As the end of the year comes closer each day, we have the chance to look back at the blockbusters of the past year and look forward to some of the new releases next year. This year has seen the release of films such as Superman, 28 Years Later, Jurassic World: Rebirth, and The Conjuring: Last Rites.
For the future of 2025, we have over 30 films yet to be released. From horror to comedy, action to musical, the movies of late 2025 have a wide variety of genres. The remaining films of September include American Sweatshop (September 19), The Strangers: Chapter 2 (September 26), HIM (September 19), and One Battle After Another (September 26), along with several others. One of these films, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, can be seen as both a finale to a cinematic trilogy and as a memorial to the late Maggie Smith and her role as Violet Crawley, after her passing in September 2024. For October, films releasing include TRON: Ares (October 10), The Black Phone 2 (October 17), Good Fortune (October 17), and A House Of Dynamite (October 24). One of the most anticipated films of the line-up is The Smashing Machine (October 3), a drama starring Dwayne Johnson in the role of MMA legend Mark Kerr, as director Benny Safdie shows the man’s rise to fame, personal struggles, and “a raw, emotional look into the cost of greatness.”
For the last two months of 2025, we will have an assortment of sequels, spin-offs, and remakes, along with a sprinkling of some original works. These include Wicked: For Good (November 21), Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (November 14), Predator: Badlands (November 7), as well as Bugonia (November 7), Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (December 5), Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (December 12), Avatar: Fire and Ash (December 19), and Anaconda (December 25). One of the films on the smaller screen this year is Frankenstein, a gothic drama directed by the Academy Award-winning Guillermo del Toro. The film follows the legendary story of Victor Frankenstein (portrayed by Oscar Isaac), an egotistical scientific prodigy, who creates a monstrous creature (portrayed by Jacob Elordi) to prove his greatness, but only creates suffering for himself, The Monster, and those around them. The film was first discussed all the way back in 2007, when Guillermo del Toro spoke about it being “a project he would kill to make” as a faithful adaptation of the original novel’s “Miltonian tragedy” instead of a horror movie. Throughout the years, his vision had the same idea, but a constantly changing production, with Doug Jones and Andrew Garfield both being potential choices to play The Monster before Jacob Elordi was chosen.
With all of these movies to choose from, and so many more that haven’t even been mentioned, I need to ask: What are you waiting for!? Save your money, go get your tickets, and make sure that you have a Netflix Subscription!
