December 2025 is shaping up to be a strong month for movies, with many exciting new releases – from big-budget blockbusters to potential Oscar winners and thrilling mysteries. ScreenRant has teamed up with Diesel Labs, a company that analyzes online trends, to find out which upcoming films are generating the most buzz. They’ve created a “hype score” for each movie, based on how much people are talking about it online.
We rank upcoming movies by how much attention they’re getting online. This is measured by things like likes, shares, comments, and views on platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. This helps us see which movies are generating the most buzz before they’re released, even before critics review them or box office numbers are available.
Okay, so November was HUGE for movies! We finally got Wicked: For Good, which was a massive hit, and titles we’d been waiting for like Zootopia 2 and Now You See Me 3 all dropped. It really felt like things were heating up for a great month. And looking ahead, December 2025 is shaping up to be incredible! We’ve got another Avatar movie coming, plus a sports drama starring Timothée Chalamet – seriously, there’s a ton of buzz about both of those. ScreenRant put together a list of the most anticipated December releases, and honestly, it’s looking like a month full of potential blockbusters and critical darlings.
Top 10 Most Anticipated New Movies – December 2025
| Title | Premiere Date | Platform | Genre | Attention Scale | Attention Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The SponeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants | 12/19/2025 | Paramount Pictures | Kid & Family | 100.00% | 238,298,630 |
| The Housemaid | 12/19/2025 | Lionsgate | Thriller | 85.30% | 203,263,581 |
| Avatar: Fire and Ash | 12/19/2025 | 20th Century Studios | Action & Adventure | 82.65% | 196,943,384 |
| Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 | 12/5/2025 | Universal Pictures | Horror | 52.19% | 124,356,157 |
| Marty Supreme | 12/25/2025 | A24 | Sports Drama | 35.17% | 83,819,818 |
| Song Sung Blue | 12/25/2025 | Focus Features | Musical Drama | 32.58% | 77,628,741 |
| Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts | 12/19/2025 | Hulu | Comedy | 29.12% | 69,390,745 |
| David | 12/19/2025 | Angel Studios | Kids & Family | 21.02% | 50,080,977 |
| Is This Thing On? | 12/19/2025 | Searchlight Pictures | Comedy Drama | 18.63% | 44,400,825 |
| Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | 12/12/2025 | Netflix | Mystery Comedy | 16.37% | 39,000,168 |
Data from Diesel Labs shows that “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” is generating the most online buzz for December 2025 releases. It’s the newest film in the long-running SpongeBob franchise. The thriller “The Housemaid,” starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, is the second most anticipated movie that month. Disney’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the third installment in James Cameron’s popular Avatar series, is also creating significant online excitement.
October will also see the release of several highly anticipated films, including the horror sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, the sports drama Marty Supreme starring Timothée Chalamet, and the musical drama Song Sung Blue with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. Rounding out the month’s buzz are the Hulu comedy special Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts and David, an animated musical retelling a biblical story.
December 2025 will see the release of two highly anticipated films: Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, Is This Thing On?, with Will Arnett and Laura Dern, and the new Rian Johnson mystery, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, on Netflix. Between major action films, continuations of popular series, and powerful dramas, there’s a wide variety of movies coming to theaters and streaming next month.
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