More than two decades after Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s beloved post-apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later first hurtled onto screens, the pair are back, with newly minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy in tow, for this reboot tracking yet more survivors (Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell) fleeing infected hordes. Even more good news? A Nia DaCosta-directed sequel, 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple, is due to follow soon after.
M3GAN 2.0 (June 27, 2025)
It’s time to blast Sia’s “Titanium” once again and finesse those eerie dance moves—Gerard Johnstone and Akela Cooper’s preppy killer doll is out for more blood, presumably after (shock, horror!) not dying at the end of the delightfully campy, word-of-mouth sensation that was the first film. Bring on more implausible shenanigans from Allison Williams’s roboticist and Violet McGraw as her grieving niece, as well as more wild fight scenes, gruesome deaths, and bizarre twists.
Freakier Friday (August 8, 2025)
Lindsay Lohan is taking a (hopefully brief) break from Netflix rom-coms to reprise the role of the now-all-grown-up teenage punk rocker-turned-middle aged corporate stiff Anna Coleman, who inexplicably swapped bodies with her strung-out mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the 2003 Disney classic. Directed by Late Night’s Nisha Ganatra and co-starring returning favorites Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal, Stephen Tobolowsky, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, and Rosalind Chao alongside Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Julia Butters and Never Have I Ever’s Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, this hotly anticipated sequel is sure to have you head-banging to Pink Slip like no time has passed.
The Battle of Baktan Cross (August 8, 2025)
Paul Thomas Anderson rarely misses—and it’s unlikely that he will with his next star-studded project: a crime saga featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, A Thousand and One’s Teyana Taylor, and Licorice Pizza’s Alana Haim. Mark your calendars.
Downton Abbey 3 (September 12, 2025)
It won’t be the same without the late Maggie Smith’s quippy Dowager Countess, naturally, but at least Paul Giamatti, Dominic West, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Joanne Froggatt, Penelope Wilton, et al will be back for our third big-screen visit to the grand Yorkshire pile, courtesy of Julian Fellowes and Simon Curtis. The enchanting score alone will be enough to give me goosebumps.
The Bride! (September 26, 2025)
I’m generally skeptical of film titles which end in exclamation marks (see: Mamma Mia!, Mother!, I could go on…), but I’ll make an exception for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sci-fi musical reimagining of Bride of Frankenstein, with Jessie Buckley as the wife-to-be, Christian Bale as the monster, and a supporting cast including Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening, the director’s husband Peter Sarsgaard, and her brother, Jake. Get ready for chills, thrills, and big dance numbers.
Bugonia (November 7, 2025)
Another year, another wonderfully wacky Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone collaboration: this time, a sci-fi comedy remake of the 2003 South Korean farce Save the Green Planet! with Clueless’s Alicia Silverstone and Kinds of Kindness’s Jesse Plemons as a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps a high-powered CEO whom he believes is actually an alien sent to destroy the earth. What else did you expect?
Wicked: Part Two (November 21, 2025)
As we continue to hold space for and find power in the first half of Jon M. Chu’s two-part pink-and-green blockbuster, we’re also breathlessly looking ahead to the second, destined to fly onto screens this coming autumn, bringing with it more stunning duets from Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, more of Jonathan Bailey’s antics, more plotting from Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum, and, hopefully, many, many more memes.
