The final quarter of the film calendar is here, and studios are preparing to release their usual slew of awards season contenders for eager cinephiles. But this 2025 fall movie preview also features a surprising number of big-budget blockbusters, ones that could easily crack a billion dollars worldwide and wouldn’t be out of place on a typical summer movie slate.

For every Oscar shoo-in like Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” (Sept. 26), there’s a family-friendly sequel like “Zootopia 2” (Nov. 26). Then there’s the movies that could both rule the box office and score Oscar statuettes, like “Wicked: For Good” (Nov. 21) and “Avatar: Fire & Ash” (Dec. 19).

Over the last decade, streaming movies have also become a part of the fall movie conversation, thanks to companies li

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