As the year winds down and the holiday season nears, a slate of highly anticipated films is ready to take over theaters. From dazzling musicals like Wicked: For Good to award contenders such as Hamnet, this season’s lineup has something for every kind of moviegoer. Audiences can expect more adventures in Avatar: Fire and Ash, a long-awaited return with Zootopia 2, and another Five Nights At Freddy's saga.
Here's your guide to the best movies coming your way in November and December, complete with over a dozen exclusive images.
The latest chapter of the Predator franchise takes place in the far future and centers the action on a young predator in search of the ultimate prey with the help of a damaged android.
Release Date: November 7, 2025
Starring: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
Directed By: Dan Trachtenberg
This biographical period drama tells the story of Sarah Rector, who became known as the “Richest Colored Girl in the World” when she inherited over 150 acres of oil-rich land as a young girl.
Release Date: November 7, 2025
Starring: Zachary Levi, Naya Desir-Johnson, Sonequa Martin-Green, Garret Dillahunt
Directed By: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Set in a near-future where survival is televised, this new adaptation of the Stephen King novel stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a desperate man who enters a deadly game show to save his daughter, only to become an unexpected hero.
Release Date: November 14, 2025
Starring: Glen Powell, Katy O'Brian, Jayme Lawson, Josh Brolin
Directed By: Edgar Wright
The Four Horsemen return in Now You See Me Now You Don’t, joined by a new generation of illusionists. Packed with jaw-dropping twists, it’s a highly anticipated new chapter in the hit franchise where nothing is ever as it seems.
Release Date: November 14, 2025
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher
Directed By: Ruben Fleischer
This psychological horror film follows a woman isolated in a remote cabin who must confront an unspeakable evil lurking just beyond the walls. As reality begins to unravel, she’s forced to face her own fears.
Release Date: November 14, 2025
Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Tess Degenstein, Birkett Turton
Directed By: Oz Perkins
In this action thriller, an undercover DEA agent and his partner find themselves in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a bold new crew of thieves…who turn out to be their own rebellious teenagers.
Release Date: November 14, 2025
Starring: Dave Bautista, Jack Champion, Sophia Lillis, Tony Dalton
Directed By: Michael Dowse
This supernatural thriller takes place in a remote Egyptian village, where a humble carpenter, his wife, and their young son Jesus — yes, that Jesus — become the focus of terrifying spiritual warfare.
Release Date: November 14, 2025
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, FKA Twigs, Isla Johnston
Directed By: Lotfy Nathan
In Jon M. Chu’s conclusion to the popular Broadway musical adaptation, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) face shattering consequences as the forces of Oz close in around them.
Release Date: November 21, 2025
Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater
Directed By: Jon M. Chu
This follow-up to the surprise 2022 action hit brings back Jorma Tommila’s “man who refuses to die” for another round of mayhem. When the Red Army commander who slaughtered his family (Stephen Lang) returns for vengeance, an explosive cross-country showdown erupts.
Release Date: November 21, 2025
Starring: Jorma Tommila, Stephen Lang, Richard Brake, Einar Haraldsson
Directed By: Jalmari Helander
Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser stars in this dramedy as an American actor adrift in modern-day Tokyo who takes an unusual job with a “rental family” agency, playing stand-in relatives for strangers.
Release Date: November 21, 2025
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Gorman
Directed By: HIKARI
Detectives Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) are back on the beat in a brand-new mystery that takes them to wild, unexplored corners of the mammal metropolis. When a mysterious reptile upends life in Zootopia, the duo’s partnership and trust is put to the ultimate test.
Release Date: November 26, 2025
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster
Directed By: Jared Bush, Byron Howard
Set in the afterlife, this romantic comedy follows souls who have one week to decide where they’ll spend forever. Elizabeth Olsen stars as Joan, a woman torn between her lifelong partner (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who has waited decades for her arrival.
Release Date: November 26, 2025
Starring: Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, John Early
Directed By: David Freyne
From Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao, this historical drama tells the intimate story that inspired Hamlet. Set in Elizabethan England, it follows Shakespeare’s (Paul Mescal) wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and their son Hamnet.
Release Date: November 26, 2025
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn
Directed By: Chloé Zhao
One year after the deadly events at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, the haunting continues. Former security guard Mike and officer Vanessa have done their best to protect Abby from the truth, but when she sneaks out to find her animatronic friends, a new terror is unleashed.
Release Date: December 5, 2025
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Freddy Carter
Directed By: Emma Tammi
The recent revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s beloved musical comes to the big screen, chronicling the decades-long relationship between a composer (Jonathan Groff) and the friends he abandons to become a Hollywood producer.
Release Date: December 5, 2025
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, Krystal Joy Brown
Directed By: Maria Friedman
When a monster under her bed eats her entire family, an eight-year-old girl asks her hitman neighbor to help kill the monster.
Release Date: December 5, 2025
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian
Directed By: Bryan Fuller
James L. Brooks (As Good as It Gets, Broadcast News) directs this comedy about a young woman (Emma Mackey) whose success in her demanding political career causes her personal life to spiral into hilariously messy territory.
Release Date: December 12, 2025
Starring: Emma Mackey, Woody Harrelson, Kumail Nanjiani, Spike Fearn
Directed By: James L. Brooks
The holiday horror classic returns in a chilling new form, following an axe-wielding killer who exacts his own twisted form of justice in a blood-soaked spree.
Release Date: December 12, 2025
Starring: Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, Mark Acheson, David Lawrence Brown
Directed By: Mike P. Nelson
The third installment of James Cameron’s epic sci-fi series catches up with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family as they come into contact with another new Na’vi tribe on Pandora.
Release Date: December 19, 2025
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Directed By: James Cameron
From director Paul Feig (A Simple Favor) comes this psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney as a troubled woman who takes a live-in job with the wealthy Winchester family and discovers this new world of luxury is full of dark secrets.
Release Date: December 19, 2025
Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, Michele Morrone
Directed By: Paul Feig
Will Arnett and Laura Dern star in Bradley Cooper’s tender, darkly funny look at love, loss, and midlife reinvention, following a struggling separated couple as they navigate co-parenting, identity, and the fragile hope of starting over.
Release Date: December 19, 2025
Starring: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper
Directed By: Bradley Cooper
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
SpongeBob and his friends set off on their biggest cinematic adventure yet as SpongeBob, determined to prove his courage to Mr. Krabs, joins the ghostly Flying Dutchman on a high-seas journey to the deepest depths of the ocean.
Release Date: December 19, 2025
Starring: Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke
Directed By: Derek Drymon
This animated musical retells the biblical story of a young David.
Release Date: December 19, 2025
Starring: Phil Wickham, Brandon Engman
Directed By: Phil Cunningham, Brent Dawes
Timothée Chalamet stars in Josh Safdie’s sports comedy as Marty Mauser, a young dreamer and table tennis prodigy whose pursuit of greatness takes him to the edge and back.
Release Date: December 25, 2025
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary
Directed By: Josh Safdie
Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton are wilderness 'experts' on a mission to recreate their favorite movie.
Release Date: December 25, 2025
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Thandiwe Newton, Steve Zahn
Directed By: Tom Gormican
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star in this bigraphical drama as Mike and Claire Sardina, two struggling musicians who form a Neil Diamond tribute band in the 1980s, eventually fall in love, and face life’s new challenges together.
Release Date: December 25, 2025
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Ella Anderson, Hudson Hensley
Directed By: Craig Brewer
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Release Date: December 25, 2025
Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min
Directed By: Park Chan-wook
Baded on the true events surrounding Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, as she establishes a utopian society and a form of worship through song and dance.
Release Date: December 25, 2025
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Stacy Martin, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson
Directed By: Mona Fastvold
