Moviefone’s 2025 Fall Preview.
As we move into the fall of 2025, there are still many highly anticipated movies yet to be released this year.
From horror sequels like ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites‘ and ‘Black Phone 2‘, to legacy sequels like ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues‘ and ‘Tron: Ares‘ and the action sequel ‘Mortal Kombat II‘, to the biopic ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere‘, as well as Guillermo del Toro‘s ‘Frankenstein‘, the Stephen King adaptation ‘The Long Walk‘, and Paul Thomas Anderson‘s ‘One Battle After Another‘, fall 2025 has a little bit for everyone.
Moviefone has compiled a list of the most anticipated movies opening in theaters and/or streaming in September and October of 2025, which not only includes major studio releases but also smaller independent films that you won’t want to miss.
Let’s begin!
September:
(L to R) Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren and Vera Farmiga as Lorraine Warren in New Line Cinema’s ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Giles Keyte. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
“The case that ended it all.”
Release Date: Sep 5, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
Budget: $55,000,000
(L to R) Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona and Dakota Johnson in ‘Splitsville’. Photo: Neon.
When his wife Ashley (Adria Arjona) asks for a divorce, Carey (Kyle Marvin) runs to his friends (Dakota Johnson and Michael Angelo Covino) for support, only to learn that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
Release Date: Sep 5, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
Michael Strassner in Jay Duplass’s ‘The Baltomrons’. Courtesy of Jon Bregel. An Independent Film Company Release.
After cracking a tooth on Christmas Eve, newly sober Cliff (Michael Strassner) embarks on an unexpected May/December adventure through Baltimore with Didi (Liz Larsen), his emergency dentist.
“They found themselves. Together. In Baltimore.”
Release Date: Sep 5, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 39 min
(L to R) Ruby Cruz, Zoey Deutch, and Jonah Hauer-King in ‘The Threesome’. Photo: Vertical.
Connor (Jonah Hauer-King) is a kind and unassuming young man, who, along with his long-time crush Olivia (Zoey Deutch), engages in a threesome with a sweet, alluring stranger named Jenny (Ruby Cruz). This encounter sparks a relationship between Connor and Olivia, leading them to plan a life together. However, their romance faces challenges when Jenny reappears, thrusting all three into a difficult journey toward true accountability and adulthood.
“It was supposed to be fun.”
Release Date: Sep 5, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 51 min
(L to R) Orlando Bloom as “Boxer” and John Turturro as “Boz” in the Psychological Thriller film, ‘The Cut’. Photo courtesy of Republic Pictures (a Paramount Pictures label).
A retired boxer (Orlando Bloom) intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer (John Turturro), he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
Release Date: Sep 5, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 39 min
(L to R) James Sweeney and Dylan O’Brien in ‘Twinless’, courtesy of Roadside Attractions.
Two young men (Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney) meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.
Release Date: Sep 5, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 40 min
(L to R) Penelope Wilton stars as Isobel Merton, Allen Leech as Tom Branson, Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary and Paul Giamatti as Harold Levinson in ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Rory Mulvey / © 2025 Focus Features LLC. © 2025 Focus Features LLC. All Rights Reserved.
When Mary (Michelle Dockery) finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
“The time has come to say goodbye.”
Release Date: Sep 12, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 4 min
(L to R) Joshua Odjick as Parker, Jordan Gonzalez as Harkness, David Jonsson as McVries, Cooper Hoffman as Garraty, and Charlie Plummer as Barkovitch in ‘The Long Walk’. Photo Credit: Murray Close/Lionsgate.
Every year, fifty teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as “The Long Walk.” Among this year’s chosen crop is “Maine’s Own,” Ray Garraty (Cooper Hoffman). He knows the rules: that warnings are issued if you fall under speed, stumble, sit down. That after three warnings- you get your ticket. And what happens then serves as a chilling reminder that there can be only one winner in the Walk. The one that survives.
“The task is simple: walk or die.”
Release Date: Sep 12, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 48 min
Dev Patel appears in ‘Rabbit Trap’ by Bryn Chainey, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Photo: Andreas Johannessen.
When a musician (Rosy McEwen) and her husband (Dev Patel) move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.
Release Date: Sep 12, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 28 min
(L to R) Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest in ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’. Photo: Bleecker Street.
Now estranged, Spinal Tap (Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest) are forced to reunite for one final concert, hoping it will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll.
Release Date: Sep 12, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 24 min
Michael Keaton in the documentary ‘Clemente’. Photo: Mtuckman Media.
An immersive documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of MLB icon Roberto Clemente.
Rebekah Kennedy as “Abigail” in the horror film, ‘Traumatika’, a Saban Films release. Photo courtesy of Saban Films.
A young boy’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
‘HIM‘ (9/19)
(L to R) Tyriq Withers is Cam, Marlon Wayans is Isaiah, and Maurice Greene is Malek in ‘Him’, directed by Justin Tipping. © Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Terror strikes when a promising young football player (Tyriq Withers) gets invited to train at a team’s isolated compound.
“Greatness demands sacrifice.”
Release Date: Sep 19, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 36 min
(L to R) Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star in ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’. Photo: Matt Kennedy. © 2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY. SALE, DUPLICATION OR TRANSFER OF THIS MATERIAL IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present… and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.
“Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell invite you on…”
Release Date: Sep 19, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
(L to R) Jeremy Ray Taylor as “Julian” and Josh Duhamel as “Tommy Ward” in the action comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution release. Photo courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman (Josh Duhamel) is forced to babysit the son (Jeremy Ray Taylor) of his new crime boss (Rick Hoffman) and show him how to become a man.
Release Date: Sep 19, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 54 min
‘Xeno‘ (9/19)
Omari Hardwick in ‘Xeno’. Photo: Blue Fox Entertainment.
When a fearless teenage girl (Lulu Wilson) stumbles upon a mysterious alien crash-landed in the desert near her home, she discovers that it’s not the kind of extraterrestrial she expected—it’s powerful, unpredictable, and on the run. As government agents (Omari Hardwick) close in, she must protect her new otherworldly friend while uncovering a secret that could change the fate of both their worlds.
Release Date: Sep 19, 2025
Madelaine Petsch as Maya in ‘The Strangers — Chapter 2’. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate.
On the final day of their cross country road trip, a couple’s vehicle breaks down, forcing them to take refuge in a remote Airbnb. As night falls, three masked strangers terrorize them until dawn.
“Survival was just the beginning.”
Release Date: Sep 26, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 38 min
Emma Thompson in ‘Dead of Winter’. Photo: Vertical.
A widowed fisherwoman (Emma Thompson), traveling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl’s only hope.
Release Date: Sep 26, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 37 min
‘One Battle After Another’ opens in theaters on September 26th.
When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.
“Some search for battle, others are born into it…”
Release Date: Sep 26, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 42 min
Budget: $175,000,000
October:
(L to R) Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Stanfield in ‘Play Dirty’. Photo: Prime Video.
Expert thief Parker (Mark Wahlberg) gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world’s richest man.
“Even robbers get robbed”
Release Date: Oct 1, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 5 min
Dwayne Johnson in ‘The Smashing Machine’. Photo: A24.
The story of legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson).
“The unforgettable true story of a UFC legend.”
Release Date: Oct 3, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 3 min
Budget: $40,000,000
Sean Bean stars as Jem and Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Ray in director Ronan Day-Lewis’s ‘Anemone’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2025 Focus Features LLC.
Family bonds between fathers, sons, and brothers are explored as complex relationships unfold through personal journeys and generational conflicts.
Release Date: Oct 10, 2025
Maddie Hasson in Bleecker Street and LD’s ‘Bone Lake’. Credit: Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment.
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
“What’s your body count?”
Release Date: Oct 3, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 34 min
(L to R) Guy Pearce and DeWanda Wise star in ‘KIlling Faith’. Photo: Film Bridge International.
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician (Guy Pearce) reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave (DeWanda Wise) and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town’s Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches mysteriously dies.
“Look closer. The devil is in the details.”
Release Date: Oct 3, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 48 min
Budget: $7,000,000
(L to R) Jared Leto as Ares and Jeff Bridges as Flynn in Disney’s Live Action ‘Tron: Ares’. Photo by Leah Gallo. © 2025 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
A highly sophisticated Program called Ares (Jared Leto) is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.
Release Date: Oct 10, 2025
(L to R) Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy in ‘Fairyland’. Photo: Lionsgate and WILLA.
Produced by Oscar® winner Sofia Coppola (Writing, Original Screenplay, ‘Lost in Translation‘, 2003) and based on the acclaimed memoir of the same name by Alysia Abbott, ‘Fairyland’ is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and ’80s. This captivating film chronicles a father and daughter relationship as it evolves through an era of bohemian decadence to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis. Starring Emilia Jones (‘CODA‘), Scoot McNairy (‘A Complete Unknown‘), Cody Fern (‘American Horror Story‘), Maria Bakalova (‘The Apprentice‘), Bella Murphy (‘Coming 2 America‘), with Adam Lambert (‘Glee‘), and Geena Davis (‘Thelma & Louise‘) and introducing Nessa Dougherty. The film is written, produced, and directed by Andrew Durham.
Release Date: Oct 3, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 56 min
(L to R) Daniel Bernhardt and Patton Oswalt in ‘Deathstalker’. Photo: Shout! Studios.
The warrior Deathstalker (Daniel Bernhardt) is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and unite the three powers of creation – a chalice, an amulet, and a sword – lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious purposes. After obtaining the sword, Deathstalker joins with other travelers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. The false king holds the true princess in captivity, and plots to have Deathstalker killed, and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess.
“Evil has many names. Adventure has only one…”
Release Date: Oct 10, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 42 min
(L to R) Mark Coles Smith as “Leo,” Maximillian Johnson as “Stan,” Joel Nankervis as “Will,” and Lee Tiger Halley as “Teddy” in the thriller film ‘Beast of War’. Photo courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment.
When their boat is sunk while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a young troop of Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking life raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
“Survival is the only victory.”
Release Date: Oct 10, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 27 min
Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in ‘Frankenstein’. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
“Only monsters play God.”
Release Date: Oct 17, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 29 min
‘Pets on a Train’ opens in theaters on October 17th. Photo: Viva Pictures.
When a train unexpectedly starts up, taking only pets with it, the animals discover that Hans, a badger with a grudge is behind it all. While the crash seems inevitable, the animals can count on Falcon, a roguish Raccoon who will do anything to save them.
Release Date: Oct 17, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 39 min
(L to R) Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller in ‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost’. Photo: Apple TV+.
Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents—comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara—exploring their impact on popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life, and art often blurred.
Release Date: Oct 17, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 37 min
(L to R) Keanu Reeves as Gabriel, Seth Rogen as Jeff, and Aziz Ansari as Ari in ‘Good Fortune’. Photo Credit: Eddy Chen.
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Aziz Ansari) and a wealthy capitalist (Seth Rogen).
Release Date: Oct 17, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 37 min
(from left) Finn (Mason Thames) and The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) in ‘Black Phone 2’, directed by Scott Derrickson. © 2025 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Four years after escaping The Grabber (Ethan Hawke), Finney Blake (Mason Thames) is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
Release Date: Oct 17, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 54 min
Tessa Thompson stars as “Hedda Gabler” in ‘Hedda’. Photo: Amazon MGM Studios.
Hedda Gabler (Tessa Thompson) finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
“A little chaos is good for the gathering.”
Release Date: Oct 22, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Emma Stone stars as Michelle Fuller in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’, a Focus Features release. .Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company (Emma Stone), convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Release Date: Oct 31, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
(L to R) Margaret Qualley and Ethan Hawke in ‘Blue Moon’. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics.
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.
Release Date: Oct 24, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 40 min
‘Last Days’ opens exclusively in US theaters on October 24th. Photo: Tanasak “Top” Boonlam.
Determined to fulfill his life’s mission, 26-year-old John Allen Chau (Sky Yang) embarks on a dangerous adventure across the globe to convert the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island to Christianity, while a detective from the Andaman Islands races to stop him before he does harm to himself or the tribe.
Release Date: Oct 24, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr
(Right) Karl Urban as Johnny Cage in ‘Mortal Kombat 2’. Photo: Warner Bros.
A sequel to the 2021 film ‘Mortal Kombat‘.
“Prepare for the next level.”
Release Date: May 15, 2026
Run Time: 1 hr 56 min
Budget: $68,000,000
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere.’ Photo: 20th Century Studios.
Bruce Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White), a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past
Release Date: Oct 24, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 52 min
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