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Knives Out 3 and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein headline Netflix’s busy 2025

The streamer has outlined its plans across film, TV, and games. And no — Stranger Things season 5 still doesn’t have a date.

The streamer has outlined its plans across film, TV, and games. And no — Stranger Things season 5 still doesn’t have a date.

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
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Andrew Webster
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One month into the year and Netflix is ready to detail its plans for 2025 — or at least, some of them. In a now-annual tradition, the streamer has outlined some of its biggest releases across film, television, and gaming.

And while plenty of the listed titles were already known, there are also some pleasant surprises. The movie lineup looks particularly strong, with Wake Up Dead Man — the next Knives Out mystery, following Glass Onion — and Guillermo del Toro’s take on Frankenstein both due out later this year. Meanwhile, some of the streamer’s most important properties are coming to an end with the final seasons of both Stranger Things (which still doesn’t have a premiere date) and Squid Game (which now does).

And while Stranger Things is ending, its creators, the Duffer brothers, did detail two projects they will have coming to Netflix in 2026: The Boroughs and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen. (They also hinted that there are some Stranger Things spinoffs in the works, without getting into detail.)

As for what to expect this year, here are the highlights:

Film

  • The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep — February 11th
  • Plankton: The Movie — March 7th
  • The Electric State — March 14th
  • The Old Guard 2 — July 2nd
  • Fear Street: Prom Queen — summer
Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in .Frankenstein.
Image: Netflix
  • Frankenstein — November
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery — fall
  • RIP — fall
  • Happy Gilmore 2 — 2025
  • K-Pop: Demon Hunters — 2025

TV

  • Cobra Kai season 6 (part 3) — February 13th
  • Zero Day — February 20th
  • Devil May Cry — April 3rd
  • You season 5 — April 24th
A still photo from Squid Game season 3.
Image: Netflix
  • Squid Game season 3 — June 27th
  • Black Mirror season 7 — 2025
  • Department Q — 2025
  • The Sandman season 2 — 2025
  • Stranger Things season 5 — 2025
  • The Witcher season 4 — 2025
  • Wayward — 2025
  • Wednesday season 2 — 2025

Games

While the lineup of (announced) games coming to Netflix is fairly small, there are two notable highlights: a mobile version of WWE 2K this fall to go along with the new deal between the two, and more Netflix Stories games (Netflix’s branding for interactive fiction) based on series like Ginny & Georgia, Sweet Magnolias, Love Is Blind, and Outer Banks.

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