New Trailers! Motor City, Evil Dead Burn, Tony, Kraken, and Propeller One-Way Night Coach
🎥 Alan Ritchson tears through 1970s Detroit, Deadites crash a bloody family reunion, Dominic Sessa channels young Bourdain, a Norwegian sea monster rises, and John Travolta takes flight!
🎥 “Motor City” Teaser Trailer: Alan Ritchson Tears Through 1970s Detroit in This Gritty Revenge Thriller with Shailene Woodley & Ben Foster — In Theaters July 24th
Let’s set the mood: It’s the 1970s. Disco-era sleaze hangs in the air. The city looks so grimy you can practically smell the cigarette smoke, stale booze, and engine grease on every street corner. And in the middle of all that is Reacher star Alan Ritchson, looking more swole than ever, blasting a shotgun through a windshield while leaping off the hood of a 1970s Cadillac Sedan de Ville.
Now, if that doesn’t sound like a good time, perhaps scroll down to the next trailer. Because Motor City looks built for those who like their crime movies loud, dirty, and powered by pure “what the hell did we just watch?” energy.
Set in 1970s Detroit, this gritty action-thriller throwback stars Ritchson as John Miller, a working-class guy whose life goes off the rails after he falls for the wrong woman. She’s a local waitress played by Shailene Woodley, and she also happens to be the unrequited obsession of the very dangerous man standing in John’s way. That man is played by Ben Foster, which tells us everything we need to know: trouble has entered the building.
After being framed by this ruthless gangster and sent to prison, John loses years of his life for a crime he didn’t commit. But once he’s finally free, he’s not searching for closure, healing, or some noble fresh start. He wants payback... and he wants it now. And judging by the trailer, he plans to get it with fists, firearms, and pure Motor City fury. And all of Detroit will suffer the blowback.
Also co-starring Pablo Schreiber and Lionel Boyce, the film is helmed by indie filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli, who is mostly known for making the criminally underrated 2021 western thriller Old Henry, starring Tim Blake Nelson as a farmer whose violent past is revealed to be his greatest weapon. Working from a screenplay penned by Chad St. John (Replicas), which was apparently placed on the 2009 Black List of best unproduced scripts of the year, the film appears to embrace old-school ’70s revenge cinema, where the cars are loud, the fists are heavy, and justice comes with plenty of body bags.
Motor City is slated to open in theaters July 24th. So buckle up, because this one looks ready to peel out and leave a few dents behind.
🎥 “Evil Dead Burn” Full Red Band Trailer: Family Reunion Goes Full Deadite in Sam Raimi-Produced Horror Franchise’s Latest Gory Chapter Starring Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan & Luciane Buchanan — Arrives In Theaters July 10th
What exactly is The Evil Dead franchise at this point? Across its many bloody variations, from slapstick splatter to straight-up shockers, Sam Raimi’s original cabin-in-the-woods scarefest has mutated into a full-blown horror funhouse of demonic possession, relentless bloodshed, and camera movements that always feel like they’re defying the laws of physics. It’s also now a showcase that gives rising horror filmmakers a chance to strut their stuff.
Perhaps the common threads that tie each film in the series together are simple: scare the hell out of the audience by any means necessary, send the gore flying and don’t look back, and let the camera go completely berserk as it becomes another tool for terror. But most importantly, each film must remind everyone that cracking open the Book of the Dead is always a terrible idea. Just don’t do it, people.
Which brings us to Evil Dead Burn, the latest chapter in the long-running horror franchise that leans heavily on nasty, stripped-down terror rather than nuanced atmospheric dread. And judging by the setup, this one is in your face with its carnage, taking family drama and dragging it straight to hell.
The upcoming horror thriller centers on a grieving widow who, after the loss of her husband, seeks comfort with her in-laws at their secluded family home. Naturally, this being an Evil Dead movie, quiet healing is not on the menu. One by one, the family members face the wrath of the Deadites, turning what should have been a somber reunion into a blood-soaked nightmare from hell.
The twist here is that the horror appears to hit on both a supernatural and emotional level. This isn’t just about surviving the dead; it’s about being trapped inside a house with the living remnants of a marriage, a family, and a grief that becomes its very own monster.
Swiss actress Souheila Yacoub, seen in Climax and Dune: Part Two, leads the cast, joined by Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Errol Shand, George Pullar, Maude Davey, and Greta Van Den Brink.
The film marks the English-language debut of French horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček, who broke through with the 2023 French-Moroccan creature feature Infested. He co-writes the film with Florent Bernard, while original franchise heavyweights Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi produce alongside longtime franchise star Bruce Campbell, who serves as executive producer.
While it seems this quasi-anthology horror franchise has drifted away from Raimi’s slapstick deadpan humor over the years, the nasty little heartbeat still appears to be intact. If nothing else, Evil Dead Burn looks ready to prove that in this series, death is never the end... it’s just the part where things get messier, bloodier, and a whole lot meaner.
The film arrives in theaters July 10th.
🎥 “Tony” Trailer: Dominic Sessa Plays a Young Anthony Bourdain Finding His First Taste of Kitchen Chaos in Matt Johnson’s Upcoming Biopic — Coming to Theaters in August
The success of FX’s Emmy-winning series The Bear might not be about viewers’ passion for high-end cuisine, but rather the process of creating something beautiful amid chaotic energy and crushing pressure inside one tiny kitchen. One could argue the reason the show has become so compelling is that it demonstrates how kitchen artistry (or any artistry or creative skill, for that matter) isn’t learned from books alone, but through hands-on training, relentless repetition, and pure trial by fire. The fascination here is that through messy yet purposeful teamwork, something beautiful can still come out of it: a dining experience meant to last long after the final bite.
Tony, a new kitchen-set drama starring The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa, is not connected to The Bear in any official way. But there’s a clear spiritual link in how it explores the pressure, precision, and personal sacrifice behind the art of refined cuisine. And in this case, the story centers on a young man who would eventually change the way many of us think about food, travel, restaurants, and the many staff workers behind those swinging kitchen doors.
His name was Tony. But the world would come to know him as... Anthony Bourdain.
Set in 1976, Tony follows a 19-year-old Bourdain (Sessa) as he travels to Provincetown and takes a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant. At the time, he wants to be a writer, but instead stumbles into the frantic, sweaty, profane, and strangely seductive world of restaurant kitchens. What begins as a seasonal gig soon becomes the spark that shapes the course of his life, eventually leading him toward becoming a renowned chef, beloved travel host, and culinary icon.
Sessa is joined by CODA’s Emilia Jones as Nancy, Tony’s love interest in the film, while Antonio Banderas plays Ciro, the Brazilian-born restaurateur and chef who hires the young, inexperienced Tony and helps introduce him to the rhythm and madness of kitchen life.
Rounding out the cast are comedian Stavros Halkias and The White Lotus’ Leo Woodall as Tony’s restaurant co-workers Dimitri and Sal, with Dagmara Domińczyk, Rich Sommer, Michael Jibrin, Caroline Portu, and Monica Raymund also starring.
Matt Johnson, the acclaimed filmmaker and comic actor behind BlackBerry and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, directs and co-writes, making this project more interesting than a standard paint-by-numbers biopic. Johnson has a knack for recreating specific eras and moods while telling stories about ambition, egos, and people trying to build something as everything around them threatens to fall apart. That feels like a pretty fitting recipe for an Anthony Bourdain origin story.
Tony arrives in theaters sometime in August, via A24 Films. And knowing how many fans have admired Bourdain, a following that has only grown since his untimely passing in 2018, don’t be surprised if this becomes one of the surprise hits of the summer. Bon appétit!
🎥 “Kraken” New Trailer: A Norwegian Sea-Monster Surfaces in This Chilly Creature Feature from ‘The Tunnel’ Director Pål Øie — In Theaters and on VOD June 12th
You know the old saying: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Well, someone had to go and release the damn Kraken. Or, in this case, maybe the ocean was never safe to begin with.
From Norwegian filmmaker Pål Øie, best known for the hit Scandinavian disaster thriller The Tunnel, aka Tunnelen, comes Kraken, a new deep-sea nightmare thriller set in a small coastal community where the waters are cold, the locals are nervous, and something very large appears to be waking up just beneath the ocean surface.
Starring Sara Khorami, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Jenny Evensen, and Silje Breivik, the film follows a marine biologist working at a remote fish farm when a series of strange disturbances begins to unfold. Equipment starts malfunctioning without any clear cause. The currents shift in unnatural patterns. And then two teenagers are found brutally dead near the water’s edge.
That’s when all signs begin pointing toward the cold, dark center of the bay. It’s a place locals have refused to go for decades because of old stories and folk legends they don’t like to repeat too loudly. Once regarded as superstition, perhaps there’s been some truth lurking there all along.
Of course, this wouldn’t be a proper sea-monster movie if humanity hadn’t done something deeply foolish first. Here, the trouble appears to stem from a misguided “superior salmon” sonic-treatment program, designed to acclimate new fish to foreign waters. Instead, it destabilizes the ocean’s delicate ecosystem and wakes up something ancient, enormous, and extremely cranky. Run, don’t walk, as giant tentacles have officially entered our world... and straight into our nightmares.
Blending old-school creature-feature thrills with that chilly Scandinavian disaster-movie atmosphere, Kraken is expected to surface in U.S. theaters and on VOD June 12th. And it just might make you think twice before dipping a toe back in the water.
🎥 “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” Trailer: John Travolta Makes His Directorial Debut with a Sky-High Family Adventure About the Magic of Flying — Premieres May 29th on Apple TV
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of John Travolta probably knows this little tidbit: the man really, really loves flying. Not just in a casual “window seat, please” kind of way, but as a licensed pilot and longtime aviation enthusiast who has spent years championing the art of taking to the skies.
So, it feels only fitting that Travolta is finally making his directorial debut with a movie about the very thing that has clearly meant so much to him for most of his life. And it doesn’t take a genius to figure out where his heart is on this one.
Based on Travolta’s own 1997 children’s novel of the same name, Propeller One-Way Night Coach is a new Apple original family adventure that looks to explore how one young boy first falls in love with flying. Written, directed, co-produced, and, in spirit at least, piloted by Travolta himself, the film has the feel of a semi-autobiographical story wrapped in an old-fashioned coming-of-age travel tale.
The film follows Jeff, an eight-year-old aviation enthusiast played by newcomer Clark Shotwell, who dreams of flying in a plane. When his actress mother Helen, played by Kelly Eviston-Quinnett, decides to move to Hollywood, Jeff suddenly finds himself on a cross-country journey filled with connecting flights, airline food, airport stopovers, and even a little time in first class.
What begins as a simple trip from one place to another becomes something much bigger for Jeff. Each leg of the journey brings a new discovery, a new encounter, and another reason to look out the window and dream a little higher.
The cast also includes Travolta’s daughter Ella Bleu Travolta and John Travolta himself in a guest appearance as (what else?) a veteran airline pilot, making this very much a family affair both on screen and behind the camera.
Propeller One-Way Night Coach is due to premiere May 29th on Apple TV.
