With spring starting to kick off the momentum for blockbuster season, the most anticipated movies of March 2025 bring long-awaited sci-fi stories, intriguing new dramas, new franchise installments, and some fun comedies. In partnership with predictive media data analytics company Diesel Labs, Screen Rant has exclusive data analyzing the new releases that have recorded the most online attention ahead of their debuts. Each film is ᴀssigned a hype score, measured by their engagement across different online platforms.
The most-hyped new films are ranked by Attention Signals, calculated using measures such as likes, shares, comments, and views on social and video channels like Facebook and YouTube. These metrics of online engagement provide useful insight into which movies are making the biggest virtual impact before their premieres – regardless of their box office performance or reviews.
The attention scale metric is the percentage of attention based on the show or movie in the number one spot (which is represented as 100%).
After a strong release slate in February, the biggest new movies in March 2025 feature some exciting тιтles on streaming and in theaters alike. From a new live-action Disney remake to a long-delayed Bong Joon-ho film, some of the тιтles among this month’s most-anticipated releases have been years in the waiting. As revealed by Diesel Labs’ data, here’s Screen Rant’s list of the top 10 new movies in March 2025 with the most online hype.
Top 10 Most Anticipated New Movies – March 2025
The тιтles Range From Mickey 17 To Death Of A Unicorn
|
тιтle |
Premiere Date |
Platform |
Genre |
Attention Scale |
Attention Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Mickey 17 |
3/7/2025 |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Sci-Fi Drama |
100.00% |
160,510,575 |
|
The Electric State |
3/14/2025 |
Netflix |
Sci-Fi |
32.41% |
52,014,745 |
|
Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal |
3/11/2025 |
Amazon Prime Video |
Comedy |
12.11% |
19,441,591 |
|
Novocaine |
3/14/2025 |
Paramount Pictures |
Action & Adventure |
11.84% |
19,000,564 |
|
Opus |
3/14/2025 |
A24 |
Drama |
7.81% |
12,535,963 |
|
Disney’s Snow White |
3/21/2025 |
Walt Disney Pictures |
Kids & Family |
5.82% |
9,345,829 |
|
In the Lost Lands |
3/7/2025 |
Vertical |
Action & Adventure |
3.32% |
5,323,864 |
|
Plankton: The Movie |
3/7/2025 |
Netflix |
Kids & Family |
2.00% |
3,204,938 |
|
Queen of the Ring |
3/7/2025 |
Sumerian Pictures |
Drama |
1.96% |
3,139,810 |
|
Death of a Unicorn |
3/28/2025 |
A24 |
Comedy |
1.86% |
2,990,416 |
Based on Diesel Labs’ data, the most anticipated new movie of March 2025 is Mickey 17, the new Bong Joon-ho sc-fi movie starring Robert Pattinson. The film was originally supposed to hit theaters back in March 2024, but was postponed by almost a year. The second-most-hyped film this month is Netflix’s The Electric State, a sci-fi adventure starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. Following these two тιтles are the comedy special Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal on Prime Video and Jack Quaid’s action thriller Novocaine.
Also among March 2025’s most-discussed new films are the Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich-starring A24 drama Opus, Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White, and the epic fantasy story In the Lost Lands. Closing out this month’s top 10 most anticipated film releases are Netflix’s Plankton: The Movie spinoff of SpongeBob SquarePants, the wrestling drama Queen of the Ring, and the Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd-starring A24 comedy Death of a Unicorn. With plenty of sci-fi, fantasy, drama, and comedy films to choose from, March 2025 promises an enticing movie slate.
Diesel Labs is a Content Intelligence company that produces audience insights for the entire media landscape. With a sophisticated machine-learning based approach, they measure millions of audience members’ attention with content across many sources including major social and video platforms YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok (beta), and Reddit (beta). For more information, visit www.diesellabs.com .
