WAKE UP DEAD MAN
Wake Up Dead Man [a] is a 2025 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is a standalone sequel to Glass Onion (2022) and the third installment overall in the Knives Out film series. It stars Daniel Craig, who reprises his role as master detective Benoit Blanc.[2][3] The ensemble cast also includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
Wake Up Dead Man had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2025, and is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 26, then streaming on Netflix on December 12, 2025. The film received positive reviews from critics.
Premise
Detective Benoit Blanc takes on a new case that brings him into the orbit of a charismatic priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, and his devout congregation. When a mysterious death occurs, Blanc must navigate a complex web of secrets and simmering tensions within the community to uncover the truth.
Cast
- Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a private detective/investigator
- Josh O’Connor as Rev. Jud Duplenticy, a young priest
- Glenn Close as Martha Delacroix, a devout church lady and Wicks’ right-hand woman.
- Josh Brolin as Msgr. Jefferson Wicks is a charismatic and domineering priest who serves as the congregation’s central figure.
- Mila Kunis as Geraldine Scott, a local police chief
- Jeremy Renner as Dr. Nat Sharp, a town doctor
- Kerry Washington as Vera Draven, a tightly-wound lawyer
- Andrew Scott as Lee Ross, a best-selling author
- Cailee Spaeny as Simone Vivane, a disabled former concert cellist
- Daryl McCormack as Cy Draven, an aspiring politician
- Thomas Haden Church as Samson Holt, a circumspect groundskeeper
- Jeffrey Wright as Langstrom, a bishop who assigns Duplenticy to Wicks’ church.
- Annie Hamilton as Grace Wicks
- James Faulkner as Reverend Prentice Wicks, Jefferson’s father
- Bridget Everett as Louise
- Noah Segan as Nikolai. Segan previously appeared in Knives Out (2019) as Trooper Wagner and Glass Onion (2022) as Derol.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt cameos as a baseball announcer. Gordon-Levitt, a major collaborator with Johnson, previously had voice cameos in Knives Out as Detective Hardrock and in Glass Onion as the Hourly Dong.
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ETERNITY
Eternity is a 2025 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by David Freyne, who co-wrote the movie with Pat Cunnane. The film stars Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, John Early, Olga Merediz, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Its plot follows a woman who must choose between two men with whom to spend eternity in the afterlife.
Eternity premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2025, and is scheduled for release in the United States by A24 on November 26, 2025.
Premise
After death, everybody gets one week to choose where to spend eternity. For Joan, Larry, and Luke, it’s really a question of with whom to spend it. Joan must choose between her first love, who died in a war, and the man she has built her life with.
Cast
- Miles Teller as Larry Cutler, the man Joan built her life with
- Barry Primus as old Larry Cutler
- Elizabeth Olsen as Joan, the woman of Larry’s and Luke’s affections
- Betty Buckley as old Joan
- Callum Turner as Luke, Joan’s first husband, who died in the war
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Anna, Larry’s afterlife coordinator
- John Early as Ryan, Joan’s afterlife coordinator
- Olga Merediz as Karen
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ZOOTOPIA 2
Zootopia 2[b] is a 2025 American animated buddy cop comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The sequel to Zootopia (2016), Jared Bush and Byron Howard direct it,[2] written by Bush, and produced by Yvett Merino.[3] Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, and Shakira reprise their roles from the first film, joined by newcomers Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Andy Samberg, David Strathairn, Patrick Warburton, and Quinta Brunson. It follows Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde, the previous film’s protagonists, who go undercover to pursue Zootopia’s new and mysterious reptilian resident, Gary De’Snake.
Zootopia 2 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on November 13, 2025, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 26.
Plot
Sometime after the events of the first movie, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde have become partners in the ZPD, but their clashing personalities make them an incompatible pairing. After botching a smuggling ring, Chief Bogo threatens to separate them unless they attend a therapy session managed by quokka Dr. Fuzzby. Judy soon thinks that there might be a snake in Zootopia since, during the smuggling job, she found a shredded piece of snakeskin, and some clues dictate that the snake might be at the annual Zootennial Gala, celebrating 100 years since the city’s founding, which is being hosted by a family of lynxes who are descendants of Zootopia’s founder, Ebeneezer Lynxley.
Judy convinces Nick to attend the Gala with her to see if the snake will be there. At the gala, Judy befriends the youngest of the Lynxley family, the awkward Pawbert. Soon, Nick notices a hooded figure on a chandelier and accidentally knocks it down, and the figure emerges to reveal a pit viper. As everyone panics, the viper kidnaps the Lynxley patriarch and Pawbert’s father, Milton, and takes an old journal detailing the creation of the weather walls that was supposed to go on display. Judy catches up with the viper, who convinces her that snakes aren’t bad animals and the journal contains the proof he needs. As Judy begins having second thoughts, Nick arrives and knocks the viper unconscious with a frying pan.
Voice cast
- Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy Hopps, a young optimistic rabbit from Bunnyburrow and the first rabbit of the Zootopia Police Department (ZPD)[4]
- Jason Bateman as Nick Wilde, a sly red fox and a former con artist who later joined the Zootopia Police Department as their first fox
- Ke Huy Quan as Gary De’Snake, a pit viper being pursued by Judy and Nick while trying to help his family[5]
- Fortune Feimster as Nibbles Maplestick, a beaver living in Marsh Market who encounters Judy and Nick[citation needed]
- Andy Samberg as Pawbert Lynxley, a lynx[‡ 1]
- David Strathairn as Milton Lynxley, Pawbert’s father[‡ 1]
- Idris Elba as Chief Bogo, the cape buffalo chief of police of the Zootopia Police Department[6]
- Shakira as Gazelle, a Thomson’s gazelle pop music star[‡ 2]
- Patrick Warburton as Mayor Brian Winddancer, a stallion who is a former actor and the current Mayor of Zootopia[‡ 3]
- Quinta Brunson as Dr. Fuzzby, a quokka who is Judy and Nick’s police partner therapist[7]
- Nate Torrence as Benjamin Clawhauser, an overweight cheetah who works at the ZPD[‡ 4]
- Bonnie Hunt as Bonnie Hopps, a rabbit and mother of Judy[8]
- Don Lake as Stu Hopps, a rabbit and father of Judy[8]
- Macaulay Culkin as Cattrick Lynxley[‡ 1]
- Brenda Song as Kitty Lynxley, a lynx who is the sharp-tongued daughter of the Lynxley family[‡ 1]
- Maurice LaMarche as Mr. Big, a Vito Corleone-esque crime boss Arctic shrew operating in Tundratown[9]
- Leah Latham as Fru Fru, an arctic shrew who is Mr. Big’s daughter and Judith’s mother[8]
- Cecily Strong as Little Judith, Fru Fru’s daughter[‡ 5]
- Raymond S. Persi as Flash Slothmore, a three-toed sloth[8]
- Mark Rhino Smith as Officer McHorn, a black rhinoceros police officer[8]
- Tommy Chong as Yax, a domestic yak[8]
- Tommy Lister Jr. as Finnick, a fennec fox and Nick’s former partner in crime, who acts undercover as a baby bunny. Lister died in 2020 and his family allowed Disney to use unused recordings from Zootopia for the sequel to fill in his lines.[‡ 6]
- Michelle Gomez as Captain Hoggbottom, a razorback[‡ 5]
- David Fane as Truffler, Hoggbottom’s razorback partner[10]
- Jean Reno as Bûcheron, a goat police officer[9]
- Danny Trejo as Jesús, a plumed basilisk[‡ 7]
- John Leguizamo as Antony Sootley, an anteater smuggler.[10]
- Stephanie Beatriz as Bloats, a hippo ZPD cop[10]
- Wilmer Valderrama as Higgins, a hippo ZPD cop[10][11] Valderrama takes over the role from Raymond S. Persi.
- Jenny Slate as Dawn Bellwether,[8] a sheep criminal mastermind, the former Assistant Mayor of Zootopia, and the former Mayor of Zootopia
- Alan Tudyk as:
- Duke Weaselton, a least weasel crook[8]
- A French raccoon chef[‡ 8]
- Josh Dallas as the Frantic Pig[8]
- Peter Mansbridge as Peter Moosebridge, a moose news reporter for Zootopia News Network (or ZNN for short)[‡ 9]
- Yvette Nicole Brown as:[‡ 3]
- EMT Otter, a medic North American river otter
- Bearoness Bear, a bear who is a guest at the gala
- Josh Gad as Paul Moldebrandt, an ornery mole who works as the Zootopia Police Department’s IT expert[10]
- June Squibb as Gram Gram, Judy’s grandmother[‡ 10]
- Michael J. Fox as Michael J., a fox prisoner[‡ 5]
- Rachel House as Gramma Taller, a giraffe prisoner[10]
- Mae Martin as Tuffy Cheeksworth, a guinea pig prisoner[‡ 8]
- Tig Notaro as Big Tig, a bear prisoner[‡ 8]
- Dwayne Johnson as Zeke, an accident-prone dik-dik[12]
- Roman Reigns and CM Punk as the Zebros, a pair of plains zebra cops[13][14]
- Ed Sheeran as Ed Shearin, a sheep[15]
- Blake Slatkin as Baalake Lambkin, a sheep[15]
- Robert Irwin as Robert Furwin, a koala[16][‡ 11]
- Mario Lopez as Denny Howlett, a wolf reporter[‡ 8]
- Auliʻi Cravalho as Gary’s anti-venom pen[10]
- Anika Noni Rose as Squeal of Fortune Mouse[10]
- Nick DiGiovanni as Slick Di’Giguani, an iguana bartender[‡ 8]
- Taylen Biggs as Tailen Smalls, a mouse[‡ 8]
- George Pennacchio as George Purrnacleo[‡ 8]
- Amanda Gorman as Deandra Bambino, a giraffe reporter[17]
Additionally, Judy’s younger brothers are voiced by Shakira’s sons, Milan and Sasha.[18]
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HAMNET
Hamnet is a 2025 historical drama film co-edited and directed by Chloé Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O’Farrell, based on O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same name. The film follows the relationship between Agnes and William Shakespeare, and the impact of the tragic death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet on their lives, leading to the creation of William’s play Hamlet. It stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William, respectively, alongside Emily Watson, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, and Joe Alwyn in supporting roles.
Hamnet had its premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on 29 August 2025 and will receive a limited theatrical release by Focus Features in the United States on 26 November, a wide theatrical release on 12 December, and a release by Universal Pictures in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2026.
Plot
The film follows William Shakespeare (Mescal) and his wife, Agnes (Buckley), as their son, Hamnet, dies at a young age, inspiring Shakespeare to write Hamlet.[2]
Cast
- Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare
- Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare
- Emily Watson as Mary Shakespeare
- Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew Hathaway
- Jacobi Jupe as Hamnet Shakespeare
- David Wilmot as John Shakespeare
- Olivia Lynes as Judith Shakespeare
- Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Susanna Shakespeare
- Freya Hannan-Mills as Eliza Shakespeare
- Dainton Anderson as Edmund Shakespeare
- Elliot Baxter as Richard Shakespeare
- Noah Jupe as Hamlet
- El Simons as Ophelia
- Louisa Harland as Roawn
- Jack Shalloo as Marcellus
- Sam Woolf as Bernardo
- Hera Gibson as Francisco
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