James Grebey
The movie year heats up in March with movies that will have you happily munching popcorn at the theater all month long. You can look forward to a new sci-fi flick from Bong Joon-ho, the director's first movie since the Oscar-winning Parasite. There's also a live-action Disney remake, action romps, Robert De Niro playing dual roles in a crime drama, a new Looney Tunes movie from Warner Bros., a comedy about a killer unicorn and so many more.
Here's the best of what's coming your way in March 2025, including all the big new releases, notable smaller releases and a hand-picked selection of the best movies returning to theaters.
Mickey 17
Opens March 7
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When we asked nearly 2,000 moviegoers what movies they're most looking forward to this month, Mickey 17 shot to the top of the list. Robert Pattinson stars as the title character–as well as his 16 predecessors and a successor–in this darkly comic sci-fi movie about a man who agrees to clone himself to take on deadly (but high-paying) jobs.
Mickey 17, which also stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo, is Bong Joon-Ho's third English-language film and eighth overall. It's the Korean director's highly anticipated follow-up to 2019's Parasite, a surprise Best Picture Oscar winner. Like most of Bong's work, it's a unique and cutting examination of class and capitalism, this time through a sci-fi lens.
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Night of the Zoopocalypse
Opens March 7
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Clive Barker, a writer and filmmaker best known for grown-up horror fare like Hellraiser and Candyman, also came up with the concept for this kid-friendly bit of sci-fi horror. Night of the Zoopocalpyse is an animated film about a group of animals (including a mountain lion voiced by David Harbour) who must band together when a meteor crashes into their zoo, carrying a virus that turns regular critters into zombies.
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Rule Breakers
Opens March 7
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Rule Breakers is based on the inspiring true story of Roya Mahboob, an Afghan woman who started a high school girls' robotics team in defiance of restrictions on what women and girls are allowed to do in Afghanistan. Despite threats and challenges, she taught these brave girls to plan, program and even compete in international competitions.
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Novocaine
Opens March 14
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Jack Quaid, who has already graced the big screen this year with February's Companion, stars as Nathan Caine, a man with a very rare condition that prevents him from feeling pain. This comes in handy when the girl of his dreams (Prey star Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped. To rescue her, Nate must become a vigilante who endures all sorts of grievous bodily harm to rescue her. But just because he can't be hurt doesn't mean he can't be killed, or that all that damage won't catch up to him.
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The Day the Earth Blew Up
Opens March 14
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Porky Pig has been around for 90 years, and Daffy Duck isn't much younger. Yet, amazingly, The Day the Earth Blew Up will be the first-ever feature-length, entirely animated Looney Tunes Movie to get a worldwide release! (Space Jam is a partially live-action hybrid, as are the sequel; 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action; and the tragically shelved Coyote vs. ACME.) The movie follows Porky and Daffy after they uncover an alien plot to take over Earth and must put aside their differences to stop the planet from, well, blowing up.
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Opus
Opens March 14
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In this thriller from A24, Ayo Edebiri stars as a journalist who gets an exclusive invitation to cover the return of Moretti (John Malkovich), a legendary pop star, who has resurfaced following a 30-year disappearance from the public eye. When she gets to his remote compound, she discovers that the cult of celebrity takes on new meaning. Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett and Amber Midthunder co-star.
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Black Bag
Opens March 14
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Steven Soderbergh, one of the most stylish and prolific directors working today, is back in theaters with a new spy thriller starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett. The pair play George and Kathryn Woodhouse, a loving and devoted couple who are also highly skilled intelligence agents. However, when the higher-ups suspect Kathryn of treason, George must weigh his vows to his wife against his vow to serve his country. Black Bag is actually the second Soderbergh movie of 2025; his ghost story Presence opened in wide release back in January.
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Disney's Snow White
Opens March 21
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Walt Disney Pictures' first-ever feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is getting a live-action remake, nearly 90 years after the release of the original 1937 animated classic. Disney's Snow White stars West Side Story's Rachel Zegler as the fairest in the land in this beloved fairy tale, which will see her flee to the forest when her stepmother, the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot) grows envious of her beauty. Some aspects of the story have been modernized, but all seven of the dwarfs will still be whistling while they work on the big screen.
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The Alto Knights
Opens March 21
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Robert De Niro does double duty as Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, two rival heads of Italian American crime families, in this biographical crime drama from Warner Bros. The crux of the Barry Levinson-directed film is Genovese's attempt to assassinate Costello in 1957 and the fallout from the failed killing.
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Ash
Opens March 21
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Flying Lotus is best known as an electronic musician, but he's a talented director, too, as evidenced by Ash, a trippy, colorful and stylish sci-fi thriller. Eiza González stars as the lone survivor of an incident that killed every other crew member on her space station. When a man, played by Aaron Paul, comes to rescue her, she needs to decide if she can trust him, or whether he had something to do with the rest of her crew's terrifying fate.
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A Working Man
Opens March 28
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What would the first quarter of the year be without a Jason Statham action movie? As with 2024's The Beekeeper–which also starred Statham and was directed by David Ayer–the gruff British action hero plays a seemingly ordinary man who's is actually a former member of a covert-ops group with skills that make him bad guys' worst nightmare. In A Working Man, Statham's character has tried to put his old life behind him and enjoy a simple life as a construction worker. He springs back into action when his boss' teenage daughter is kidnapped and he's the only person who can rescue her and take down the criminal conspiracy.
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Death of a Unicorn
Opens March 28
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Ant-Man star Paul Rudd and Wednesday's Jena Ortega lead A24's dark fantasy comedy. The pair play a father and daughter who accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while driving to a weekend retreat. Rudd's boss, a billionaire played by Richard E. Grant, is eager to harness the magical healing powers of the slain mythical beast, but it turns out unicorns aren't the nice fairy tale creatures we imagine them to be. This dead unicorn had a mate, and that mate wants revenge.
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The Woman in the Yard
Opens March 28
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Danielle Deadwyler, an actress who really should have an Oscar nomination by now, stars The Woman in the Yard, a psychological horror offering from Universal Pictures. Deadwyler plays Ramona, a recently widowed woman doing her best to raise her young children in a rural farmhouse while dealing with her own grief. Things quickly get creepy when a robed woman appears in her yard and ominously grows closer and closer. Will this be the movie that earns Deadwyler that overdue nomination? We don't know, but we can tell you that this is one scary film, and an excellent way to round out a month of new movies.
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Shrek
March 1, 2 and 5
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SomeBODY once told me that Shrek was coming back to theaters. The classic 2001 DreamWorks Animation film Shrek, which stars Mike Myers as the titular ogre, is getting re-released on March 1 with additional showings on March 2 and March 5. A fifth Shrek movie, which will bring Shrek, Donkey (Eddie Murphy), and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) back for a new adventure, isn't set to come out until the end of 2026 – so if you want to see the gang on the big screen before that, now's your chance.
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Purple Rain
March 5
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The late, great Prince's landmark Purple Rain is returning to theaters for one night only in this special rerelease from Warner Bros. and Dolby Cinemas. The film, which originally came out in 1984, has been expertly restored from an 8K scan of the 35mm original camera negative, so it will look and sound better than it ever has. If you're a fan of Prince — or of great music, movies or music movies in general — you won't want to miss this.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
March 12 and 16
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An iconic piece of anime history returns to theaters, as Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, the first movie in the long-lasting giant robot franchise, plays as part of AXCN Gundam Fest 2025. The film follows Char Aznable, the leader of Neo Zeon, as he launches an assault against the Earth Federation government. It's up to his rival, Amuro Ray, to stop Char from eradicating all life on the planet.
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Spring Breakers
March 19
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A24's monthly IMAX rerelease series continues with 2012's Spring Breakers, one of the now-hip studio's first box office successes. The crime comedy, directed by Harmony Korine, stars Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine as four college girls who go to St. Petersburg, Florida, for spring break. Once there, they fall into an outlandish world of crime when a drug dealer, played by James Franco, brings them into his orbit. Spring Breakers is grimy and overwhelms the senses, making for a divisive — but acclaimed — cult classic.
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