10 Biggest Movies Coming Out In Summer 2025

By James Gunn Superman to Jurassic World RebirthThere are some really big movies that are scheduled to hit theaters during the blockbuster summer season of 2025. Since then Jaws became the highest-grossing film ever made in the summer of 1975, Hollywood studios have been releasing their high-concept films in the summer in hopes of regaining their success. Summer is usually when the highest-grossing movies of a given year arrive. This year it was Inside out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine. Last year it was Barbenheimer. The previous year was Top Gun: Maverick.

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The successful summer season usually begins in May (although summer itself does not begin until June) and lasts until September. The successful 2025 summer season is shaping up to be excellent. Marvel Studios is releasing not one, but two highly anticipated superhero movies. Liam Neeson inherits the role of Frank Drebin from the late great Leslie Nielsen. The Smurfs are back, Gunn is finally launching his DC Universe, and Tom Cruise is making what could be his final appearance as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Summer 2025 has many interesting films in theaters.

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May 2

Sebastian Stan, Hannah John-Kamen, Florence Pugh, Wyatt Russell and David Harbor looking down the city streets in Thunderbolts

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Marvel Studios’ next big-screen offering is set to release early next year with Captain America: Brave New World on February 14. Marvel’s first blockbuster release of the summer will be Good heavens* on May 2. Good heavens* It’s essentially Marvel’s own version of DC suicide squad franchise, with a band of anti-heroes assembled to carry out black ops missions that the government doesn’t want on the official record. The cast doesn’t have a wide variety of superpowers (they’re mostly strong, hyper-capable mercenaries), but it does have plenty of A-list stars.

Florence Pugh leads the way as Yelena Belova, backed by Sebastian Stan, David Harbor and Wyatt Russell, all reprising their MCU roles. He Good heavens* The trailers have been exciting and promise a more semi-grounded action thriller than the average Marvel movie. will be more Supply Expendables that Avengers.

9 The Smurfs Movie

July 18

Featured Chris Miller The Smurfs Musical Movie Director 1

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The Smurfs will return to the big screen next summer in the aptly titled The Smurfs Moviewhich will hit theaters on July 18, 2025. This will be a musical; it was even called The Smurfs Musical in a moment, and will mark the first Smurfs movie from 2017 Smurfs: The Lost Village. Rihanna leads a star-studded voice cast as Smurfette, and also produces the film and co-writes and records the songs.

With Puss in boots director Chris Miller and south park Writer Pam Brady has some serious animation talent working behind the scenes. It’s shaping up to be an incredible reboot. Next summer will be full of great movies, but The Smurfs Movie should fill the familiar cinematic void that was filled by Inside out 2 and Despicable Me 4 this past summer.

8 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

May 23

Tom Cruise hanging from a yellow biplane in Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning
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Paramount recently released the trailer for the newly titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. This will follow the evil AI/missing submarine story introduced in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Although not explicitly described as such, the purpose of the title seems to suggest that this will be the end. Mission: Impossible movie (or at least the last one with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt).

Dead Reckoning Part One disappointed with the box office; That’s largely why Paramount decided to drop out.”second” from the title of this one. But that can mainly be attributed to its release date; It came right after Barbenheimer, the cultural phenomenon that no one could have predicted. Causing one last trip, The final reckoning It could still be a big hit when it releases on May 23, 2025.

7 strangest fridays

August 8

Weirdest Friday Promo with Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsay Lohan)
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More than 20 years after the original, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reunite for a sequel to strange friday. Noble Stranger FridayThe sequel will see Anna Coleman, now a mother, once again switching bodies with her mother, Tess. Although initially speculated to be a direct release on Disney+, the studio has since confirmed that the film will be released in theaters on August 8, 2025 (and then streamed on Disney+ shortly after).

There have been four different versions of strange fridaybut this is the first time one of them has had a sequel. Nostalgia for the 2003 remake of strange friday is strong, so this sequel could be a big blockbuster in the making. Fans who grew up with that movie will now, like Anna, have children of their own who they can take to see the sequel.

6 F1

June 27

Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) and Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) on race day in F1
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Brad Pitt’s F1 movie, with an inspired title F1will be released in theaters on June 27, 2025. The plot revolves around a failed Formula One driver, played by Pitt, who comes out of retirement to mentor a promising rookie. Top Gun: MaverickJoseph Kosinski directs the film and promises the same immersive cinematic action that film delivers: cameras placed inside speeding cars, placing the audience right there on the race track.

This is Apple’s latest attempt to break into the blockbuster business after the box office disappointment of argylle and take me to the moon. with the director of Top Gun: Maverick at the helm, F1 demands to be seen on the big screen. If it’s as good as him Top gun sequel, then it could very well be a big hit.

5 The Naked Gun

August 1

Liam Neeson on the poster for The Naked Gun 33 The Final Insult
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The naked weapon The franchise will return to the big screen with a reboot on August 1, 2025. Liam Neeson will replace Leslie Nielsen as star, playing Frank Drebin, Jr. (presumably the son of the original Frank Drebin). Pamela Anderson will play her love interest and Paul Walter Hauser will play her captain, Ed Hocken. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it will probably be another absurd and ridiculous police procedural parody.

TO naked gun reboot without Nielsen may seem iffy, but there’s plenty of talent behind the camera here: The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer is directing the new film from a story by family man creator Seth MacFarlane. There haven’t been many major comedy films in recent years. Yeah The naked weapon The reboot is a success, so it could finally bring back the comedy genre.

4 The Battle of the Baktan Cross

August 8

Paul Thomas Anderson on set
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s last film, The Battle of the Baktan Crosswill hit theaters on August 8, 2025. It is Anderson’s most expensive film to date, with a blockbuster budget that is double the gross of Anderson’s highest-grossing film. But it is also described as his most popular film yet, with lots of action, explosions and car chases. For now, this is all just speculation, but it sounds exciting.

Leonardo DiCaprio leads the cast and Warner Bros. is counting on his star power to make the film a hit. The new PTA movie is rumored to be a contemporary adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s. vinalandiaupdating Reagan-era satire on America’s current political climate. If that’s the case, The Battle of the Baktan Cross It could be wildly polarizing (but it could also be a really interesting movie).

3 The Fantastic Four: First Steps

July 25

Concept art for Fantastic Four First Steps
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a couple of months later Good heavens* premieres, on July 25, Marvel Studios will release its third film of 2025: The fantastic four: first steps. An MCU The fantastic four The reboot has been in development since Disney acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, but it has taken a few years to come to fruition. Set in a retro-futuristic world inspired by the 60s, First steps It will see the Fantastic Four fighting to defend Earth from Galactus and his herald, Silver Surfer.

Kevin Feige has assembled a star-studded cast to bring Marvel’s first family to life: Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm. The bar has been set quite low for a great The fantastic four movie. Yeah First steps can surpass what came before, it could be a huge success.

2 Jurassic World Rebirth

July 2

Mahershala Ali appears scared by a flare in Jurassic World Rebirth
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There has never been a Jurassic Park either Jurassic World Movie that underperformed at the box office. Even the most recent Jurassic World Domainwhich was widely panned by critics, grossed over $1 billion at the box office. Even though that movie is promoted as the end of the Jurassic saga, there was no way Universal was going to let this franchise end. On July 2, 2025, the studio will release Jurassic World Rebirth.

Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali lead the cast, so Jurassic World Rebirth It has a lot of star power behind it. godzillaGareth Edwards is in the director’s chair and he is original. Jurassic Park Writer David Koepp has written the script. Jurassic World Rebirth It will be a success regardless of its quality, but it looks like this could be a return to form.

1 superman

July 11

Superman and Krypto sitting on the moon looking at Earth
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It’s been over two years since James Gunn and Peter Safran were announced as co-presidents and co-CEOs of the newly formed DC Studios. Warner Bros. tasked them with tearing down the DCEU and building a new cinematic universe based on DC Comics from scratch. Next summer, on July 11, the new DC Universe will finally launch with a new Superman reboot, written and directed by Gunn and starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel.

Instead of repeating the character’s all-too-familiar origin story, Gunn’s story Superman The film will see Clark Kent trying to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his adopted upbringing in Smallville, Kansas. Based on first look images and leaked set photos, Gunn’s Superman looks much brighter and happier than the version seen in the SnyderVerse. At a time when audiences desperately need hopeful stories and joyful escapism, Superman I could do it very well.