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Sony Pictures CinemaCon 2025: Double ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘The Beatles,’ ‘Karate Kid Legends,’ ’28 Years Later,’ ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and More

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Sony Pictures hit Las Vegas yesterday with its splashy slate of upcoming from ranging from legendary IP, auteur directors, the a four-film event of the greatest music band of all time, and more.

Peter Parker’s next web-slinging adventure is officially titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The fourth in the Tom Holland era of Spider-Man will begin filming this summer, according to director Destin Daniel Cretton, who announced the production timeline at CinemaCon. The film, whose plot is under wraps, will be in theaters July 31, 2026.

On the animated side, the third in the trilogy that began with 2018’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and 2023’s Oscar-nominated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, will conclude with Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse on June 4, 2027. On the film’s long delay, co-directors Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson said at CinemaCon, “So, we decided we needed to take the time to make sure we got it just right.” Lord and Chris Miller, who created the trilogy, are returning to co-write the screenplay.

The much-talked about four-film series telling the story of The Beatles through each of the Fab Four now has its official cast and release date. Read more about that below.

Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing is about a former baseball player (Austin Butler) who gets caught up in New York City’s underworld in the 1990s. The footage shown featured a mohawked Matt Smith and Butler trying to stay one step ahead of Russian gangsters, Orthodox Jewish businessmen and more who all after Butler.

“I wanted to do something that was simply put, a lot of fun,” Aronofsky said, a deviation from his much more serious fare like Requiem for a Dream and mother!

In addition to Butler and Smith, the film co-stars Zoë Kravitz, Academy Award winner Regina King, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Bad Bunny. Caught Stealing opens on August 29, 2025.

Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a romantic fantasy that follows two people (Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie) who step through a magical portal into their past lives and says he hopes is “something that’s original, surprising, romantic and I hope moving.” The footage that Sony screened finds Farrell meeting up with Robbie after her car breaks down and his car’s navigation system tells him to give her a ride. From there, they walk through a doorway in a forest, to find themselves looking at a sunset from a lighthouse and walking through the hallways of Farrell’s high school. “However this plays out it ends in me hurting you,” says Robbie. “What if I hurt you?” says Farrell. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey will be in theaters on September 19, 2025.

Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, the threequel to the Oscar-winning director’s groundbreaking 2002 outbreak film, picks up 28 years after the terrifying Rage virus broke out across the globe where man has found a way to survive amongst the flesh-eating zombies, on a remote English island connected to the mainland. Boyle reunites with (now) Oscar winner Cillian Murphy and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who are joined by Ralph Fiennes, Taylor Johnson is joined by Jodie Comer, Jack O’Connell (“Sinners), MMA fighter Chi Lewis-Parry, star Emma Laird, and newcomer Alfie Williams. The film will be in theaters June 20, 2025 and is one of three planned sequels to the first two films (28 Days Later and 28 Years Later). Candyman reboot director Nia DaCosta is currently in the edit room for the installment to come after 28 Years Later, which is titled 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

Karate Kid: Legends unites the iconic martial arts masters of one of the most beloved film franchises of all time to tell a completely new story featuring Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio and newcomer Ben Wong. It co-stars Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley and Ming-Na Wen and will be in theaters on May 30, 2025.

Finally, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. return for one of the 90s most popular slashers, 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer for an all new sequel. As in the original, the sequel follows five friends who inadvertently cause a deadly car accident and cover up their involvement, making a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. As they’re one-by-one stalked by the hook-wielding fisherman once again, the friends discover this has happened before and they turn to Love Hewitt and Prinze Jr. for guidance, much like how the Scream reboots relied on its original cast members. Madelyn Cline, Joshua Orpin, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King and Chase Sui Wonders star. The film hits theaters over the summer on July 18, 2025.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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