Mason Thames

Dec 15, 2025

Mason and Dave Franco’s Bromance

Mason Thames and Dave Franco have a bromance like no other.

While catching up with PEOPLE ahead of the at-home release of Black Phone 2, Thames, 18, revealed that he’s spent his career looking up to actors like Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, River Phoenix and Timothée Chalamet.

However, he named one actor in particular who helped guide him through the spotlight: Franco.

“He’s such an amazing person,” Thames said of his Regretting You costar. “Genuinely, he’s such a mentor for me in this crazy, crazy world. And it’s nice to just have somebody to call and just talk to. I just have somebody like that, and it’s really great.”

Source: People

Dec 15, 2025

Regretting You on Blu-Ray and DVD in February 2026

Romantic drama Regretting You follows It Ends With Us as the second feature film to be adapted from a novel written by bestselling author Colleen Hoover. The film is now available to rent or buy on Digital with over 20 minutes of bonus features from Paramount Home Entertainment. The Regretting You Blu-ray and DVD release has been set for February 17, 2026.

Here’s what’s in the Blu-Ray

Bonus Features

Featurettes
- Adapting You: Go behind the scenes as the cast and crew dive into transforming Colleen Hoover’s hit novel REGRETTING YOU into this must-see film.
- Love in Loss: Embrace the empowerment of love in the face of loss with the stars of the film.
- A Life Without Regret: Discover the cast and crew’s personal relationships with regret in this bonus featurette.
- Promposal: Experience the romantic side of the cast and crew as they reminisce on promposals.
Deleted Scenes
Outtakes
- Line-O-Rama: Morgan: Watch these hilarious outtakes of Morgan scolding Miller.

DIRECTOR: Josh Boone
SCREENWRITER: Susan McMartin
CAST: Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Sam Morelos, with Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald, and Clancy Brown

Dec 15, 2025

Mason and McKenna Grace

Mason Thames Calls Regretting You Costar Mckenna Grace ‘the Closest Person to Me’

Mason Thames and Mckenna Grace are the ultimate dynamic duo.

During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE ahead of the at-home release of his film Black Phone 2, the 18-year-old actor expresses how lucky he felt to have recently starred in Colleen Hoover’s film adaptation of Regretting You alongside Grace, 19, whom he already considered a close friend.

“She’s such a fantastic actress,” he gushes of his costar. “Seeing her on screen is different than watching her do her thing. And she’s the closest person to me. So getting to do that with her was really, really special. Just getting to promote it and the whole process itself was something I’ll never forget.”

The How to Train Your Dragon star previously shared that he and Grace first met in an Uber months before they played love interests in the romantic drama.

“From the moment I met her, we were in this Uber going to see, I think, Deadpool & Wolverine,” he recalled to PEOPLE last month. “And instead of it just being super, super-duper awkward for a first meeting, it was so funny and so awesome.”

He added, “We just clicked immediately. And ever since then, we just hung out all the time.”

Source: People

Dec 15, 2025

Teen Vogue Interview

Meet Teen Vogue’s New Hollywood Class of 2025 Leah Sava Jeffries, Mckenna Grace, and Mason Thames. In the ever-shifting organism that is Hollywood, the teen titans have played key roles in projects that have deeply engaged, invested fans. From Mckenna’s scene-stealing role in ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ to Leah’s starring role as Annabeth Chase in ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ and Mason who helmed the live-action ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ these actors are breaking through in a major way. Hear what they have to say about figuring out the kind of adults they want to become alongside the fans who love their work.

Dec 4, 2025

Meet the new Jim Carrey: inside Mason Thames’ box office reign

2025 belongs to Mason Thames, if the box office numbers are anything to go by. The 18-year-old actor hit the big time when he starred opposite Ethan Hawke in the 2022 horror film The Black Phone as Finney Blake, a terrified teen being tormented by the film’s villain, The Grabber. Now, Mason has turned his star power into box office gold, with all three of his 2025 films hitting number one at the box office. This record was previously held by Jim Carrey, who starred in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber in 1994, with all three films reaching the top spot.

In 2025, Mason starred in How to Train Your Dragon (HTTYD), which earned $636 million globally, followed by Black Phone 2, which raked in $104 million worldwide, and the romance flick Regretting You, which brought in $50 million globally. In HTTYD, Mason nabbed the lead role of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, a bumbling young Viking who bonds with a rare dragon despite his village’s ongoing feud with the creatures.

The movie is based off the DreamWorks animation of the same name, which was released in 2010 and is one of the most successful film franchises to date. He then reprised his role at Finney in Black Phone 2, which saw his character being tormented by The Grabber from beyond the grave.

Regretting You is a romance film adapted from a book authored by Colleen Hoover, who is best known for works like It Ends With Us and Verity. In the film, Mason plays the sweet Miller Adams, who comes from the wrong side of the tracks, yet has a heart of gold. He is the love interest of the main character, portrayed by Mckenna Grace, who also happens to be his girlfriend in real life.

Source: Hello

Dec 4, 2025

Teen Vogue

Mason in new Teen Vogue Interview.

What stands out to him isn’t Chalamet’s fame but his range, the way he can slip from blockbuster to arthouse without losing his integrity, a rare kind of actor who manages to be both star and storyteller. “He’s established himself as an actor, not just a celebrity,” he says. “That’s what inspires me.”

And in a way, Thames is already walking a version of that path, shifting between genres with instinctive curiosity: a breakout in the horror hit The Black Phone, a role he recently reprised in its even more twisted sequel. A big-budget fantasy lead as Hiccup in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon franchise. A scrappy musician chasing meaning across backroads in New Year’s Rev. A swoony teen heartthrob in the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You. And next, a villainous turn as what he calls a “psychopath” in the comedy flick The Shitheads. For Thames, variety isn’t a strategy; it’s self-discovery.

“I’ve never clicked with somebody in my life like I have with Mckenna [Grace]. We could just be ourselves, and that’s really rare.”

In only a few years, Thames has moved through characters as if testing every shade of performance and trying on every possible version of himself in the process. “I just want to be the best me I can be,” he tells Teen Vogue, “and keep getting better.” It’s the kind of line that might sound rehearsed coming from someone else, but from Thames, it lands with earnest simplicity. Maybe that’s because, like the actors he admires (Chalamet, Heath Ledger, Leonardo DiCaprio), he isn’t chasing fame so much as longevity, the chance to grow up onscreen, one story at a time.

“After The Black Phone, it set a tone for a more serious route,” Thames says of his career. “Then I got [How to Train Your] Dragon, and I didn’t want to get typecast as Hiccup, which wouldn’t be a bad thing because that character means everything to me. But I also wanted to establish myself as an actor beyond that, to take on diverse roles, show range, and check off some bucket-list movies along the way.”

Source: Teen Vogue

Dec 4, 2025

The Most Famous Man in America Right Now

It took about ten minutes of Mason Thames on the big screen in Regretting You for me to figure out who he was. I leaned to my friend and said, “That’s Black Phone.” By “Black Phone,” I did not mean the heavily marketed, Freddy Kreuger–esque villain of The Black Phone franchise — that’s the Grabber, played by Ethan Hawke and his abs. I meant Thames plays the ostensible lead of The Black Phone and Black Phone 2: the child turned teen terrorized by the Grabber. The films have grossed more than $200 million worldwide. For $100, do you think you could name the character Thames plays in those movies? Nice try, but it’s Finney Blake, as in “Mason Thames is Finney Blake.”

Horror movies are not necessarily judged by your ability to remember a protagonist’s name, but 18-year-old Thames is in the unique position of being in not one but three No. 1 movies at the box office this year. There’s the aforementioned Black Phone 2 as well as his turn as Miller Adams, a character seemingly named after two brands of beer, in Regretting You. Thames also starred in this summer’s live-action reboot of How to Train Your Dragon as Hiccup, a character I could only identify as “not Jay Baruchel” (who voiced Hiccup in the animation). America clearly loves Mason Thames and has flocked in droves to see his films throughout this year. Josh O’Connor who?

Thames’s box-office bash is remarkable at a time when fall movies with big names — Emma Stone, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts — struggle to break even. Perhaps the lack of big names, however, is why Thames has had such an easy ride to the top this past year. He’s essentially the boy king of IP, indicative of audiences who care much more about seeing something they already know than seeing stars enact something with “vision” or “point of view.” How to Train Your Dragon is about dragons, not the guy training them. The Black Phone is about the Grabber. Regretting You is about whatever crazy stuff Colleen Hoover wants her female characters to go through; the male characters are pure accessories. Thames is remarkable because he’s so unremarkable. Like a LEGO brick, you can plug him in just about anywhere and he makes sense.

Just because he’s some guy does not mean Thames is entirely juiceless. In fact, he might have a significant amount of juice. He is far and away the most charming part of Regretting You, the rare male love interest who doesn’t actually do anything wrong but instead sits by patiently while Mckenna Grace acts insane toward him throughout the film. With his signature lollipop, Miller Adams is kind of a nouveau bad boy — not actually bad at all, just slightly alternative. Thames has solid comedic chops, drawing laughs from the audience out of a twitch of an eyebrow. His box-office success ties the 1994 record set by Jim Carrey, who had back-to-back-to-back hits with Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber. Wait — there’s an idea. If Thames wants to keep his streak going, he could do worse than a prequel like Ace Ventura: Vet School or The Mask: Origins.

Source: Vulture

Dec 4, 2025

JoBlo Interview

New interview with Mason and Madeleine McGraw from The Black Phone 2

Dec 4, 2025

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