Paramount Pictures has shifted much of its 2025 slate

Paramount Pictures is pushing back its 2025 quite significantly. The studio isn’t exactly having a great fall season so far. While Transformers One is fantastic, the film struggles to find an audience. Smile 2 has a chance to do well, but there’s also the concern that the first film was horror lightning in a bottle. Gladiator II is just around the corner, trying to recoup its reported $300 million budget. Finally, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is scheduled for December and is probably the most certain to come out. Deadline reports that a number of major projects are being pushed back as the studio heads into 2025. One of the major projects is Edgar Wrights restart from The running man starring Glenn Powell and according to The Hollywood Reporter today: Katy O’Brien. The film is dated November 21, 2025, which means another Paramount property is in the fray Bad because that is the same date as Bad: Part Two. Warner Bros. also has an untitled film on that date. November is always a battleground.

Paramount Pictures Film Studios in Los Angeles – CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – MARCH 18, 2019. Editorial credit: 4kclips / Shutterstock.com

It’s not just films from 2025 that have undergone some adjustments. September 5 is touted as the studio’s entry into awards season and depicts the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis from the perspective of an ABC Sports Crew that will cover the event. The film made its debut at the Venice Film Festival in August. Tim Fehlbaum directed It and with star Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Beneschand more. The film has been given a limited release date of November 29, 2024, and will premiere on December 13, 2024. That’s pretty common for awards season films, but like we said, those weeks are particularly busy. Sometimes award season movies struggle to find an audience among the blockbusters, no matter how good they are.

Mean is going up from August 8, 2025 to February 28, 2025, as Deadline says, “because it’s done, we hear.” The summary provided reads as follows: “A woman spends the night fighting for her existence as she slides down a rabbit hole found in a gift from a late visitor.” The stars Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott, And Emily Mitchell. February is a strange time of month, but far from the dead zone people used to see.

The new one Smurfs animated film is also moving its release date to primetime July 18, 2025. Animated films and summer are where the big money is made, so Paramount must think they have a winner, and given the voice cast, they very well could be. The cast consists of Rihanna, Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Nick Kroll, James Corden, Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Sandra Oh, Alex Winter, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña of Kurt Russell And John Goedeman. Finally the Naked gun restart with Liam Neeson is moving away from prime because it’s moving the release date from July 18, 2025 to August 1, 2025. That’s not a bad idea; an animated film has a much better chance in July, and a reboot like this, if it’s any good, could do well in August, regardless of whether the kids are still home for the summer or not.