There will be a lot of familiar titles in 2025 movies.

Despite the celebration that occurred years ago with the double blockbuster whammy of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” revealing that audiences were eager for something new, Hollywood remains heavily invested in the tried and true.

So, easily dominating the year will be sequels, prequels, origin stories and spin-offs.

Tom Cruise supposedly will say farewell with “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” “Avatar: Fire and Ash” lets James Cameron find new spectacle among a now-familiar aquatic world.  The dinosaurs obviously will never ever die, as witnessed by “Jurassic World Rebirth.”

We go back in time with “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” while Marvel exhibits the 36th film in its Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with “Thunderbolts” a new superhero entry that teams Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan.

Marvel unveils another Anthony Mackie star turn with “Captain America: Brave New World” with the unexpected bonus of having Harrison Ford aboard.

Last year’s documentary look at Christopher Reeves’ Krypton refugee, “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” contrasted film fantasy with cruel reality. Warner Bros. for 2025 introduces David Corenswet — a Juilliard graduate as was Reeve! — as Clark Kent aka the Man of Steel in the new “Superman.”

Could Disney’s live-action update of its first animated classic actually be controversial? With a screenplay by “Barbie” titan Greta Gerwig, “Snow White” stars “West Side Story” discovery Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot as the jealous youth-obsessed very evil Queen.

Family films remain an audience-gathering bedrock for movie theaters: Parents must get out of the house with their kids. Hollywood responds with irresistible enticements, often pre-sold titles like “Paddington in Peru,” “Zootopia 2,” “Aladdin 2,” “Karate Kid: Legends” and “The Smurfs Movie.”

“Sinners” reunites “Black Panther” and “Creed” director Ryan Coogler with his frequent star Michael B. Jordan in an original.

Guy Ritchie and Jake Gyllenhaal pair for another reunion, another action-packed movie, “In the Grey” with Henry Cavill. What’s it about?  Let’s just say it’s a surprise.

Surprise may be paramount with Universal’s latest reboot in its classic Universal Monsters program. That hope foundered with the big belly flop of Tom Cruise’s “Mummy” movie. But “Wolf Man” arrives from director Leigh Whannel who triumphed with the surprising 2020 sleeper hit “The Invisible Man” which gender switched the character and refashioned the story into a terrific abused wife thriller.

Keanu Reeves, whose career was given a transfusion with the brutal John Wick series, reprises an earlier hit with “Constantine 2.”

And Colman Domingo, Nia Long and Miles Teller are among those gathered to tell the life and death story of a troubled superstar in “Michael,” as in Jackson.

A scene from “Paddington in Peru,” due in theaters next year. (Photo StudioCanal)
Universal is rebooting “Wolf Man,” directed by Leigh Whannel. (Photo Universal)