2025 At The Box Office (1 Viewer)

[Tino]

Here we are again. 2025. Another year of potential blockbusters and bombs.

Which films will bust out and which will fizzle.

Here’s a tentative list of films scheduled for release in 2025.

JANUARY 2025

January 3 (Friday)​

The Damned (Theaters)
Se7en (IMAX Re-Release)
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)

January 10 (Friday)​

Better Man (Expands)
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Hard Truths (Expands)
Birdeater (Theaters)
Diane Warren: Relentless (Theaters)
Every Little Thing (Theaters)
Timestalker (Theaters)

January 16 (Thursday)​

Unstoppable (Prime Video)

January 17 (Friday)​

One of Them Days
September 5 (Expands)
Wolf Man
Back in Action (Netflix)
Grand Theft Hamlet (Theaters)
I'm Still Here (Theaters)
Night Call (Theaters)
Presence (Theaters)
Sing Sing (Re-Release)
Wish You Were Here (Theaters)

January 23 (Thursday)​

Sundance Film Festival (until February 2)

January 24 (Friday)​

The Colors Within (Expands)
Flight Risk
Inheritance (Theaters)
Grafted (Shudder)

January 30 (Thursday)​

You're Cordially Invited (Prime Video)

January 31 (Friday)​

Companion (+ IMAX)
Dog Man
Love Me (Theaters)
Valiant One (Theaters)

FEBRUARY 2025

February 7 (Friday)​

Heart Eyes
Love Hurts
Armand (Theaters)
Becoming Led Zeppelin (IMAX Only)
Bring Them Down (Theaters)
No Other Land (Theaters)
Parthenope (Theaters)

February 13 (Thursday)​

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock)

February 14 (Friday)​

Captain America: Brave New World
Paddington in Peru
Universal Language (Theaters)

February 21 (Friday)​

Cleaner
The Monkey
The Unbreakable Boy
Old Guy (Theaters + VOD)
The Quiet Ones (Theaters)

February 28 (Friday)​

The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Last Breath
The Legend of Ochi
My Dead Friend Zoe
The Gorge (Apple TV+)
In the Lost Lands (Theaters)

MARCH 2025

March 7 (Friday)​

Mickey 17 (+ IMAX)
Night of the Zoopocalypse
Eephus (Theaters)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Theaters)
The Rule of Jenny Pen (Theaters)

March 14 (Friday)​

Black Bag
The Electric State (Netflix)
Novocaine
Opus

March 21 (Friday)​

The Alto Knights
Ash
Disney's Snow White
The Friend (Theaters)
Magazine Dreams (Theaters)

March 28 (Friday)​

The Woman in the Yard
A Working Man

APRIL 2025

April 4 (Friday)​

A Minecraft Movie

April 11 (Friday)​

The Amateur
Drop

April 18 (Friday)​

The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection
The Ritual
Sinners (+ IMAX)
Sneaks
Starbright
The Wedding Banquet (Theaters)

April 25 (Friday)​

The Accountant 2
Until Dawn


Summer 2025

MAY 2025

May 2 (Friday)​

Thunderbolts* (+ IMAX)

May 9 (Friday)​

Atlantis
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Clown in a Cornfield (Theaters)

May 13 (Tuesday)​

Cannes Film Festival (until May 24)

May 16 (Friday)​

Final Destination: Bloodlines (+ IMAX)

May 23 (Friday)​

Lilo & Stitch [Live-Action]
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (+ IMAX)

May 30 (Friday)​

Karate Kid: Legends
The Life of Chuck

JUNE 2025

June 6 (Friday)​

Dirty Dancing 2
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina

June 13 (Friday)​

Pixar's Elio
How to Train Your Dragon [Live-Action] (+ IMAX)

June 20 (Friday)​

28 Years Later

June 27 (Friday)​

F1 Movie
M3GAN 2.0

JULY 2025

July 2 (Wednesday)​

Jurassic World Rebirth (+ IMAX)

July 4 (Friday)​

Matt Stone & Trey Parker Musical

July 11 (Friday)​

Superman (+ IMAX)

July 18 (Friday)​

I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Smurfs Musical

July 25 (Friday)​

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

AUGUST 2025

August 1 (Friday)​

The Bad Guys 2
Beneath the Storm
The Naked Gun

August 8 (Friday)​

The Battle of Baktan Cross (+ IMAX)
Freakier Friday

August 15 (Friday)​

Mercy
Nobody 2

August 29 (Friday)​

Thread: An Insidious Tale

SEPTEMBER 2025

September 5 (Friday)​

The Conjuring: Last Rites

September 12 (Friday)​

Downton Abbey 3

September 19 (Friday)​

Him

September 26 (Friday)​

The Bride
Saw XI

OCTOBER 2025

October 3 (Friday)​

Michael
Roofman

October 10 (Friday)​

Animal Friends
Tron: Ares

October 17 (Friday)​

The Black Phone 2
Good Fortune

October 24 (Friday)​

Mortal Kombat 2
Regretting You

NOVEMBER 2025

November 7 (Friday)​

Bugonia
Predator: Badlands
The Running Man

November 14 (Friday)​

Now You See Me 3

November 21 (Friday)​

Wicked: For Good

November 26 (Wednesday – Thanksgiving)​

Zootopia 2

DECEMBER 2025

December 5 (Friday)​

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

December 19 (Friday)​

Avatar: Fire and Ash
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

December 25 (Thursday – Christmas Day)​

The Anaconda
The Housemaid
Marty Supreme
Sarah's Oil

 

[Tino]

Some more links.

The Most-Anticipated Movies of 2025

Here are the most-anticipated movies of 2025, from "Captain America: Brave New World" to "Wicked: For Good" and "Avatar: Fire and Ash."

variety.com

The Most Anticipated Movies of 2025

There's plenty of superheroic action, blockbuster thrills, and family-friendly fare, but also some noteworthy indies and potential gems to look forward to.

editorial.rottentomatoes.com

Dinosaurs, Zombies and More ‘Wicked’: The Most Anticipated Movies of 2025

New films from Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Guillermo del Toro and Ryan Coogler are heading to audiences in the new year.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Malcolm R]

Some curious scheduling currently. Paddington in Peru comes out the same day as Captain America: Brave New World. Comic-based films Superman and Fantastic Four only two weeks apart. Next films in the Insidious and Conjuring franchises are a week apart. Two sci-fi pics, Predator: Badlands and The Running Man on the same day. Pixar and Dreamworks releasing films on the same day (though Dreamworks' film is a "live-action" version).

 

[Tino]

I think a lot of these dates will change.

 

[Jake Lipson]

What is your most anticipated film of 2025?

Because it finally came out in 2024, this is the first year since 2022 that my answer hasn't been Dune Part Two.

Mine is Paddington in Peru with the new Mission: Impossible as a close second.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Some curious scheduling currently. Paddington in Peru comes out the same day as Captain America: Brave New World.

Sony actually had Paddington in January like the other films but recently decided to move it back, so I think that stays where it is. I don't think opening against Captain America is a good idea, but they seem to be committed to that date.

Pixar and Dreamworks releasing films on the same day (though Dreamworks' film is a "live-action" version).

I flagged this as an issue a long time ago. Live-action or not, How to Train Your Dragon is going for the exact same audience as Elio. They would both be stupid to open against each other, but neither seems to want to be the one who moves.

 

[TravisR]

Mine is Paddington in Peru with the new Mission: Impossible as a close second.

Tom Cruise hanging off a biplane made that movie number one with a bullet for me. Then Avatar (if it actually comes out in 2025) and Elio.

 

[Joe Wong]

My most anticipated would be Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the first to see James Gunn's take on the Man of Steel, and the 2nd to see if the MCU can make the best version of a FF tale.

Also interested in two horror films which have prestige directors - Sinners (Coogler) and 28 Years Later (Boyle). Sinners will be of interest due to its being filmed in 65mm IMAX, and 28 Years Later sees the original director Boyle returning to direct a follow-up.

Also looking forward to:

Avatar 3 (can Cameron maintain his streak?)
Mission Impossible 8
Karate Kid Legends

 

[TravisR]

Avatar 3 (can Cameron maintain his streak?)

The dude is unstoppable- he's going nine for nine.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Avatar 3 (can Cameron maintain his streak?)

Before the second movie, I think it was legitimate to wonder whether people still wanted more Avatar 13 years later. The Way of Water handily proved that they do. Fire and Ash would seem to be in an even better position because it arrives just three years later. Disney won't have to work as hard on a marketing level to reintroduce the brand because of the much more reasonable length of time between the films. They can simply market it as the next chapter. I'm sure it will be huge.

 

[Joe Wong]

Before the second movie, I think it was legitimate to wonder whether people still wanted more Avatar 13 years later. The Way of Water handily proved that they do. Fire and Ash would seem to be in an even better position because it arrives just three years later. Disney won't have to work as hard on a marketing level to reintroduce the brand because of the much more reasonable length of time between the films. They can simply market it as the next chapter. I'm sure it will be huge.

Agreed.

I'm sure it'll be huge as well... but how huge? Anything over $2 billion global would be amazing (only 6 films have hit that mark). Continued success would also increase the probability of Cameron finishing his plan for 5 films. If the rumours are correct that the final film returns to Earth, that would be an awesome template for showing what's happening on Earth.

If there's some audience fatigue and the box office falls to only $1.5 billion global... I'd think that is still huge but others may consider it a "failure"(!), at least relatively. But Cameron has proven several times that you don't bet against him!

If Avatar 3 has something different in its narrative (eg. N'avi vs N'avi), that might be a great catalyst for continued audience interest, rather than just having a new "locale" but the same human vs N'avi conflict.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I'm not going to guess a specific number, but I don't think anyone involved in the franchise has any reason to worry. It doesn't need to top the previous one in order to succeed. Even if Fire and Ash ends up coming in below The Way of Water, it would still be a big hit and Disney will be very pleased to have it as part of their slate for this year. The only way 4 and 5 don't happen is if the bottom completely falls out of it, and I don't see that as happening. Even speaking as someone who has no interest in Avatar, I'd be shocked if it isn't an enormous success. Cameron will be able to keep making these until he no longer wishes to do so.

 

[Tino]

First weekend of 2025

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(2)	Mufasa: The Lion King	Walt Disney	$23,836,000	-35%	3,925	-175	$6,073	$168,600,931	3
2	(1)	Sonic the Hedgehog 3	Paramount Pi…	$21,200,000	-43%	3,746	-23	$5,659	$187,508,000	3
3	(3)	Nosferatu	Focus Features	$13,200,000	-39%	3,132	+140	$4,215	$69,401,000	2
4	(5)	Moana 2	Walt Disney	$12,397,000	-34%	3,345	-60	$3,706	$425,152,483	6
5	(4)	Wicked	Universal	$10,200,000	-48%	3,287	+110	$3,103	$450,752,000	7
6	(6)	A Complete Unknown	Searchlight …	$8,067,000	-31%	2,835	n/c	$2,846	$41,696,667	2
7	(7)	Babygirl	A24	$4,492,499	n/c	2,164	+49	$2,076	$16,112,999	2
8	(8)	Gladiator II	Paramount Pi…	$2,675,000	-35%	1,748	-117	$1,530	$168,867,000	7
9	(9)	Homestead	Angel Studios	$2,103,576	-32%	1,700	-69	$1,237	$17,475,156	3
10	(10)	The Fire Inside	Amazon MGM S…	$1,229,901	-37%	2,032	+26	$605	$7,128,870	2
11	(11)	Kraven the Hunter	Sony Pictures	$1,052,000	-35%	1,862	-575	$565	$23,700,000	4
12	(-)	Se7en	New Line	$915,000		200		$4,575	$100,908,157	1,529
13	N	The Damned	Vertical Ent…	$801,000		732		$1,094	$801,000	1
-	(-)	The Brutalist	A24	$244,341	+16%	8	+1	$30,543	$1,171,475	3
-	(-)	Flow	Janus Films	$216,100	+19%	127	+18	$1,702	$2,606,455	7
-	(-)	The Count of Monte Cristo	Samuel Goldw…	$208,000	+1,145%	93	+89	$2,237	$281,770	3
-	(-)	Nickel Boys	Amazon MGM S…	$151,339	+343%	18	+13	$8,408	$412,648	4
-	(-)	Anora	Neon	$147,000	+16%	105	-10	$1,400	$14,372,466	12
-	(-)	A Real Pain	Searchlight …	$132,000	+14%	105	+5	$1,257	$7,870,102	10
-	(13)	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever	Lionsgate	$95,000	-71%	335	-162	$284	$40,017,867	9
-	(-)	All We Imagine as Light	Janus Films	$74,500	+44%	44	+13	$1,693	$752,291	8
-	(-)	Conclave	Focus Features	$65,000	-16%	56	-1	$1,161	$31,399,000	11
-	(-)	September 5	Paramount Pi…	$59,000	+159%	13	+8	$4,538	$291,000	4
-	(-)	The Seed of the Sacred Fig	Neon	$35,000	-5%	20	+2	$1,750	$302,580	6
-	(-)	Better Man	Paramount Pi…	$27,000	+48%	6	n/c	$4,500	$89,000	2
-	(-)	The Wild Robot	Universal	$27,000	-28%	112	+10	$241	$143,233,000	15
-	(-)	Vermiglio	Janus Films	$17,300	+108%	3	+2	$5,767	$31,712	2
-	(-)	Santosh	Metrograph P…	$4,801	-6%	2	+1	$2,401	$14,097	2
		28		$103,672,357

 

[Jake Lipson]

Looking ahead a couple weeks, from what I've read in the trades, it seems like The Brutalist, The Nickel Boys, September 5 and The Room Next Door are all planning to expand into wide release on January 17.

I understand that January 17 is the day that Oscar nominations will be announced, and all of these studios are hoping to receive an awards bump when they go into wide release. That all makes sense.

But releasing four different adult-skewing dramas on the same day just seems crazy to me. How are they not going to kill each other? I feel like there must be a better way to do this than to overload the calendar like that.

 

[Tino]

47 New Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2025​

47 Movies You Can’t Miss in 2025

The Freaky Friday sequel, Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster, new films from Bong Joon Ho and Celine Song, and many more.

www.elle.com

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Den of Thieves 2: Pantera	Lionsgate	$15,500,000		3,008		$5,153	$15,500,000	1
2	(1)	Mufasa: The Lion King	Walt Disney	$13,200,000	-44%	3,620	-305	$3,646	$188,777,479	4
3	(2)	Sonic the Hedgehog 3	Paramount Pi…	$11,000,000	-48%	3,582	-164	$3,071	$204,515,000	4
4	(3)	Nosferatu	Focus Features	$6,800,000	-48%	3,082	-50	$2,206	$81,807,000	3
5	(4)	Moana 2	Walt Disney	$6,500,000	-48%	3,170	-175	$2,050	$434,855,208	7
6	(6)	A Complete Unknown	Searchlight …	$5,000,000	-39%	2,815	-20	$1,776	$50,847,682	3
7	(5)	Wicked	Universal	$5,000,000	-50%	2,967	-320	$1,685	$458,900,000	8
8	(7)	Babygirl	A24	$3,098,318	-31%	1,887	-277	$1,642	$21,738,200	3
-	(-)	The Brutalist	A24	$1,387,740	+468%	68	+60	$20,408	$2,742,117	4
-	(8)	Gladiator II	Paramount Pi…	$1,200,000	-54%	1,329	-419	$903	$170,989,000	8
-	(9)	Homestead	Angel Studios	$1,089,540	-46%	1,500	-200	$726	$19,263,120	4
-	(-)	Better Man	Paramount Pi…	$1,050,000	+3,924%	1,291	+1,285	$813	$1,153,000	3
-	(11)	Kraven the Hunter	Sony Pictures	$345,000	-67%	1,004	-858	$344	$24,439,000	5
-	(10)	The Fire Inside	Amazon MGM S…	$307,998	-74%	1,022	-1,010	$301	$7,861,083	3
-	(-)	Flow	Janus Films	$303,400	+42%	247	+120	$1,228	$3,008,224	8
-	(13)	The Damned	Vertical Ent…	$186,000	-76%	563	-169	$330	$1,254,633	2
-	(-)	Hard Truths	Bleecker Street	$165,625		22		$7,528	$165,625	6
-	(-)	A Real Pain	Searchlight …	$118,000	+2%	70	-35	$1,686	$8,028,862	11
-	(-)	Nickel Boys	Amazon MGM S…	$112,219	-23%	26	+8	$4,316	$578,297	5
-	(-)	The Count of Monte Cristo	Samuel Goldw…	$105,000	-44%	93	n/c	$1,129	$445,235	4
-	(-)	Anora	Neon	$90,000	-41%	111	+6	$811	$14,554,317	13
-	(-)	Conclave	Focus Features	$60,000	-12%	68	+12	$882	$31,504,000	12
-	(-)	September 5	Paramount Pi…	$60,000	n/c	20	+7	$3,000	$374,000	5
-	(-)	All We Imagine as Light	Janus Films	$52,600	-25%	51	+7	$1,031	$843,861	9
-	(-)	The Seed of the Sacred Fig	Neon	$31,000	-34%	19	-1	$1,632	$363,442	7
-	(-)	Vermiglio	Janus Films	$29,700	+100%	19	+16	$1,563	$69,691	3
-	(-)	The Wild Robot	Universal	$16,000	-47%	104	-8	$154	$143,257,000	16
		27		$72,808,140

 

[Tino]

Oof

Paramount’s expansion of Better Man (which I’ve recently learned the studio co-financed their pick-up cost of $25M) is unfortunately tanking with$1.05M despite notching great audience exits (83% on PostTrak, 63% definite recommend). The pic’s lackluster exclusive release over the holiday ($3K per theater, yikes) said it all despite Paramount believing in this movie throughout festival season and giving it an awards season push. The pic’s song “Forbidden Road” getting pulled from the Academy’s short list didn’t help.

Also, an indicator that Better Man was bound to bomb here was the fact that it fell on its face in its UK homeland with just under $5M to date where pop star Robbie Williams is known. If the movie was going to work anywhere, it was there. I’m told he isn’t exactly George Michael as far as reputation goes over there, or even Geri Halliwell (that’s Ginger Spice for you, the Spice Girls unfaithful), hence no stampede. He’s certainly not Harry

 

[Malcolm R]

Yeah, we've had some discussion about this in the Better Man thread. If the UK didn't want to see it, I'm not sure who thought America would. I'm kind of surprised that it even made $1 million.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

The movie apparently cost over $100 million to make which just seems absurd for what it is - musician biopics, particularly for people who are still alive and active, are tough sells as they tend to get just a section of that artist’s fans and not casual viewers.

Pharrell’s Lego biopic “Piece by Piece” is probably a reasonable comparison and that’s from a guy who’s more popular in the US right now and who has had substantial success writing hit songs specifically for movies, and that never really took off beyond a decent art-house showing. That one apparently cost $15 million and grossed about $10 million. Even the Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” tackling the artist’s most famous period and starring arguably the “hottest” actor on the planet was made for half of what “Better Man” cost and is struggling to break even.

This had a novel concept but the math doomed it before it could even release. A $110 million budgeted movie needs at least $250 million in revenue to break even, most movies gross the majority of their money within the first ten days of release, and I just don’t see how anyone could have thought a Robbie Williams biopic had a $100 million opening in it.

I don’t root for movies to fail but it’s discouraging when people spend unrealistic amounts of money on films because the takeaway always becomes “this is a poor genre” instead of “they didn’t scale it appropriately for the audience they should have known they had” and it just makes it harder for other things to get financing.

 

[benbess]

When Bohemian Rhapsody came out in late 2018, and stunned everybody by making $903 million worldwide on a movie that cost $52 million to make, I think it gave some people unrealistic expectations. The Elton John movie Rocketman made close to $200 million the next near, but that was also from a relatively modest $40 million or so production. Needless to say, the character portrayed in Better Man is much less well known, and pulling back the curtain he's less appealing behind the scenes. The cgi fx and editing were often trying to dazzle, and it was clear a huge amount of creativity and money had gone into them, but it seemed wasted on the wrong subject. Not every big music star needs a movie made about them. The genre seems from my pov like maybe it should shift into a lower gear for a while after this box-office catastrophe.