Month: May 2025

We finally know when the end of Stranger Things is coming. At the 2025 Tudum event, Netflix confirmed that Stranger Things Season 5 will be released in three distinct parts. A new announcement trailer, which flashes back to the very beginning of Season 1, makes it clear that Season 5 will be broken up into sections at the end of the year. But don’t worry, all of Stranger Things season 5 will be streaming before February 2026.

Here’s the release schedule and the new teaser for Stranger Things Season 5.

As the Netflix Tudum date announcement trailer reveals, and as some rumors suggested, this season won’t drop all in one go, but instead, be spread into three parts. Here’s how that shakes out.

Stranger Things Season 5 Release Dates

• Volume 1: November 26, 2025
• Volume 2: Christmas Day (December 25, 2025)
• Volume 3: New Year’s Day (January 1, 2026)

Although Stranger Things will continue as an animated anthology series, called Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, this upcoming release is the end of the road for the regular series. Earlier this year, actor Finn Wolfhard told Men’s Journal that everyone should expect a “melancholy” but epic end for the show.

Previously, it had been rumored that the finale of Stranger Things would be pushed to 2026. This has proven to be true. Though, just barely.

Stranger Things streams on Netflix

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For years, Mary Shelley’s immortal novel Frankenstein has been slightly misrepresented in the world of cinema. But now, with a new film from director Guillermo del Toro, we could finally be getting a version of this story that actually feels like the wonderful book upon which the legend is based.

During Netflix’s live Tudum event on May 31, the streamer finally unveiled the first trailer for the 2025 version of Frankenstein, which will star Jacob Elordi as the Monster and Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein. Watch the new trailer below and be amazed, and terrified! 

What’s with all the stuff with a ship in the Arctic? Well, you probably forgot that in the novel, the entire story is framed that way, with Dr. Frankenstein telling this story while trying to capture the creature. Clearly, by focusing on this all-important element of the book, del Toro is set to deliver a Frankenstein like no other version we’ve seen before.

And yes, the monster is supposed to talk, not just grunt. The whole point of the book was that the creature speaks and has a very specific relationship with its creator.

The film also stars Mia Goth as Victor’s fiancée, Elizabeth, as well as Christoph Waltz as Dr. Pretorious.

What is the release date for the 2025 Frankenstein? 

Netflix has not pinned down an exact date, but the new trailer makes it clear the film will hit streaming sometime in November 2025.

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