A fascinating remake of the 1987 cult\u2011action film of the same name, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger at his peak. Why is it intriguing? Because it\u2019s directed by Edgar Wright (of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) who has already proved his action chops in Baby Driver. Glen Powel \u2014 one of American cinema\u2019s \u201cIt boys\u201d \u2014 stars as a working\u2011class man desperate to save his sick daughter. To succeed, he enters a violent reality\u2011show competition in which a single survivor wins a large sum.<\/p>\n
Why \u201cviolent\u201d? Because contestants must survive 30\u202fdays while being relentlessly hunted by professional assassins \u2014 and every move is broadcast to viewers. The 1987 version was loosely based on the novel by Stephen King, but Wright promises to stay much closer to the source. Will the satirical bite of the material have dulled over the years with the rise and fall (relatively speaking) of the reality\u2011TV genre? We\u2019ll see. Opens Nov\u202f13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s film won the most awards at the recent Ophir ceremony (five in total, tied with Nandauri) and will be Israel\u2019s submission to the Oscars. Not exactly welcome news for Miki Zohar, the culture minister who cut funding for the Ophirs following its wins.<\/p>\n
The film follows Khaled, a 12\u2011year\u2011old from a Palestinian village near Ramallah, who gets a chance to see the sea for the first time on a school trip. At the checkpoint, his permit is found invalid, so he\u2019s sent home while his classmates go on. Disappointed, he decides to reach the sea himself \u2014 without knowing the way or Hebrew. When his father, a labourer working in Israel without legal status, learns of his plan, he leaves his job and sets off to find his son despite the risk of detection and losing his livelihood. Opens Nov\u202f13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with an unpopular opinion: if you didn\u2019t like Wicked, the mojo-filled, imaginative adaptation of the musical Wicked \u2014 well, you probably just haven\u2019t seen it. Jon M. Chu\u2019s virtuosic film may have left the Oscars ceremony underwhelmed with only two statues (for production design and costumes), but it deserved many more, including Best Actress for Cynthia Erivo, who was simply outstanding. And now comes the sequel, promising to be as lavish as the predecessor \u2014 and even more emotionally charged, if possible! Musical fans at\u202fynet (and, let\u2019s be honest, that\u2019s practically everyone) argue that in Part\u202f2 the songs may be a bit less memorable \u2014 but nonetheless, for many, this is the big Hollywood fall film, with all due respect to Avatar\u202f3 and others. Peak excitement. Opens Nov\u202f20.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Noah Baumbach\u2019s new film is another link in his Netflix chain, and this time particularly intriguing for the pairing of George Clooney and Adam Sandler \u2014 the former playing a successful movie star, the latter his devoted manager. On a shared European trip, they face their past, their struggles and their hopes.<\/p>\n
Baumbach\u2019s Netflix track record has ranged from charming (The Meyerowitz Stories) and brilliant (Marriage Story) to exhausting and pretentious (both embodied in White Noise). Here, judging from the trailer, he leans into his sweeter side \u2014 with this star power, it\u2019s really hard to mess up. Opens Nov\u202f20.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In impressively short order, Osgood Perkins \u2014 son of the late Psycho star Anthony Perkins \u2014 has become one of the most talked\u2011about horror directors around. With an impressive output: in 2024 he delivered Longlegs (a hit with $128\u202fmillion gross on a $10\u202fmillion budget) and in 2025 The\u202fMonkey (about $70\u202fmillion on a $10\u202fmillion budget). Now he returns with Keeper, about a couple vacationing in an isolated cabin where evil stalks the woman (Tatiana Maslany) while the husband (Rossif Sutherland \u2014 son of the late Donald Sutherland) must go back into the city for work.<\/p>\n
Based on the trailer and the filmmaker\u2019s history, there\u2019s absolutely reason to expect something here \u2014 at least until his next film The Young People in 2026. Opens Nov\u202f20.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The sequel to the 2016 Disney hit \u2014 which grossed over $1\u202fbillion \u2014 is arriving nine years later. That\u2019s not something you often see for a major studio. The original voice cast returns: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba and Shakira \u2014 along with new additions including Andy Samberg and Ke Huy Quan (Oscar winner for Everything Everywhere All at Once), who voices the villain, a brilliant snake named Gary De’Snake. And again, one can reasonably guess this will do strong box\u2011office business \u2014 especially considering 2025 has been a weak year so far for animation (apart from the charming The Bad Guys 2). Opens Nov\u202f27.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The latest from Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud won the Golden\u202fBear at Berlin\u202f2025. It is a delicate coming\u2011of\u2011age drama about a 17\u2011year\u2011old girl falling in love with her French teacher, a romance which also uncovers hidden secrets and desires within her family \u2014 especially from her mother and grandmother.<\/p>\n
The film is the third in Haugerud\u2019s Sex\u2013Love\u2013Dreams trilogy, which explores intimacy, identity and emotional boundaries. Because fans of sophisticated European cinema deserve something, too. Opens Nov\u202f27.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/p>\n
Good heavens, what a clunky title. But that won\u2019t stop you from heading to the new film by Rian Johnson \u2014 the third in his Netflix Knives\u202fOut\u2011style series of whodunits. This time, the plot promises to be darker than ever, as detective Benoit\u202fBlanc investigates… well\u2026 let\u2019s say the darkest case so far. No need to elaborate beyond this generic description: Johnson knows his game, and for that, he gathered the likes of Daniel Craig, Josh O\u2019Connor (who, according to critics, \u2018stole the show\u2019), Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny and more. How can you refuse a slate like that? Opens Nov\u202f27.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2<\/p>\n
The sequel to the horror hit from two years ago, which grossed nearly $300\u202fmillion on a modest $20\u202fmillion budget and proved that video\u2011game adaptations don\u2019t have to flop at the box office. This time, the creators hope to replicate the sensation \u2014 and indeed the budget has risen above $50\u202fmillion.<\/p>\n
The original team is back: director Emma Tammi, together with actors Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail and Matthew Lillard \u2014 plus additions like Mckenna Grace, Wayne Knight (from Seinfeld), Skeet Ulrich and Megan Fox who lends her voice to Chica. It\u2019s a yes from us. Opens Dec 4.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants<\/p>\n
In the new film of the beloved SpongeBob franchise, SpongeBob and Patrick embark on a mission to rescue Gary the pet snail, who has been abducted by King\u202fPoseidon. Along the way, they encounter surprising adventures, new characters, and they learn about friendship and loyalty.<\/p>\n
But forget the details \u2014 this is a new SpongeBob film, for heaven\u2019s sake, and this time it mixes 3\u2011D animation with live action and features a cameo by Keanu Reeves. What more do you need? Opens Dec\u202f18.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The third chapter in the blockbuster franchise from James Cameron arrives three years after its predecessor, Avatar: The Way of Water, which itself followed the first film after a 13\u2011year gap. This time, if you wondered what exactly happens, Cameron takes us to new regions on the planet Pandora \u2014 let\u2019s call them the \u201cvolcanic zones\u201d for now \u2014 and a new Na\u2019vi tribe that looks, from first glance, decidedly less friendly than the ones we met earlier.<\/p>\n
And no, there\u2019s no reason to expect Cameron to wrap up the saga with this installment \u2014 there are more Avatar films in the pipeline. And no, you shouldn\u2019t assume the third installment won\u2019t smash mega\u2011box\u2011office records \u2014 even if matching the almost $3\u202fbillion of the original (and the $2.3\u202fbillion of The\u202fWay\u202fof\u202fWater) is unlikely. Opens Dec\u202f18.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
No, this isn\u2019t about the 1997 adventure\/horror camp film starring Jennifer Lopez \u2014 but maybe it is. And maybe not. How do you explain this brilliant concept: take the meta idea further into unexplored terrain? Let\u2019s attempt it: In the 2025 Anaconda, two friends played by Jack Black and Paul Rudd, at the height of their mid\u2011life crises, decide to fly to the jungle where the 1997 Anaconda was shot \u2014 yes, that terrible one, which has arguably become a cult classic \u2014 to film a sequel.<\/p>\n
Then things, of course, go wrong, and they find themselves in their own \u201cAnaconda\u201d. Or in the words of one YouTube commenter: \u201cOkay, so it\u2019s a reboot of Anaconda, where they make a reboot of Anaconda, then their reboot of Anaconda goes wrong, and the story becomes a reboot of Anaconda. Did I get that right?\u201d \u2014 You got it, dear commenter. See you at the theater. Large popcorn and no regrets, please and thank you. Opens Jan\u202f25.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
At the heart of Nadav Lapid\u2019s film \u2014 already one of the most talked\u2011about of the year before it has even reached our screens \u2014 is a story that \u201cechoes our current, grim and frightening reality,\u201d as we described here: \u201cwhat begins as wild hedonistic parties in vile villas in Tel Aviv merges into mass murder occurring just beyond the fence in the Gaza Strip, becoming through the personal experience of a damaged and mentally (and sometimes physically) scarred Israeli man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sounds tough, demanding and challenging? Yes. It\u2019s a film by Nadav\u202fLapid. And there\u2019s absolutely no question you should see it in cinema. Opens Jan\u202f1.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fascinating remake of the 1987 cult\u2011action film of the same name, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-272688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}