With 2024 bringing its curtains down to an end and 2025 making its way closer, 2025 promises us a list of highly anticipated movies, from a childhood book coming to the big screen to a horror-game getting its live action sequel. With that in mind, sit back and relax while you read this article about upcoming 2025 movies. This article consists of multiple genres such as Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, and Horror because THIS IS CINEMA.

                   Upcoming Movies For 2025

• Dog Man – Dreamworks Animation

I’m assuming that many of you reading this article have read the Dog Man series before in their childhood, and some may still read them. We have some news regarding the Dog Man franchise – we’re getting one new book, a video game, and, MOST importantly, a movie! We’re finally getting Dog Man to the big screen after 8 years!  In this movie, when a cop and a dog are injured on the job, a surgery saves their lives, which changes the course of history and creates something that’s part man, part dog, and all hero! As Dog Man learns how to protect and serve the city, he must stop his arch-nemesis, Petey The Cat (World’s Most Evil Cat), to save the entire planet. If you enjoyed the Captain Underpants movie, I can clarify that you will enjoy this one too! Dog Man will come to the big screens on January 31st, 2025! (Comedy/Adventure) 

• Thunderbolts* – Marvel Entertainment

Thunderbolts* is set to be the 36th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The movie will focus on Yelena Belova (Black Widow), an anti-hero with a troubled past who believes something is wrong with her. She wants to team up with a group of losers who are good guys and bad guys to assemble a makeshift family, all of whom have done bad things. These misfits are sent to do missions for the U.S. government. However, at the same time, someone wants them gone while they’re on the mission. The film is scheduled to release in theaters on May 2nd, 2025! (Action/Sci-Fi)

• How To Train Your Dragon (2025) – Universal Pictures

Did you know that Dreamworks’  “How To Train Your Dragon” from 2014 is now getting a live-action remake? Well, if you didn’t know that, then now you know! The new live-action remake will follow the same plot as the original movie. Hiccup is a young Viking teenager in a place where his tribe’s tradition is to fight and hunt dragons. Hiccup has a weird sense of humor that makes him a misfit, although his father is the clan chief. His goal is to prove to everyone that he is a true Viking. When he befriends an injured dragon (Toothless), he strives to find a way to live in harmony between humans and dragons. If you loved the first film, then you will love this film! If you’d like to see the movie, you can see it whenever it hits theaters on March 14th 2025 June 13th, 2025! (Adventure)

• Superman (2025) – Warner Bros Pictures

Superman (2025)/Superman: Legacy is an upcoming film in the DC Universe. This film will focus on the journey of Superman (Clark Kent), a young reporter at The Daily Planet who struggles to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as his natural self because he lives in a world where people only misunderstand him and are afraid of him. Because of that, Clark will have to learn how to use his powers correctly. While there isn’t much information on the film, we at least know when it is to be released on the big screen, and that release date will be on July 11, 2025! Fun Fact: Did you know that July 11th is the father’s birthday of James Gunn, the director of this movie? (Action/Adventure)

• Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 – Universal Pictures

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 is an upcoming horror film taking place after the events of the first film. It’s officially been a year since one of the most iconic video game franchises, “Five Nights At Freddy’s,” has made its official debut on the big screen. We will officially get a sequel on holiday next year that will continue the story of the haunted animatronics at the abandoned Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Place. Anyone can survive a night shift of five nights at an abandoned pizzeria, but this time there will be no second chances. The sequel will be released on December 5th, 2025! (Horror) 

Now with the article closing to an end, I hope you at least watch one movie from the list, and I hope some of these movies have piqued your interest and hyped you up even more for 2025! Just remember that there are still a lot of amazing movies coming out next year! That’s all for today, and have a fantastic day, cardinals!