These are the top 10 films to get excited about in 2025
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This year has been an eye-opening one for movies, from the blockbuster wins for Disney with Deadpool & Wolverine, Moana 2 and the record-breaking Inside Out 2 to the musical magic of Wicked enchanting the box office and the surprise success of legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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The hotly anticipated Gladiator II completed 2024’s Barbenheimer double bill ‘Glicked’, while we all had some daft fun with Twisters, were shocked silly by the likes of The Substance and Longlegs and are still witnessing the dramatic behind-the-scenes fall-out from hit Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us.
As ever, the cinema business remains one tricky to predict but there’s plenty of major films lining up for release soon – including in an impressively stacked January. From the new Oscar front-runner made for under $10,000,000 (£7.9m) and dubbed 2025’s Oppenheimer to the return of a much-loved rom-com heroine, a live-action animation remake that’s not from Disney and a truly terrifying sequel for a British horror classic, there’s plenty to look forward to.
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Here’s a look at some of the biggest, boldest and most talked about films set for release in 2025…. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. While Venice Film Festival was the scene of many a cinematic surprise back in September, The Brutalist was perhaps the biggest.
