
APRIL 2025


Val Kilmer (65)
December 31, 1959 – April 1, 2025
“Top Gun” | “Tombstone” | “Batman Forever”
Actor
(deceased)


HIGHLIGHT TRAILER OF THE YEAR
“The Naked Gun”
Official Teaser Trailer
(April 3, 2025)


A Minecraft Movie
April 4th, 2025
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Jared Hess (“Thelma the Unicorn”)
Starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry, Kate McKinnon
Opening Weekend Box Office: $162,753,003
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Description: Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world while embarking on a quest with an unexpected, expert crafter.

⍟ HIGHEST OPENING WEEKEND for video game adaptation ⍟
$162,753,003



A MINECRAFT MOVIE
LIMITED EDITION 4K ULTRA HD STEELBOOK
Release Date: Jun 24, 2025

| Apr 4, 2025 | Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media | Jolt | Matthew O’Neill & Perri Peltz | Documentary |
| Apr 4, 2025 | The Chosen: Last Supper – Part Two | Fathom | Dallas Jenkins | Jonathan Roumie |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Ed Kemper | Epic | Chad Ferrin | Lew Temple |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Eric LaRue | Magnolia | Michael Shannon | Judy Greer ◦ Alexander Skarsgård ◦ Alison Pill ◦ Tracy Letts |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Gazer | Metrograph | Ryan J. Sloan | Ariella Mastroianni |
| Apr 4, 2025 | The Grove | Anchored Lens | Acoryé White & Patrycja Kepa | Acoryé White, |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Hell Of A Summer | NEON | Billy Bryk & Finn Wolfhard | Fred Hechinger ◦ Abby Quinn |


Freaky Tales
April 4th, 2025
Lionsgate
Directed by Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden (“Captain Marvel”)
Starring Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Tom Hanks
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Description: Four interconnected stories set in 1987 Oakland, CA. will tell about the love of music, movies, people, places and memories beyond our knowable universe.



FREAKY TALES
LIONSGATE LIMITED EXCLUSIVE 4K ULTRA HD VHS PACKAGE
Release Date: Jun 03, 2025

| Apr 4, 2025 | Henry Fonda for President | Film Desk | Alexander Horwath | Documentary |
| Apr 4, 2025 | The Hermit of Treig | Monkey Wrench | Lizzie MacKenzie | Documentary |
| Apr 4, 2025 | High Art (1998 Re-Release) | October | Lisa Cholodenko | Radha Mitchell ◦ Patricia Clarkson |
| Apr 4, 2025 | A Man and A Woman (1966 Re-Release) | Allied Artists | Claude Lelouch | Anouk Aimée |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Marcie’s | Gravitas | John Helde | Jenn Ruzumna |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Midnight in Phoenix | Breaking Glass | Anthony Bawn | Dueal Andrews |
| Apr 4, 2025 | A Nice Indian Boy | Blue Harbor | Roshan Sethi | Karan Soni ◦ Jonathan Groff |


The Luckiest Man In America
April 4th, 2025
IFC Films
Directed by Samir Oliveros (“Bad Lucky Goat”)
Starring Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, Shamier Anderson, Brian Geraghty, Patti Harrison, Haley Bennett, David Strathairn, Johnny Knoxville, Maisie Williams
Opening Weekend Box Office: $284,744
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Description: May 1984. An unemployed ice cream truck driver steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a secret: the key to endless money. But his winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives uncover his real motivations.

| Apr 4, 2025 | Nora | Blonde Dog | Anna Campbell | Nick Fink |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Párvulous: Children of the Apocalypse | Firebook | Isaac Ezban | Carla Adell |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer | Brainstorm | Tolga Karaçelik | Britt Lower ◦ Steve Buscemi ◦ John Magaro |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Saint Catherine | Vertical | Multiple | Raymond E. Lee |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Wake Up | Blue Fox | Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell | Turlough Convery |
| Apr 4, 2025 | When Fall Is Coming | Music Box | François Ozon | Hélène Vincent |
| Apr 4, 2025 | William Tell | Samuel Goldwyn | Nick Hamm | Jonathan Pryce ◦ Ben Kingsley |


The Amateur
April 11th, 2025
20th Century Studios
Directed by James Hawes (“One Life”)
Starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Laurence Fishburne
Opening Weekend Box Office: $14,802,849
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Description: When his supervisors at the CIA refuse to take action after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a decoder takes matters into his own hands.

| Apr 11, 2025 | Checkmate | Tubi | Jamal Hill | Joyce Glenn |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Chosen: Last Supper – Part Three | Fathom | Dallas Jenkins | Jonathan Roumie |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Comic Shop | Quiver | Jonathan L. Bowen | Jesse Metcalfe ◦ Eric Roberts |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Field Of Screams | Gravitas | Alix Moad & Evan Runkle | Jessica Shepherd |
| Apr 11, 2025 | G20 | Amazon MGM | Patricia Riggen | Viola Davis ◦ Anthony Anderson ◦ Clark Gregg ◦ Antony Starr |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Gunslingers | Lionsgate | Brian Skiba | Nicolas Cage ◦ Heather Graham ◦ Stephen Dorff |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Home Sweet Home: Rebirth | Vertical | Alexander Kiesl & Steffen Hacker | Michele Morrone |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Italians | All In | Michelle Danner | Abigail Breslin |


Drop
April 11th, 2025
Universal Pictures
Directed by Christopher Landon (“Freaky” & “Happy Death Day”)
Starring Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jeffery Self
Opening Weekend Box Office: $7,397,015
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Description: A widowed mother’s first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she’s bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner, leaving her questioning if her charming date is behind the harassment.

| Apr 11, 2025 | Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon | Sony | Crunchyroll | Shigeyuki Miya & Tomomi Kamiya | Ai Fairouz |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The King Of Kings | Angel Studios | Jang Seongho | Kenneth Branagh ◦ Uma Thurman ◦ Mark Hamill ◦ Pierce Brosnan ◦ Forest Whitaker ◦ Ben Kingsley ◦ Oscar Isaac |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Marshmallow | Amor Media | Daniel DelPurgatorio | Kue Lawrence |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound | Greenwich | Antony Crook | Documentary |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Not Just a Goof | Disney+ | Eric Kimelton & Christopher Ninness | Documentary |
| Apr 11, 2025 | One to One: John & Yoko | Magnolia | Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards | Documentary |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Pets | Disney+ | Bryce Dallas Howard | Documentary |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Pink Narcissus (1971 Re-Release) | Sherpix | James Bidgood | Don Brooks |


Warfare
April 11th, 2025
A24
Directed by Alex Garland (“Civil War”) & Ray Mendoza
Starring D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henry Zaga, Charles Melton
Opening Weekend Box Office: $8,317,989
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Description: A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.



WARFARE
A24 SHOP 4K ULTRA HD DIGIPACK
Release Date: Jul 01, 2025

| Apr 11, 2025 | Relative Control | Gravitas | Dafna Yachin | Teri Polo |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Sacramento | Vertical | Michael Angarano | Michael Angarano ◦ Michael Cera ◦ Kristen Stewart ◦ Maya Erskine |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Shadow of God | Shudder | Michael Peterson | Mark O’Brien |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Teacher | Watermelon | Farah Nabulsi | Saleh Bakri ◦ Imogen Poots |
| Apr 11, 2025 | That They May Face The Rising Sun | Juno | Pat Collins | Barry Ward |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Uninvited | Foton | Nadia Conners | Pedro Pascal ◦ Walton Goggins |
| Apr 11, 2025 | WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle | Peacock | Matt Braine | Documentary |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Zero | Well Go USA | Jean Luc Herbulot | Gary Dourdan |


The Last Of Us: Season 2
April 13, 2025 (Premiere)
7 Episodes | HBO Max
Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann
Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Kaitlyn Dever, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Wright
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Description: After five years of peace following the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie’s collective past catches up to them, drawing them into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.



THE LAST OF US: SEASON 2
LIMITED EDITION 4K ULTRA HD STEELBOOK
Release Date: Sep 23, 2025


HIGHLIGHT TRAILER OF THE YEAR
“The Life Of Chuck”
Official Trailer
(April 15, 2025)


HIGHLIGHT TRAILER OF THE YEAR
“Thunderbolts*”
Official Final Trailer
(April 16, 2025)


Sinners
April 18th, 2025
Warner Bros Pictures
Directed by Ryan Coogler (“Creed” & “Black Panther”)
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo
Opening Weekend Box Office: $48,007,468
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Description: Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.



SINNERS
LIMITED EDITION 4K ULTRA HD STEELBOOK
Release Date: Jul 08, 2025

| Apr 18, 2025 | 1-800-On-Her-Own | 8 Above | Dana Flor | Documentary |
| Apr 18, 2025 | All The Lost Ones | Epic | Mackenzie Donaldson | Jasmine Mathews ◦ Devon Sawa ◦ Vinessa Antoine ◦ Steven Ogg |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Colorful Stage! the Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing | GKIDS | Hiroyuki Hata | Akina ◦ Yu Asakawa |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Dead Mail | Shudder | Joe DeBoer & Kyle McConaghy | Sterling Macer Jr. |
| Apr 18, 2025 | The Death of Snow White | Atlas | Jason Brooks | Sanae Loutsis |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Grassland | Gravitas | William Bermudez & Sam Friedman | Jeff Kober |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Horchata with Oat Milk | Neighborhood Watche | Christian Leyva | Augie Duke |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Invention | Neurotika Haus | Courtney Stephens | Callie Hernandez ◦ Joe Swanberg |
| Apr 18, 2025 | It Feeds | Samuel Goldwyn | Chad Archibald | Shawn Ashmore ◦ Ashley Greene |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Killer of Sheep (1978 Re-Release) | Kino Lorber | Charles Burnett | Henry G. Sanders |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Light of the Setting Sun | Meerkat Media | Vicky Du | Documentary |


The Legend of Ochi
April 18th, 2025
A24
Directed by Isaiah Saxon
Starring Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe
Opening Weekend Box Office: $52,514
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Description: In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy girl is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when she discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.



THE LEGEND OF OCHI
A24 BLU-RAY
Release Date: Jul 08, 2025

| Apr 18, 2025 | MuMu | Well Go USA | Mo Sha | Liya Ai ◦ Yao Huang |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Neil Young: Coastal | Trafalgar | Daryl Hannah | Documentary |
| Apr 18, 2025 | The President’s Wife | Cohen Media | Léa Domenach | Catherine Deneuve |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary) | Focus | Joe Wright | Keira Knightley ◦ Matthew Macfadyen ◦ Donald Sutherland ◦ Rosamund Pike ◦ Jena Malone ◦ Carey Mulligan ◦ Kelly Reilly ◦ Tom Hollander |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Queens of Drama | Altered Innocence | Alexis Langlois | Asia Argento |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Rob1n | Vertical | Lawrence Fowler | Leona Clarke |
| Apr 18, 2025 | The Shrouds | Sideshow | Janus | David Cronenberg | Diane Kruger ◦ Vincent Cassel ◦ Guy Pearce |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Sneaks | Briarcliff | Rob Edwards & Christopher Jenkins | Anthony Mackie ◦ Martin Lawrence ◦ Chloe Bailey ◦ Macy Gray ◦ Keith David ◦ Laurence Fishburne |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Sod & Stubble | Purdie | Ken Spurgeon | Barry Corbin |
| Apr 18, 2025 | The Ugly Stepsister | IFC | Shudder | Emilie Blichfeldt | Lea Myren |
| Apr 18, 2025 | The Wedding Banquet | Bleecker Street | Andrew Ahn | Bowen Yang ◦ Lily Gladstone ◦ Kelly Marie Tran ◦ Joan Chen |


Andor: Season 2
April 25th, 2025 (Premiere)
12 Episodes | Disney+
Created by Tony Gilroy
Starring Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Stellan Skarsgard, Genevieve O’Reilly, Ben Mendelsohn
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Description: Cassian Andor continues his journey towards becoming a key figure in the Rebel Alliance, facing betrayal, sacrifice, and the growing threat of the Empire.


The Accountant 2
April 25th, 2025
Amazon MGM Studios
Directed by Gavin O’Connor (“The Accountant” & “The Way Back”)
Starring Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, J. K. Simmons, Daniella Pineda
Opening Weekend Box Office: $24,533,959
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Description: Christian Wolff applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief’s murder.

| Apr 25, 2025 | Another Day in America | TriCoast | Emilio Mauro | Alexis Knapp ◦ Natasha Henstridge |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Antidote | PBS | James Jones | Documentary |
| Apr 25, 2025 | April | Metrograph | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Ia Sukhitashvili |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Blue Sun Palace | Dekanalog | Constance Tsang | Lee Kang-sheng |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Bullet Train Explosion | Netflix | Shinji Higuchi | Tsuyoshi Kusanagi |
| Apr 25, 2025 | California King | Vertical | Eli Stern | Victoria Justice ◦ Joel McHale ◦ Jimmy Tatro |


Havoc
April 25th, 2025
Netflix | XYZ Films
Directed by Gareth Eavans (“The Raid”)
Starring Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda Luis Guzmán, Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker
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Description: After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.

| Apr 25, 2025 | Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie | Keep Smokin | David Bushell | Tommy Chong ◦ Cheech Marin |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Conjuring Tapes | Indie Rights | Robert Livings & Randy Nundlall Jr. | Jeff Dean |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Die Like A Man | Gravitas | Eric Nazarian | Mariel Molino |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Drop Dead City | Fear City | Peter Yost & Michael Rohatyn | Documentary |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Emergent City | Meercat Media | Kelly Anderson & Jay Arthur Sterrenberg | Documentary |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Fréwaka | Shudder | Aislinn Clarke | Clare Monnelly |


Until Dawn
April 25th, 2025
Sony Pictures | Screen Gems
Directed by David F. Sandberg (“Lights Out” & “Shazam!”)
Starring Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Peter Stormare
Opening Weekend Box Office: $8,003,402
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Description: A group of friends trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes are chasing and killing them in gruesome ways, must survive until dawn to escape it.

| Apr 25, 2025 | Jimmy In Saigon | Dark Star | Peter McDowell | Documentary |
| Apr 25, 2025 | The Killgrin | Dark Sky | Joanna Tsanis | Konstantina Mantelos |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Magic Farm | MUBI | Amalia Ulman | Chloë Sevigny ◦ Alex Wolff ◦ Simon Rex |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Neighborhood Watch | RLJE | Duncan Skiles | Jeffrey Dean Morgan ◦ Jack Quaid ◦ Malin Akerman |
| Apr 25, 2025 | A Normal Family | Room 8 | Hur Jin-ho | Sul Kyung-gu |


Star Wars: Episode III
Revenge of the Sith
April 25th, 2025
20th Century Studios
Directed by George Lucas
Starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz
Opening Weekend Box Office: $25,495,049
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Description: As the Clone Wars nears its end, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot for galactic domination.

| Apr 25, 2025 | On Swift Horses | Sony Classics | Daniel Minahan | Daisy Edgar-Jones ◦ Jacob Elordi ◦ Will Poulter ◦ Diego Calva ◦ Sasha Calle |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Pink Floyd at Pompeii (1974 Re-Release) | RM | Adrian Maben | Documentary |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Shttl | Menemsha | Ady Walter | Moshe Lobel |
| Apr 25, 2025 | The Trouble with Jessica | Music Box | Matt Winn | Shirley Henderson ◦ Alan Tudyk ◦ Olivia Williams |
| Apr 25, 2025 | A Vanishing Fog | Hope Runs | Augusto Sandino | Christian Ballesteros |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Winter Spring Summer or Fall | Paramount Global | Tiffany Paulsen | Jenna Ortega |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Yadang: The Snitch | Well Go USA | Hwang Byeong-gug | Kang Ha-neul |


Richard Kahn (95)
August. 19, 1929 –
April 5, 2025
Former AMPAS President
(deceased)

Jay North (73)
August 3, 1951 –
April 6, 2025
“Dennis The Menace” (TV)
Actor
(deceased)

Nicky Katt (54)
May 11, 1970 –
April 8, 2025
“Dazed and Confused”
Actor
(deceased)

Ted Kotcheff (94)
April 7, 1931 –
April 10, 2025
“First Blood”
Director
(deceased)

Sophie Nyweide (24)
July 8, 2000 –
April 14, 2025
“Noah”
Actress
(deceased)

Wink Martindale (91)
December 4, 1933 –
April 15, 2025
“Tic-Tac-Dough”
Game Show Host
(deceased)

Pope Francis (88)
December 17, 1936 –
April 21, 2025
Catholic Pope from 2013-2025
(deceased)

Lar Park Lincoln (63)
May 12, 1961 –
April 22, 2025
“Friday the 13th Part VII:
The New Blood”
Actress
(deceased)

Lulu Roman (78)
May 6, 1946 –
April 23, 2025
“Hee Haw”
Actress
(deceased)

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