10 Most Anticipated Movies Of August 2025 (According To Real Data)

As the summer blockbuster season winds down, August 2025’s most anticipated new movies still bring some fantastic new entries to keep the momentum going. In partnership with predictive media data analytics company Diesel Labs, Screen Rant has exclusive data analyzing the month’s new movies with the most online attention before release. Each film is ᴀssigned a hype score, measured by engagement across various online platforms.

The most-hyped new movies of August 2025 are ranked by Attention Signals, which are calculated using measures such as likes, shares, comments, and views on social and video channels like Facebook and YouTube. These metrics of online engagement reveal important insight into which films are reaching audiences the most prior to release – regardless of reviews or box office performance.

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 hit films like Lilo & Sтιтch, Superman, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Happy Gilmore 2 have dominated the summer release slate, August looks likely to follow suit with more smashes. From a critically acclaimed original horror movie to a long-awaited Disney sequel, this month has exciting new films for everyone. Based on Diesel Labs’ data, here’s Screen Rant’s list of the top 10 new movies arriving in August 2025 with the most online anticipation.

Top 10 Most Anticipated New Movies – August 2025

The тιтles Range From Freakier Friday To The Thursday Murder Club

тιтle

Premiere Date

Platform

Genre

Attention Scale

Attention Signals

Freakier Friday

8/8/2025

Walt Disney Pictures

Comedy

100.00%

176,070,508

The Bad Guys 2

8/1/2025

Universal Pictures

Comedy

36.11%

63,584,981

Weapons

8/8/2025

Warner Bros. Pictures

Horror

32.81%

57,764,155

The Naked Gun

8/1/2025

Paramount Pictures

Action Comedy

30.49%

53,682,169

My Oxford Year

8/1/2025

Netflix

Romance Comedy

17.14%

30,169,895

The Pickup

8/6/2025

Amazon/Prime Video

Action Comedy

7.65%

13,470,833

The Roses

8/29/2025

Walt Disney Pictures

Comedy

7.05%

12,406,495

Caught Stealing

8/29/2025

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Crime Drama

6.67%

11,735,554

Grand Prix of Europe

8/29/2025

Viva Pictures

Action & Adventure

2.09%

3,682,569

The Thursday Murder Club

8/28/2025

Netflix

Crime Drama

2.04%

3,589,458

According to Diesel Labs’ data, the most anticipated new movie of August 2025 is Freakier Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s sequel to Disney’s 2003 Freaky Friday film. The buzz around a Freaky Friday 2 movie has been building up for years, and the sequel has finally arrived. The second-most hyped new film is Universal’s The Bad Guys 2, bringing back the criminal animal group for another animated heist.

Following up in anticipation are Liam Neeson’s The Naked Gun reboot movie, Netflix’s rom-com book adaptation My Oxford Year, and the Eddie Murphy-starring action comedy heist film The Pickup. While the latter two films are releasing on streaming services, Neeson and his fellow The Naked Gun cast members are looking to have a potential box office hit on their hands.

Also among August 2025’s most-discussed new films are the Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman-starring satire The Roses, the Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz-led crime thriller Caught Stealing, and the animated sports comedy film The Grand Prix of Europe. Closing out the top 10 most anticipated films of the month is The Thursday Murder Club, which brings together Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, and Pierce Brosnan as four retirees investigating a murder.

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.

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