By John Corrado Following last year’s one-two punch of Challengers and Queer, Luca Guadagnino is back this year with After the Hunt. This one is a post-#MeToo psychological thriller starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri. Amazon MGM Studios has just released the first trailer for the film, positioning this as a… Read More First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt
By John Corrado NEON has just put out the first trailer for Sentimental Value, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes. This is director Joachim Trier’s follow up to The Worst Person in the World, reuniting him with star Renate Reinsve. Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning also star. It’s one of my most anticipated films… Read More First Trailer for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value
By John Corrado Paramount has just put out the first trailer for director Edgar Wright’s latest movie The Running Man. This is a new adaptation of the Stephen King book, which was already turned into a movie in 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wright’s version stars Glen Powell as a man trying to survive in a… Read More Official Trailer for Edgar Wright’s The Running Man
By John Corrado Despite not being scheduled for release until next March, a three minute trailer has just been put out for Project Hail Mary, the new science fiction film from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. It’s based on a book by Andy Weir, who also wrote the book behind The Martian, and stars… Read More First Trailer for Project Hail Mary
By John Corrado Here’s a nice surprise; Focus Features has just put out the first teaser trailer for Bugonia, the new film from Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos. This latest work from the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning Poor Things and The Favourite is a remake of the Korean film Save the Green Planet! from 2003. The… Read More Official Teaser Trailer for Bugonia
By John Corrado The Fantastic Four: First Steps is now just a month out from releasing in theatres, and Disney and Marvel have put out the final trailer for the film. This latest attempt to bring Marvel’s “First Family” to the big screen is starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn. This… Read More Final Trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By John Corrado Paramount Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Roofman, starring Channing Tatum in the true story of an escaped convict hiding out in a Toys “R” Us. At least the way the trailer sells it, it looks like the story has been turned into a quirky crime comedy. Kirsten Dunst,… Read More First Trailer for Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman
By John Corrado Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have just released the new trailer for Weapons. This is director Zach Cregger’s followup to his breakout horror hit Barbarian, starring Julia Garner as a school teacher dealing with every kid from her classroom going missing one night. It looks disturbing and incredibly well crafted. Cregger’s… Read More New Trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons
By John Corrado NEON has just put out the first trailer for Splitsville, the new relationship comedy from director, co-writer and co-star Michael Angelo Covino. This is Covino’s second collaboration with co-writer and co-star Kyle Marvin, following their promising feature debut The Climb. Covino and Marvin’s latest (which premiered out of competition at Cannes in… Read More First Trailer for Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville
By John Corrado The first trailer has just been released for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. This is, of course, the Bruce Springsteen biopic (kind of unmistakable now that they added his name to the title), starring Jeremy Allen White as the iconic musician. It’s directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart). We get a glimpse… Read More First Trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
By John Corrado Paramount has just put out the full-length trailer for The Naked Gun. This is director Akiva Schaffer’s reboot of the classic Leslie Nielsen police spoofs, starring Liam Neeson as the son of Nielsen’s Frank Drebin. Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser are also in the cast. There are a number of solid… Read More Official Trailer for The Naked Gun
By John Corrado A24 has just released the official trailer for Eddington, the latest film from Ari Aster. Joaquin Phoenix stars in the “modern Western” as a local sheriff, running for mayor of the titular Texas town against the incumbent (played by Pedro Pascal). It’s also set during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of… Read More Official Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington
By John Corrado Universal Pictures has just unveiled the first trailer for Wicked: For Good, the highly anticipated followup to last year’s Wicked: Part One. The first film was obviously a box office sensation and an awards juggernaut, and this trailer indicates that director Jon M. Chu has nailed Part Two as well. This is… Read More First Trailer Released for Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado Sony Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing. This is the director’s followup to his Oscar-winning The Whale, and it looks much lighter in tone than that film, or really any of Aronofsky’s previous works (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, etc.). The tone… Read More Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first teaser trailer for Zootopia 2 (which will likely play in front of Lilo & Stitch this weekend). This teaser, which is set to music, doesn’t show us much. But it does give us a glimpse at some of the new worlds that our heroes Nick Wilde… Read More First Teaser for Zootopia 2
By John Corrado The Cannes film festival is still going strong over in France, and NEON has just put out the first teaser trailer for French filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, one of the most anticipated films in the Official Competition. This is, of course, Ducournau’s follow-up to her 2021 shock Palme d’Or winner Titane (and… Read More Teaser Trailer for Julia Ducournau’s Alpha
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer has just been released for Nouvelle Vague, director Richard Linklater’s take on the French New Wave and the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic Breathless. This is Linklater’s first film in French, and the beloved American indie filmmaker tackling this period in cinema history is reason enough to be… Read More Teaser Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague
By John Corrado One of the upcoming summer films I’m most intrigued by is Weapons, writer-director Zach Cregger’s highly anticipated follow-up to his memorable breakout film Barbarian. This one is a missing person thriller heavily inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, with its intersecting storylines. Warner Bros. has just released the first trailer for the… Read More First Trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons
By John Corrado Distributor NEON has just released the new official trailer for TIFF People’s Choice Award winner The Life of Chuck. This trailer reveals more of director Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation, including glimpses of Tom Hiddleston’s titular Chuck. The dance sequence is wisely being kept hidden, but is hinted at. We also hear… Read More Official Trailer for The Life of Chuck
By John Corrado A24 has released the first teaser trailer for writer-director Ari Aster’s Eddington. This is the latest film from Aster, following his acclaimed horror films Hereditary and Midsommar and the highly divisive “nightmare comedy” Beau is Afraid in 2023. This one finds Aster re-teaming with Beau star Joaquin Phoenix, and is described as… Read More Teaser Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington
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