Super Bowl 2025: Thunderbolts, Captain America Brave New World, Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning trailers take centrestage | Hollywood News

Every year, the United States of America tunes in to watch the Super Bowl, the annual finale of the year-long NFL tournament. What is one thing that can match the vibe of sports in the world? Movies. And this marriage between two of the most consumed forms of entertainment is the hallmark of every Super Bowl event, and it was no different in 2025. Even as the Philadelphia Eagles beat Kansas City Chiefs to take home the big prize at Super Bowl 2025, and there was Kendrick Lamar performing in the half-time of the show, the event was also in the news for the various trailers that Hollywood dropped for films that were up for release in 2025.
Here are the trailers that were released during the Super Bowl 2025, and has piqued the audience’s interest not just among the audience of the annual sporting event, but even in the ones worldwide who were waiting for the release of these films.
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Thunderbolts teaser
The trailer of the much-awaited Marvel film, Thunderbolts, was one of the biggest updates of the night, as we saw what is in store for the world and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a post-Avengers world.
It introduced the primary players of this almost anti-thesis to superhero club —Yelena (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker/U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster “Black Widow” (Olga Kurylenko), Ava Starr/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Will this motley group of superheroes brush aside the ego, negativity, bad blood, and join forces to save the world… just like one another group, which the world once called Avengers?
Well, Thunderbolts is set for a May 2 release, and hopefully, we would have better answers.

Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning trailer
First up, we had Tom Cruise and Chropher McQuarrie’s Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning receiving a ‘Big Game Spot’ that had snippets from the action-packed teaser trailer that was released in November 2024. Even in the 30-second glimpse, it was clear that this is going to be one memorable ride to the finish, and well… it is time to join Hunt’s mission.. one last time.
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How to Train Your Dragon
Toothless is already a much-loved dragon thanks to the impact of How To Train Your Dragon on entire generations of audience who loved seeing the friendship between a shy and demure dragon and a shy and demure Viking turn into a relationship for the ages. Now, the makers are back with the latest reimagining of this much-loved story albeit in a live-action version. They released a quick 30-second glimpse as a ‘Big Game spot’ setting the stage for the exponentially increasing excitement around the film.
With Hiccup being played Mason Thames, and Toothless being played a real… naah, animated dragon, the film is set to reignite the love for the franchise when it hits the screens on June 13.

Lilo and Stitch
Can a Disney film not have a Super Bowl spot? Well, not to break tradition, the studio giant released a Super Bowl-themed video of the beloved Disney character Stitch running across the field and finding its match in a cart and the field goal post.
It was a curtain raiser of sorts to the live-action reimagining of the 2002 Disney classic, Lilo and Stitch. Directed Dean Fleischer Camp, Maia Kealoha plays Lilo in the film, which also stars Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, and the return of Chris Sanders as the voice of Stitch from the 2002 original.Story continues below this ad
The film is set to hit the screens on May 23.

Novocaine
Although the trailer of Novocaine, starring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder and Jacob Batalon, has already created quite a buzz for the film, a Big Game spot just made things bigger for the film, which is about a man who literally feels no pain, has to save his dream girl from the clutches of evil forces. Mard ko Dard Nahi Hota, anyone?

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Captain America: Brave New World
Time and tide waits for no one, they say, but in a really interesting way, both did, as the Super Bowl trailers came to a close with a Tide advertisement that doubled up as a promo for next week’s really big-ticket release, Captain America Brave New World. The film is set to hit the screens on February 14, and will feature Anthony Mackie in the titular role and legendary actor Harrison Ford as Red Hulk.Story continues below this ad

Other trailers that were launched in the run-up to the Super Bowl include Smurfs, which features Rihanna as Smurfette, M3gan 2.0, and the first trailer of Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kir, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. While Smurfs is set to hit the screens on July 18, M3gan 2 is slated for a May 27 release, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps is scheduled to open on July 25 across the world.