As the summer blockbuster season winds down,August 2025’s most anticipated new moviesstill bring some fantastic new entries to keep the momentum going. In partnership with predictive media data analytics companyDiesel Labs,Screen Ranthas exclusive data analyzing the month’s new movies with the most online attention before release. Each film is assigned a hype score, measured by engagement across various online platforms.
The most-hyped new movies of August 2025 areranked by Attention Signals, which are calculated using measures such as likes, shares, comments, and views on social and video channels like Facebook and YouTube. These metrics of online engagement reveal important insight into which films are reaching audiences the most prior to release – regardless of reviews or box office performance.
The attention scale metric is the percentage of attention based on the show or movie in the number one spot (which is represented as 100%).
Afterhit films likeLilo & Stitch,Superman,The Fantastic Four: First Steps, andHappy Gilmore 2have dominated the summer release slate,August looks likely to follow suit with more smashes. From a critically acclaimed original horror movie to a long-awaited Disney sequel, this month has exciting new films for everyone. Based on Diesel Labs’ data, here’sScreen Rant’s list of the top 10 new movies arriving in August 2025 with the most online anticipation.
20-07-2025
100.00%
176,070,508
29-07-2025
36.11%
63,584,981
32.81%
57,764,155
30.49%
53,682,169
17.14%
30,169,895
08-07-2025
7.65%
13,470,833
23-05-2025
7.05%
12,406,495
6.67%
11,735,554
2.09%
3,682,569
04-06-2025
2.04%
3,589,458
According to Diesel Labs' data, themost anticipated new movie of August 2025 isFreakier Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s sequel to Disney’s 2003Freaky Fridayfilm. The buzz around aFreaky Friday 2moviehas been building up for years, and the sequel has finally arrived. The second-most hyped new film is Universal’sThe Bad Guys 2, bringing back the criminal animal group for another animated heist.
Following up in anticipation areLiam Neeson’sThe Naked Gunreboot movie, Netflix’s rom-com book adaptationMy Oxford Year, and the Eddie Murphy-starring action comedy heist filmThe Pickup. While the latter two films are releasing on streaming services, Neeson and his fellowThe Naked Guncast members are looking to have a potential box office hiton their hands.
Also among August 2025’s most-discussed new films are the Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman-starring satireThe Roses, the Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz-ledcrime thrillerCaught Stealing, and the animated sports comedy filmThe Grand Prix of Europe.Closing out the top 10 most anticipated films of the month isThe Thursday Murder Club, which brings together Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, and Pierce Brosnan as four retirees investigating a murder.
Diesel Labs is a Content Intelligence company that produces audience insights for the entire media landscape. With a sophisticated machine-learning based approach, they measure millions of audience members’ attention with content across many sources including major social and video platforms YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok (beta), and Reddit (beta). For more information, visitwww.diesellabs.com.
