BarcelonaThe global box office continues to not recover from the impact of the pandemic and cinemas are eagerly waiting for the big premieres to revive the attendance in the theaters. Overcoming the effect of the Hollywood strikes, 2025 could be the year of the recovery thanks to blockbusters of proven effectiveness as mission impossibleand many volunteers will appear in Catalan cinema to repeat the milestone of House in flames i The 47. We will also see the return of stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt and the first superhero of cinema, Superman, and a string of biopics about musicians, the latest Hollywood fad. With new projects from Paul Thomas Anderson, Carla Simón, Bong Joon-ho, Jim Jarmusch and Wes Anderson, 2025 promises to be a year of many cinephile joys.
Albert Serra and the return of Carla Simón
‘Tardes de soledad’ and ‘Romería’ augur a great year for Catalan cinema
If 2024 was the year of box office records for Catalan cinema, 2025 will be the year of its two most international authors: Albert Serra, who will premiere the documentary about bullfighting Lonely afternoons (March 7), Concha d’Or at the Festival of Sant Sebastian, and Carla Simon, who afterAlcarras get inspired again in his life a Pilgrimage to narrate a teenage girl’s journey to Galicia to meet the family of her father, who died of AIDS when he was young. Beyond what a great festival he will do with Pilgrimage (Canes? Venice? Sant Sebastià?) and whether the Goyas will finally nominate Serra, the big question is whether the box office success of Catalan cinema in 2024 will continue this year. The candidate with the most options to connect with the public is surely the adaptation of the bestseller juvenile of Laia Aguilar Wolfgang (March 14), directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera and starring Miki Esparbé. And new films from Belén Funes will arrive (The Turtles), María Ripoll (This too will passbased on the book by Milena Busquets) and a romantic Cesc Gay: My friend Evawith Nora Navas and Juan Diego Botto and a libretto written by Gay and the fashion screenwriter, Eduard Sola (House in flames, To want).
The life of musicians, in the cinema
‘Biopics’ sobre Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson i Bruce Springsteen
The proliferation of biopics musicals will reach a boiling point in 2025 with more than half a dozen titles. There are those that have renowned performers such as Angelina Jolie, who a Maria Callas (February 7) plays the famous Greek soprano. But there’s more: Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A complete unknown (February 28), Zendaya with Ronnie Spector a Be my baby and Jeremy Allen White doing the Bruce Springsteen era of Nebraska a Deliver me from nowhere. In the case of Michael (October 3), about the author of Thrillerit is Michael Jackson’s own nephew who will play him. Ethan Hawke will return to shoot at the command of Richard Linklater in Blue moon about Broadway composer Lorenz Hart, and Tahar Rahim will be Charles Aznavour a Mr Aznavour. And it will be interesting to see how Michel Gondry portrays the childhood of singer Pharrell Williams Golden.
Hollywood stars are vindicating themselves
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio premiere long-awaited projects
Every day the validity as a claim at the box office of big stars is questioned more, but Hollywood keeps faith in its star system. As Brad Pitt, who will follow the orders of Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) to burn wheel a F1 (June 25), set in the Formula 1 world championship. Leonardo DiCaprio, always with a good sense of direction for directors, will work with Paul Thomas Anderson in The battle of baktan cross (August 8), and his mentor Robert De Niro doubles a Alto knights (March 21) to interpret the bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. As always, the cast of Wes Anderson’s new film (The phoenician scheme) will not disappoint: Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Benedict Cumberbatch… But you see that the cast of the year is not that of western prepared by Ari Aster, Eddingtonwhich includes Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler, among others.
Tom Cruise’s last ‘mission’?
Cinemas await new installments of ‘Mission Impossible’ and ‘Avatar’
One of the strongest candidates to burst the box office in 2025 is the likely farewell of Tom Cruise (62 years old) and his deadly antics in the saga mission impossible: Final sentence (May 23), which brings together all the characters of the saga, but also the third installment ofAvatar (12/19), where James Cameron expands the story of the Na’vi by adding new tribes from the planet Pandora to the CGI animation salad. And the franchise Jurassic World it’s rent face to Rebirth (July 2) with a new cast led by Scarlett Johansson and the signing of Gareth Edwards as director (Rogue One).
The return of the superheroes
Three Marvel movies and James Gunn’s new Superman coming
After a terrible year for superhero cinema, Marvel will return to the charge with three titles that look to the future – the first installment in the cinema of the new Capita America African-American (February 14), the introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe of the Fantastic Four (June 25) by Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby and the presentation of the Thunderbolts (May 30), a handful of antiheroes plucked from other studio films that invoke the spirit of Guardians of the Galaxy by James Gunn, who is now working for the competition and will release his version of Superman: Legacy (June 11), the starting point of a new DC heroes cinematic universe with a record-breaking trailer.
The big names of cinephilia
Tornen Bong Joon-ho, Yorgos Lanthimos i Richard Linklater
The abundant harvest of auteur cinema of 2025 has its first big date on January 24 with the premiere (in 70 mm at the Phenomena) of the monumental The brutalist of Brady Corbet, and the next on March 7 with Mickey 17the sci-fi return of Bong Joon-ho (and Robert Pattinson) after the success of parasites. Bugonia will bring together co-star Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos; Richard Linklater will travel to the Paris of Godard, Truffaut and company a New waveand Spike Lee will reunite with Denzel Washington in High and low, remake of The hell of hate by Akira Kurosawa. Lynn Ramsay also returns with the thriller Die, my love (amb Jennifer Lawrence i Robert Pattinson), and Steven Soderbergh ho fa doubly: in a clau of terror a Presence and shuffling the spy genre a Black bagstarring Michael Fassbender. Jim Jarmusch interweaves three independent stories at Father, mother, sister, brother (with Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett), and the Safdie brothers debut solo: Josh with the biopic Marty Supreme about ping pong champion Marty Reisman and Benny with The smashing machineanother biopic set in the world of fighting.
The refuge of animation
New movies from Pixar, Disney and the independent pantry
Animation remains one of the safe values of the film industry, which in 2024 had three animated films among the top four grossers of the year. Promise the new Pixar, Elio (June 13), in which a boy ends up accidentally becoming Earth’s intergalactic ambassador, and also the return of the talking animals from the new installment of Zootrópolis (November 28), Disney’s big animated bet, which, however, continues to insist on its own remakes in real image of animated classics com snow white (March 21) and Lilo & Stitch (May 23). But the best jam is in the little jar of independent animation: the Lithuanian Flow (January 24) is set to be one of the films of the year – it is already the Oscar favorite – and it will be difficult to find any film more tender and exciting than the Australian Memories of a snail (January 31). And count on L’home gos (January 31), which adapts the world’s best-selling children’s comic book.
Netflix’s L’imperi strikes back
Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ and a new Noah Baumbach release
Netflix didn’t have a great 2024 in terms of cinema, but heading into 2025 its drawer is full of attractive projects like the Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro, a project dreamed of all his life by the Mexican – which could coincide with the version of Bride of Frankenstein which will direct Maggie Gyllenhaal with Christian Bale and Penélope Cruz–. Other originals of Netflix will be the film of Peaky Blindersthe comedy that prepares Noah Baumbach with George Clooney and Adam Sandler and the new case of the infallible private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) in the third installment of the whodunnit Daggers in the back. For its part, Amazon bets on science fiction adventure Mercy with Chris Pratt, and the intrigue After the hunt with Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield and the prolific Luca Guadagnino as director.
Acute sequelae
From the new ‘Bridget Jones’ to ’28 years later’ and the end of the ‘Warren Case’
The crisis of ideas in Hollywood today is evident in the overproduction of sequels, remakes i spin-offs which will arrive in 2025, starting with the return of a Bridget Jones in maternal key a crazy about him (February 14), the final installment of the saga Warren File (October 5) or the third installment of Tron (October 10). Danny Boyle and Alex Garland will return to the world of 28 days later in the sequel shot with iPhones 28 years later (June 20). There will also be a new installment of the franchise Predator (7 November) i a spin-off from the saga John Wick with Ana de Armas who bears the title Ballerina (June 6). Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan faran pinya in a new Karate Kid (May 30) and trendy American actor Glen Powell takes over from Arnold Schwarzenegger in the remake of chased (November 21). The full list is unattainable, as you’d expect: in 2024, the top 10 highest-grossing films in the world consisted entirely of spin-off films of some kind.
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