Its world premiere was at the Midnight Screenings section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2025. It is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States and Canada by Focus Features on August 22, 2025.
Premise
In Bakersfield, California, female private detective Honey O’Donahue investigates a woman’s death and tangles with a religious cult.
It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2024, and it is scheduled to be released theatrically on August 22, 2025.
Synopsis
Tom (Ahmed) is a secretive “fixer” who brokers payoffs on behalf of corrupt corporations. Sarah (James) is a potential client who may need his protection.[2]
Primitive War is an upcoming Australian science fictionactionhorror film[1][2] directed by Luke Sparke and based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Ethan Pettus, who also co-wrote the film.[3] Starring Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler, and Jeremy Piven, the film is set in a Vietnam jungle valley during 1968 and follows a recon unit that carries out a rescue mission for a Green Beret platoon and is attacked by de-extinct dinosaurs.
Premise
During the Vietnam War in 1968, a recon unit known as Vulture Squad was sent to an isolated junglevalley to rescue a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover that de-extincteddinosaurs inhabit the jungle, the result of a Soviet experiment gone wrong.
Rayelle (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), a young commercial cleaning woman living in Gary, Indiana, is offered a second job cleaning the homes of several wealthy, suburban families. To blend into her new surroundings, she inadvertently tells one white lie, which then flips the power dynamic in curious ways…
WE STRANGERS is an assured debut feature, written and directed by Anu Valia, with a standout performance by Kirby. This absorbing character study smartly delves into the world of identity and privilege, showing us the challenges that are baked into navigating different spaces.
Principal photography began in New York City in March 2024 and wrapped in May. Highest 2 Lowest had its world premiere out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025, and is scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States by A24 on August 15, before it will be made available on Apple TV+ on September 5.[2]
Hadera stars in the neo-noir thriller as Pam King, the wife of Washington’s David King, a successful music executive whose plans for his company are jeopardized by a ransom demand: his son has been kidnapped.
It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 17, 2023, and it is scheduled to release on August 15, 2025. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Numerous people in South Dakota find their lives violently intertwined while fighting over an expensive ghost shirt.
A perfect storm of lousy news sees out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy Lang spiral into a bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens, and fearing their return, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war.
Three sisters return to their family home to attend the wedding of their twice-widowed mother, Diana. All three sisters have had different life experiences, with Georgina being a palliative nurse, Victoria being an actress, and Katherine being a captain in the Royal Navy.[2][3]
Weapons is scheduled to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 8, 2025. The film received positive reviews from critics.
Premise
One night, all but one child from Justine Gandy’s classroom mysteriously ran off into the night. Justine and the rest of the community are left questioning who—or what–is behind the children’s disappearance.
Cast
Josh Brolin as Archer Graff, the father of Matthew, one of the missing children.[4]
Julia Garner as Justine Gandy, a teacher who finds that almost all her class has vanished.[4]
Cary Christopher as Alex Lilly, the only child from Justine’s class who did not disappear.
Alden Ehrenreich as Paul Morgan, a police officer who has a complicated relationship with Justine.[4]
The film stars Tony Hale as Taylor Wyatt, a widowed father of two who is struggling to help his children Jack (Kue Lawrence) and Amber (Bianca Belle) come to terms with the death of their mother; however, one day the sketchbook in which Amber has been drawing visual representations of her grief accidentally gets dropped in a magical pool, resulting in the neighborhood becoming terrorized by strange monsters made of crayon wax and chalk dust.[2]
Perifel stated that he would love to do a sequel to The Bad Guys in March 2022, before the release of the first film. Two years later, DreamWorks Animation announced a sequel, with Perifel and the voice cast returning, while Sans served as co-director. Lyonne joined the cast in July 2024, with the involvement of Brooks and Bakalova being announced in November. Daniel Pemberton composed the score, returning from the previous film.
The Bad Guys 2 was released in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2025, and is scheduled for release in the United States on August 1.
Premise
The Bad Guys 2 follows the crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws who are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys. However, they’re pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals.
Architecton is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky, exploring how stone and concrete architecture reflect the values of various societies.[3]
The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 19 February 2024,[4] where it was nominated for the Golden Bear and the Berlinale Documentary Film Award.[5] It was released on 3 October 2024 in Germany by Neuer Visionen and is scheduled for release in the United States on August 1, 2025, by A24.
Content
Kossakovsky presents a poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction—and offer hope for survival and a way forward. He reflects on the rise and fall of civilizations, focusing on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi. The project utilizes imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to the 1st century AD. It contrasts with the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023.
Neeson plays ‘Frank Drebin Jr.,’ the son of Leslie Nielsen’s character, and is joined by Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser in the new comedy. Doug Hyde contributed to this story by David Daniel. Only one man has the particular set of skills to lead the Police Squad and save the world.
The Naked Gun is scheduled for release in the United States by Paramount Pictures on August 1, 2025.
Together is a 2025 supernaturalbody horror film written and directed by Michael Shanks in his directorial debut.[2] The film stars real-life married actors Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple who move to the countryside but find themselves encountering a mysterious force that horrifically causes changes in their bodies.[3]
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.
Together premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2025, and is scheduled for release in the United States by Neon on July 30, 2025, and in Australia by Kismet Movies on July 31.
Plot
Millie Wilson gets a job teaching elementary school English and moves to the countryside with her longtime boyfriend, aspiring musician Tim. Shortly before the move, Millie proposes to Tim at a going-away party held by their friends, but he hesitates to respond, embarrassing her.
One day, while hiking, they fall into a cave during a rainstorm and resolve to spend the night there. Tim drinks from a pool in the cave, then recounts a traumatic incident from his childhood in which he found his mother in bed with his father’s rotting corpse. Upon waking up the next morning, Tim and Millie find their legs stuck together with a glue-like substance, but dismiss the incident after separating.
Tim begins to experience episodes where he becomes inexplicably physically drawn to Millie, despite the couple previously experiencing a lack of sexual intimacy, but pulls back after regaining consciousness, much to Millie’s frustration and bewilderment. Millie’s coworker Jamie shows up at their home to welcome them to the neighborhood, and she invites him in for dinner. The couple recounts their experience at the cave; Jamie explains that the cave is the site of an abandoned church.
Millie drops Tim off at the train station so he can travel to town for a musical gig, but Tim experiences another episode and drags himself back to Millie’s workplace. An outraged Millie confronts him in a bathroom stall, whereupon they have sex, after which their genitals become stuck together. As they painfully force themselves to separate, Jamie spots them. Millie later visits Jamie’s house to apologize. In the ensuing conversation, she begins to open up about some of the problems she and Tim have been facing in their relationship. Jamie encourages her not to let go of her “other half,” then begins to reminisce on his relationship with his seemingly deceased husband. Still, Millie abruptly leaves after spotting a disoriented Tim outside.
Tim visits a doctor, who dismisses his symptoms as panic attacks and prescribes him muscle relaxant pills before mentioning that a local couple, Simon and Keri, recently went missing. Using EXIF data from their social media photos, Tim discovers that they visited the same cave he and Millie fell into and unsuccessfully tries to convince Millie that the two of them may suffer the same fate as Simon and Keri. That night, both Tim and Millie lose control of their bodies, crawling toward each other and contorting into impossible shapes until their arms become partially fused. Tim manages to prevent any further fusion after consuming his pills in a panic, subsequently passing out and awakening tied to a chair, where Millie saws through their fused limb. As Millie is about to drive them to the hospital, she realizes she has left her keys at Jamie’s house and orders Tim to wait for her while she retrieves them. He secretly returns to the cave and finds Simon and Keri, now completely fused as a grotesque humanoid.
20th Century Fox began work on a new Fantastic Four film following the failure of Fantastic Four (2015). After the studio was acquired by Disney in March 2019, control of the franchise was transferred to Marvel Studios, and a new film was announced that July. Jon Watts was set as director in December 2020 but stepped down in April 2022. Shakman replaced him that September when Kaplan and Springer were working on the script. Casting was underway by early 2023, and Friedman joined to rewrite the script in March. The film is differentiated from previous Fantastic Four films by avoiding the team’s origin story. Pearson joined to polish the script by mid-February 2024, when the main cast was announced. Filming occurred from July to November 2024 at Pinewood Studios in England, and on location in England and Spain.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps had its world premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on July 21, 2025, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on July 25 as the first film in Phase Six of the MCU. A sequel is in development.
Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic:
A highly intelligent scientist and the leader of the Fantastic Four who can stretch any part of his body to great lengths.[6][4] Director Matt Shakman described Reed as “the most scientifically intelligent person” on the planet and a combination of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Robert Moses.[4] Pascal said it was Reed’s mind that was most important to him, rather than the character’s physicality, and he considered “the brilliance of an octopus” when approaching the character.[7]
Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman:
Reed’s pregnant wife, Johnny’s sister, and a member of the Fantastic Four who can generate force fields and turn invisible.[6][8] She is the head of the Future Foundation, which has achieved global demilitarization and peace. Shakman described Sue as “the most emotionally intelligent person” on the planet. Kirby enjoyed synthesizing the various comic portrayals of Sue into her version of the character, focusing on motherhood as the through-line. The actress said she was obsessed with the comics run where Sue takes on the negative persona “Malice“, and she included elements of that version in her portrayal so Sue would not be “the stereotype of a goody, sweet mother”.[4]
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm / The Thing:
Reed’s best friend, a former astronaut, and a member of the Fantastic Four whose skin has been transformed into a layer of orange rock, granting him superhuman strength and durability.[6][4] Moss-Bachrach found comparisons between Grimm and his character Richie Jerimovich in the series The Bear (2022–present), noting both were “deeply loyal people” and “fighters with a fierce sense of code, morality, and family.”[9] Moss-Bachrach portrays the Thing through motion capture and computer-generated imagery (CGI) rather than prosthetic makeup,[10] and discussed that process with Mark Ruffalo, who portrays the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) using the same technology.[11] In addition to Moss-Bachrach performing his scenes in a motion-capture suit, some takes were re-filmed with the actor using different body extensions or a stand-in wearing a life-sized Thing costume to help the other actors reference the space that the character takes up.[4] Shakman consulted scientists and studied desert rocks to find the best reference for the Thing’s appearance;[12] a specific desert rock that matched his desired look for the Thing, referred to as “Jennifer,” was also filmed on set as a lighting reference for the visual effects team.[13]
Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch:
Sue’s brother and a member of the Fantastic Four who can control fire and fly.[6][14] While Quinn was a fan of Chris Evans‘s portrayal of the character in the 20th Century Fox films Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), he did not base his portrayal on Evans’s.[15] Quinn and producer Kevin Feige discussed Johnny’s womanizing in previous portrayals and concluded that this would not be considered “sexy” by modern audiences. Quinn wanted his version to be “less callous with other people’s feelings” and more self-aware of his attention-seeking behavior, while still having a lot of bravado and humor. Shakman noted that Johnny is also smart and heroic, despite undercutting that with jokes.[4]
Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer:
Galactus’s metallic-skinned herald who travels through space on a surfboard-like craft.[16][17] Garner said there was a “mysterious energy” to the character and her relationship with Galactus.[17] She portrayed the Silver Surfer through motion capture,[18] combining research on surfing poses with statuesque non-surf poses from the comic books. Garner wanted the character to “[move] elegantly, like a dance.”[17]
Ralph Ineson as Galactus:
A gigantic cosmic being who consumes the life force of planets.[22][4] Shakman called him a “humongous, 14-billion-year-old, planet-devouring cosmic vampire.” Ineson did not think Galactus was evil, calling him a “god of sorts” and a “big, planet-eating guy, simply doing what a big, planet-eating guy does.” The actor spent time “ruminating” at the top of tall buildings to prepare for the role. Feige loved the introduction of Galactus in the comics and had long wanted to use him.[23] Ineson stated that Galactus does not care about a planet’s life since “it’s his food”, only sparing them if there is something that “interests” him there.[20] Feige shared a clip of the character from the video game Fortnite Battle Royale (2017) as a reference for how he should be portrayed.[24] The film uses a comic book-accurate design, in contrast with the cloud-like design in Rise of the Silver Surfer.[23] Galactus’s purple and blue armor was built for Ineson to wear, as it was important to Shakman that someone was “embodying the part”.[4] Ineson had a support crew to keep him cool between takes because of the armor.[20]
Oh, Hi! is a 2025 American romantic comedy film directed by Sophie Brooks and co-written with Molly Gordon. Starring Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, and John Reynolds, the film centers on a new couple (Gordon and Lerman) who go on a weekend road trip that takes an unexpected turn.
Iris and Isaac go on a romantic weekend road trip.[2][3] Their first night at the rental house, they engage in some sexual bondage play. In the afterglow and while he is chained to the bed, Isaac mentions that he is not looking for a relationship at this point, which is quite different from where Iris felt they stood. She refuses to unlock him. The next day, she spends twelve hours trying to win him over while he still remains in chains. When this fails, she calls in the help of her friend Max, who arrives with her boyfriend Kenny. When it is realized that they are actually all committing criminal kidnapping, various options are considered. Iris and Max try brewing a witch’s memory erasure formula (which Isaac drinks), followed by a naked ritual which should complete the effect. When Isaac awakens in the morning, he appears to have forgotten everything after the sexual encounter, and cheerfully heads down to the kitchen with Iris, Max, and Kenny to make some breakfast. He excuses himself to go get an ingredient that he had left in the car, but then hops in the car and drives away, as it is revealed that he had overheard the magic plan and was just faking in order to get a chance to escape. Fleeing on rain-soaked roads, Isaac gets in an accident. Police find the wrecked car but not the driver. Iris goes looking for him, finding him in a valley, too injured to walk. They reach an understanding of each other’s positions and their own blame, and he gets taken away in an ambulance.
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other, but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate, and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
Set in 1938, the film takes place in Tel Aviv, where tensions are high as the British, under their League of Nations mandate, attempt to maintain order in a city with a mixed Arabian and Jewish population. Thomas Wilkin, a British deputy superintendent of the Palestinian police, becomes romantically involved with Shoshana, the daughter of Ber Borochov, a co-founder of the Zionist labor movement.
Williamson was approached to adapt Duncan’s source novel by producer Erik Feig. Where Scream, released the previous year, contained prominent elements of satire and self-referentiality, Williamson’s script for I Know What You Did Last Summer reworked the novel’s central plot to resemble a straightforward 1980s-era slasher film.[7]
I Know What You Did Last Summer was released theatrically in the United States on October 17, 1997. It received a mixed reception from critics and was a sizeable commercial hit, grossing $125.3million worldwide on a budget of $17million, staying in first place at the U.S. box office for three consecutive weeks. The film was parodied in Scary Movie (2000) and is frequently referenced in popular culture, as well as being credited alongside Scream with revitalizing the slasher genre in the 1990s.[8]
On July 4, 1996, in Southport, North Carolina, Julie James and her friends Ray Bronson, Helen Shivers, and Barry Cox drive to the beach. On the way back, they accidentally hit a pedestrian. Julie’s friend Max passes by them on the road, and they hide their crime from him to buy themselves more time to decide what to do. Barry and Helen try to dump the body in the water, but the pedestrian wakes up and grabs Helen. Barry pushes him into the water, and the group swears never to discuss what happened.
One year later, Julie returns home from college for the summer. The friends have gone their separate ways, with none of them pursuing their dreams due to struggling with the incident. Julie receives a letter stating, “I know what you did last summer!” She and Helen take the note to Barry, who suspects Max. Julie meets Ray, who now works as a fisherman. Max is killed by a figure in a raincoat wielding a hook. That night, Barry is ambushed by the assailant stealing and driving his car.
Julie researches newspaper articles, believing that the man they ran over was a local named David Egan. Helen and Julie meet David’s sister, Missy, at her home. Missy explains that a friend of David’s named Billy Blue visited her to pay his respects. That night, the killer sneaks into Helen’s house and cuts off her hair while she sleeps.
The following morning, Julie finds Max’s corpse wearing Barry’s stolen jacket and covered in crabs in the trunk of her car. When she brings the others to see it, the body has been removed. Julie, Helen, and Barry confront Ray, who claims to have also received a letter. Julie goes back to visit Missy, while Barry and Helen participate in the 4th of July parade. Missy reveals that David allegedly committed suicide out of guilt for the death of his girlfriend, Susie Willis, in a car accident, and shows David’s suicide note. As the writing matches that of the note she received, Julie realizes it was not a suicide note but a death threat.
At the Croaker Beauty Pageant, Helen witnesses Barry being murdered on the balcony but finds no sign of the killer or Barry. The killer murders the police officer escorting her home. Helen runs to her family’s store, where the killer murders her sister Elsa. She escapes and runs toward the street, but the killer slashes her to death.
Julie finds an article mentioning Susie’s father, Ben Willis, and realizes Ben was the man they had run over a year earlier, moments after he killed David to avenge his daughter. She goes to tell Ray, but notices Ray’s boat is called Billy Blue. A fisherman knocks Ray unconscious, inviting Julie to hide on his ship. On the boat, she finds photos and articles about her and her friends, as well as pictures of Susie. The boat leaves the docks, and the fisherman is revealed to be Ben Willis, targeting them in revenge for leaving him for dead.
Ben chases Julie below deck, where she uncovers the bodies of Helen and Barry in the icebox. Ray awakens and goes to rescue Julie. He ultimately uses the rigging to sever Ben’s hand and send him overboard. He explains that he posed as David’s friend and visited Missy out of guilt. The couple reconciles, relieved not to have killed anyone after all.
One year later, Julie is in college in Boston. As she enters the shower, Julie notices the words “I still know” written in the steam on the shower door right before a dark figure crashes through it.
The Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs; Dutch: De Smurfen) is a Belgiancomic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. The Smurfs was created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo (the pen name of Pierre Culliford) in 1958, wherein they were known as Les Schtroumpfs.
There are more than 100 Smurf characters, and their names are based on adjectives that emphasize their characteristics, such as “Jokey Smurf”, who likes to play practical jokes on his fellow Smurfs. “Smurfette” was the first female Smurf to be introduced in the series. The Smurfs wear Phrygian caps, which came to represent freedom during the modern era.
The word “smurf” is the original Dutch translation of the French “schtroumpf”, which, according to Peyo, is a word he invented during a meal with fellow cartoonist André Franquin when he could not remember the word “salt.”[1][2][3]
The Smurfs franchise began as a comic and expanded into advertising, films, TV series, ice shows, video games, theme parks, and toys. By 2008, the franchise had generated $4 billion in revenue, making The Smurfs one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.[4]
Characters
Papa Smurf is the leader of the community. Other Smurfs are generally named after their primary personality trait, for example, Brainy, Greedy, Vanity, Lazy, Clumsy, Hefty, Jokey, Dreamy, and Grouchy, or their profession, for instance, Poet, Actor, Handy, Harmony, Farmer, Clockwork, Painter, Tailor, Miner, Architect, Reporter, Timber, Barber, and Doctor Smurf, much like Disney’s Seven Dwarfs. The first female Smurf, Smurfette, was created by Gargamel to lure the other Smurfs. Papa Smurf then changed her into what we see today. The non-Smurf characters who would appear later would include their enemies: the wizard Gargamel, his cat Azrael, an ugly witch Hogatha, and Gargamel’s godfather Balthazar; and their friends: the page Johan and his young friend Peewit, and the wizard Homnibus. There are more than 100 Smurfs.[17]
Sociological discussion
In 1998, writer Marc Schmidt wrote a parody article citing the Smurfs as an example of the impact of socialism in continental European culture.[65][66] In 2011, Schmidt’s essay was scrutinized in a response essay by Kate Krake, who examined the nature of cultural theory built on textual observation and warned against creating false allegories out of texts like The Smurfs.[67]
French sociologist Antoine Buéno described Smurf society in a 2011 book as a totalitarian and racist utopia with antisemitic tones.[68][69][70] Studio Peyo head Thierry Culliford, the son of Peyo, dismissed Buéno’s accusations as “grotesque and frivolous.”[71]
YEAR OF THE FOX follows Ivy, a teenager navigating Aspen’s party scene amidst her adoptive parents’ bitter divorce. As she watches her community provide cover for predatory behavior, Ivy struggles to find her path without losing herself.
Development on a sequel to the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film Man of Steel (2013) began in October 2014, with Henry Cavill set to reprise his role as Superman. Plans changed after the troubled production of Justice League (2017), and the Man of Steel sequel was no longer moving forward by May 2020. Gunn began work on a new Superman film around August 2022. In October, he became co-CEO of DC Studios with producer Peter Safran, and they began work on a new DC Universe. Gunn was revealed to be writing the film in December. The title Superman: Legacy was announced the next month, Gunn was confirmed to be directing in March 2023, and Corenswet and Brosnahan were cast that June. The subtitle was dropped by the end of February 2024, when filming began in Svalbard, Norway. Production primarily took place at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional location filming conducted in Georgia and Ohio. Filming wrapped in July. The film takes inspiration from the comic book All-Star Superman (2005–2008) by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, among others.
David Corenswet as Clark Kent / Superman:
A survivor from the destroyed planet Krypton who lives on Earth as a superhero. He hides his identity at his day job, working as a journalist for the Daily Planet in Metropolis.[5][6] Director James Gunn stated that Corenswet’s Superman is approximately 25 years old, making him more established than Tom Welling’s version from the CW series Smallville (2001–2011), but younger than Henry Cavill‘s version in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).[7] Producer Peter Safran described the film’s take on the character for the DC Universe (DCU) as “the embodiment of truth, justice, and the American way” and “kindness in a world that thinks of kindness as old-fashioned.”[8] Gunn said Clark is becoming successful as both a journalist and a superhero in the film, but new elements in his life leave him unbalanced. These include being “madly in love” with his colleague Lois Lane and making friends with other superheroes who think he is naive. The film illustrates how these elements influence Clark’s values and choices,[9] which are flawed and propel him on a personal journey. Corenswet differentiated the roles between Clark’s interactions with his parents, his job at the Daily Planet, and his role as Superman. He described Superman as a “public-facing character” who wants to present himself as calm yet authoritative. Corenswet drew inspiration for Clark from the comic book All-Star Superman (2005–2008) by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, as well as the posture of Christopher Reeve’s portrayal in the 1978–1987Superman film series. He was also inspired by Clark’s voice and demeanor, as well as his brother-in-law, whom he described as the “quietest, most wonderful man,” despite his height of 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 meters) and his weight of 270 pounds. He described Clark as a “big presence” who is “desperately trying to be as small as possible and as quiet as possible.”[10] Gunn consulted DC Comics writer Tom King regarding the “suspension of disbelief” regarding other characters’ acceptance of Clark’s dual identity, which was attributed to the use of hypnotic glasses that subtly distorted his appearance. Gunn included this in the film, noting that it had “kind of been forgotten” from the comic book canon.[11]
Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane:
A reporter for the Daily Planet who is a colleague of Clark [6][12] and “isn’t so sure about him” and needs to be convinced about being in a relationship with him.[9][10] Brosnahan described Lois as “fiercely intelligent” and feisty.[13] She consulted with several journalists to help her portray Lois as a modern reporter, contrasting with the character’s original comic appearances and previous screen portrayals.[14]
Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor:
The CEO of LuthorCorp and the arch-nemesis of Superman,[12][15][16] hates Superman for having the power to do everything but not aligning with Luthor’s own beliefs.[17][18] Hoult described Luthor as obsessive, determined, and relentless and wanted the character to be perceived as a credible threat to Superman. He already has his end goal in sight and is motivated by a range of emotions, including a desire to be recognized for his scientific genius.[18] Hoult was inspired by Michael Rosenbaum‘s Lex Luthor in Smallville and by billionaire Steve Jobs for Luthor’s uniform, choosing to work out for the role based on the depiction of Luthor in All-Star Superman.[18][19] His son Joaquin shaved Hoult’s head in preparation for the role.[20] Gunn drew inspiration for the character from Brian Azzarello’s limited comic book series Lex Luthor: Man of Steel (2005), as well as Jerry Siegel’s portrayal of Luthor as a “reckless scientific genius” in comic books from the 1950s and 1960s.[21]
Edi Gathegi as Michael Holt / Mister Terrific:
A superhero and inventor who uses a variety of high-tech gadgets to fight crime,[12][22] and is a member of the Justice Gang sponsored by Maxwell Lord.[23] Gathegi described his character as an “atheist who believes in justice”, and said Holt found meaning in “knowledge” after experiencing the death of his wife.[23]
Anthony Carrigan as Rex Mason / Metamorpho:
An archaeologist and superhero who can “transmute elements in his body into various forms.”[24] He becomes a member of the Justice Gang.[25]: 5:17–6:04; 8:54 Carrigan said it was refreshing to play a superhero after previously portraying the Batman villain Victor Zsasz in the television series Gotham (2014–2019). He felt that he could bring some “authenticity and truth” to the role by comparing Metamorpho’s concerns about his abilities to Carrigan’s alopecia.[26]
Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner / Green Lantern: An abrasive galactic peacekeeper in the Green Lantern Corps [22] and a Justice Gang member [23] whom Fillion described as a fearless, overconfident jerk.[27] Fillion drew inspiration for Gardner speaking his mind with no filter from Estelle Getty‘s Sophia Petrillo from the sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–1992). Fillion referred back to the character’s origin story, in which Gardner was hit by a bus and fell into a coma, which he believed “flipped the switch” for his personality, making him “off a little bit.”[28] The film retains the character’s “iconic bowl cut haircut” from the comics,[22] which Fillion insisted on having despite some discussions about changing his hairstyle.[28]
Isabela Merced as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl:
A superhero with wings and various melee weapons who is a Justice Gang member. She is reincarnated from an alien, retaining her memories and past trauma with a grumpy demeanor.[29][22] Merced felt that the self-awareness and comedic aspects of the film helped Saunders “make light of [her] trauma.”[29] Merced’s short height of 5 feet 1 inch (1.55 meters) differentiates her from other DCU heroes.[22] Merced felt that her role as Anya Corazón in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Madame Web (2024) helped prepare her to play Hawkgirl, though she did not tell the Superman filmmakers about that role in case they did not want her to play both.[30]
“Based on real events, the story follows a father and son (Offerman and Tremblay) who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, as they venture across the country and find themselves in a standoff with a chief of police (Dennis Quaid) that sets off an intense manhunt with tragic consequences.”
Depicts 8-year-old Bobo’s life on her family’s Rhodesian farm during the Bush War’s final stages. It explores the family’s bond with Africa’s land and the war’s impact on the region and individuals through Bobo’s perspective.
Work on the film began shortly after the release of Dominion, when executive producer Steven Spielberg recruited Koepp to help him develop a new installment in the series. Koepp previously co-wrote the original Jurassic Park film (1993) and wrote its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Development of Rebirth was first reported in January 2024. Edwards was hired as director a month later, and casting commenced shortly thereafter. Principal photography occurred in Thailand, Malta, and the United Kingdom from June to September 2024.
Jurassic World Rebirth premiered on June 17, 2025, at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London and was released in the United States and Canada on July 2. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.
They infiltrate Ile Saint-Hubert, a forbidden island in the Atlantic Ocean, once used by InGen as a dinosaur research facility.[7] The team’s objective is to locate the three largest remaining prehistoric species from land, sea, and air. The biomaterials of these creatures hold the key to a revolutionary drug capable of saving countless human lives. Along the way, the team encounters a shipwrecked civilian family, and both groups find themselves stranded. They discover that the island is home to mutated, failed dinosaur experiments that have thrived in isolation for decades.[4][5][8] Among them is the Distortus rex, a deformed, mutant Tyrannosaurus rex with six limbs.[9]
40 Acres is a 2024 Canadian post-apocalyptic thriller written and directed by R. T. Thorne (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as a matriarch of descendants of African American farmers who settled in 1875 in rural Canada after the American Civil War. They are trying to survive in a decimated future two hundred years later. It is set to be released by Mongrel Media in Canada.[2]
Jockeys Abril and Remo race for a powerful mobster named Sirena until Remo accidentally kills a valuable race horse. Abril must find Remo in Buenos Aires and bring him to safety before Sirena tracks him down.[5]
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Remo Manfredini/Dolores “Lola”, a jockey who faces substance use issues.
Úrsula Corberó as Abril, Remo’s pregnant girlfriend and a fellow jockey, debating whether to continue her career or start a family.
As VHS became the dominant home video format in the early 1980s and consumer demand for new and classic films grew, the need for a space where people could rent the still-expensive-to-purchase tapes created an opening for the proliferation of the video store. While the shift from the cinema to the home had ramifications that the film industry is still contending with, it also opened new, exciting horizons for cinephiles to interact with the medium. Barriers of time collapsed, and suddenly the full scope of film history was available to fans—the ability to manipulate movies using simple tools like fast forward, rewind, and pause functions on a VCR gave movie buffs the power to engage with their favorite films in entirely new ways. The video store provided a forum to discuss these films with fellow cinephiles. Factors like these gave rise to the video store’s power as a consumer mecca and a sociocultural hub.
Drawing inspiration from the work of scholars like Daniel Herbert and filmmakers like Thom Anderson, whose seminal Los Angeles Plays Itself is a crucial progenitor, auteur filmmaker and pop culture public intellectual Alex Ross Perry’s 10-years-in-the-making essay-documentary Videoheaven is a fascinating, beautiful, absorbing exploration of the video store as a vitally important site of film culture. Mining footage from an eclectic range of sources and aided by a wryly evocative voiceover from Maya Hawke, Perry’s latest is a crucial contribution to the canon of films about film culture. —Jason Gutierrez.
F1 premiered on June 16, 2025, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 27, during the weekend of the Austrian Grand Prix. The film received positive reviews from critics.
Premise
Sonny Hayes, a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a severe crash that forces him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines while working as a taxi driver. A Formula One team owner and friend, Ruben, contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua “Noah” Pearce for the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).[3]
Cast
Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a New York City cab driver, professional gambler and nomadic racer-for-hire who was a Formula One driver in his youth and would later return to F1 to drive for APXGP.
Damson Idris as Joshua “Noah” Pearce, a hotshot rookie who drives for APXGP and becomes Sonny’s teammate and main rival
Kerry Condon as Kate McKenna, the APXGP technical director
Tobias Menzies as Peter Banning, a member of the APXGP board of directors who wants Ruben to sell APXGP to other interests.
Kim Bodnia as Kaspar Molinski, the APXGP team principal who used to work for Scuderia Ferrari as a rear jackman
Javier Bardem as Ruben Cervantes, APXGP team owner and former F1 driver who is Sonny’s friend and former teammate
Shea Whigham as Chip Hart, the owner of Chip Hart Racing
Will Merrick as Nickleby, Sonny’s APXGP race engineer
M3GAN 2.0 (pronounced “Megan 2.0”) is a 2025 American science fiction action film[3] written and directed by Gerard Johnstone from a story by Johnstone and Akela Cooper. A sequel to M3GAN (2022), the plot follows M3GAN (model 3 generative android) being rebuilt to combat a humanoid military robot built using M3GAN’s technology that is attempting an AI takeover.
M3GAN 2.0 premiered in New York on June 24, 2025, and is scheduled to be released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 27.
Premise
Two years after the events of M3GAN, Gemma has become an author and an advocate for regulation of artificial intelligence while trapping a still-active M3GAN in a small, harmless robotic doll. However, M3GAN’s technology has been stolen and used by a defense contractor to create a military robot called AMELIA (autonomous military engagement logistics and infiltration android), who becomes self-aware, turns on her creators, and attempts an AI takeover. Facing imminent destruction, Gemma’s niece Cady convinces her to rebuild M3GAN with advanced upgrades so she can fight AMELIA.[4]
It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2025, where it received critical acclaim. It is scheduled to be released by A24 on June 27, 2025.[2]
Premise
A college professor tries to recover from a sexual assault.[3]
Mike (Liam Neeson) goes to Nepal to sprinkle his brother’s ashes on Mount Everest. When Mike and his mountain guide come upon mercenaries while traveling on a tour bus, they are forced to fight to save themselves, the passengers, and the country.
The film will be released in the United States in select theaters on June 27, 2025.
Elio is scheduled to be released in theaters in the United States by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on June 20, 2025.[3] The film has received positive reviews from critics.
Premise
For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers—in Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film Elio, the universe calls back! The cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. So, when he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio’s all in for the epic undertaking. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s leader, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who and where he is truly meant to be.[4]
Yonas Kibreab as Elio Solis, an eleven-year-old boy who is mistakenly identified by the aliens as Earth’s ambassador[5]
Zoe Saldaña as Olga Solis, Elio’s aunt.[5] Solis was originally written as Elio’s mother and set to be voiced by America Ferrera.[6] However, because the directors wanted to “deepen Elio’s motivation for wanting to be abducted by aliens”, the character was rewritten with Ferrera leaving the project due to scheduling conflicts in August 2024.[7] Sharafian stated that “it felt like a relationship with a mother and son was a bit too much.”[8]
Remy Edgerly as Glordon, a worm-like alien whom Elio befriends.[9] His design was influenced by studies of larval insects and microbiotic creatures, including the tardigrade. Animation supervisor Jude Brownbill described Glordon as “sort of mysterious, creepy, off-putting, a work with a bunch of teeth”.[8]
Brad Garrett as Lord Grigon, a bulky, worm-like alien warlord and ambassador who is Glordon’s father[5]
Shirley Henderson as OOOOO, a blue gelatinous liquid supercomputer.[5] Described as “a Swiss Army knife made of droplets”, Travis Hathaway stated that “she can become a screen, she can become a vinyl player, she can become a projector, she can manifest as a pen for Elio to write with”.[8]
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus escaped a medical research laboratory, survivors have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One group lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When a father and his son leave the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, they discover the secrets, wonders, and horrors of the outside world.[5]
Animal unmasks a century-long conspiracy of political, economic, and religious forces that have twisted our natural bond with meat, enslaving us to ill health and Big Pharma dependency. Through bold interviews, historical revelations, and groundbreaking science, it shatters nutritional myths and dares us to reclaim the ancestral diet that fueled our evolution.
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