We've Got the Scoop on Netflix's 2025 Releases: 'Stranger Things 5,' 'Squid Game 3' and More

Netflix revealed its 2025 slate of movies, TV shows, live events and games on Wednesday. To say that this year's programming is packed would be an understatement. Aside from the return of a handful of high-profile shows, an array of big-budget movies, live events and international titles will vie for your attention.

Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria hosted the hour-long presentation with a smattering of top-tier guests, including WWE superstars CM Punk and Rhea Ripley, Ben Affleck, Tina Fey, John Mulaney, the Duffer Brothers and a special video message from Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro. They're just a small sampling of the creative teams making 2025, as Bajaria said, "our biggest year yet."

I'm sure you've read to this point and expect an inside perspective on some big shows and movies coming down the pike. Well, I can't share what I saw in the room. But I can lay out some cool details about Netflix's 2025 calendar. You should probably mark yours while I'm on the subject.

Netflix is the only streamer I consider a utility. It's been perched at the entertainment mountaintop for some time, and its competitors have regularly fought to take down the streaming giant. Welp, they've got their work cut out for them. 

Now, look, we've already published multiple pieces about our most anticipated TV shows and hottest movie releases in 2025. Plenty of Netflix Originals made those lists, and even more are on the horizon. Keep reading, you'll see what I'm talking about.

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TV shows

On the TV series front, we'll be getting more Squid Game and, thankfully, we won't need to wait another three years for new episodes to arrive. Season 3 will premiere on Friday, June 27. Black Mirror season 7 will hit the platform in 2025, featuring a sequel to the anthology's classic USS Callister episode. Wednesday season 2 is also on the horizon, and let's not forget the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. They showed an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette of the new installment, which recently wrapped, and this probably sounds like hyperbole, but it looks like the series is going to blow the doors off when it returns to the Upside Down for the last time.

Other noteworthy programs coming to Netflix in 2025 include:

• You: The fifth and final season of Netflix's hit thriller finds Joe returning to New York, where it all started. It premieres on Thursday, April 24.
• Ginny & Georgia: The duo deals with challenges unlike anything they've faced before in season 3, which is slated to drop on Thursday, June 5.
• The Diplomat: The premiere date for season 3 of the political drama starring Keri Russell has yet to be announced, but it will drop sometime in 2025.
• Emily in Paris: Emily will continue her European adventures in season 5 sometime in 2025.
• The Four Seasons: The new comedy from Tina Fey, inspired by the classic Alan Alda movie, stars Fey, Steve Carell, Will Forte, Colman Domingo and more about friends who reunite on multiple vacations.

• The Residence: Shondaland's upstairs/downstairs murder mystery, which takes place inside the White House, premieres on Netflix on Thursday, March 20.
• The Witcher: Liam Hemsworth's turn as Geralt of Rivia in season 4 of the monster-hunting fantasy hit will premiere on Netflix later in 2025.
• Black Rabbit: Jude Law and Jason Bateman play troubled brothers in the brooding crime thriller, coming to Netflix later this year.
• Monster: Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's true-crime inspired anthology will return with its third season, exploring the story of notorious serial killer Ed Gein (played by Charlie Hunnam).  
  

Movies

Notable movies like the sci-fi adventure The Electric State (directed by the Russo Brothers and starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt), RIP (a gritty cop drama led by lifelong besties Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac plays the maniacal doctor in what may be the director's most personal work yet) will keep audiences talking.

Want more? Here you go:

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery: The next installment of Rian Johnson's hit murder mystery franchise brings Daniel Craig back for another go-round as the world's greatest detective, Benoit Blanc.
• Happy Gilmore 2: Adam Sandler returns to his iconic golfer with anger issues in the highly anticipated sequel, coming later this year.
  
• Eddie: The documentary from Oscar-winner Angus Wall will explore the impressive career of Eddie Murphy.
• Jay Kelly: Noah Baumbach's upcoming comedy-drama stars George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern. It will premiere in the fall.
• Havoc: Tom Hardy stars as a beaten-down detective tasked with rescuing a politician's son from a dangerous criminal underworld in this gritty actioner from Gareth Evans.
  
• Kinda Pregnant: Amy Schumer stars in this comedy about a woman who, after becoming jealous of her pregnant friend, begins wearing a fake baby bump only to accidentally meet the man of her dreams. Oops. It premieres on Wednesday, Feb. 5.

• Night Always Comes: The thriller based on Willy Vlautin's novel follows a woman who risks everything to secure a future for her family. Vanessa Kirby, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Eli Roth star.
• Nonnas: Vince Vaughn stars in this comedy, which premieres on Friday, May 9, about a man who opens an Italian restaurant to honor his recently deceased mother. He hires a group of grandmothers to be the chefs.
• The Thursday Murder Club: Taking inspiration from the Richard Osman bestseller, this comedy from Chris Columbus stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as a group of retirees who solve murders for fun.
• Fear Street: Prom Queen: The next entry in Netflix's hit R.L. Stine franchise takes us back to Shadyside. It's prom season; what could possibly go wrong? Everything. It premieres in the Summer.

Games

Hit releases like Squid Game: Unleashed have made Netflix's library of over 100 mobile games a hit with fans. New titles coming to the streamer include Carmen Sandiego, Netflix Stories: Ginny & Georgia, Steel Paws and Street Fighter 4 CE. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the exciting addition of the WWE 2K games lineup, which will exclusively launch on the streamer in the fall of 2025.

All this, and there's still other cool stuff like the live-streaming events such as the SAG Awards, NFL Christmas games, WWE RAW, and John Mulaney's wild new talk show, Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. Plus, there are new international titles, including K-dramas like the animated movie K-Pop: Demon Hunters, which is precisely what it sounds like -- a film that follows a popular K-Pop group who moonlight as demon hunters. Sign me up.

It's clear there's way more going on at Netflix than what I teased here. If you want to keep up to date with all the cool stuff coming to Netflix, peep our coverage of the platform's latest subscription updates, its best series to add to your binge list and some highly coveted secret codes.