Netflix Unveils 2025 Slate: “Stranger Things,” “Squid Game,” “Happy Gilmore 2” and More
Netflix unveiled its 2025 slate with some big name appearances (Tina Fey, John Mulaney, Ben Affleck, and the Duffer Brothers) for their “New on Netflix” presentation and unleashed a brilliant sizzle reel to hype their offerings.
The streamer had a banner 2024, with its feature Emilia Pérez locking up a whopping 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Lead Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón, the first transgendered nominee in the Academy’s history), Actress in a Supporting Role (Zoe Saldana), Cinematography, Adapted Screenplay, and more. All to say that in 2025, Netflix has its sights on prestige dramas and potential blockbusters. Films like the sequel to The Old Guard and Rian Johnson’s third installment in his Knives Out franchise certainly qualify as potential blockbusters.
Other big features slated for 2025 include Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Tina Fey’s new comedy The Four Seasons, and the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon crime thriller RIP.
On the TV side, the Duffer Brothers were there to promote the fifth and final season of their juggernaut series Stranger Things, while the biggest hit in the streamer’s history is back for a second round with season 3 of Squid Game.
The new sizzle reel Netflix has put together to promote their 2025 slate has a nifty premise—a young woman stuck at a boring meeting at work tries to quietly look at Netflix’s offerings on her phone. The Ta Dum gives her away, and before she knows it, she’s levitating in the air while the theme for Stranger Things kicks in. That’s when things get truly freaky—she’s walloped by a demogorgon and crashes through the walls only to get onto her feet wearing one of Squid Game’s contestant’s uniforms (she’s wearing number 025, naturally). The reel continues in this fashion, cleverly sending the young woman through Netflix’s slate in a series of costume and set changes, from season 2 of Tim Burton’s Wednesday to season 6 of Kobra Cai to a rooftop cafe for a momentary break with season 3 of Emily in Paris.
The young woman’s journey is only getting started—she jumps, runs, mounts a horse, and brandishes a hockey stick through teasers for Rian Johnson’s aforementioned third installment of Knives Out, season 4 of The Witcher, and Adam Sander’s long-awaited sequel Happy Gilmore 2. It’s an excellent way to hype up your film and TV slate.
Check out the sizzle reel here:
Featured image: Featured image: Lee Jung-jae in Squid Game. Photo by Juhan Noh. Courtesy Netflix; Wednesday. Jenna Ortega as Wednesday in episode 206 of Wednesday. Cr. Bernard Walsh/Netflix © 2024; Adam Sandler in “Happy Gilmore 2.” Courtesy Netflix.
