Season three of the popular TV show The Summer I Turned Pretty is set to be released in the summer of 2025. The popular TV show, based off of author Jenny Han’s award-winning trilogy, follows 16-year-old Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) and her exciting summers full of drama and love. Every summer, Belly travels with her mom Laurel (Jackie Chung) and brother Steven (Sean Kaufman) to Cousins Beach where they stay with Laurel’s longtime best friend Susannah (Rachel Blanchard) and her sons, Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and Conrad (Christopher Briney). 

Belly’s summers in seasons one and two are filled with conflicting decisions as she navigates her complicated feelings for both Conrad and Jeremiah. During season two, Susannah passes away from cancer, leaving the Fisher brothers with their dad. The sentimental beach house that Belly and the Fisher boys grew up in is being sold after Susannah’s passing, and throughout season two’s eight episodes the kids desperately try to save it. Following their adventures into season three according to The Economic Times, Belly transitions into her freshman year of college and the rollercoaster of emotions she’ll experience there. 

A live action remake of the 2010 DreamWorks fantasy animation How to Train Your Dragon is coming to theaters June 13, 2025. The 2025 movie is starring Mason Thames as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid. We assume the remake will follow the path of the original movie of a young viking’s challenges as he attempts to follow the traditional viking path and please his father Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler) and his village. Their main motive is to kill the invading dragons, of which their home, the Isle of Birk, is often raided and partially destroyed by several different classes and types. On one fateful day, Hiccup finally catches the most notorious dragon and he’s faced with a decision: kill it and make his father and village proud, or accept that is not who he is and let the dragon go free. 

Zootopia 2 is set to make its debut in theaters Nov. 26, 2025, continuing the adventures of Judy Hopps the rabbit (Ginifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde the fox (Jason Bateman). The original Zootopia movie follows Judy’s journey as she experiences some major changes after moving from her small farm town to the big city of Zootopia to become a city cop. Judy, initially stuck on parking duty, catches Nick committing illegal activity, and suddenly her job becomes abundantly more interesting.

Judy and Nick end up being roped into a much bigger issue, as animals go rogue all over the city and begin disappearing. According to Disney Movies, in Zootopia 2, Judy and Nick will partner up and go undercover to catch a mysterious reptile who is causing new problems in Zootopia.

Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third movie in the Avatar franchise, will be released Dec. 19, 2025. In the sci-fi Avatar franchise, humans leave a decimated Earth and invade the planet Pandora, which alien beings called the Na’vi already inhabit. 

Each previous film focuses on a different aspect of nature on the planet Pandora. The first movie focuses on main character Jake Sully (Sam Worthington)’s journey as one of the Na’vi tribes takes him in and teaches him how to live in the forest of Pandora. In the second installment of the series, Jake is forced to leave his home in the forest with his family and seeks shelter with a Na’vi tribe on the coast, unlearning everything he was taught previously and living in the water. 

The third film, Avatar: Fire and Ash, is expected to be much different from the first two, with a different volcanic setting as well as a new array of villains. According to Screen Rant, this movie’s villains will be a new Na’vi tribe coming from volcanoes, differing from the Na’vi’s typical heroic roles. 

28 Years Later is coming to theaters June 20, 2025. The third installment of the 28 Days Later franchise, starting with 28 Days Later (2002), then 28 Weeks Later (2007), 28 Years Later is said to continue the storyline and has even been speculated to have some of the same cast. In the trailer to 28 Years Later there’s a corpse or zombie that seems to resemble star of 28 days later, Jim (Cillian Murphy) appears on-screen., However, these rumors were quickly shut down when producer Andrew Macdonald denied the media’s claims to Empire , and that Murphy had not appeared in the trailer and will not appear in the new film.

28 Years Later is actually planned to be the start of a whole new trilogy, according to People Magazine, and the film’s producer Andrew Macdonald said that they are hoping for Murphy’s character, Jim, to guest star in the new trilogy even though he will not be in the first film, 28 Years Later. The movie, set on a secluded British island nearly three decades after a virus destroyed most of the United Kingdom, follows a group of survivors living on the island. One day, one survivor decides to venture off the island into the mainland, discovering that the virus has mutated after 28 years, now affecting both the infected and survivors.

Set to hit theaters on July 2nd, 2025, Jurassic World Rebirth is the seventh movie in the Jurassic World and Jurassic Park movie franchise. The previous Jurassic World movie, Jurassic World Dominion (2022), was set four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Jurassic Park’s home. The 2022 film showcases a new world where humans and dinosaurs live side by side, and follows main characters Allan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) as they work to reveal the truth behind the corporation Biosyn and its attempt on breeding dinosaurs for their own villainous purposes. Meanwhile during the same movie, returning characters Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) launch a rescue mission for Maisie (Isabella Sermon), who turns out to be a clone of her mother, after she was kidnapped by Biosyn for research purposes. 

According to IMDB taking a different route than previous Jurassic Park films, the 2025 film will observe Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johanssen) as she leads her team, Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), Duncan Kincad (Mahershala Ali), as they travel into isolated regions to attempt to extract DNA for a hopeful medical breakthrough. 

Horror movie The Black Phone 2 was originally supposed to be released June 27, 2025, but has now been rescheduled to Oct. 17, 2025. Though some fans are upset about the four month delay, there may be some good to come from it. According to Screen Rant, the movie’s later release date, which is closer to Halloween, will give the movie more publicity and popularity since Halloween is the perfect time for watching horror movies. 

Just like the first movie, Screen Rant says that the story will follow main character Finney Blake (Mason Thames). In the previous movie, Finney was kidnapped by an infamous serial killer called “The Grabber.” While The Grabber holds him captive, Finney receives mysterious calls on a disconnected phone from The Grabber’s previous victims. The film also focuses on Finney’s sister and her oddly psychic dreams slowly revealing Finney’s whereabouts. The movie ends positively so it is unclear how The Grabber will come back for the second movie, but regardless of how he reappears, The Black Phone 2 is expected to be a thrilling film right in time for Halloween.

Released Jan. 16, 2015, the first Paddington movie follows the story of a young bear from Peru whose home is destroyed during a large earthquake and is then sent away by his aunt Lucy to find a new home in London. When a family, the Browns, find him, they name him after Paddington for the train station they met him in. Through his quest to find his place in the Brown family and in London, Paddington encounters Millicent Clyde (Nicole Kidman), a taxidermist who decides Paddington will be the crowning jewel to her collection of taxidermied animals.  

Seven years later was the release of the second movie, Paddington 2 (2018) which follows the Brown family as they try to prove Paddington’s innocence. He was thought to have committed burglary and was imprisoned, but he was only searching for the perfect gift for his Aunt Lucy. 

Meanwhile Paddinton 3, is releasing just in time for Valentine’s day on February 14th. According to IMDB, Paddington 3’s plot follows Paddington and the Brown family through their adventure to return to his Aunt Lucy in the home for retired bears in Peru. So far Paddington 3 has made a big splash since its premiere in the U.K. and is expected to do well when released in U.S. theaters later this year. 

The popular teen TV show Percy Jackson is set to return to Disney Plus for a second season sometime in 2025, though there is still not a confirmed release date. The TV show is based on Rick Riordan’s seven-book series of the same name. Following Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), who is the son of Poseidon, he begins a new life as a demigod. Right when he finds out who his father is, he is accused of being a thief and stealing Zeus’s lightning bolt, and the only way for him to prove his innocence is to find it and bring it back to him. What was originally supposed to be a simple quest quickly grew complicated as the adventurers uncovered darker secrets the closer they got to finding the bolt. 

In the second season of this series, Percy will discover a newfound connection with a long-lost brother and that Grover, his best friend, has gone missing. Teen Vogue says that Camp Half-Blood, which is supposed to be a safe haven for demigods, will lose its secure borders, and the only way to save the camp is for Percy and his friends to go on another quest, this time into the Sea of Monsters.

The funny, family-friendly movie Bad Guys will soon have a sequel that will be released on multiple popular streaming platforms Aug. 1, 2025. Bad Guys is an enjoyable movie that follows a group of different animals called the “bad guys” that pull heists and steal expensive objects. The main character Moe Wolf, better known as Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell), has always been bad, but over the progression of the movie he slowly starts to enjoy being nice. The bad guys experience ups and downs as they try to pull a heist to steal a valuable award called the Golden Dolphin. 

According to The Bad Guys Wiki, Bad Guys 2 will be about the group struggling to stay nice in their new lives as the good guys until they are pulled out of retirement and are hired for one last job by a group of female criminals.