Early 2025 Box Office Preview, Plus Moana 2 Sails to $600 Million

On the December 9, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk a little about this weekend’s box office numbers and then look ahead to some of the movies in the first half of 2025.

In The News:

• Box office recap

2025 theatrically released movies (no streaming), January through the end of May

January

1/10 - Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

1/17 - Presence (Soderbergh)

1/17 - Wolf Man

1/24 - Flight Risk

1/31 - Dog Man (animated)

1/31 - Companion (Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher)

February

2/7 - Love Hurts (action film, Ke Huy (hoo-ee) Quan, Ariana Debose)

2/7 - Heart Eyes (Josh Ruben rom-com slasher starring Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding)

2/14 - Captain America: Brave New World

2/14 - Paddington In Peru

2/21 - The Monkey (Oz Perkins)

2/21 - The Unbreakable Boy (Zachary Levi)

2/28 - Last Breath (real-life deep sea rescue movie starring Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu)

2/28 - The Legend of Ochi (A24’s take on ET)

March

3/7 - Sinners (Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan)

3/14 - Black Bag (another Soderbergh, this one a spy thriller starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Pierce Brosnan, Naomie Harris)

3/14 - Novocaine (Jack Quaid has a disorder where he can’t feel pain, and he has to fight his way through a bunch of people who are robbing a bank and have taken his girlfriend hostage)

3/21 - Snow White

3/21 - Alto Knights (Barry Levinson directed, De Niro plays two roles as two different mob bosses, co-writer of Goodfellas)

3/28 - Levon’s Trade

3/28 - The Woman in the Yard (Jaume Collett-Serra, psychological horror film about a woman who shows up on a family’s lawn and gives them a chilling warning)

April

4/4 - A Minecraft Movie

4/11 - The Amateur (Rami Malek is an unconventional spy who wants revenge against the terrorists who killed his wife)

4/11 - Drop (thriller from Christopher Landon about a widowed mother who goes on her first date in years, only to receive a bunch of anonymous drops to her phone giving her instructions that she has to complete or else a mysterious person will kill her daughter)

4/18 - Mickey 17

4/25 - The Accountant 2

4/25 - Until Dawn (based on a video game, director David F. Sandberg’s return to horror)

May

5/2 - Thunderbolts*

5/9 - A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Kogonada’s new movie, starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell)

5/9 - Golden (coming of age musical directed by Michel Gondry, biography of Pharrell Williams)

5/16 - Flowervale Street (David Robert Mitchell, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, JUST moved to March 2026)

5/23 - Lilo & Stitch

5/23 - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

5/30 - Karate Kid: Legends

5/30 - The Life of Chuck

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