What will 2025 be made of?

The year 2025 begins slowly. After a month of December loaded on streaming platforms as much as in dark rooms, the cultural industry spares its effects. The month of January promises to be particularly calm before February comes to wake up the ardor of the spectators. Between Captain America : Brave New World In the cinema, Reacher on video bonus or Paddington in Peru, Studios and platforms will not spare their efforts to attract public views. More broadly, the next 365 days promise to be very busy and particularly interesting for a changing industry. The editorial staff of Journal you Geek Has released his crystal ball to predict the significant moments of the year 2025. What do we reserve the cinemas, platforms and emblematic licenses of geek culture? We take bets.

Live-Streaming will become a priority for platforms

Unless you had spent last November in a cave, you could not miss the fight between Jake Paul and the legend of Mike Tyson boxing. After months of preparation, a dantesque promotion and well helped by the celebrity of the two opponents, Netflix made the blow of the century by broadcasting the match live from the AT&T Stadium d'Arlington in Texas. The American platform has broadcast one of its first live events of this scale, brought together millions of spectators around the world. If the plan did not go without a hitch, the red N had to resolve to cut on the quality of retransmission to allow everyone to access the fight, it is to admit that the operation was particularly profitable. The fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has become the most streamed sporting event in history. Just that.

In 2025, Netflix will no doubt want to continue on its momentum. The firm has offered RAW's rights, a weekly professional wrestling program imagined by WWE. The discipline is among the most popular on North American soil, but also in South America, the followers will undoubtedly be many to want to follow the exploits of their favorite personalities. These are just as many spectators live that Netflix should not disappoint with less quality or interference.

More broadly, live retransmission is a new asset in the round of streaming platforms. Other companies have already mentioned their desire to invest more widely. This is the case of Disney+, which recently told us that they want to multiply the events of the genre in France and elsewhere. A few days later, Disney+ France announced that it had obtained the Diffusion Rights of the 2025 Oscars. The Canal+ Caiffery Platform at the post, it is the first time in 35 years that the Hollywood Mass will not be transcribed on the encrypted channel. For its part, Prime Video is already taking advantage of an advance in the field of direct with its old Bouquet Ligue 1 and the broadcast of Rolland Garros.

The fantastic four will be a new hope for Marvel

Thor : Love and Thunder, Ant-man and the wasp: Quantumania or The Marvelsthe House of Ideas is not at the top of its form. If Deadpool & Wolverine was a real cardboard in the cinema, Wade Wilson's film cannot really be seen as a sign of a recovery for the cinematographic license. Shawn Levy has largely bet on the reputations of Reynolds and Jackman to attract spectators. Fan-service deluge (pleasant for once), the third part of the adventures of the mutant recalled the spectators of the MCU to better days. Phases 4 and 5 of the MCU were strong disappointments and the future is not more radiant. The return of Robert Downey Jr, and perhaps even that of Chris Evans, sounds like an admission of failure for Kevin Feige and his teams. Marvel has failed to go beyond the disappearance of his headliners, and it is not the series devoted to some of them that will be able to save the license from a programmed end.

However, in the midst of films that have an impression of deja vu, the new proposal for Matt Shakman could do well. Indeed, the director of Wandavision hopes to blow a wind of freshness within the license with his retrofuturist adventure devoted to the most famous family of the Marvel stable. Fantastic Four : First Steps will have the heavy responsibility to build icons that spectators will want to follow closely after the first film. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn et Ebon Moss-Bachrach have the opportunity to Become Marvel icons Like Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth and Jeremy Renner were in the early 2010s.

Therefore, we can expect the characters to be the epicenter of the next Avengers And that they define the start of a new era for the MCU. For Marvel, it will also be an opportunity to take the temperature. Before the introduction of X-Men. The series X-Men ’97 proved that the public is always interested in Charles Xavier and his teams, it is only a matter of time before Marvel decides to offer them a new version in the cinema.

Zootopia 2 will be the box of the year

It is not to take a big risk that to bet on the rest of the adventures of Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde to dominate the world box office in 2025. After all, it is already another series of an animation hit which dominated the year 2024. Zootopia even has a definite advantage of the adventures of Riley, his first part was otherwise profitable for the two Pixar and Disney entities. When it was released in 2016, the first film devoted to Judy and Nick reported more a billion dollars around the world. Vice-Versa had finished his race with (only) 859 million. While Disney seems to be on the resurrection path, we can expect that Zootopia 2 surpasses the results of his elder and illustrate as The most profitable film of the yearall kinds combined. If competition with Avatar : Fire and Ash could have largely thwarted these plans, the late release of the third film in the saga of James Cameron leaves Zootopia a certain freedom of movement.

We can also note that, despite a less enthusiastic than expected criticism, Vaiana 2 was a real tidal wave in the dark rooms of the world in November, proving that the animation really came back to the front of the stage. If the pandemic prompted families to turn more widely to streaming platforms, the return to a window of three months before the SVOD exploitation of a film allowed projects of the kind of truly Productions most popular with the public. The abandonment of the double broadcast – an idea launched by Warner Bros in full confinement and which consisted in offering films in certain cinemas and in a subscription – finally bears its fruit.

Superman de James Gunn will have a box office around 800 million dollars

More than a decade after Man of Steelthe DC Films catalog has a facelift. If Zack Snyder's attempts, David Ayer and Patty Jenkins have not been covered with success, Warner Bros finally thinks he has found a way of exploiting his legendary heroes in a huge cinematographic license. To do this, the company appointed Peter Safran and James Gunn in charge of operations. The second ensures the role of creative director but will also go behind the camera to open the ball. He will take care of staging the first adventures of Clark knows the David Corswet. The trailer unveiled last December proved that the public's interest was there, that the film would be talked about when it was released. 250 million people looked at the trailer Through all the platforms where it was made available. Superman is officially the project that has spoken the most in the Warner Bros. catalog. Such a craze suggests a radiant future for Krypton's son.

The studio could take advantage of the experience acquired with Barbie To become the inevitable production of summer. The film carried by Ryan Reynolds and Margot Robbie had benefited from a promotional campaign as we do little, between real trends on social networks and sacralization of the indoor moment. Superman would have everything to gain from adapting this recipe to its emblematic universe. Sessions with the iconic glasses of the superhero in perspective? The fact remains that competition may be rather rough since The Fantastic Four Will not be far behind the return of Kal-el.

Netflix will detach from the Binge-Watching

A new trend attracts more and more living room entertainment worshipers. While the SVOD offer becomes more massive, the platforms flourish and each plays its arguments to attract attention, more and more users are unsubscribing and reinforcing themselves at the whim of outings. In this little game, Netflix does not leave a large winner. The platform has largely Popularized binge-watchingwhich consists in watching a whole series from the first days of its release.

Certain series, those which are particularly popular, nevertheless benefits from a new format. The Chronicle of Bridgerton, Stranger Things, The Witcher or even more recentlyArcanemany productions have been offered in Two or three different salvas. It appears very likely that this trend is intensifying in the coming months, so that Netflix keeps its customers as long as possible under its thumb. We already imagine several parts for the adventures of Wednesdayor even the return to weekly broadcasting.

The Romantasy will be omnipresent

Since the era of teenage sagas in the dystopia department has come to an end, Hollywood has struggled to find a genre that captivates young spectators. The return of Hunger Games was not a great success, the attempts of certain platforms in the field of fantasy did not end up by successes either. Netflix, however, thought of holding a serial phenomenon with Shadow and Bonebefore the importance drops in audience on the occasion of season 2 come to thwart its plans.

However, there are many literary successes whose platforms might want to seize to attract this audience. Romantasy is preparing to become one of the priorities of show entertainment companies, a number of emblematic licenses have already been acquired. Hulu is preparing his adaptation ofA palace of thorns and roses while Prime Video hopes to make Fourth Wing One of its most popular stamps. After all, the romance “Young Adult” already makes miracles on our screens when it evolves in a less imaginary context, think Maxton Hall or Counterans South Prime Video.

Video premium has just offered the adaptation rights of Rise of the Empressa literary saga inspired by the wicked queen of Snow White and which has its share of eroticism and romance. The shooting must start in a few weeks in Malaysia, allowing readers to caress the hope of an outing in 2026. Faced with the eagerness of the platforms to seize these works which praise the sales of books, the One can easily imagine that the next few months will mark the start of a new trend in SVOD platforms to give pride of place to the Romantasy. It remains to be seen now if the public will answer the call, the first attempt of its kind was not really successful. My Lady Jane On the video bonus was canceled after a season.