2025 promises to be a big year for tentpole films but it can be a bit tricky to keep track of all the trailers and release dates, especially since every trailer listed below is a franchise film and/or sequel. Whether you’re a comic book fan, a cinematic universe devotee, or you want to relive the nostalgia of having fast zombies scare the pants off you, here’s a list of great films coming out in the next few months (in order of release date).
Captain America: Brave New World
Release Date: February 14, 2025
As Sam Wilson continues on his journey as the new Captain America, he finds himself at odds with United States leadership — and Harrison Ford’s President Thaddeus Ross, aka Red Hulk. Brave New World is the fourth installment in the Captain America film series and a continuation of the television miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Thunderbolts
Release Date: May 2, 2025
Marvel is bringing together a misfit group of anti-heroes in Thunderbolts, a union of Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Yelena Belova, her father Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, John Walker/U.S. Agent, Ava Starr/Ghost, and Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster. While Marvel remains expectedly mum about the official plot, the franchise has been building up Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine as a big bad in the MCU.
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Release Date: May 23, 2025
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning hit fans where it hurts with a character death that I won’t spoil here. The seventh and upcoming eighth installment of the franchise were shot back-to-back with Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) directing both films and co-writing along with Erik Jendresen (Band of Brothers).
Everything Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has done up until now has come to this film.
28 Years Later
Release Date: June 20, 2025
A warning: the song in this trailer will haunt you. Indeed, it was designed to do so. The poem that inspired the song is titled “Boots” and was written by British author — and Second Anglo-Boer War correspondent Rudyard Kipling. The maddening repetition mimics the sound of marching boots in a never-ending conflict.
If the trailer is this unnerving, I can only imagine the tension the film will bring!
Here is the official synopsis:
Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Jurassic World Rebirth
Release Date: July 2, 2025
The scientists of Jurassic Park have given us dinosaurs for entertainment, for military use, and now for medical use. Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton) and Scarlett Johannson (Black Widow, Avengers) head to “the most dangerous place on earth” in this next installation of the Jurassic World franchise.
Oh, and if the first trailer wasn’t enough, here’s the trailer that aired during the Super Bowl.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea, and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
Academy Award® nominee Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.
Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s most trusted team member; Critics Choice and Olivier Award winner Bailey plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Homeland, Obi-Wan Kenobi) appears as Big Pharma representative Martin Krebs, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Murder on the Orient Express) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family.
Superman
Release Date: July 11, 2025
After his success with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and DC’s The Suicide Squad, James Gunn was made the Kevin Fiege of DC — that is, he’s got creative control of the ship, or, more formally, he, along with his frequent producing partner Peter Safran, is the co-chairperson and CEO of DC Films. After first announcing in 2022 that he was writing a film about a young Superman, the teaser trailer is finally here, along with some very James Gunn-esque looking visuals.
David Corenswet (House of Cards) playing Superman/Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) playing Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult (The Great, Nosferatu) playing iconic villain Lex Luthor.
The film will re-start a new DC cinematic universe under the name “DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters” with an additional four movies (including a Batman film) and five television series (including a Green Lantern series). It is a different cinematic universe than, say, Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent or either Ben Affleck’s or Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Release Date: July 25, 2025
Marvel has made a lot of films since reinventing superhero films with Iron Man in 2008. Marvel creators, rather than resting on their laurels, continue to test creative limits with their projects, from WandaVision’s television parody format to a 1960s-inspired telling of The Fantastic Four.
Keeping traditionally tight-lipped, Marvel has only released a teaser trailer so far — and with it, a teaser official synopsis:
Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’s First Family — Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ben Grimm/The Thing — as they face their most daunting challenge yet.
Directed by Matt Shakman (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, WandaVision), the film stars Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian), Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible Fallout, Napoleon), Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear).