Science Fiction Convention Listing
& Film Diary 2024 -'25
Forthcoming major science fiction convention and SF film (movie) listing for the year.
Covers international and national SF level conventions only.
SF Film launches refer only approximately to European/UK release dates and are subject to studio change.
Although covering many countries, this convention diary lists only the major national and international SF conventions relating to the genre's literary and cinematic forms. For a more complete list of book conventions (including smaller regional ones especially in the US) then consult the Locus listing and Ansible (especially UK). For details of TV related SF conventions in the UK then consult SFX magazine in the UK, and for conventions in countries with a significant Russian-speaking population see MIR Fantasy magazine in Russia.
For registration details see the convention's own website linked to each of the below entries.
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National Level and International SF Conventions 2024 - '25
2024
November 2024
FANTASTIKA 2024 - SWEDEN's NATIONAL CONVENTION ( 1st - 3rd November '24). Stockholm, Sweden. GoHs to be confirmed.
2025
February 2025
CONTABILE 35 - THE 2025 BRITISH FILKCON (7th - 9th February '25). Wensum Valley Hotel, Golf and Country Club, Norwich, Great Britain. GoHs: Michael Longcor, Edwin Brady and Valerie Housden.
April 2025
PORTMEIRICON 2025 - PRISONER APPRECIATION (11th - 13th April '25). Portmeirion, N. Wales. GoH: Brian Gorman.
FANTAXIA: ITALCON 51 - ITALY's NATIONAL CONVENTION (12th - 13th April '25). Genoa, Italy. GoHs to be announced at the time of posting.
RECONNECT - THE 2025 BRITISH SF EASTERCON (18th - 21st April '25). Hilton Lanyon Place and the Belfast ICC. GoHs: Lauren Beukes, Derek Landy, Jeannette Ng, Rebecca Roanhorse, Will Simpson and Ian McDonald.
LUXCON - LUXEMBOURG NATIONAL CONVENTION (12th - 13th April '25). Forum Geesseknappchen, 40, Boulevard Pierre Dupong, 1430 Luxembourg. Multilingual natcon combined with Luxembourg's Comic-Con. GoHs: multiple, to be announced.
HAL-CON - JAPAN (April '25, yet to be notified of the exact date). Kawasaki City International Centre, Japan. GoH: Sana Takeda.
AUSTRIA COMIC-CON - AUSTRIA (26th - 27th April '25). Messe Wels, Messeplatz 1, 4600 Wels, Austria. Includes the national CosPlay Championship. GoH: artists to be announced.
May 2025
CONTINUUM 17: HORIZONS - AUSTRALIA's NATIONAL CONVENTION (16th - 18th May '25). No website at the time of posting but Facebook here. Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia. GoHs: Maria Lewis & Amie Kaufman.
FANTASTICON 2025 - DENMARK'S NATIONAL CONVENTION (31st May - 1st June '25). Stoberiet, Copenhagen, Denmark. GoHs to be announced.
June 2025
STOKERCON - THE WORLD HORROR CONVENTION (12th - 15th June '25). Hilton Stamford Stamford, CT 06902 , USA. Few details as yet, but registration seems to be solely by EventBrite (whose privacy policy tends to send Orwell. Brunner and Gibson fans running)! Hopefully there will be alternate registration mechanisms in due course?
CYMERA FESTIVAL - SCOTLAND'S SF BOOK CONVENTION (June '25, exact dates to be provided). The Pleasance (Edinburgh University), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh, Scotland. GoHs to be confirmed.
ARCHIPELACON 2 - THE 2025 EUROCON (26th - 29th June '25). Mariehamn, Aland. GoHs: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Mats Strandberg and Emmi Itaranta.
July 2025
WETZKON III - SFCD 70th anniversary (4th - 6th July '25). Phantastische Bibliothek, TurmstraBe 20, 35578 Wetzlar, Germany. SFCD is Germany's equivalent of the BSFA. GoHs: to be announced.
August 2025
THE 83rd SF WORLDCON (13th - 17th August '25). Saint-Ay, Loiret, France. GoHs: Martha Wells, Donato Giancola, Bridget Landry and Alexander James Adams.
BETIZCON - FRANCE'S NATIONAL CONVENTION (21st - 24th August '25). Saint-Ay, Loiret , France. GoH: Philippe Jozelon.
KAMAKON - JAPAN's 63rd NATIONAL CONVENTION (30th - 31st August '25). Nippon Engineering College, Kamata, Ota-ku, Tokyo. GoHs yet to be determined at the time of posting.
DRAGONCON - USA (28th August - 1st September '25). Hyatt Regency Atlanta, 265 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. This is a very large SF/F author and media convention. GoH authors include: Jack Campbell, Wesley Chu, John G. Hartness, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jonathan Maberry, Annette Marie, Gail Z. Martin, Todd J. McCaffrey , John Jackson Miller, Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, Jody Lynn Nye, Van Allen Plexico and Cherie Priest. Scientist and SF author GoHs include: Robert E. Hampson and Les Johnson. Editor GoH: Steve Saffel.
September 2025
HISPACON 2025 - SPAIN's NATIONAL CONVENTION (19th - 21st September '25). Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain. Website and GoHs yet to be determined at the time of posting.
October 2025
OCTOCON 2025 - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND's NATIONAL CONVENTION (5th-6th October '25). Gibson Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. GoHs: To be announced at time of posting.
LUNCON 2025 - SWEDEN's NATIONAL CONVENTION SweCon (11th-12th October '25). Lund City Hall, Lund, Sweden. Main website and GoHs yet to be determined at the time of posting.
WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION 2025 ( 30th October - 2nd November '25). Change of venue, now the Metropole, Brighton, England. This convetion combines with Britain's annual Fantasycon.
2026
THE 84th SF WORLDCON (27th - 31st August '26). Anaheim Convention Centre and Anaheim Hilton, Los Angles, USA. GoHs: Barbara Hambly (novelist), Ronald D. Moore (TV screenwriter), Colleen Doran (writer and artist), Anita Sengupta (aerospace engineer), Tim Kirk (illustrator), Stan Sakai (comic illustrator), Ursula Vernon (illustrator) and Geri Sullivan (fan).
We will post an update of this diary January 2026 but will draft the page early December 2025
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Science Fiction Film Diary 2024 - 2025
Note: This list features UK/Western European dates as at January 2025 so these may change.
Also release dates in other parts of the World may vary by a few months.
2024
December 2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg. Director: Kenji Kamiyama.
Trailer here.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Animation. Gromit is concerned that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions, which proves justified when Wallace invents a "smart gnome" that seems to develop a mind of its own. Trailer here.
2025
January 2025
Nosferatu
The classic vampire film re-made. A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Trailer here.
Wolf Man
A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable. Trailer here.
February 2025
Captain America: Brave New World
Sam Wilson, who's officially taken up the mantle of Captain America, finds himself in the middle of an international incident. Director: Julius Onah. Trailer here.
March 2025
Snow White
Live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Director: Marc Webb. Trailer here.
Micky 17
Adapted from the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, this stars Robert Pattinson as an "expendable" - a disposable crew member on a space mission, selected for dangerous tasks because he can be renewed if his body dies, with his memories largely intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong.... Trailer here.
Time Travel is Dangerous
British comedy SF adventure. Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their shop with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe. Stars Johnny Vegas, Brian Blessed, Stephen Fry among others... Trailer here.
April 2025
Until Dawn
SF horror. A group of friends become trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes are chasing and killing them in gruesome ways. They must survive until dawn to escape it. Trailer here.
May 2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Technothriller inspired by the TV series. Trailer here.
June 2025
28 Years Later
Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-short-listed writer Alex Garland reunite in this terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
How to Train Your Dragon
Follows a young Viking as he aspires to hunt dragons, and how he unexpectedly becomes a friend of a young dragon. Trailer here.
M3GAN 2.0
Sequel to the 2022 film that saw robotics engineer Gemma becomes the guardian of her orphaned niece, Cady, she thinks her new invention, a robotic AI, will be a good companion. However, M3GAN begins to behave in unexpected and shocking ways. Director: Gerard Johnstone.
July 2025
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Five years post-Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. Director: Gareth Edwards (which means that this actually might be good). Stars: Jonathan Bailey, Scarlett Johansson & Ed Skrein.
Superman: Legacy
Follows the titular superhero as he reconciles his heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way in a world that views this as old-fashioned. Director: James Gunn. Trailer here.
August 2025
Alien: Romulus
Young people from a distant world must face the most terrifying life form in the universe. Director: Fede Alvarez.. Trailer here.
The Fantastic Four
One of Marvel's most iconic families makes it back to the big screen, the Fantastic Four. Director: Matt Shakman.
September 2025
Mercy
Science fiction. A detective is accused of a crime and is forced to prove his innocence. Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Stars: Rebecca Ferguson, Chris Pratt & Annabelle Wallis.
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Sequel to the 2013 film. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront. Director: Michael Chaves.
October 2025
Tron 3
A highly sophisticated programme, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission. Follow-up to the 1982 and 2010 films.
November 2025
Predator: Badlands
The latest in the Predator series of films. Director: Dan Trachtenberg (who directed Prey).
The Running Man
The futuristic United States sees the world become a dystopia and there is a game that is an opiate for the masses. Loosely based on a Stephen King story. Stars: Glen Powell, Josh Brolin & Lee Pace. Director: Edgar Wright who is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013).
December 2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash
This is the sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). Director: James Cameron (teaser here).
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