A famous entertainment website, Culture Crave, has released a list of the most-anticipated 60 Hollywood movies that are all set to release in 2025. Mark your calendars, as you will find a list of interesting drama films, amazing storytelling, and sci-fi adventures that will provide you with an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Cast: Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Captain America alongside Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Giancarlo Esposito, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford.
Budget: Estimated budget of around $350 million to $375 million.
Release date: 14 February 2025
After Thaddeus Ross becomes the U.S. president, Sam Wilson gets caught in an international crisis. He must find out the hidden secrets and stop the real masterminds behind it.
2) Thunderbolts
Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Edward Pierce, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Budget: Estimated budget of around $150 million,
Release date: 2 May 2025
A team of antiheroes carries out missions for the U.S. government.
Cast: David Corenswet as Clark Kent / Superman, alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce, Alan Tudyk, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Neva Howell.
Budget: Estimated budget of around $363.8 million
Release date: 11 July 2025
Superman sets out to balance his Kryptonian roots with his life as Clark Kent on Earth.
4) The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the titular team, alongside Ralph Ineson, Julia Garner, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne, and Sarah Niles
Budget: Not Available
Release date: July 25, 2025
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is an American superhero film inspired by Marvel Comics’ iconic superhero team, the Fantastic Four.
5) Mickey 17
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo
Budget: $118–150 million
Release date: 7 March 2025
A disposable worker is sent on a mission to colonize the icy world of Niflheim. When one version of him dies, a new body is regenerated, thus keeping most of his memories intact.
6) Paddington in Peru (Paddington 3)
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Carla Tous, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas and Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington.
Budget: $40 million
Release date: 17 January 2025
When Paddington learns his beloved aunt is missing from the Home for Retired Bears, he partners with the Brown family to search for her in the jungles of Peru. Along the way, they find out a legendary treasure hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest.
7) Sinners
Cast: Michael B. Jordan (in a dual role), Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.
Budget: $90 million
Release date: 7 March 2025
Twin brothers return to their hometown for a fresh start, as they hope to escape their troubled pasts, but they soon find an even greater evil waiting for them.
8) Snow White
Cast: Rachel Zegler, Andrew Burnap, and Gal Gadot.
Budget: $240 – $269.4 million
Release date: March 21, 2025
A live-action adaptation of Disney’s classic 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
9) Minecraft: The Movie
Cast: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge.
Budget: US$150 million
Release date: 4 April 2025
Four misfits are transported to a magical cubic world where they must accept their creativity to survive and find their way home.
10) M3GAN 2.0
Cast: Allison Williams and Violet McGraw, Ivanna Sakhno, Timm Sharp, Aristotle Athari and Jemaine Clement
Budget: Not Available
Release date: June 27, 2025
An upcoming American science fiction horror film and sequel to M3GAN.
Elio is an imaginative underdog who is accidentally transported to the Communiverse, which is an interplanetary organization. However, there he is mistaken for Earth’s ambassador and starts forming bonds with quirky aliens while finding his true purpose.
16) Ballerina
Cast: Ana de Armas, Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Norman Reedus, Anjelica Huston, Lance Reddick, Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves
Budget: $50-80 million
Release date: 6 June 2025
Set between the events of Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Chapter 4, Eve Macarro who is a ballerina-assassin, trains in the Ruska Roma traditions and goes on a quest for revenge after her father’s death.
17) How To Train Your Dragon: Live-Action
Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, and Murray McArthur, Gerard Butler
Budget: $50 million – $100 million
Release date: June 13, 2025
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been enemies for generations, Hiccup who is the inventive son of Chief Stoick breaks tradition by becoming friends with Toothless, which is a feared Night Fury dragon.
18) Saw XI
Cast: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Shawnee Smith
Budget: Not Available
Release date: September 26th, 2025
The story of Saw XI is unclear, but the movie could either explore events earlier in the franchise similar to Saw X or continue directly after the events of Spiral.
19) Damien Chazelle’s Next Film
Cast: Yet to be announced
Budget: Not available
Release date: 2025
Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle has signed on to direct an untitled film for Paramount Pictures. This makes the film his first project under his overall deal with the studio. The plot details are not found but sources suggest the film will be set in a prison and is based on an original script written by Chazelle. He will produce the film alongside his partner Olivia Hamilton through their Wild Chickens banner.
20) Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film – The Battle of Baktan Cross
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, and Benicio del Toro
Budget: $115–140 million
Release date: 8 August 2025
Plot: TBA
21) Nobody 2
Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath, and Christopher Lloyd
Budget: Not Available
Release date: August 15, 2025
Nobody 2 is an upcoming American action-thriller film, directed by Timo Tjahjanto and written by Derek Kolstad, Aaron Rabin, Bob Odenkirk, and Umair Aleem. It is the sequel to the 2021 film Nobody.
22) Wolf Man
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, and Sam Jaeger.
Budget: Not Available
Release date: January 17, 2025
Family man Blake moves from San Francisco to Oregon with his wife Charlotte and daughter Ginger after getting his childhood home as inherited property. The home has been empty since his father’s mysterious disappearance. During a full moon, Blake starts to transform into a terrifying creature, thus putting his family’s safety at risk.
23) Tron: Ares
Cast: Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson and Sarah Desjardins, Jeff Bridges
Budget: $170 million
Release date: 10 October 2025
Tron: Ares follows a highly advanced program Ares who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, thus marking humanity’s first encounter with A.I. beings.
24) Mortal Kombat 2
Cast: Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada, with Karl Urban, Tati Gabrielle, Adeline Rudolph, Martyn Ford, Desmond Chiam, Ana Thu Nguyen, CJ. Bloomfield, and Damon Herriman
Budget: $68 million
Release date: 24 October 2025
Mortal Kombat 2 is a martial arts fantasy film, co-produced and directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Jeremy Slater. Based on the video game series by Ed Boon and John Tobias, it serves as a sequel to Mortal Kombat and is the fourth film in the Mortal Kombat franchise.
25) Black Phone 2
Cast: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Ethan Hawke
Budget: Not Available
Release date: October 17, 2025
The Black Phone 2 is an American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson, who co-wrote the screenplay with C. Robert Cargill. The two are also producing alongside Jason Blum. It serves as a sequel to The Black Phone, which was adapted from Joe Hill’s 2004 short story of the same name.
26) The Accountant 2
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, J. K. Simmons, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson
Budget: $10 million
Release date: April 25, 2025
A sequel to the 2016 film The Accountant.
27) Zootopia 2
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan and Fortune Feimster
Budget: $150–$165 million
Release date: November 26, 2025
Detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde have to explore Marsh Market in order to solve the case when they follow the series of a mysterious reptile.
28) Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Cast: Matthew Lillard, Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail
Budget: Not Available
Release date: December 2025
The story details of the horror sequel are still under wraps, and the film is expected to follow Josh Hutcherson’s Mike Schmidt as he digs deeper into the terrifying past of serial killer William Afton and the infamous restaurant chain.
29) Avatar: Fire and Ash
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, and Giovanni Ribisi, David Thewlis and Oona Chaplin
Budget: $250 million
Release date: December 19, 2025
An upcoming American epic science fiction film, serving as a sequel to the Avatar franchise.
30) Now You See Me 3
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Radcliffe, and Morgan Freeman
Budget: Not Available
Release date: 14 November 2025
Now You See Me 3 is an upcoming American heist thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer, with a screenplay by Eric Warren Singer, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Michael Lesslie. The film is produced by Bobby Cohen and Alex Kurtzman.
31) Insidious 6
Cast: Patrick Wilson , Rose Byrne , Ty Simpkins , Lin Shaye , Leigh Whannell , Angus Sampson , Barbara Hershey
Budget: Not Available
Release date: August 29, 2025
The story follows the troubling experiences of the Lambert family as they face malevolent spirits from The Further.
32) Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery
Cast: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
Budget: $210 million
Release date: 2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is an upcoming American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It serves as a standalone sequel to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) and is the third installment in the Knives Out film series.
33) Kendrick Lamar & South Park Creators’ Comedy
Cast: Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad
Budget: N/A
Release date: July 4, 2025
The story will focus on a Black man working as a slave re-enactor at a history museum who discovers that his ancestors were owned by the ancestors of his white girlfriend.
34) The Conjuring Last Rites
Cast: Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga
Budget: $75 million
Release date: September 5, 2025
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren have to face their ultimate terrifying case, which deals with mysterious entities they must confront.
35) The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Cast: Voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, Lori Alan
Budget: N/A
Release date: December 19, 2025
The film follows SpongeBob as he travels to the ocean’s depths to confront the Flying Dutchman.
36) Monkey Paw’s HIM
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, Jim Jefferies, Guapdad 4000, Tierra Whack
Budget: N/A
Release date: September 19, 2025
The story follows a promising young football player who is invited to train at the isolated compound of a dynasty team’s aging QB1.
37) The Bride!
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and Annette Bening
Budget: N/A
Release date: September 26, 2025
The Bride! movie is inspired by James Whale’s 1935 Bride of Frankenstein. The story is adapted from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
38) The Amateur
Cast: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne.
Budget: $60 million
Release date: 11 April 2025
The Amateur is an upcoming American thriller film directed by James Hawes, written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli. It is based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell. The novel was previously adapted into a film in 1981.
39) 28 Years Later
Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes
Budget: $75 million
Release date: June 20, 2025
A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of them goes to the mainland on a mission, he has to find out secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but also other survivors.
40) Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt
Budget: $70 million
Release date: 2025
The Smashing Machine is an upcoming American biographical sports drama film written, directed, co-produced, and co-edited by Benny Safdie. It is about a former wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr.
41) Michael
Cast: Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Nia Long, Miles Teller, Laura Harrier, Kat Graham, Larenz Tate, and Derek Luke.
Budget: $155 million
Release date: 3 October 2025
Michael is an upcoming American biographical musical drama film based on the life of the American singer, songwriter, and dancer Michael Jackson.
42) Until Dawn
Cast: Peter Stormare, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell
Budget: N/A
Release date: 25 April 2025
A group goes to a ski lodge for the weekend, marking the anniversary of their friends’ disappearance, not knowing they are not alone.
43) Marty Supreme
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, the Creator, Odessa A’zion, Penn Jillette, Kevin O’Leary, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher.
Budget: $70 million
Release date: 25 December 2025
The film is set in 1950s New York City. It is based on Marty Reisman who was a well-known figure in the global table tennis community.
44) Lilo Stitch – Live-action
Cast: Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai, with Chris Sanders reprising his voice role as Stitch.
Budget: Not Available
Release date: May 23, 2025
The film tells the story of a lonely human girl named Lilo and a dog-like alien named Stitch, who is created to be a force of destruction. Aliens, social workers, and the idea of family play key roles in the story.
45) Den of Thieves 2 – Pantera
Cast: Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Budget: $40 million
Release date: 10 January 2025
Lawman “Big Nick” O’Brien gets caught up in the dangerous world of diamond thieves as he chases career criminal Donnie Wilson across Europe.
46) Predator – Bad Lands
Cast: Elle Fanning
Budget: $100 milion
Release date: 7 November 2025
In the future, a Predator roams an alien wasteland while two sisters find out their thrilling past.
47) The Anaconda
Cast: Paul Rudd, Jack Black,Daniela Melchior
Budget: Not Available
Release date: December 25, 2025
Circus performers get stranded in a rainforest after an anaconda attacks their boat encounter a poacher hunting the snake, who sees them as bait. They use their circus skills to survive the deadly threat.
48) Final Destination – Bloodlines
Cast: Tony Todd as William Bludworth, Brec Bassinger, Teo Briones, Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Richard Harmon,
Budget: Not Available
Release date: 16 May 2025
A supernatural horror film and the sixth installment in the Final Destination film series.
49) Dog Man
Cast: Peter Hastings, Pete Davidson, Lucas Hopkins
Budget: Not Available
Release date: January 31, 2025
After a human police officer Knight and his dog Greg are injured on the job, a life-saving surgery creates Dog Man. Dog Man must protect and serve while chasing the feline Petey the Cat but the arrival of Li’l Petey changes everything.
50) Animated Predator Film
Cast: Elle Fanning
Budget: Not Available
Release date: 2025
Animated Predator Film tells three stories, each set in a different era, where Predators battle warriors from those times.
51) Roofman
Cast: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Ben Mendelsohn, Peter Dinklage, Uzo Aduba, Juno Temple, Emory Cohen and LaKeith Stanfield.
Budget: $50 million
Release date: October 3, 2025
The film is a biopic about Jeffrey Manchester, who was a fugitive and former U.S. Army Reserve officer. He was also known as “Roofman” for stealing from McDonald’s by entering through the roof and getting rid of being captured by hiding in a Toys “R” Us store’s roof.
52) Frankenstein
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, Felix Kammerer, and Christoph Waltz
Budget: Not Available
Release date: 2025
Frankenstein is an upcoming American Gothic science fiction horror film based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel of the same name.
53) The Day The Earth Blew Up
Cast: Voices of Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Fred Tatasciore, Laraine Newman, and Wayne Knight.
Budget: $15 million
Release date: 28 February 2025
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig find out a secret alien plot to take over Earth using mind control after a series of antics at a bubblegum factory. The duo must team up to stop the aliens while avoiding driving each other crazy.
54) The Running Man
Cast: Glen Powell, Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, and Colman Domingo.
Budget: Not Available
Release date: 7 November 2025
The Running Man is a dystopian action thriller based on Stephen King’s 1982 novel of the same name and is the second adaptation following the 1987 film.
55) Freakier Friday
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lucille Soong and Rosalind Chao, Julia Butters and Manny Jacinto.
Budget: Not Available
Release date: 8 August 2025
Tess and Anna realize that lightning can strike twice as they face the challenges of merging two families.
56) Presence
Cast: Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, and Chris Sullivan
Budget: $7 million
Release date: January 24, 2025
A family begins to suspect that they are not alone after moving into their new suburban home.
57) Love Hurts
Cast: Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu
Budget: $15 million
Release date: 7 February 2025
A realtor is dragged back into his past when his former partner-in-crime comes back with a warning. With his crime-lord brother chasing him, he must face the past he tried to leave behind.
58) Wicked – For Good
Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum
Budget: 16.5 crores USD
Release date: November 21, 2025
The film follows Elphaba who is the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda who is the Good Witch of the North. It is the second part of the two-part film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
59) Peaky Blinders Movie
Cast: Stephen Graham (as Hayden Stagg), Sophie Rundle (as Ada Shelby Thorne), Ned Dennehy (Charlie Strong), Ian Peck (Curly), and Packy Lee (Johnny Dogs)
Budget: Not Available
Release date: 2025
A historical crime drama and a continuation of the British television series Peaky Blinders (2013–2022).
60) The Naked Gun
Cast: Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., alongside Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Rhodes, CCH Pounder, and Busta Rhymes.
Budget: Not Available
Release date: August 1, 2025
Serving as the fourth film, and fifth overall installment in The Naked Gun franchise, the film belongs to action comedy genre.
Please note that the release dates for the films are confirmed as of today, but the estimated budgets are subject to change.
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