Disney has 12 new movies coming out in theaters in 2025 — here they all are

A composite of stills from Disney movies showing Florence Pugh in "Thunderbolts*," Stitch in "Lilo & Stitch" and Rachel Zegler in "Snow White."
"Thunderbolts*," "Lilo & Stitch," and "Snow White" are some of Disney's highly anticipated films of 2025. Marvel Studios / Disney
  • Walt Disney Studios has 12 scheduled movie releases in 2025.
  • These include three Marvel films, two live-action remakes, and another "Avatar" movie.
  • Here's what we know so far about these releases.
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Disney may have slowed down on superhero and live-action remakes in 2024, but it's doubling down on its popular franchises in 2025.

Only two of Disney's 12 releases this year aren't sequels or remakes. In the past two years, Disney and other major studios have shifted to focus more on sequels and existing franchises.

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That plan seemed to work in 2024, with the top 20 highest-grossing films being sequels, remakes, or adaptations.

Disney now owns the rights to a slate of properties from Pixar, Disney Animation, Searchlight, 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm, and Marvel. Here are all the movies coming in 2025 from those studios.

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"Captain America: Brave New World" — February 14

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in "Captain America: Brave New World." He's dressed in the Captain America suit and red glasses and holding a shield with a star at the center.
Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in "Captain America: Brave New World." Eli Adé/Marvel Studios

"Captain America 4" is the first Marvel release of 2025 and follows from the 2021 Disney+ series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier."

Now, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) is Captain America, Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez) is his Falcon sidekick, and General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (Harrison Ford) has become president of the US.

This time, Wilson is facing three villains. Ross, who has somehow become a red Hulk, The Leader (Tim Blake Nelson), who last appeared in 2008's "The Incredible Hulk," and Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito), a new villain who seems to be leading a new secret society.

Read our roundup of everything we know about "Captain America: Brave New World."

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"Snow White" — March 21

A still of "Snow White" showing Rachel Zegler looking at a mirror.
Rachel Zegler stars as Snow White in Disney's live-action. Disney

"Snow White," which has already received fan backlashes, is set to arrive in theaters in March.

The live-action remake stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White, who's trying to save herself and the kingdom from the reign of the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot).

The film includes new songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the composers of "The Greatest Showman" and "La La Land."

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"The Amateur" — April 11

A still of "The Amateur" showing Rami Malek in a brown sweater and jacket.
Rami Malek is leading a new spy drama. 20th Century Studios

Rami Malek stars in this espionage thriller as a CIA decoder who goes rogue to find and assassinate a group of terrorists who killed his wife during a terror attack in London.

The film is based on Robert Littell's 1981 novel "The Amateur," which was set in the 1970s during the Cold War, but the film seems to have modernized the story.

Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, and Jon Bernthal also star in the film.

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"Thunderbolts*" — May 2

David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, and Wyatt Russell as John Walker in "Thunderbolts*." They're all standing together with serious expressions.
David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, and Wyatt Russell as John Walker in "Thunderbolts*." Marvel Studios

"Thunderbolts*" is the next Marvel team-up movie, bringing together characters from "Black Widow," "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" and "Ant-Man and the Wasp."

This team is made up of former and current criminals and assassins — Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen).

When these individuals are sent on the same mission and encounter another superpowered person, Robert Reynolds (Lewis Pullman), they must work together to survive and save the day.

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"Lilo & Stitch" — May 23

A still from "Lilo & Stitch" showing Stitch, a blue creature with large eyes and ears, standing on a bed.
Stitch in the live-action remake of "Lilo & Stitch." Disney

"Lilo & Stitch" is the second Disney live-action remake coming in 2025, as the studio uses CGI to bring the blue, furry alien to life.

The original film focused on an unlikely bond between Stitch, an indestructible lab-created alien, and Lilo, an orphaned child living with her sister.

The plot for the remake has not been revealed yet. Chris Sanders returns as Stitch's voice actor. Maia Kealoha plays Lilo, Sydney Elizabeth Agudong plays Lilo's sister, Nani, and Kaipo Dudoit plays David Kawena, Nani's love interest.

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"Elio" — June 13

A still from "Elio" showing a boy with an eye patch and helmet with wires sitting in a field at night and looking up at the sky sadly.
"Elio" is the only Pixar film of 2025. Pixar

Pixar's only film of 2025 is "Elio," an original film about an 11-year-old boy who becomes Earth's ambassador to a galaxy of aliens.

Adrian Molina, who cowrote and codirected "Coco," is directing "Elio," and the film stars Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, America Ferrera, Jameela Jamil, and Brad Garrett.

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"The Fantastic Four: First Steps" — July 25

Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Pedro Pascal, and Vanessa Kirby stand with their arms around each other at San Diego Comic Con.
"The Fantastic Four: First Steps" lead cast includes Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Pedro Pascal, and Vanessa Kirby. Gilbert Flores / Variety via Getty Images

"The Fantastic Four" is getting its second reboot, 20 years after the first live-action adaptation and 10 years after the first reboot.

For the first time, the Fantastic Four will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though the movie will be set in an alternate universe from the rest of the films.

In "First Steps," the Fantastic Four (played by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach) is on a mission to protect Earth from Galactus (Ralph Ineson), a giant world-eating alien, and his herald, the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner).

The film is directed by Matt Shakman, the director of the "WandaVision" Disney+ series, and will also star Natasha Lyonne, Sarah Niles, Paul Walter Hauser, and John Malkovich.

Read our roundup of everything we know about "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."

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"Freakier Friday" — August 8

Jamie Lee Curtis in a black suit and Lindsay Lohan in a white and black dress.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan at D23 in August 2024 to promote "Freakier Friday." Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images for Disney

Since 2022, Jamie Lee Curtis has been campaigning for a sequel to "Freaky Friday," a 2003 Disney film in which she and Lindsay Lohan play a feuding mother and daughter who magically switch bodies and learn to respect one another.

Curtis is finally getting her wish this year, and she and Lohan will return as Tess and Anna Coleman in the sequel "Freakier Friday." In the sequel, Anna (Lohan) now has her own family complications with her daughter, her fiancée, and a soon-to-be stepdaughter.

The sequel will also star Manny Jacinto, Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Stephen Tobolowsky.

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"Tron: Ares" — October 10

Jared Leto in a green velvet suit.
Jared Leto is playing a lead character in the new "Tron" film. Anadolu Agency/Getty

While the first two "Tron" films were stories about a human entering a virtual-reality world, the coming "Tron: Ares" is about an AI program entering the real world and causing havoc.

Jared Leto plays the AI program, Ares, while Jeff Bridges, who starred in the previous films, reprises his role as programmer Kevin Flynn.

Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Hasan Minhaj are also starring in the movie.

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"Predator: Badlands" — November 7

A still from "Prey" showing a Predator alien.
A Predator in 2022's "Prey," directed by Dan Trachtenberg. Trachtenberg is making another "Predator" movie. David Bukach / 20th Century Studios

In 2022, Dan Trachtenberg directed "Prey," a direct-to-streaming "Predator" prequel that garnered critical and fan acclaim and won an Emmy for sound editing. Now, Disney is giving him the reins to lead another "Predator" film that's set to be in theaters.

Trachtenberg told Empire in November that "Predator: Badlands" was set in the far future and would have the Predator, who's normally the villain in movies, as the protagonist. He also said Elle Fanning would play more than one character in the film.

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"Zootopia 2" — November 26

A cartoon fox and rabbit in Zootopia. The fox is wearing a shirt and tie, and the rabbit is in police uniform.
Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) and Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) in "Zootopia." Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Disney's "Zootopia" is an Oscar-winning film that grossed a billion dollars when it premiered in 2016.

In the sequel, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), a rabbit cop, and her friend Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a con artist fox, team up again to crack a new case in the animal city of Zootopia.

Shakira, Ke Huy Quan, and Fortune Feimster are also starring in the movie.

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"Avatar: Fire and Ash" — December 19

Painting of "Avatar: Fire and Ash" shows aliens and alien ships on an alien planet.
Concept art for "Avatar: Fire and Ash." 20th Century Studios

The first two "Avatar" movies are among the highest-grossing of all time, making more than $5 billion.

The film, cowritten and directed by James Cameron, was filmed simultaneously with "Avatar: The Way of the Water" but was delayed until 2025.

The full plot has not been released, but it will most likely follow Jake Sully and his family again on a new adventure. It's set to star the main cast from the previous film, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang.

Correction: January 14, 2025 — An earlier version of this story misstated the title of the new "Captain America" film. It's "Captain America: Brave New World," not "Captain America: Brand New World." It also misspelled Gillian Anderson's surname.

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