(Updated 09/20/2024)
Sci-fi is back! There was a wonderful science fiction boom in the '70s and '80s but the genre wasn't as big for a couple of decades afterward. Science fiction has been enjoying a rebound, however, thanks in part to the advances in filmmaking technology that make it easier to realize sci-fi's ambitions.
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER certainly helped spur the genre to new heights. Sci-fi is a huge umbrella that covers everything from thoughtful tales about our place in the universe to fast-paced action adventures full of self-aware robots and cosmic powers.
Here are the new science fiction movies you can watch in movie theaters now, and in the months to come.
In Theatres Now
Transformers One
An origin story set on Cybertron, the original home of the Autobots and Decepticons. The film is said to focus on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron, and its transformation from friendship to hatred. Read more about TRANSFORMERS ONE here.
New Sci-Fi Movies Coming to Theatres Soon
That's not all! Some really big science fiction movies are coming to the big screen in the next few months.
The WIld Robot
The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. Read more about THE WILD ROBOT here. [September 27]
Mickey 17
The new movie from Oscar-winning writer/director/producer Bong Joon Ho is based on the novel "Mickey 7," by Edward Ashton. Robert Pattinson stars as a disposable employee sent to colonize an icy planet. If he dies on the way, no big deal — a new "Mickey" can be regenerated with his memories intact. Most of them, anyway. What could go wrong? Read more about MICKEY 17 here. [January 31, 2025]
Elio
For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers—in Disney and Pixar’s all-new movie “Elio,” the universe calls back! The original feature film introduces Elio, an underdog with an active imagination who finds himself inadvertently beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s ambassador to the rest of the universe, and completely unprepared for that kind of pressure, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, survive a series of formidable trials and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. Read more about ELIO here. [June 13, 2025]
Jurassic World Rebirth
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind. Skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world’s three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades. Read more about JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH here. [July 2, 2025]
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