New Trailers! Resident Evil, Office Romance, One Night Only, Verity, and Jackass: Best and Last
🎥 Zach Cregger reboots Evil, J.Lo & Brett Goldstein mix office romance, Monica Barbaro & Callum Turner chase love, Anne Hathaway & Dakota Johnson unravel obsession and Jackass takes one final hit!
🎥 “Resident Evil” Teaser Trailer: “Barbarian” and “Weapons” Director Zach Cregger Unleashes a “New Era of Evil” with Austin Abrams — Hitting Theaters September 18th
Filmmaker Zach Cregger’s road from comedy to horror has been pretty remarkable. As someone who started his career in sketch comedy, Cregger has moved into the genre with surprising ease, delivering two of the most talked-about modern horror films with Barbarian and Weapons, while also earning the kind of acclaim that could easily push a filmmaker toward more prestige-minded territory.
He wouldn’t be the first director to leave his genre roots behind for serious actors, heavier subject matter, and awards-season conversations.
Well, that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Instead, Cregger is diving even deeper into the horror sandbox, getting out his shovel and digging into one of the most recognizable survival-horror franchises of all time. Yep, Resident Evil is back, and this time it’s being billed as “a new era of evil.”
Cregger offers a new reinvention of the long-running horror franchise, built around an original story rather than a straight adaptation of the games, yet still getting to the eerie vibe of what made those video games so unsettling.
Immediately reuniting with Cregger after playing the homeless junkie James in Weapons, Austin Abrams takes on the lead role of Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself caught in an action-packed, nightmarish race for survival when one horrifying night collapses into total chaos.
Instead of starting with the usual franchise baggage of Umbrella lore, monster reveals, and mythology overload, this version seems to be coming at the material from the ground level: one guy, one bad night, and a situation that keeps mutating into something much worse. Which feels like the right lane for Cregger, who has excelled at ratcheting up tension by turning ordinary spaces and situations into pressure cookers of horrific anxiety. Only in this case, it’s all set in the infected, corporate-nightmare world of Resident Evil.
Abrams is joined by a cast that includes Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser, with Cregger directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with screenwriter Shay Hatten (Army of the Dead, Ballerina). If Barbarian and Weapons were the warm-up, this could be Cregger going full monster mode. And we can’t wait to see what he digs up.
Filmed for IMAX, Resident Evil is due to hit theaters September 18th.
🎥 “Office Romance” Trailer: Jennifer Lopez and Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein Try, and Fail, to Keep Business and Pleasure Separate in This Workplace Rom-Com — Arriving on Netflix June 5th
Jennifer Lopez knows a thing or two about having her love life become part of the public conversation. So there’s something nicely self-aware about watching her step into a romantic comedy about a powerful professional woman trying very hard not to let romance interfere with business... only to discover that rules are a lot easier to enforce when you’re not the one breaking them.
In this new workplace rom-com, aptly titled Office Romance, Lopez stars as Jackie Cruz, the president and CEO of Air Cruz, a woman who runs her company with sharp authority, confidence, and a strict anti-fraternization policy that apparently sounds great in a handbook and becomes much more complicated in real life.
Enter Daniel Blanchflower, played by Ted Lasso Emmy-winner Brett Goldstein, a charming new lawyer whose arrival at Air Cruz quickly puts Jackie’s policy (and her self-control) to the test. And yes, Goldstein also co-wrote the screenplay, which makes the whole thing even funnier, as he wrote himself as the handsome, alluring suitor who gets to sweep J.Lo off her feet. Honestly, respect the hustle.
Seemingly, this Netflix original is built around the classic rom-com trope of wanting the one person you absolutely should not want, especially when your entire professional identity depends on pretending you’re above that kind of thing. Yet with the star wattage of Jennifer Lopez and the comedic charisma of Brett Goldstein, this just might be the perfect throwback for those looking for a workplace romance with old-school charm, modern self-awareness, and just enough HR violations to keep things interesting.
The supporting cast is stacked with sure-thing players such as Betty Gilpin, Amy Sedaris, Tony Hale, Bradley Whitford, Roger Bart, Jodie Whittaker, and Edward James Olmos. That kind of lineup suggests the office itself could be just as chaotic as the central romance.
Written by Goldstein along with Ted Lasso co-creator Joe Kelly, and directed by Ol Parker, the filmmaker behind Ticket to Paradise and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Office Romance gives Lopez another shot to play in the rom-com playground, this time letting Goldstein bring his gruff charm into full leading-man mode.
Office Romance premieres June 5th only on Netflix.
🎥 “One Night Only” Trailer: Monica Barbaro & Callum Turner Search for Love During a Government-Sanctioned Hookup Holiday in Will Gluck’s High-Concept Rom-Com — In Theaters August 7th
Imagine The Purge, but instead of one lawless night where anything goes in the most violent way possible, it’s a 10-hour window where single people are officially allowed to hook up. No murder sprees. No masked psychos. Just a city full of lonely, horny, emotionally confused people trying to figure out whether they want one night of fun or something that might actually last past sunrise.
That’s the cheeky high-concept hook behind One Night Only, a new romantic comedy written and directed by Will Gluck, the filmmaker behind Easy A and Anyone but You. And honestly, it seems to be a setup that is less interested in why this type of government-sanctioned hookup holiday has been implemented than it is with placing characters in this absurd dating social experiment and letting the romantic sparks fly.
Coming off her Oscar-nominated role as folk legend Joan Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Monica Barbaro leads the film as Allie, a hopeful romantic wandering through an ever-so-slightly fictionalized New York City on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex.
British actor Callum Turner, from Eternity and Masters of the Air, and rumored to be up for James Bond, stars opposite Barbaro as Owen, a recently dumped pizza shop owner who probably should be embracing the night’s anything-goes energy, but instead finds himself drawn to someone who might be worth slowing down for.
After Allie and Owen meet and feel that spark, a string of missteps, detours, and side quests keeps pulling them apart. As they race across the city... sometimes toward each other, sometimes away from each other, the night turns into a messy search for connection in a world built for instant gratification. Will Allie and Owen get together before the night is over, or will sharing a slice of pizza be the only thing they do that resembles a real date?
Joining Barbaro and Turner is a strong supporting ensemble that includes Maya Hawke, Julia Fox, King Princess, Ben Marshall, Ziwe, Molly Ringwald, and LeVar Burton, all joining their night of legally sanctioned romantic anarchy.
Gluck writes, directs, and produces the film, working from a story by Travis Braun. It’s a rom-com but with a high concept bent, where anything can happen in this version of New York nightlife because, apparently, it’s the law.
One Night Only opens in theaters August 7th.
🎥 “Verity” Teaser Trailer: Anne Hathaway & Dakota Johnson Get Tangled in a Seductive Psychological Thriller Based on Colleen Hoover’s Bestseller — Arriving In Theaters October 2nd
The surprise success of something like The Housemaid proved that there’s a movie audience hungry for sexually charged thrillers pitting women against each other in twisted games of power, desire, jealousy, and revenge. Yet also done in a way where the melodrama is cranked up to a deliciously unhinged level.
Well, you can throw in Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson as the latest onscreen duo to take on this particular brand of glossy, venom-laced mind games. And will you look at that... it’s also a movie based on It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, so expect plenty of simmering tension between the two leads, and possibly a hefty dose of emotional damage served with a side of domestic dread.
Verity is the new upcoming psychological thriller that sees Hathaway and Johnson getting intimately close before those knives are sharpened. Judging by the setup, this is the kind of twisty, candlelit nightmare where attraction and ambition start sharing the same room.
Here, Johnson stars as Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer who gets the kind of opportunity that sounds too good to be true: ghostwrite the remaining books for renowned author Verity Crawford (played by Hathaway). The catch? Lowen has to relocate to the remote Crawford estate, where the air is thick with secrets, the walls probably know too much, and Verity’s husband Jeremy (played by Josh Hartnett) only makes things more complicated.
Once Lowen begins digging through Verity’s files, she discovers what appear to be chilling autobiographical notes: disturbing confessions about Verity, Jeremy, and the life they’ve built behind closed doors. From there, Lowen soon finds herself pulled into a dangerous web of manipulation, obsession, envy, and even sexual attraction. So, in other words, exactly the kind of nightmare where every locked drawer probably holds a shocking revelation, each one more twisted than the last.
Comedian-turned-acclaimed director Michael Showalter (The Big Sick, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) steps into full psychological-thriller territory here, working from an adapted screenplay by Channel Zero and Brand New Cherry Flavor horror scribe Nick Antosca, whose genre instincts seem fit to bring Hoover’s twisted bestseller into full, feverish bloom.
Also co-starring Ismael Cruz Cordova and Brady Wagner, while Hathaway and Hoover are among the film’s producers, Verity is slated to arrive in theaters October 2nd.
🎥 “Jackass: Best and Last” Trailer: Johnny Knoxville and the Gang Return for One Final Big-Screen Round of Stunts, Stupidity, and Painful Laughs — Smashing Into Theaters June 26th
It’s been a little more than 25 years since Jackass first launched its first outrageously idiotic stunt, becoming a cultural phenomenon built on pain, pranks, and the glorious art of doing incredibly dumb things on purpose. Where some franchises have been built on mythology, world-building, and carefully mapped-out cinematic universes, this has been built on bruises, friendship, terrible ideas, and the enduring question: “What if this really hurts... and can we capture it on camera?”
Well, apparently, it’s time for one last trip to the emergency room as Johnny Knoxville and his gang of knuckle-headed daredevils return for one more round of full-contact idiocy. And in what’s being billed as one final fling in theaters, Jackass: Best and Last offers longtime fans a victory lap of bruises, belly laughs, and the kind of reckless nostalgia that probably should come with a medical waiver.
Directed by longtime franchise ringleader Jeff Tremaine, the film mixes all-new stunts and fresh stupidity with greatest-hits moments from the past, turning 25 years of deeply questionable decision-making into one big raucous celebration.
Of course, the real secret sauce of Jackass has never just been the bone-breaking, flesh-slapping antics. It’s the camaraderie. These guys have spent decades turning pain into performance art, friendship into pandemonium, and prank warfare into something weirdly heartfelt. Yes, people get humiliated in ways no insurance company should ever approve. But underneath all the mayhem is a group of idiots who somehow made stupidity feel like a team sport.
The returning cast includes Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Dave England, Danger Ehren, Preston Lacy, Rachel Wolfson, Jasper, Dark Shark, Poopies, and Zach Holmes. In other words, the usual suspects, plus a few newer recruits willing to risk dignity, safety, and possibly dental work for our entertainment.
Produced by Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville, and Shanna Newton, with Paramount Pictures and MTV Entertainment Studios presenting alongside Domain Entertainment and Dickhouse Productions, Jackass: Best and Last is a fond farewell for one of the most ridiculous slapstick comedy institutions of the last quarter-century, where “slap” is often taken dangerously literally.
Jackass: Best and Last opens only in theaters June 26th. Summer just got a little dumber, louder, and probably more painful.
