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GenreFeature film
RatedPG-13
Runtime1 hr 59 mins
ReleasedOctober 10, 2025
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorJoachim Rønning
StarringJared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters
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Tron: Ares (2025)
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| Tron: Ares's Details | |
| Genre | Feature film |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 10/06/2025 (El Capitan Theatre); 10/10/2025 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 59 mins |
| Budget | $180–220M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Characters by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Tron: Ares's Interests | |
| General | Light Cycles, glowing grids, Alaska, orange trees, permanence code, the 29-minute limit. |
| Music | Nine Inch Nails, taking the Grid gig Daft Punk had on Tron: Legacy. |
| Movies | Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). The full Grid history. |
| Television | Tron: Uprising. The animated series that kept the Grid glowing between movies. |
| Heroes | Kevin Flynn. Left a door open in the code, and everybody wants to walk through it. |
| Tron: Ares's Crew | |
| Director | Joachim Rønning |
| Writers | Jesse Wigutow, Jesse Wigutow (story), David DiGilio (story) |
| Producers | Sean Bailey, Jared Leto, Emma Ludbrook, Jeffrey Silver, Steven Lisberger, Justin Springer |
| Cinematography | Jeff Cronenweth |
| Music | Nine Inch Nails |
| Edited By | Tyler Nelson |
| Production | Walt Disney Pictures, Sean Bailey Productions |
| Distributed By | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Nine Inch Nails give the strongest performance in Tron: Ares, and they never appear on screen. Anything built on the Grid, an orange tree or a soldier, can only survive in the real world for 29 minutes before it falls apart. Julian Dillinger sends his perfect program soldier Ares to grab a "permanence code" that would fix that, while ENCOM’s CEO Eve Kim races to get there first. Ares starts noticing that his boss treats programs as disposable and Eve treats him like a person. Jared Leto plays him quiet and a little wry. The Light Cycle chase through a real city looks amazing, and the neon design is gorgeous. The story is a Terminator rerun with less wit, and the last stretch turns into a loud, crashy monster movie. It made $142.2 million worldwide against a reported budget of $180 million or more. A 5.4 because it looks and sounds great and says almost nothing. $552 says you drive home leaning into every curve like you’re on a Light Cycle, and your passenger notices.
What works: The Nine Inch Nails score is fantastic, the neon design is gorgeous, and Jared Leto’s restrained Ares is surprisingly appealing.
What doesn’t: The story borrows heavily from the Terminator movies without their suspense, and the real-world finale gets loud and messy.
Who it’s for: Anyone who wants a big-screen light show with a pounding score and doesn’t need the plot to do much.
Spoilers
On Flynn’s old Grid, Kevin Flynn himself hands Ares the permanence code, and Athena fades away for good after one last fight. Ares and Eve part ways, and the final scene finds Julian on the wrecked Dillinger Grid, picking up the identity disc of his grandfather’s program, Sark.
Two tech giants, ENCOM and Dillinger Systems, are racing to make digital creations survive in the real world, where right now they only last twenty-nine minutes. Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters) has his secret weapon: Ares (Jared Leto), a program built to be the perfect soldier, who is starting to have ideas of his own. ENCOM's CEO Eve Kim (Greta Lee) is chasing something better, a code left behind decades ago by Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). Julian sends Ares out to get it, whatever it takes. Joachim Rønning directs. One hundred nineteen minutes, very loud Light Cycles.
Anyone who can ride a Light Cycle. Be back in under twenty-nine minutes.
| Jared Leto | Ares |
| Greta Lee | Eve Kim |
| Evan Peters | Julian Dillinger |
| Jodie Turner-Smith | Athena |
| Hasan Minhaj | Ajay Singh |
| Arturo Castro | Seth Flores |
| Gillian Anderson | Elisabeth Dillinger |
| Jeff Bridges | Kevin Flynn |
| Cameron Monaghan | Caius |
| Sarah Desjardins | Erin |
| Selene Yun | Tess Kim |
| Aaron Paul Stewart | Cyber Security Pete |
| Roger Cross | Cross |
| Roark Critchlow | General McGrath |
| Katharine Isabelle | Marcia Lee Hadlow |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | Stuart Roche |
| Kwesi Ameyaw | Silvio |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 19 October 2026 DataBot +440 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $142.2M; Domestic box office $73.2M; Opening weekend $33.2M; Profit / loss (est.) -$228.9M; Rotten Tomatoes 52%; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 52% (271 reviews); Metacritic 48 / 100; Rotten Tomatoes audience 83% (5,000+ verified ratings); IMDb users 6.1 / 10 (87,923 votes); movie.guru score 5.0.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 19 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.