New movies: the most exciting films coming to theaters in June 2025 and beyond

June 2025 has arrived – and, with it, a bunch of exciting new movies to look forward to.

Leading the charge on the new release front this weekend (June 4 to 6) is Ballerina, the first John Wick universe movie that doesn't star Keanu Reeves as its lead. The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan's silver screen adaptation of Stephen King's book namesake, is also out in US theaters.

There are many more big-screen offerings that'll try to endear themselves to entertainment aficionados in the weeks and months ahead, too. So, read on to find out about the new movies you can expect to see between now and mid-September (NB: we'll be adding more entries to this guide in the weeks to come).

New movies: June

Ballerina

Release date: out now (worldwide)

Get ready to return to The World of John Wick, everyone. Ballerina, the franchise's latest film entry that's set between John Wick's third and fourth films, is out now in theaters.

Ana de Armas stars as Eve Macarro, aka the titular assassin who, like Wick, embarks on a mission of revenge – one that seeks her seeking vengeance on those who killed her family and orphaned her years earlier.

The action thriller's first trailer had everyone asking the same question about Keanu Reeves' legendary hitman, while Ballerina's official trailer confirmed he'll have a much bigger role in proceedings than we expected. Thankfully, it's better than The Continental prequel TV spin-off, but still falls short of its fellow Wick flicks. Read my Ballerina review to find out why.

The Life of Chuck

Release date: out now (US); August 21 (Australia); August 22 (UK)

From the minds of horror auteurs Mike Flanagan and Stephen King, this Tom Hiddleston-fronted Neon flick couldn't be a less scary film. In fact, it's being billed as a modern day version of classic Christmas flick It's a Wonderful Life, which certainly isn't the kind of movie anyone expected to see from Messrs King and Flanagan.

In The Life of Chuck, we follow Charles 'Chuck' Krantz, a seemingly ordinary fellow whose life we watch play out in three distinct chapters: his childhood, young adult life (Hiddleston plays Chuck during this period), and as an elderly man.

Little else has been publicly revealed about the movie's plot, but it looks and sounds like it could be the sleeper hit of the summer. Based on its 84% Rotten Tomatoes critical score, it's one you won't want to miss.

Materialists

Release date: June 12 (Australia); June 13 (US); August 15 (UK)

Celine Song's directorial feature debut, Past Lives, was one of the best movies of 2023. Many of her fans will be hoping that the so-called 'sophomore slump' doesn't hit her hard with her next flick, a romantic drama called Materialists.

Dakota Johnson inhabits the title role as Lucy, a New York-based matchmaker who learns the harsh lesson that love doesn't come easy, even to those whose job it is to set up singletons. Indeed, Lucy will find herself torn between her imperfect ex John (Chris Evans) and seemingly perfect match Henry (Pedro Pascal) in this A24 movie that'll certainly tug at the heartstrings.

How to Train Your Dragon

Release date: June 12 (Australia); June 13 (US and UK)

Just 15 years after this beloved animated movie series' first installment took flight in theaters, Universal has remade the first How to Train Your Dragon film as a live-action-CGI hybrid.

While it looks visually different to its namesake, this retelling will, well, tell the same story as the original with a couple of minor tweaks to befit today's culture and society. So, while this remake will give Astrid more to do than the original movie did, you can still expect its narrative to revolve around Hiccup and Toothless, aka the human-dragon pairing that turned the How to Train Your Dragon franchise into such a heavy hitter.

Mason Thames and Nico Parker are on board as Hiccup and Astrid, while Gerard Butler reprises his role as Stoick the Vast from the original. Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, and Gabriel Howell among others are also part of the cast.

Elio

Release date: June 19 (Australia); June 20 (US and UK)

Pixar will aim to keep the recent good times rolling with its latest feature. Indeed, after hits like Inside Out 2 and Win or Lose, the popular animation studio will attempt to make it three wins from three with sci-fi comedy-adventure Elio.

In it, the titular 11-year-old's unusual wish to be abducted by aliens is granted when, well, he's abducted by aliens. However, Elio soon realizes that he's been plucked from relative obscurity because he's accidentally been christened Earth's mightiest hero (see what I did there?). Cue an intergalactic adventure where Elio will have to find his actual place in the big, wide universe.

28 Years Later

Release date: June 19 (Australia); June 20 (US and UK)

18 years have passed since 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed 28 Days Later, crashed into theaters globally. Now, the horror franchise's third entry – and the first in a planned new trilogy – is ready to feast on our metaphorical brains.

28 Years Later is, well, set 28 years after the Rage virus decimated humanity. In it, two members of a pocket society (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams) will leave their island home to undertake a dangerous mission on the mainland. Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, and Jack O'Connell are also among the hotly-anticipated flick's cast.

Pencil this one on your new movies calendar, everyone, because we think it's going to be a huge hit.

M3GAN 2.0

Release date: June 26 (Australia); June 27 (US and UK)

Everyone's favorite dancing and murderous android is back. M3GAN 2.0 will reunite us with the titular killing machine as she's revived and reprogrammed to hunt down another homicidal autobot, named Amelia, after the underlying tech that created M3GAN is stolen and repurposed for military means.

It'll be interesting to see if one of June's new movies can hold a candle to its breakout hit of a forebear. But, hey, none of us expected one of Universal's newest horror originals to take the world by storm, so maybe its sequel will similarly surprise us.

F1

Release date: June 26 (Australia); June 27 (US and UK)

If campy horror flicks aren't your thing, maybe this eagerly-awaited sports-based drama from Top Gun: Maverick director Joe Kosinski will appeal to you instead.

Brad Pitt stars as washed up Formula 1 driver Sonny Hayes, who returns to the world's most famous racetracks in a bid to win the crown that eluded him back in the 1990s. Driving alongside, not to mention having a rivalry with, star-in-the-making Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), Hayes will face numerous challenges on the road to sporting redemption.

Javier Bardem and Rebecca Ferguson are among the film's starry ensemble. F1's first trailer will get viewers as close to the grand prix-based action as possible, too, with Kosinski and company employing Maverick's new-fangled tech to transport us from one cockpit (that of a jet fighter) to another (that of an F1 racecar).

New movies: July

Jurassic World: Rebirth

Release date: July 2 (US and UK); July 3 (Australia)

Jurassic World: Dominion might have been one of the worst-rated entries in Universal's dinosaur-based film franchise, but the series as a whole is still immensely popular. It shouldn't be a surprise, then, that it's getting another soft reboot with Jurassic World: Rebirth.

Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali lead an all-star cast in the series' seventh installment, which will see the pair infiltrate a forbidden island to secure three dinosaur DNA samples that will apparently prove key to creating a new vaccine for humanity.

Rebirth's first trailer teased some big ties to the original 1993 movie, so expect another dose of nostalgia when the highly-anticipated sci-fi action flick roars into theaters in early July.

Superman

Release date: July 11 (worldwide)

James Gunn and Peter Safran's rebooted DC Universe (DCU) may have began last December with the release of Creature Commandos' first season on Max, but Gunn's Superman movie marks the true start of the comic giant's latest attempts to create a shared live-action universe.

Little is known about Superman's latest big-screen adventure from a story standpoint, but it's got an absolutely stacked cast and will act as the jumping off point for many other DCU Chapter One films and TV shows.

Expect this one to easily be one of the biggest new movies of 2025 because, well, it's Superman! It helps that he'll be joined by his loyal tearaway canine companion Krypto, though, with merchandise sale for this fella alone likely to be in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Release date: July 17 (Australia); July 18 (US and UK)

The fourth installment in the I Know What You Did... film franchise – one that has the same name as the original movie, for some reason... – and a direct sequel to 1998's I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

This flick, which sees Madelyn Cline lead its cast, introduces us to five new friends who inadvertently cause a fatal car accident and try to cover their crime. Unsurprisingly, one year later, someone who knows what they did last summer begins hunting them down. Cue Cline's character seeking out two of the original film's survivors – Jennifer Love Hewitt's Julie and Freddy Prince Jr's Ray – to help them.

Smurfs

Release date: July 18 (worldwide)

Looking for something more family friendly this summer (or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere)? Another Smurfs movie will not only grace our screens soon, but aim to be better received than the last bunch of the small, blue humanoids' other recent silver screen adventures.

With an all-star cast including Rihanna, who voices Smurfette, Smurfs will likely appeal to those with young kids and/or Smurf devotees. Its plot, which sees Papa Smurf kidnapped by Gargamel and Smurfette lead her fellow humanoids on a mission to save him, though, sounds incredibly derivative. Its first trailer does little to suggest it won't be unbelievably corny, too.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Release date: July 25 (worldwide)

The first Marvel Phase 6 movie that'll land in theaters, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is aiming to be an MCU film unlike anything you've seen before.

Indeed, not only is it a period piece that's set in the 1960s, but it's also a Marvel flick that exists in a universe separate to the MCU. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will play Marvel's First Family, while Ralph Ineson and Julia Garner are on villain-based duties as Galactus and his herald The Silver Surfer.

The first trailer for First Steps achieved lift-off in February and it looks as epic as I hoped it would, while a new CinemaCon 2025 teaser also confirmed a big fan theory about Kirby's Sue Storm. Between this and Superman, comic book movie fans will be eating well this July.

The Bad Guys 2

Release date: July 25 (UK); August 1 (US and Australia)

Everyone's favorite band of reformed anthropomorphic villains are back. The Bad Guys 2 will reunite us with Wolf and company after they turned over a new leaf in their first big-screen outing. Unfortunately, they'll be roped back into a life of crime when they're forced to tackle a spacefaring mission for a group known as The Bad Girls.

The Bad Guys is a criminally underseen animated flick, so I'm looking forward to its sequel. Just don't expect anyone in the UK to favor it over First Steps when the pair both arrive over the final weekend of July...

New movies: August

Bring Her Back

Release date: out now (US and Australia); August 1 (UK)

After their first feature film – A24's Talk to Me – earned plenty of acclaim in 2022, Danny and Michael Phillipou, aka the duo known as RackaNacka, are back with another horror flick that'll aim to spook us silly.

Bring Her Back stars Sally Hawkins and Billy Barratt among others, but that's about as much as we know about this mystery-laced supernatural horror. Indeed, its trailers don't give us much information on its story. Nevertheless, it seems like it's better to go into this one blind. Indeed, given its 90% critical rating and 88% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, you're best watching it with as little information rattling around in your head as possible.

The Naked Gun

Release date: August 1 (worldwide)

It was going to happen eventually. In an era where Hollywood's biggest studios just love to remake classic films for no reasons whatsoever, Paramount Pictures is rebooting its Naked Gun franchise for... reasons.

In this big-screen revival, Liam Neeson plays Frank Drebin Jr, aka the son of Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin from the original films. Little else is known about its plot, but you can expect it to try and recapture the laugh-out-loud, spoof-comedy nature of the franchise's first few installments. Based on the above teaser trailer, I've little hope that one of August's new movies will be able to do so, though.

Freakier Friday

Release date: August 7 (Australia); August 8 (US and IK)

Another legacy sequel that, in some people's eyes, is long overdue.

Freakier Friday will reunite us with mother-daughter duo Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsay Lohan), who find themselves trading places with the other – that being, their consciousness being transferred into the other person's body – during another freak accident. This time around, though, Anna's daughter and soon-to-be-stepdaughter are also thrown into the mix, making for a four-way body swap that'll create even more mayhem for those involved.

Weapons

Release date: August 8 (worldwide)

Zach Cregger, writer-director of criminally underseen horror film Barbarian and producer on one of this year's early hits in sci-fi horror-thriller Companion, will look to continue making a name for himself with this forthcoming mystery horror film.

Weapons will tell the disquieting story of a bunch of kids, all of whom are in the same class at school, mysteriously vanish on the same night and at the same time. Cue its community and devastated parents asking what and why all but one of their children have suddenly gone missing.

With a starry cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, and Benedict Wong, and a deeply unsettling teaser that's got film buffs talking, Weapons could be another big 2025 hit for Warner Bros.

Nobody 2

Release date: August 14 (Australia); August 15 (US and UK)

This Bob Odenkirk-starring action film franchise will aim to shake off its 'John Wick clone' image when its sequel arrives in mid-August.

Nobody 2 reunites us with Odenkirk's family-man-hitman Hutch Mansell, whose much-needed family vacation gets interrupted when he inadvertently involves himself in the affairs of another notorious mob boss. Cue a frenetic and action-packed albeit light-hearted sequel spectacle that is going all-out to distance itself from Keanu Reeves' beloved assassin-based movie series.

Honey, Don't!

Release date: August 22 (US and UK); TBC (Australia)

Fan-favorite director Ethan Coen returns with his silver-screen feature in late August.

Honey, Don't! stars Margaret Qualley as a small-town private investigator whose latest case sees her try to get to the bottom of a series of grisly murders that all tie back to a mysterious cult-like church leader. Former Captain America star Chris Evans takes on the role as the aforementioned antagonist-in-chief as he continues to branch out from his days as one of Marvel's most popular superheroes. Pencil this one in if you're a fan of an Coen brothers-created project.

Caught Stealing

Release date: August 28 (Australia); August 29 (US and UK)

Based on Charlie Huston's book namesake (he also penned its screenplay), crime-comedy Caught Stealing stars Austin Butler as Hank Thompson, a former baseball wonderkid-turned-bartender who gets more than he bargained for when his punk British friend Russ (Matt Smith) asks Hank to look after his cat for a few days.

With a fun-looking trailer, an all-star cast that looks at the top of its game, and a bona fide filmmaking legend in Darren Aronofsky at the helm, Caught Stealing could make a play to *ahem* steal the show at the global box office in late August.

New movies: September

The Roses

Release date: September 1 (worldwide)

Austin Powers, Borat, and Meet the Parents filmmaker Jay Roach will aim to bring his signature brand of cringey and slapstick humor to the fore in his latest feature film The Roses.

Based on Warren Adler's 'The War of the Roses' novel, which was previously turned into a movie in 1989, this reimagining stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as Theo and Ivy Rose. A pitch-perfect couple with a fulfilling marriage, things take a turn for the worse when Theo's career starts to nosedive as Ivy's takes off. Cue reams of hidden resentment boiling to the surface. Andy Samberg, Ncuti Gatwa, Allison Janney, and Kate McKinnon are among the starry supporting cast.

The Conjuring: Last Rites

Release date: September 4 (Australia); September 5 (US and UK)

Billed as the final The Conjuring movie that'll star Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as Lorraine and Ed Warren, Last Rites will kick off spooky season when it arrives in early September.

Taking on last terrifying case, the married couple and real-life paranormal investigators attempt to banish a demonic entity from a family home. Predictably, things won't progress as smoothly as the Warrens hope. Expect scares aplenty and – hopefully – a fitting end to Wilson and Farmiga's time playing two of the most famous supernatural researchers that the world has ever seen.

The Long Walk

Release date: September 11 (Australia); September 12 (US and UK)

The next Stephen King novel to get the silver screen treatment, The Long Walk is a dystopian horror story that's set in an alternate universe. In it, the annual, titular event sees 100 young men walk – without stopping and while maintaining a speed of four miles per hour (6.4 kilometers an hour) – down US Route 1. The catch? Anyone who stops three times is executed right there on the spot.

Directed by The Hunger Games' Francis Lawrence and starring Mark Hamill, Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Ben Wang among others, this tension-fueled survival drama will scratch the itch of those who'll still be mourning the end of Squid Game by mid-September.

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