Paramount is making some big shifts on its 2025 release calendar, the biggest title dated being Edgar Wright’s reboot of The Running Man starring Glen Powell. The pic is going the Friday before Thanksgiving next year, on November 21.
Running Man will race against Wicked: Part Two on that date as well as Angel Studios’ David and a Warner Bros event movie.
In regards to this year, Paramount also said Friday that its awards-season contender September 5 is now opening November 29 limited before getting a December 13 expansion. Previously, the pic that world premiered at the Venice and Telluride film festivals was set to go on November 27. The Tim Fehlbaum-directed movie starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch depicts what happened with the ABC Sports TV control booth had to contend with a live act of terrorism during the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Meanwhile, the Bryan Bertino-directed horror movie Vicious is moving up to February 28, 2025 from August 8, 2025 because it’s ready, we hear. Pic stars Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott and Emily Mitchell. The logline: A woman spends the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a rabbit hole contained inside a gift from a late-night visitor.
Also on that that date is the Simu Liu-Woody Harrelson title Last Breath from Focus Features and Briarcliff Entertainment’s Natalie Morales movie My Dead Friend Zoe.
Paramount also slotted its animated Smurfs musical movie for summer 2025, moving it off its Valentine’s Day date next year to July 18. Chris Miller and Matt Landon direct a voiceover cast that counts 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 and Xolo Maridueña, along with Kurt Russell and John Goodman. Already slated for July 18 is Sony’s redux of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The Akiva Schaffer-directed reboot of Naked Gun with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson is shifting from July 18 to August 1, 2025. There’s a lot on that date: DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Bad Guys 2, Sony’s Beneath the Storm and an untitled Warner Bros event movie.