Anticipation: TV shows, films and festivals our Film+TV critics are tuning in for

Both major players and independents find creative inspiration in Atlanta, and 2025 is shaping up to be a robust year for film and TV. Here is a short list of the shows, movies and film festivals that our critics are looking forward to in the next several months. 

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Film festivals offer a glut of independent, must-see cinema.

The independent film festival scene in Atlanta is one of the country’s best and most diverse. Cinephiles can find festivals dedicated to short features, documentaries, LGBTQ+ films, student-produced cinema and more. 
Through the end of summer 2025, we’ve got these on our calendar. 
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (February)
Atlanta DocuFest (March)
Backlight Student Film Festival (March)
The Atlanta Film Festival (April)
Georgia State University Student Film Festival (May)
Atlanta Shorts Fest (June)
Out on Film (September) 

Two Atlanta-filmed suburban comedies are streaming very soon.

You’re Cordially Invited is a wedding comedy shot in Atlanta, starring Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. The film is by Nicholas Stoller — writer-director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek — and streams on Prime Video January 30.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society is an NBC comedy-drama TV series about a suburban gardening club whose members get involved in murder. Filmed in Doraville at Assembly Studios, it’s streaming on Peacock starting February 23. 

Locally made Captain America: Brave New World opens Valentine’s Weekend.

Couples can catch a new Marvel superhero film shot in Atlanta at Trilith Studios. 

Final seasons for two beloved made-in-Atlanta series’ drop this year. 

Two popular Netflix TV shows, Stranger Things and Cobra Kai, will wrap up in 2025, with part 2 of Cobra Kai’s season 6 debuting in February and Stranger Things’ release date still to be announced. 

Atlanta-filmed and Atlanta-themed Will Trent returns. 

The third season of ABC crime-drama series Will Trent is currently filming at Atlanta’s Eagle Rock Studios, to be released this year. Based on books by Karin Slaughter, the series follows a special agent (Ramón Rodríguez as Will Trent) with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. 

Another superhero flick filmed in Georgia drops this summer. 

Superman: Legacy — the latest reboot of Man of Steel and from Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn — is in theaters this summer, starting July 11. 

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Film+TV critics Steve Murray, Jim Farmer and Carol Badaracco Padgett contributed.