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As the year officially comes to an end, December 2025 is going out on a high note with several highly-anticipated blockbusters, Oscar contenders, and star-studded thrillers on its movie slate. In partnership with predictive media data analytics company Diesel Labs, ScreenRant has exclusive data analyzing which new films have accumulated the greatest virtual chatter ahead of release. Each title is given a hype score measured by engagement across various online platforms.
The most-discussed new movies 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 assessments offer valuable insight into which movies are gaining audiences’ attention the most before their premiere – regardless of reviews, viewership, or box office numbers.
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%).
November launched some heavy-hitters with the box office smash Wicked: For Good and long-awaited arrivals like Zootopia 2 and Now You See Me 3, setting the stage for another big month. From the next Avatar franchise movie to a Timothée Chalamet-led sports drama, the next few weeks are packed with potential commercial and critical smashes. Here’s ScreenRant’s list of December 2025’s top new movies with the most online excitement.
Top 10 Most Anticipated New Movies – December 2025
Title | Premiere Date | Platform | Genre | Attention Scale | Attention Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12/19/2025 | Paramount Pictures | Kid & Family | 100.00% | 238,298,630 | |
12/19/2025 | Lionsgate | Thriller | 85.30% | 203,263,581 | |
12/19/2025 | 20th Century Studios | Action & Adventure | 82.65% | 196,943,384 | |
12/5/2025 | Universal Pictures | Horror | 52.19% | 124,356,157 | |
12/25/2025 | A24 | Sports Drama | 35.17% | 83,819,818 | |
12/25/2025 | Focus Features | Musical Drama | 32.58% | 77,628,741 | |
12/19/2025 | Hulu | Comedy | 29.12% | 69,390,745 | |
David | 12/19/2025 | Angel Studios | Kids & Family | 21.02% | 50,080,977 |
12/19/2025 | Searchlight Pictures | Comedy Drama | 18.63% | 44,400,825 | |
12/12/2025 | Netflix | Mystery Comedy | 16.37% | 39,000,168 |
According to Diesel Labs’ collected data, the December 2025 movie with the most online engagement is The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, the latest entry in the 26-year-old animated franchise. The second-most anticipated film of the month is The Housemaid, a new thriller book adaptation starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. Close behind these two in online hype is Disney’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third entry in James Cameron’s box office-dominating sci-fi franchise.
The month also brings Universal’s hyped horror sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Timothée Chalamet’s sports drama Marty Supreme, and the Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson-led musical drama Song Sung Blue. These titles are followed in online attention by the Hulu comedy special Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts and David, an animated biblical musical.
The two new movies rounding out December 2025’s most-discussed new releases are the Bradley Cooper-directed feature Is This Thing On?, starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern, and Netflix’s long-awaited Rian Johnson murder mystery sequel Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. From big blockbusters and franchise extensions to heavy-hitting dramas, there’s plenty to see at home and on the big screen throughout December.
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.
