Highlights
2025 looks cosy for professional cinephiles who crave unlimited entertainment as Disney dropped their plans for 2025 releases. It is better to schedule carefully for 11 announcements that were revealed including series greenlit for other seasons and new series that are highly demanded.
The video posted as ‘Coming in 2025’ is a selection of releases on OTT that has a little sneak peek preview of 11 amazing series, giving fans something to look up for in 2025. The bundle was released on Tuesday, 12 November, 2024 including streaming lines and predictable releases, several awaited series sequels and mainly the cast and crew.
The Bear
A psychological Comedy – Drama series that follows an award winning young chef returns to Chicago to take care of the family’s Italian sandwich shop, only to be pulled back into the intense, dissolute and comedic past.
- Cast – Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss – Bachrach, Ayo Edebri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Jon Bernthal, Abby Elliot, Matty Matheson.
- Crew – Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo (Showrunners), Tyson Bidner (Producer), Andrew Wehde (Cinematographer)
- Upcoming – Season 4
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Hulu and Disney Plus Hotstar
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Taking forwards the legacy of popular franchise, ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ as described by the makers, “follows the journey of four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet, then get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy, crossing paths with the likes of Jod Na Nawood, the mysterious character played by Law.”
- Cast – Jude Law, Ravi Cabot Conyers, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kyriana Kratters, Robert Timothy Smith and many
- Crew – Jon Watts, Christopher Ford (Showrunners)
Susan McNamara, John Bartnicki (Producers)
- Upcoming – New Series
- Release Date – December, 2024
- Streaming on – Disney Plus Hotstar
Paradise
Commissioned by Hulu in 2023, ‘Paradise’ follows the story of a team of highly skilled security team who are incharge of protecting the President, who is mysteriously found dead. The premise is simple yet has a fabulous cast and crew to back up the project.
- Cast – Sterling K. Brown, James Marsden, Julliane Nicholsen, Sarah Shahi.
- Crew – Dan Fogelman, Katie French, Jason Wilborn, Scott Weinger, Stephen Markley, Jina Lucita Monreal, John Hoberg, Nadra Widatalla (Screenplay), Rhode Island Ave. Productions, Indian Meadow Productions, 20th Television (Production)
- Upcoming – New Series
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Hulu and Disney Plus Hotstar
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
The sequel of a promising supernatural series ‘Goosebumps: The Vanishing’ is described by Disney as, “fraternal twins Devin and Cece adjusting to life with their recently divorced dad, Anthony. When the duo discovers a threat stirring, they quickly realise that dark secrets are among them, triggering a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery.
- Cast – David Schwimmer, Ana Ortiz, Sam McCarthy, Jayden Bartels, Elijah M. Cooper, Galilea La Salvia, Francesca Noel, Arjun Athalye
- Crew – Hilary Winston (Director), Justis Greene, Franklin Jin Rho, Paul M. Leonard (Producers), homas Yatsko, Stephen McNutt (Cinematography)
- Upcoming – Season 2
- Release Date – January, 2025
- Streaming on – Disney Plus Hotstar
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Alien Earth
Upcoming Science Fiction series that follows the popular ‘Alien’ franchise that follows a group of trained tactical soldiers and a young woman navigating an alien vessel that crashes on earth, pulled into a great threat. The story is set three decades before the first ‘Alien’ movie in 1979.
- Cast – Sydney Chandler, Timothy Oliphant, Adarsh Gaurav, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Kit Young and many more.
- Crew – Noah Hawley (Writer, Director), Noah Hawley, Ridley Scott (Executive Producers)
- Upcoming – New Series
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Hulu and Disney Plus Hotstar
Ironheart
Following Marvel’s ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’, Ironheart tells the story of Riri Williams, a brilliant MIT student and inventor who builds a suit that rivals Tony Stark’s. The story now picks up her time in Chicago, where she finds a suit that is against technology and backed by magic.
- Cast – Dominique Throne, Anthony Ramos, Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Manny Montana.
- Crew – Chinaka Hodge (Director)
Marvel Television (Production)
- Upcoming – New Series
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Disney Plus Hotstar
Daredevil : Born Again
Daredevil follows the character Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, who fights for justice through his profession. A former gang leader Wilson Fisk, pursues his own political endeavours in New York. When their past identities collide, both of them find themselves tangled.
- Cast – Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Zabryna Guevara
- Crew – Dario Scardapane and Christopher Ord and Matthew Corman
- Upcoming – New Series
- Release Date – March 5, 2025
- Streaming on – Disney Plus Hotstar
Chad Powers
The comedy series shows a middle aged, former college quarterback Russ Holliday who disguises himself as Chad Powers and joins a struggling football team, reigniting his sporting dreams.
- Cast – Glen Powell, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, Perry Mattfeld, Wynn Everett, Frankie A. Rodriguez, Clayne Crawford
- Crew – Glen Powell, Michael Waldron (Director), Glen Powell, Michael Waldron, Adam Fasullo (Writers)
- Upcoming – New Series
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Hulu and Disney Plus Hotstar
Good American Family
Good American Family’s premise – “The series is inspired by true events of Natalia Grace’s (Imogen Faith Reid) life after Kristine and Michael Barnett adopted her believing she was a child with dwarfism but gradually started to reevaluate the situation”, as per wikipedia
- Cast – Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass, Imogen Faith Reid
- Crew – Katie Robbins (Director)
- Katie Robbins, Sarah Sutherland (Writers)
- Upcoming – New Series
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Hulu and Disney Plus Hotstar
Star Wars: Andor 2
Beginning five years before the events of Rogue One (2016) and A New Hope (1977), the series follows the time that a Rebel Alliance is forming in opposition to the Galactic Empire. Focusing on Cassian Andor, a thief who becomes a revolutionary and eventually joins the Rebellion.
- Cast – Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Stellan Skarsgård, Fiona Shaw, Genevieve O’Reilly
- Crew – Tony Gilroy (Director), Kate Hazell, David Meanti (Producers)
- Upcoming – Season 2
- Release Date – April 5, 2025
- Streaming on – Disney Plus Hotstar
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The Handmaid’s Tale
The synopsis of hit series ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in Hulu reads, “the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Offred (Elizabeth Moss), one of the few fertile women known as Handmaids in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful Commander and his resentful wife.”
- Cast – Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Bradley Whitford, Max Minghella, Ann Dowd, O.T. Fagbenle, Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer.
- Crew – Bruce Miller (Director),Nina Fiore, John Herrera, Kim Todd, Joseph Boccia (Producers)
- Upcoming – Season 6
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Hulu and Disney Plus Hotstar
Percy Jackson and The Olympians
Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on “The Sea of Monsters” – the second instalment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series by award-winning author Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and the camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon. – Disney’s synopsis of the upcoming season
- Cast – Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn, Daniel Diemer
- Crew – Rick Riorden , Jonathan E. Steinberg (Director), John Catron (Producer)
- Upcoming – Season 2
- Release Date – TBA
- Streaming on – Disney Plus Hotstar
