Paramount Pictures has announced some very exciting plans for 2025, from the latest installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise to the return of the big-screen comedy. To see all of Paramount’s 2025 slate so far, check out the list below.
“Novocain”
March 14, 2025
director:
Dan Burke & Robert Olsen
cast:
Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Betty Gabriel, Matt Walsh, Lou Beatty Jr., Van Henst, Conrad Kemp, Jacob Batalon
Jack Quaid was covered in blood as Huey Campbell in The Boys, bloodied as Richie Kirsch in Scream, and bloodied as Marvel in The Hunger Games. However, with “Novocain,” I don’t feel anything even if I bleed. In this new action-comedy, Quaid plays Nathan Kane, a bank deputy manager. Nathan Kane was born with a rare medical condition that prevents him from feeling any physical pain. When his work girlfriend (Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped, Nathan must become the vigilante hero he’s been destined to be for years. Directed by Dan Burke and Robert Olsen (“Villains”).
“Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning”
May 23, 2025
director:
Christopher McQuarrie
cast:
Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt, Katie O’Brian, Tramell Tillman
It just might be the end for IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in Mission: Impossible. The eighth and likely final installment in the popular spy series picks up immediately after the events of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, as Ethan and his team stop a brutal AI force known only as the Entity. We’re closer than ever to that. But after dealing with the loss of their own lives, the IMF must realize that this impossible mission may be their most personal yet. Christopher McQuarrie once again directs, starring Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), Janet McTeer (Ozark), and Katie O’Brian (Love). The cast also includes Tramell Tillman (Severance) and Holt McCallany (Iron Crow).
“Trey Parker/Matt Stone/Kendrick Lamar Comedy”
July 4, 2025
director:
trey parker
cast:
kendrick lamar
South Park masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone celebrate 21 years in a new, untitled musical comedy starring and produced by none other than Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning rap icon Kendrick Lamar. Returning to the screen for the first time. Although this project has been kept top secret, we know the plot and it is sure to stir up some controversy. The film depicts how a young black man who works as a slave reenactor at a living history museum comes to the surprising realization that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned her. It is unclear at this time whether Lamar will star in the film or play a supporting role.
“The Smurfs Movie”
July 18, 2025
director:
chris miller
cast:
Rihanna, Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, JP Karliac, Dan Levy, Amy Sedaris, Nick Kroll, James Corden, Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Sandra Oh, Alex Winter, Billie Lourd , Xolo Maridueña, Kurt Russell, John Goodman
Everyone’s favorite little blue people are being rebooted once again to the big screen in the star-studded animated musical The Smurfs Movie. The new film, directed by Chris Miller (Puss in Boots), will feature Grammy-winning music icon Rihanna voicing the role of Smurfette and writing all new original songs for the film. , also performed. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the Smurfs will reportedly go on an existential quest to discover who they really are.
“Naked Gun”
August 1, 2025
director:
Akiva Shafer
cast:
Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Rhodes, CCH Pounder, Busta Rhymes
Academy Award nominee Liam Neeson (Taken) is stepping into Leslie Nielsen’s footsteps in Akiva Shaffer’s (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopped) reboot of The Naked Gun. The fourth film in the comedy series stars Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., along with supporting actors Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) and Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird). In an interview with Collider, Neeson spoke about his experience working on the film: “I had a lot of faith in Akihabara because it’s a genre I’m not very familiar with. I wrote some little TV sketches that might last like two minutes. But as a whole, this was a new experience for me, so , to be honest, I was a little nervous.
“Roofman”
October 3, 2025
director:
Derek Cianfrance
cast:
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Ben Mendelsohn, Peter Dinklage, Uzo Aduba, Juno Temple, LaKeith Stanfield, Emory Cohen
The Roofman is writer-director Derek Cianfrance’s (Blue Valentine) first feature film in nearly a decade, and is about a former U.S. Army Reserve officer on the run after stealing from another McDonald’s restaurant and hiding out. The film depicts the bizarre true story of Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum). Escape from the authorities by hiding on the roof of Toys R Us. Co-starring Academy Award nominee Kirsten Dunst (“Civil War”).
“It’s a shame.”
October 23, 2025
director:
Josh Boone
cast:
Allison Williams, McKenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames
Following the financial success of It Ends With Us, Hollywood is planning a number of film adaptations of Colleen Hoover’s novels, including Regretting You. Directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), the film follows the lives of two families in the aftermath of a tragic car accident. Starring Allison Williams (Get Out) and Dave Franco (Now You See Me).
“running man”
November 7, 2025
director:
edgar wright
cast:
Glen Powell, Katie O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jamie Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy
Edgar Wright (Baby Driver) finally brings another of his lifelong passion projects to fruition with this new adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian thriller The Running Man. Set in a dystopian version of America, family businessman Ben Richards (Glen Powell) volunteers to appear on the popular game show Running Man and is chased around the world by brutal hunters. . Richards hopes to win the prize money for his sick young daughter, but there’s a catch. That said, no one has ever won this show. King’s novel was previously made into a film in 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Wright’s adaptation promises to be more faithful to the original.
“The SpongeBob Movie: Find Squarepants”
December 19, 2025
director:
Derek Drymon
cast:
Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Roger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, Mark Hamill
Are you ready? Because Nickelodeon’s beloved yellow sponge is returning to our screens in an all-new movie, The SpongeBob Movie: The Search for Squarepants. In the fourth feature film in the SpongeBob SquarePants series, SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and his friends once again venture from their underwater home of Bikini Bottom to the darkest depths of the ocean, where they meet the legend known as The encounter ghost pirates. The Flying Dutchman (Mark Hamill).
“Malicious”
2025 TBA
director:
brian bertino
cast:
Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devin Nekoda
Dakota Fanning (The Perfect Couple) continues her scream queen days in Brian Bertino’s (The Strangers) new horror thriller Vicious. Fanning plays a woman who is faced with an existential crisis after receiving a mysterious gift from a stranger one night. Co-starring Katherine Hunter (“Poor Things”).
