Paramount has pushed back the release date for its upcoming Smurfs movie until Summer 2025.
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Originally slated for release on February 14, 2025, the film, based on the iconic
Smurfs franchise, will now be released in theaters on Friday, July 18, 2025, taking the place of the studio's
Naked Gun reboot, which has been shifted to August 1, 2025. Already slated for July 18 is Sony’s redux of
I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Based on the characters of Belgian comics writer and artist Peyo, the movie is described as a comedic, musical adventure “that sets out to answer one of life’s biggest questions: What is a Smurf?” The pic is produced and distributed by Paramount Animation.
Chris Miller, the Oscar-nominated director of 2011’s
Puss in Boots, is helming the project, with
South Park's Pam Brady wring the script. Matt Landon is co-director.
The movie will boast an all-star voice cast, including: Rihanna as Smurfette, Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Nick Kroll, James Corden, Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Sandra Oh, Alex Winter, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña with Kurt Russell and John Goodman.
Ryan Harris, Rihanna, Laurence “Jay” Brown and Tyran “Ty-Ty” Smith are producers. Rihanna is also penning original songs for the pic.
The new release date for The Smurfs Movie is part of Paramount's shakeup of its 2025 release schedule.
As part of Paramount's refresh 2025 calendar, Edgar Wright’s reboot of The Running Man starring Glen Powell is going the Friday before Thanksgiving next year, on November 21. Running Man will race against Wicked: Part Two on that date as well as Angel Studios’ David and a Warner Bros event movie. Wright, Simon Kinberg and Nira Park produce the new version of the 1987 sci-fi flick that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In regards to this year, Paramount also said Friday that its awards-season contender September 5 is now opening November 29 limited before getting a December 13 expansion. Previously, the historical drama that world premiered at the Venice and Telluride film festivals was set to go on November 27. The Tim Fehlbaum-directed movie starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch depicts what happened with the ABC Sports TV control booth had to contend with a live act of terrorism during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The feature is produced by Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke, Fehlbaum, Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer and John Wildermuth.
Meanwhile, the Bryan Bertino-directed horror movie
Vicious is moving up to February 28, 2025 from August 8, 2025 because it’s ready,
Deadline has heard. The flick stars Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott and Emily Mitchell. The logline: A woman spends the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a rabbit hole contained inside a gift from a late-night visitor.
Also on that that date is the Simu Liu-Woody Harrelson title Last Breath from Focus Features and Briarcliff Entertainment’s Natalie Morales movie My Dead Friend Zoe.
The studio’s untitled Naked Gun reboot feature will now hit theaters August 1, 2025, after having previously been scheduled for July 18, 2025. Akiva Schaffer helms the comedy from producers Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins. Liam Neeson stars as Detective Frank Drebin, the character originally played by the legendary Leslie Nielsen in the film franchise that launched with the first movie in 1988. Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser co-star in the new movie. Going up against Naked Gun on Aug. 1, 2025, are Sony’s Phoebe Dynevor shark thriller Beneath the Storm and the animated sequel The Bad Guys 2 from DreamWorks Animation and Universal.
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Originally published: October 05, 2025.
