New Trailers! The Drama, Michael and In the Blink of an Eye

🎥 Zendaya & Robert Pattinson spiral toward marital chaos, Jaafar Jackson & Colman Domingo step into pop royalty, and humanity stretches across centuries in Andrew Stanton’s time-bending spectacle!

🎥 “The Drama” Trailer: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson Spiral Toward the Altar in A24’s Uncomfortably Modern Love Story From ‘Dream Scenario’ Director Kristoffer Borgli — In Theaters April 3rd

Has your romantic partner ever dropped a confession so dark and deeply uncomfortable that it made you quietly reexamine everything you thought you knew about them, and about the relationship itself? Now imagine that revelation landing just weeks before your wedding.

That’s the general gist behind The Drama, a new darkly comic look at modern romance where saying “I do” to someone you love suddenly feels like a heavy commitment loaded with unanswered questions, second thoughts, and the creeping fear that you might not truly know the person standing across from you. ’Cause chances are… you really don’t.

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson headline this A24 relationship dark dramedy as a couple racing toward their wedding date while privately unraveling. Zendaya plays Emma, a sharp, independent bookstore clerk, while Pattinson is Charlie, a charming London museum director. They’re two people who genuinely believed they’d found their soul mate... right up until doubt started whispering a little too loudly.

What sparks the hesitation is a seemingly harmless moment: Emma and Charlie are asked by their two close friends (played here by Mamoudou Athie and Alana Haim) to reveal “the worst thing they’ve ever done.” It’s meant to be a silly game of brutal honesty—something couples do on a lark before getting married. But when Emma makes her confession (an utterly dark secret that’s been locked away for years), it sends the entire group into an emotional tailspin. Now Charlie can’t help but obsess over who he’s really about to marry... and worse yet, whether he can stand at the altar knowing what she’s done.

With their wedding date fast approaching, Emma and Charlie find themselves stuck in a pressure cooker of doubt and denial, racing to decide whether their love can carry them through a rough patch that only seems to grow more complicated by the day.

With filmmaker Ari Aster producing under his Square Peg banner, the film hails from acclaimed Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, who previously delivered 2023’s Dream Scenario. That fantasy-tinged head-scratcher starred Nicolas Cage as an ordinary college professor who inexplicably began appearing in strangers’ dreams, instantly becoming one of the most recognizable faces on the planet.

Here however, Borgli seems more interested in examining modern life under total transparency, questioning just how much of ourselves we’re obligated to reveal, and to whom. And in a world where we document our daily lives through endless screens and social feeds, is it assumed that nothing about ourselves is off-limits anymore? That our past mistakes are eventually something we’re required to put on the table, whether we’re ready for the consequences or not?

Co-starring Hailey Gates and Zoë Winters, The Drama is due to open in theaters April 3rd. Prepare to debate whether “happily ever after” can still exist once couples are forced to confront every dirty little secret hiding in the past.

🎥 “Michael” Trailer: Jaafar Jackson and Colman Domingo Confront Fame, Family, and Control in Antoine Fuqua’s Sweeping Michael Jackson Biopic — Hitting Theaters April 24th

It seems we’re living in an era where audiences don’t just want musical biopics, but also want ones where the songs aren’t treated as background noise, but as emotional engines that push the story forward. From Bohemian Rhapsody to Elvis and Rocketman to even the classic biopics of Ray, Selena, and Walk the Line, they all share a common thread of highlighting how the music itself becomes a form of expression that charts both personal triumphs and moments of struggle.

Michael, the upcoming jukebox biopic about the legendary pop star Michael Jackson, doesn’t seem designed to add anything to the broader conversation about the man’s questionable lifestyle, instead positioning itself firmly as a celebration of his indisputable musical genius and cultural impact. After all, it’s a film made with the full cooperation of the family estate. So, expect the only thing close to controversy in the film to be MJ’s friendship with Bubbles, his pet chimp. Which is to say… we weren’t exactly expecting to see this new full-length trailer, but we’re glad Bubbles is finally getting his due.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) and written by John Logan (Gladiator, Skyfall), Michael traces Jackson’s rise from a Motown prodigy with the Jackson 5 to the early stages of his solo superstardom. The footage leans into process as much as performance, dipping inside recording studios and creative spaces to show how the music was built, not just how it was performed, as MJ struggles to step out from under his family’s shadow and become the world’s greatest pop star.

The casting choices? At the center is Jaafar Jackson. As Michael’s real-life nephew and the son of Jermaine Jackson, Jaafar makes his feature debut, taking on the tremendous task of portraying his uncle, Michael. The resemblance is certainly there, but it’s the voice, the dance movements, and the overall physicality that land with uncanny precision.

Two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo transforms himself—thanks to hair, makeup, and some facial prosthetics—to play Michael’s father, Joe Jackson, who was also the manager and taskmaster of the entire Jackson family. Joe is known for being a very tough, menacing figure in Michael’s life. How much the film will lean into his abusive behavior, however, remains to be seen. Still, it certainly seems the tension between Joe and Michael may be the central crux of the upcoming biopic, as Michael fights to break away from his father’s grip and carve out an identity of his own beyond the Jackson 5.

Meanwhile, Nia Long embodies the grounding presence of Michael’s mother, Katherine, and Miles Teller costars as attorney John Branca, whose professional relationship with Michael would become pivotal during the Thriller era.

Rounding out the cast are Kat Graham as singer Diana Ross; Larenz Tate as Motown founder Berry Gordy; Derek Luke as lawyer Johnnie Cochran; and Kendrick Sampson as Quincy Jones, the legendary producer behind Michael’s record-breaking solo albums Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.

Produced by Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King, Michael is slated to arrive in theaters on April 24th.

Supposedly, there was enough material shot to produce a sequel, though nothing has been officially confirmed at this point. But if the film becomes a huge box office hit, don’t be surprised if that conversation quickly changes.

🎥 “In the Blink of an Eye” Trailer: Three Timelines Stretch Across Humanity’s Past, Present, and Future in Andrew Stanton’s Ambitious Centuries-Spanning Sci-Fi Drama Starring Rashida Jones, Kate McKinnon & Daveed Diggs — Debuting on Hulu/Disney+ February 27th

What is the thing that connects us from different points in time? It’s a heady idea. One that circles the same fundamental question: what actually makes us human? Is it memory, empathy, creativity, love, fear, ambition? Or is it the simple fact that, across generations, we keep reaching for meaning in the same ways.

Well, there’s a new sci-fi-tinged film, starring Rashida Jones, Kate McKinnon, Daveed Diggs, Jorge Vargas, and Tanaya Beatty, that explores that very question by using human connection as its emotional throughline across three timelines set in the past, present, and the future.

In the Blink of an Eye follows Rashida Jones as an archaeological researcher who finds herself falling in love with a fellow scholar (Daveed Diggs) at one of the most painful moments of her life, as she grapples with the impending loss of someone close to her. At the same time, the prehistoric bones she’s studying belong to a primitive caveman (Jorge Vargas), whose story unfolds through his struggle to find love (Tanaya Beatty) and build a family of his own. These two timelines are mysteriously linked to a third thread set in the future, where a lone space traveler (Kate McKinnon) leads a ship full of young children on a mission to colonize a new planet after Earth’s decline. She’s seemingly the only adult left to shepherd humanity forward.

What does it all mean? Perhaps the themes of family and love are the real constants here. And what binds us across these eras is the human persistence to move on and carry forward against all possible odds, even if the future feels uncertain, the past feels unbearably distant, and the present feels like time slipping through our fingers.

Andrew Stanton, the acclaimed Pixar filmmaker who gave us the Oscar-winning animated masterpieces WALL-E and Finding Nemo, directed In the Blink of an Eye. It marks his first non-animated feature as director since his 2012 box-office misfire John Carter. Though, truth be told, Stanton hasn’t exactly been idle in the live-action space, he’s since directed episodes of Stranger Things, Better Call Saul, For All Mankind, and 3 Body Problem. And truth be told, John Carter didn’t deserve nearly as much hate as it caught when it first landed in theaters. Yes, count us among those rare few who thought John Carter was a fun, cheesy throwback to old-school sci-fi fantasy schlock, and one we proudly enjoy as a guilty pleasure.

And while Stanton has since returned to Pixar to direct the 2016 sequel Finding Dory, as well as the upcoming Toy Story 5 (out this June), he still seems to be shaking off the long stink of John Carter. Well, here’s his chance with In the Blink of an Eye... aaaaand, oh boy. The reviews coming out of Sundance this year, where the film premiered, aren’t exactly glowing. The buzz has it sounding like the film might be a well-meaning but uneven swing of melodrama—ambitious in its ideas, yet struggling to fully land with critics, as it currently sits at 18 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes meter following its Park City debut last week.

Which might explain why In the Blink of an Eye is bypassing a theatrical release altogether and heading straight to streaming, debuting on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on February 27th. Honestly, a film with this much time-hopping heft might be better fitted to the home viewing experience.