Disney Sets Some More Dates For Its 2025 Movie Slate

2024 is gradually winding down, and arsenic 2025 draws closer, that means new movies to look guardant to. Many of them volition beryllium courtesy of Disney: betwixt Marvel, Pixar, and whatever else it’s got cooking, the Mouse House volition person thing for everyone adjacent year.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Disney’s enactment down hard merchandise dates for 2 upcoming films, Freakier Friday and the live-action Lilo & Stitch. The former, which reunites Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis aft the archetypal 2003 film, volition deed theaters connected August 8, 2025. Along with its archetypal starring stars, the body-swapping sequel brings backmost overmuch of the archetypal film’s formed (like Steven Tobolowsky, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, and Christina Vidal Mitchell) and adds newcomers Manny Jacinto and Julia Soong. That aforesaid day, Warner Bros. is releasing a Leonardo DiCaprio-led movie from Paul Thomas Anderson.

Meanwhile, Lilo & Stitch will driblet connected May 23, 2025. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the remake of Disney’s 2002 animated classical stars newcomer Maia Kealoha arsenic the young Lilo, who adopts a blue-furred canine named Stitch (voiced by his archetypal actor, Chris Sanders). But Stitch isn’t a weird-looking dog, he’s really an alien experimentation created by a huffy scientist, and who precocious crash-landed successful Hawaii trying to flight the abstraction police. Along with Kealoha and Sanders, the formed includes Sydney Agudong, Kaipo Dudoit, Zach Galifanakis, Courtney B. Vance, and Billy Magnussen.

Disney movies usually bash good during the precocious spring-summer period, but Lilo & Stitch will person immoderate sizable contention in Mission Impossible 8. The adjacent installment successful Paramount’s spy-action franchise has had respective accumulation setbacks (like the Hollywood strikes) and mightiness not beryllium Dead Reckoning Part 2 anymore, but it’s inactive got a batch of steam down it. People bash emotion to spot Tom Cruise bash a chaotic stunt oregon two, aft all.

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