These are the most hotly anticipated films of 2025

As in previous years, we at Moviepilot are looking at them most bookmarked films in 2024to find out which cinema and streaming highlights you are most looking forward to. 25 films that cover everything from action to sci-fi adventure to horror and fantasy are already showing off a diverse new year. Stars like Brad Pitt as a Formula One driver and Clint Eastwood in what is probably his last directorial work want to delight film fans. (Data as of December 23, 2024)

Places 25 to 16 in the film highlights of 2025

Places 15 to 6 of the film highlights of 2025. Place 5 of the most hotly anticipated films of 2025: The Incredibles 3

A gang of thieves will be back in 2025: In Now You See Me 3 Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) once again brings together the magicians played by Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher to teach us to be amazed when they go to The Incredibles – Now You See Me (2013) and The Incredibles 2 ( 2016) pull off their next twist-filled heist thriller. Stars Morgan Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan and Mark Ruffalo from the previous films are also back on board.

4th place of the most hotly anticipated films of 2025: Mickey 17

After the film was repeatedly postponed, the time has finally come in 2025: the crazy sci-fi adventure

Mickey 17 from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho is coming to theaters. Robert Pattinson plays the expendable worker Mickey, who is deployed to colonize an ice planet. Whenever he is killed, a new clone of himself is simply awakened. Things only become problematic when two copies of Mickey suddenly fight for the chance to exist.

Third place in the most hotly anticipated films of 2025: Avatar 3

At the end of 2025, James Cameron will follow up his science fiction epic on the planet Pandora and take us into

Avatar 3: Fire and Ash once again visually intoxicating what cinema can do. After the forest exploration in Avatar – Departure for Pandora (2009) and the water excursion 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.

Second place in the most hotly anticipated films of 2025: Nosferatu

Nosferatu – The Undead

is the remake of the 102-year-old fantasy horror film Nosferatu, a symphony of horror, with which FW Murnau brazenly made his own unauthorized Dracula copy in 1922. Director Robert Eggers has already proven his flair for thrilling, eerie works with atmospheric films such as The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman, and reviews from overseas have already celebrated his new edition of the vampire classic “hypnotizing, macabre masterpiece”.

Number 1 of the most hotly anticipated films of 2025: 28 Years Later

The fact that the recently released first trailer set record viewing figures should make it clear: after 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007), many horror fans are looking forward to seeing what happens in 2025 28 Years Later continues with the post-apocalyptic world in which zombie-like infected people became a danger while running. Especially because Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) returned to the franchise after part 1 and wrote the script again with Alex Garland (Civil War).

Over the course of 2025, more highlights will certainly be added that no one is currently aware of. At this point we have left out films like 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.

Review podcast: The 10 best streaming films of 2024 on Netflix, Disney+ and Co.

In the annual review of the year at Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and Co., we discuss which streaming films are a must in 2024 and give you 10 recommendations.

The selection of the best streaming films of the year ranges from action surprises and thrilling adventure films to intense dramas. But there are also comedies and documentaries.