosmic-Yeti maulings, etc. But his memories remain intact, however, which eventually causes a good old-fashioned existential crisis when some of his “multiples” start to share the same timeframes. Send in the clones! Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun and Blink Twice‘s Naomi Ackie join in the semi-satirical, dystopian sci-fi fun.

Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to 2017’s I Am Not a Witch starts with a woman named Shula (Susan Chardy) coming across a dead body in the road. The fact that she’s dressed exactly like Missy Elliott from “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” video, down to the silver helmet and puffy black jumpsuit, shows you that Nyoni has a wicked sense of humor; the revelation that the corpse is “Uncle Fred,” a well-known pedophile who chronically abused the village’s young women for years without consequences, demonstrates that the movie is also not fucking around. A pointed take on the social protections afforded to predators to avoid “awkwardness,” the unnecessary shame shared by survivors and the need to call out complicity and speak out regardless of such stigmas. God bless A24 for finally bringing their sleeper hit from last year’s Cannes to a theater near you.

Steven Soderbergh — that guy again! — delivers a spy thriller in which Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett are a couple both working within the intelligence world. Unlike the Back in Action spouses (see above), they’re anything but retired, and try to keep a church-and-state separation between the personal and the professional. Those lines get blurred, however, when he’s tasked with plugging a leak, i.e. finding out who’s selling the agency’s secrets to potentially dangerous third parties. Anyone care to guess who the prime suspect is? Hint: He’s married to her. Regé Jean-Page, Tom Burke, Industry‘s Marisa Abela, Naomi Harris and Pierce Brosnan — no stranger to the spy-movie business himself, you may recall — round out the cast.

The latest from Joe and Anthony Russo (Avengers: Endgame) imagines a future in which a robot rebellion is put down and all mecha-insurgents all forced to live in a maximum-security area known as “the electric state.” Then a young woman (Millie Bobbie Brown) is told by a robot that her long-lost brother is somewhere within the no-man’s-land, and along with a soldier (Chris Pratt), they go off in search of her beloved kin. See, other than taking all of our jobs, AI is, like, totally helpful and cool!

Some 30 years ago, a massive pop star named Moretti (John Malkovich) disappeared from the public eye. Now, he’s organizing a comeback from his remote desert compound filled with hangers-on and a cult of fans to do his bidding. The star has also invited a young journalist named Ariel (Ayo Edebiri) — feel free to break out your copies of The Tempest now, folks — to document the process as he mounts his second chance at stardom. Let’s just say things get complicated in director Mark Anthony Green’s feature debut, and that next to John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich, this may be the role that John Malkovich was born to play.

Taking a momentary break from railing against the threat of fascism that currently looms on our political horizon, Robert De Niro stars in Barry Levinson’s Mob drama about Mafia bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello vying for the top spot in the nationwide criminal syndicate. The catch is: De Niro is playing both roles. Katherine Narducci, Debra Messing and Shōgun‘s Cosmo Jarvis costar.

The O.G. Disney animated joint gets the live-action treatment, with West Side Story‘s Rachel Ziegler as the fairest of them all, Andrew Burnap as one very charming prince, Gal Gadot as an evil queen (seriously, her character’s name on IMDb is listed as “Evil Queen”), and Ansu Kabia as the huntsman who suggests she hightail it into the woods tout de suite. As for the seven gents who take this fugitive princess in, Disney has heard the early complaints regarding outdated, and potentially offensive stereotypes and “reimagined” them as odd-looking CGI dudes. So long as they happen to be grumpy, sleepy and/or prone to sneezing, we’re sure everyone will be cool with it except conservative trolls, who’ve been on this remake since Ziegler’s casting was first announced and will go to great lengths to find culture-war ammunition in anything. The script is credited to Greta Gerwig, who wrote Barbie, and Erin Cressida Wilson, who penned the screenplay for Secretary, and we’re praying this is secretly an amalgamation of both of those two projects.

Holy shit, it’s happening: Adam Sandler is finally bringing back his the man who turned golf into a full-contact sport, in this long-awaited sequel to his 1996 breakthrough comedy. The trailer gives us glimpses of cameos from Bad Bunny and Travis Kelce, and we bet they’re not the only famous faces from the world of sports and pop culture to make guest appearances. We also bet that Happy has not totally mellowed with age; that his feud with Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) is about to nuclear; and that Sandler and longtime buddy/cowriter Tim Herlihy are about to make a lot of bros squeal like delighted schoolchildren. Now, about that potential Billy Madison sequel we’ve also been waiting for….

Driving through a nature preserve owned by a stinkin’ rich Big Pharma family, a dad (Paul Rudd) and his teen daughter (Jenna Ortega) hit an animal. Once they bring the poor thing to the main estate, everyone discovers it’s… a unicorn. Like, an actual unicorn! Scientists show up to study it, everyone seems stoked that these mythical creatures exist and all is well. Until the dead animal proves to be not-so-dead. And also, it’s extremely angry parents show up looking for their lost kin, and maybe you shouldn’t piss off a Momma Unicorn? Will Poulter, Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, Barry‘s Anthony Carrigan and Jessica Hynes are also along for this A24-sponsored ride.

Remember when you were like, “Yeah, I love playing Minecraft the game, but I sure do wish it was a live-action movie! Notably, one in which Jack Black and Jason Momoa and Danielle Brooks and that kid from Wednesday both created things with those blockity-shaped blocks and fought off monsters with blocky heads! That would be cool!” Well, the good suits at Warners somehow heard you say this and, following your exact casting specifications, made this a reality. If you can think it, and it’s also a potentially valuable I.P., they can build it. Kate McKinnon, Jermaine Clement and Jennifer Coolidge are also listed as cast members. We’re assuming they voice either enchanted golden apples or several totems of undying.

Ryan Coogler returns with a horror story featuring twin brothers — both played by his longtime leading man Michael B. Jordan — who stumble across something unholy happening in their small hometown circa the 1930s. The specifics of the story are scarce, but a) you get two MBJs for the price of one, b) you know the Creed/Black Panther director will undoubtedly tackle the supernatural aspects with his characteristic verve, and very likely socially conscious edge, and c) JFC, does this look scary!

He has given us bold reimaginations of supernatural family feuds, folk horror and Freudian-nightmare psychodramas — now, filmmaker Ari Aster gives us his take on the neo-Western. The word on the street is that it involves a a contemporary story of a sheriff in New Mexico who’s looking to level up in terms of law-enforcement gigs. Beyond that, all we know is that the cast is to die for: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, and Yellowstone‘s Luke Grimes all have plum parts. We can’t wait.

Andrew Ahn (Driveways, Fire Island) directs this remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy in which a young man (Bowen Yang) in need of a green card marries his friend (Kelly Marie Tran). It’s a completely transactional union, until his grandmother (Oscar-winner and Pachinko MVP Youn Yuh-jung) decides to throw him an extravagant, traditional wedding. She also does not know he’s got a long-term boyfriend as well. Lily Gladstone and Joan Chen costar.

We’ve got a soft spot for Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 action movie about a super-accountant on the spectrum played by Ben Affleck, whose work for criminal organizations eventually gets the numbers savant into a hell of a jam — so the news that the writer-director and his star were reteaming for a sequel was great news. Jon Bernthal and J.K. Simmons are set to revise their role from the first film, and we assume we’re going to get the exact same mix of math and mayhem, in that order.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been slowly developing a handful of memorable side characters who tend to straddle the line between good and evil — your Winter Soldiers, your Red Guardians, your U.S. Agents etc. Now, they’ve gathered many of them together as a team, and quicker than you can say “this sounds a lot like The Suicide Squad, to be honest,” they’ve been given their own movie in which they fight an even bigger, more devastating threat. The trailer does make this look like a lot of fun, and we’ll watch Florence Pugh do her irreverent, heavily accented Yelena Bolova act any day of the week, so….

Fellow fans of the video artist/filmmaker Kogonada (Columbus, After Yang), take heed: His latest work stars Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell as two strangers who, thanks to a magical GPS system, embark together on a [checks notes] big, bold, beautiful journey. Frankly, you had us at “Koganada’s new movie.” Dig this supporting cast: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jacqueline Novak, Billy Magnusson, Sarah Gadon.

Folks who caught Pharrell Williams’ LEGO-documemoir Piece by Piece last year may remember the musician talking about his upbringing in Virginia Beach’s Atlantis Apartments. Now, he and director Michel Gondry have crafted a 1970s coming-of-age movie set in that same complex — and they’ve also made it a musical, with original songs cowritten by Williams and the Dear Evan Hansen duo Benji Pasek and Justin Paul. We’re guessing that poignancy and whimsy are on the proverbial menu. The all-star cast includes [deep breath] Kelvin Harrison Jr., Quinta Bronson, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Halle Bailey, Brian Tyree Henry, Missy Elliott, Janelle Monae, Anderson .Paak, André 3000, and Tim Meadows, among others.

So the last time we saw Ethan Hunt, superspy extraordinaire, he was paragliding to safety with one of the two keys that would hopefully help tame a sentient A.I. Now, Tom Cruise’s indefatigable hero of the Mission: Impossible series returns to finish the job. Filmed at the same time as 2023’s M:I — Dead Reckoning Part One, the second half of this latest (and last?) adventure was supposed to come out this past summer; personally, we’re glad they’re letting us have a breather between watching the megastar risk his life onscreen for our entertainment. Series regulars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby are back. Ditto the key folks (pun intended!) we met in the last installment: Haley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales and Shea Whigham. Dun-dun-dun-DUN, dun-dun-dun-DUN-DUN….

There was the original 1984 Karate Kid, who introduced us to Ralph Macchio’s martial-arts underdog and spawned sequels and the Netflix show Cobra Kai. And there was the 2010 remake, in which Jaden Smith is a tween mentored by Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han. Now, thanks to the miracle of inter-corporate I.P. melding, we know get a film that includes both of the big-name characters from each film. That’s a lot of kicking, people!

Writer-director Celine Song immediately established her voice as a filmmaker with the Oscar-nominated 2023 drama Past Lives. So we’re beyond excited to see her new film, in which Dakota Johnson is a professional matchmaker who, ironically, suffer from her own romantic woes. Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans costar as her potential suitors.

Attention, fellow die-hard John Wick fans (we guess you’d call us Wickheads?): The storyline of this franchise spin-off, about a dancer-assassin named Rooney (Ana de Armas) seeking vengeance for the murder of her family, takes places between the third and fourth Wick movies, which means that Keanu Reeves will be showing up as everyone’s favorite killer on the run. Ditto series regulars Ian MacShane, Angelica Huston and (RIP) Lance Reddick. Expect well-choreographed mayhem.

Oh goody, new Pixar! This animated adventure revolves around an 11-year-old named Elio who is convinced there are intelligent life forms somewhere out there in the galaxy. It turns out the boy was right. Not only that, these aliens think he’s Earth’s one true leader, and have beamed them up to an interstellar summit so he can represent our big blue marble while a gaggle of extraterrestrials try to avert total cosmic catastrophe. It’s codirected by Adrian Molina and Madeline Sharafian, both of whom worked on Coco; and Domee Shi, who’s responsible for our favorite Pixar short Bao and the company’s 2022 hall-of-famer entry Turning Red.

Danny Boyle revisits the dystopian world he created in 28 Days Later (and that Spanish horror director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo expanded on in the sequel 28 Weeks Later) — you know, the one where a virus turns most of the populace into running, jumping, rage-filled zombies? It seems that, nearly 30 years later, these violent, uncontrollable sickos still live among us, which makes things hard for dad Aaron Taylor-Johnson and his son Alfie Williams. Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes are among the non-infected fighting off the walking not-quite-dead. Oooh, this is gonna be good.

Brad Pitt has a need — a need for speed! And what’s speedier than Formula One racing? The star plays a former hotshot driver who retired from the circuit after an accident left him shook. There’s a new prodigy (Damson Idris) on the scene, however, so the former ace is coaxed back to the big leagues in order to coach this future Lewis Hamilton. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) directs. Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, and Tobias Menzies costar. The cars go vrooom.

Take a hike, Chucky — the new slasher-flick psycho-doll du jour is back! This sequel to the 2022 hit about a humanoid companion who becomes a little too stabby-murdery for comfort promises more A.I. paranoia, more kills and quite likely more of that creepy M3GAN dance. Allison Williams and Violet McGraw are also around to warn people that yo, this doll is dangerous!

Because you can’t keep a lucrative franchise down! Scarlett Johansson leads an operation designed to track down the few remaining dinosaurs left after Jurassic World Dominion and extract some genetic info from them, all in the name of science. Things, unsurprisingly, run amuck. Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend and Wicked‘s Jonathan Bailey provide some Homo sapien support. The CGI dinos provide the conflict and the chomping. Director Gareth Edwards did the intriguing big-creatures-vs-people indie Monsters and Rogue One, so it’s got that going for it.

Ok, this sounds wild: Last year, it was announced that Trey Parker and Matt Stone were working on a musical starring Kendrick Lamar (!), and that it would be released on Independence Day of 2025. It’s written by Vernon Chatman, the co-creator of Wonder Showzen and a longtime collaborator of theirs (he’s a producer on South Park and voices Towelie). If the plot is even close to what was reported in 2022, then dear god, we are in for one of a boundary-pushing, can-we-actually-laugh-at-this? treat.

James Gunn drops his first big project as the new creative braintrust behind the DC Cinematic Universe 2.0 (Creatures Commandos was more of a soft launch, so don’t @ us), and he’s essentially kicking things off with the most iconic character in their stable. David Corenswet dons the red cape to play the Man of Steel and his alter ego Clark Kent; Rachel Brosnahan is the marvelous Ms. Lois Lane; Nicholas Hoult rocks the chrome dome as Lex Luthor. Judging from the trailer, Gunn is intent on dropping a lot of deep-cut D.C. characters in this inaugural outing as well. It takes a very specific comic-book fan of a certain age to get jazzed to see Krypto the Dog get his big-screen debut.

The 1997 slasher flick gets a new “requel” — that’s a combo franchise “reboot” and “sequel,” for those of you who didn’t see the 2022 Scream film — that puts a host of new faces in the path of that killer fisherman with a hook, and brings back a of couple of the original’s key cast members. Cue O.G.’s Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. screaming for those kids to watch out!

Twice, the powers that be have tried to turn the Marvel quartet to end all Marvel quartets into top-tier superhero-movie properties. (Three times, if you count the Roger Corman-produced version in the ’90s.) Twice, they have not quite succeeded in capturing what made the comic’s version of these characters so memorable and vital. Now, with the Fox heroes folded into the MCU, yadda yadda yadda, we may finally get a Fantastic Four movie that feels closer to the ones readers know and love. Pedro Pascal is Reed Richards, the stretchiest scientist around. Vanessa Kirby is Sue Storm, whose super power is… whoa, wait, where did she go?! Stranger Things‘ Joseph Quinn gets lit as Johnny Storm, a.k.a. the Human Torch. And Ebon-Moss Bachrach is Ben Grimm, whose career as the Thing gets off to a rocky start. [Dodges tomatoes thrown from pun-hating audience] And the whole thing takes place in the early 1960s, which was the same era that found Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introducing the group and changing comic books forever. Or maybe that’s four-ever. [Gets hit in face with rotten fruit]

Back in 2003, Jamie Lee Curtis and a young Lindsay Lohan starred in a remake of the 1970s Disney classic about a mom and a daughter that switch bodies. It was a big hit. Curtis went on to play a number of characters, revitalize the Halloween franchise and win an Oscar. Lohan did Mean Girls and went through several lifetimes’ worth of ups and downs, eventually settling into a more stable groove. The fact that they’ve both reunited for a sequel is great news for fans of the original, and promises a bunch of new body-switching shenanigans. Let’s see how much freakier this Friday can get.

Rumors are abound about the next Paul Thomas Anderson film: We’ve seen a possible title floating around, as well as news tidbits that claim its everything from an original story to a contemporary version of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Stills taken during production of star Leonardo DiCaprio on set, rocking what seems to be a prison ‘stache and a sweet flannel robe, have circulated. We know that Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Alana Haim and Wood Harris are in the cast. Other than that, we’re told it’s set to hit theaters in the dog days of summer. The important thing here is that we’re getting a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie this year, you may start whooping and hollering now!

The first of two films to draw heavily from The Bride of Frankenstein this year (see below), actor-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punk-musical reimagination of what’s arguably the best of the original Universal Horror movies (come fight us, The Invisible Man stans!) features Christian Bale as the stitched-up — and apparently inked up — monster, and Jessie Buckley as his made-to-order bride. Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Hough and Jeannie Berlin head down to the lab to see what’s on the slab as well.

Rian Johnson’s gloriously goofy detective series goes for Round 3, as Daniel Craig’s sleuth Benoit Blanc finds himself embroiled in another case with loads of suspects and a suspiciously high body count. The plot itself is a mystery, but we do know that Johnson has once again assembled a who’s-who for his whodunnit: Andrew Scott, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Josh Brolin, Jeremy Renner, Cailee Spaeny, Josh O’Connor, Mila Kunis and Thomas Haden Church, among others.

Yes, the Michael Jackson biopic is indeed here. The Gloved One is played by none other than Jafaar Jackson, Jermaine’s son and Michael’s nephew. Colman Domingo plays the Jackson patriarch, Joe; Miles Teller is John Branca, Michael’s lawyer (and co-executor of his estate); Kat Graham plays Diana Ross, Kendrick Sampson is Quincy Jones and Larenz Tate is Berry Gordy. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) is calling the shots. Shamone, everyone.

You might say that Guillermo del Toro — award-winning writer-director, horror aficionado, maestro of the macabre — has been chasing after Mary Shelley’s Gothic interpretation of the Prometheus myth in one form or another throughout his prolific career. Now, the gentleman has finally made his own spin on this classic tale of daring to tread where no man should, i.e. making them monsters outta dead-people parts. Oscar Isaac is the good doctor know for his reanimation experiments; Jacob Elordi is the creature given both life and a sense of existential crises; Mia Goth, Ralph Ineson, and Christoph Waltz lend their talents as well. The fact that del Toro has cited artist Bernie Wrightson’s sketches of the monster as a big inspiration gives us high expectations; that he also wanted to blend elements of both the original story and The Bride of Frankenstein makes us positively giddy.

Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone and her Kinds of Kindness costar Jesse Plemons for this English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean sci-fi/comedy/thriller Save the Green Planet! The gist: Plemons is one of two disturbed young men who kidnap Stone’s high-powered CEO because they’re convinced she’s an alien. If you’ve seen the original, you know that things get weird. Given the previous collaborations between the Greek filmmaker and the Oscar-winning actor, we’re betting that things get even weirder in this new version. (We just pray they keep the ending.)

And now for the conclusion of Jon M. Chu’s two-part adaptation of the Broadway musical juggernaut, which rewinds back to show us how The Wizard of Oz‘s resident good witch Glinda (Ariana Grande) and wicked witch Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) became the best of frenemies. Fans of the play knows how it ends, but for the rest of you new to this tragic and tuneful tale, hold on to your fucking broomsticks! Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Bowen Yang, Jason Bailey, Peter Dinklage and rest of the gang from Part 1 are all present and accounted for.

Who better to give us a Running Man for the 21st century than Edgar Wright, a filmmaker with a wonderfully sick sense of humor and a knack for goosing well-worn genre material? The real question is whether this story by Stephen King — sorry, “Richard Bachman” — written in the 1980s, about a game show where contestants are hunted for sport, will seem even mildly satirical in this day and age. (The source material does take place in the “futuristic” year of 2025, so….) Glen Powell is the man on the run, hoping to win cash prizes and avoid the hunters trying to kill him. Josh Brolin is the host who’s making sure the broadcasting of this life-or-death spectacle is a ratings hit. Michael Cera, William H. Macy, Katy O’Brian, Sean Hayes and Lee Pace are either offering their support, competing against Powell or trying to murder him. You’ll find out whether our man is a millionaire or toast after a word from our sponsor.

Lotta folks were wondering what the deal was with Timothée Chalamet’s slim, trim mustache he was sporting during the press tours for A Complete Unknown, and no, he’s not following that Bob Dylan film with a biopic on John Waters. He grew it for this period drama from Josh Safdie (Uncut Gems, Good Time), about a ping-pong champion loosely based on real-life table-tennis whiz Marty Reisman. It’s both a sports drama and the answer to the future trivia question, “Which movie stars Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penn Jillette, Tyler the Creator and Abel Ferrara?” (Also worth noting: Benny Safdie, Josh’s brother, is also set to have his own sports drama The Smashing Machine, which details the life and times of UFC fighter Mark Kerr, coming out in 2025 as well.)

James Cameron shot this third Avatar movie simultaneously with the second one, 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water — and the title to this new one sounds way, way more menacing and apocalyptic than its predecessor. The usual suspects (Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang) are back for more as well, continuing the saga of the Na’vi. Expect this film to make a hundred thousand gajillion dollars as well.