New year, new Netflix movies. 2025 is here, and with comes a whole new slate of Netflix original movies.
In the years immediately after the 2020 pandemic, Netflix was releasing upwards of 80 new original English-language movies a year. But in 2024, the streamer slowed its roll, to a more reasonable 50 or so English-language films. It looks like 2025 will continue to see a smaller output of Netflix original movies. But that’s just what we know so far. It’s likely we’ll get an announcement about more 2025 Netflix movies in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, there’s still plenty to look forward to, from Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore sequel to new films from acclaimed directors like Guillermo del Toro and Noah Baumbach. In an effort to help you sift through the noise, we’ve highlighted some of the biggest and most exciting Netflix movies coming out in 2025 below. When possible, we’ve included the release, cast, director, and official logline for the movies.
That said, the majority of the Netflix movies coming out in 2025 don’t yet have an official release date. Stay tuned, because we’re sure we’ll have more news to share on that front soon.
RELEASE DATE: 1/3/25
STARS: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith
DIRECTOR: Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
This beloved stop-motion animation series is the gift that keeps on giving. Original Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park is co-directing a brand new movie, featuring everyone’s favorite bumbling British inventor, Wallace, and his long-suffering dog, Gromit. This time around, the duo’s old adversary, Feathers McGraw, takes revenge on Wallace and Gromit by reprogramming their robotic garden gnome. Hopefully, there will be cheese.
RELEASE DATE: 1/17/25
STARS: Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, Kyle Chandler, and Glenn Close
DIRECTOR: Seth Gordon
It’s been a long, bumpy road for this Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz action comedy, which was mid-production in April 2023, when Foxx was forced to leave the shoot due to a medical emergency. A body double was used for his remaining scenes. But now the film finally has a release date, and we can’t wait to see it. The film was directed by Seth Gordon (Identity Thief, Baywatch), who also co-wrote the script with Brendan O’Brien, and stars Foxx and Diaz as middle-aged parents are secretly kick-ass spies. It’s giving Spy Kids, and we’re here for it.
RELEASE DATE: 3/14/25
STARS: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Giancarlo Esposito, and Stanley Tucci.
DIRECTOR: Anthony and Joe Russo
Is the above trailer for the upcoming Russo sci-fi action flick, The Electric State, ridiculous? Yes! Are we still excited about a movie that looks as fun as it is absurd? Also yes! A girl (Millie Bobby Brown) is sent by a robot to look for her missing brother, and with it, she sets out to find him. Along the way, she realizes the human “war on bots” isn’t everything it seems. The Russo brothers are bringing their Marvel talents to a new sci-fi adventure for Netflix, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Simon Stålenhag.
RELEASE DATE: December 2025
STARS: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Dennis Dugan, Allen Covert, Ben Stiller, and Bad Bunny
DIRECTOR: Kyle Newacheck
Nearly thirty years after Adam Sandler beat Bob Barker with a golf club in the hit 1996 comedy, Happy Gilmore, Sandler is headed back to the green with a sequel. OG stars Julie Bowen, Ben Stiller, and Christopher McDonald are all back, and rapper Bad Bunny also joins the cast as a newcomer. Netflix has yet to release an official log line, but based on the above teaser trailer, it will involve an epic comeback for Gilmore, and a new face-off with his rival, Shooter McGavin.
RELEASE DATE: TBA
STARS: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, and Cailee Spaeny
DIRECTOR: Rian Johnson
Officially titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, this marks the third film in Rian Johnson’s murder mystery franchise, Knives Out. As with the second film, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Knives Out 3 will release on Netflix, as part of the streamer’s $469 million deal with Johnson for two Knives Out sequels. While we don’t know much about the story yet for Wake Up Dead Man, we do know that it will feature the return of Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a bumbling private investigator called in to solve a murder mystery, and a brand-new cast of all-star actors.
RELEASE DATE: TBA
STARS: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Matthias Schoenaerts, Vân Veronica Ngô, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Uma Thurman and Henry Golding.
DIRECTOR: Victoria Mahoney
Even though we’re bummed that Gina Prince-Bythewood won’t be directing the sequel, we’re hyped for the sequel to one of Netflix’s best originals in recent years, about a team of immortal mercenaries led by Charlize Theron. Like the first film, the sequel screenplay was written by Greg Rucka, based on his comic book of the same name. Fans were hoping to see this sequel in 2024—filming wrapped in 2022, and then had additional reshoots in October 2024—but now that the movie has a Netflix landing page, we think you’ll almost definitely see it in 2025.
RELEASE DATE: TBA
STARS: Ariana Greenblatt, India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Lili Taylor, and Katherine Waterston
DIRECTOR: Matt Palmer
The popular Fear Street horror trilogy, which was based on R.L. Stine’s book series and released over three weeks consecutively in 2021, is getting another movie. And this one takes place in the ’80s. Directed by Matt Palmer (who co-wrote the film with Donald McLeary), Fear Street: Prom Queen takes viewers back to Shadyside, and picks up a new story in 1988, at a high school dance. With a new cast and a new director, this feels more like a spin-off than a sequel, but we’re still hype for this new spooky R.L. Stine adaptation.
RELEASE DATE: TBA
STARS: Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant
DIRECTOR: Gareth Evans
After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city. It’s now been over three years since filming wrapped on this Netflix action thriller with Tom Hardy, so here’s hoping that 2025 is the year Netflix finally releases this one!
RELEASE DATE: TBA
STARS: Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth
DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro cast Jacob Elordi as the monster in his upcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which just proves that no one understands monster-lovers quite like del Toro. The Oscar-winner filmmaker has been trying to make a Frankenstein film for over a decade, and frequently cites Shelley’s 1818 novel as his favorite. With passion like that, and with Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth starring, too, this movie is going to be alive.
RELEASE DATE: TBA
STARS: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern and Billy Crudup.
DIRECTOR: Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach’s deal with Netflix has gifted us several great movies over the last decade (The Meyerowitz Stories, Marriage Story, White Noise). Now the Oscar-nominated filmmaker is back with his latest: a coming-of-age dramedy with an all-star cast, including George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Riley Keough. Baumbach co-wrote the script with actor Emily Mortimer, who also appears in the film. No logline yet, but we can guess it will have that particular Baumbach charm of bittersweet laughs and wry-but-heartfelt observations on life.
RELEASE DATE: TBA
STARS: Vince Vaughn, Susan Sarandon, Drea de Matteo and Joe Manganiello
DIRECTOR: Stephen Chbosky
A heartwarming movie about the importance of family, featuring Italian Americans in New Jersey? It’s more likely than you think. Vince Vaughn and director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) are paying homage to Italian grandmothers with this upcoming film, which is based on the true story of Joe Scaravella (played by Vaughn), who opened a restaurant on Staten Island called Enoteca Maria, which employs a rotating staff of grandmothers, or “Nonnas,” as its head chefs. Because you know what’s been missing from grandma’s home cooking? Profit and capitalism!
