New Trailers! The End of Oak Street, Apex, The Sheep Detectives and Forgotten Island

🎥 Anne Hathaway & Ewan McGregor face a suburban nightmare, Charlize Theron battles Taron Egerton, crime-solving sheep investigate Hugh Jackman’s death, and two friends embark on a magical adventure.

🎥 “The End of Oak Street” Teaser Trailer: Anne Hathaway & Ewan McGregor Face a Suburban Nightmare in J.J. Abrams-Produced Mystery Thriller from the Director of ‘It Follows’ — Arriving in Theaters August 14th

Ah, the American dream. At one time the American dream was to simply earn enough money to move into a nice neighborhood, raise a whole family, and build a life that felt stable, predictable, and most important... safe.

But what happens when that sense of safety is ripped away overnight, and the very neighborhood you spent years chasing suddenly disappears? And is that a freakin’ prehistoric monster running through the same streets your kids used to play on? What the hell?!

These are just some of the questions likely to be raised in the upcoming sci-fi-tinged mystery thriller The End of Oak Street, which leans into that eerie, “wait... what?” hook of waking up one day to find your entire neighborhood has mysteriously “moved,” with most of the block seemingly cut out entirely.

David Robert Mitchell, the filmmaker behind the horror smash It Follows and the cult neo-noir mystery Under the Silver Lake, is back with another electrifying headscratcher, this time teaming up with mystery box maestro J.J. Abrams, who serves as a producer under his Bad Robot banner.

While lining up to be one of the summer’s biggest conversation starters, the film’s first official teaser leans into mystery, offering far more questions than actual answers. Which, to be fair, is exactly what you want from a teaser trailer: to be enticed by the movie’s hook.

Here, Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star as ’70s-era (or possibly early ’80s-era) parents trying to keep their family intact under impossible circumstances. One of those wildly bizarre circumstances is that their nice, comfy suburban neighborhood—the very street they live on—has mysteriously “moved” or vanished completely. What’s left is a large portion of their block seemingly vaporized, replaced with a prehistoric jungle setting that may have unleashed dinosaurs into their world.

Well, talk about a neighborhood going extinct overnight!

Maisy Stella (My Old Ass) and Christian Convery (Frankenstein, Cocaine Bear) round out the ensemble, playing Hathaway and McGregor’s teenage children.

So, whether this turns into a tightly wound family survival story or something even more abstract and unsettling, the setup alone is enough to keep us curious. Missing neighborhoods, roaming dinosaurs, and the guy who gave us It Follows... enough said!

The End of Oak Street is slated to open in theaters and IMAX on August 14th.

So, just a heads-up: if you start spotting random prehistoric creatures darting around... well, there goes the neighborhood.

🎥 “Apex” Trailer: Charlize Theron Battles Nature and a Psychopathic Taron Egerton in This Brutal Outback Survival Thriller — Premiering April 24th on Netflix

It’s rare for anyone to keep raising the stakes with every role, but Charlize Theron seems to be doing it with ease, consistently pushing herself both physically and emotionally. With her latest action thriller, the Furiosa star once again throws herself into the deep end. And this time, the danger feels a little more raw, certainly more immediate, and a whole lot more intimate.

In Apex, a new survival thriller set in the Australian river creek wilderness, Theron stars as Sasha, a grieving woman looking for a little solitude, hoping that some well spent time with nature just might help her process. Instead, she stumbles into a deadly game orchestrated by Ben, a psychopath who treats the landscape like his personal hunting ground.

His rules are simple: she gets a head start, and once the hunt begins, everything is fair game.

Welsh actor Taron Egerton, best known for his breakthrough performance in the Elton John biopic Rocketman as well as his lead role in the comic book-based Kingsman film series, gets to tap into a far more sinister side here, trading innate charm for disturbing menace as the film’s calculating hunter, Ben. He’s an Aussie local who happens to cross paths with Theron’s Sasha while she’s setting up a river rafting trip, only for that chance encounter to spiral into a brutal and twisted game of hunter versus prey.

With much of the stunts reportedly performed by the actors themselves, this shapes up as a two-person survival showdown, driven by a relentless back-and-forth between Egerton and Theron as they undergo a series of physical challenges, including cliff hanging, rock climbing, rapid water rafting, and navigating Australia’s unforgiving wilderness.

It’s Ninja Warrior meets a deadly game of cat and mouse. Only this mouse knows how to fight back, and this cat may have finally met his match.

Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, who’s built a career around stories of human resilience in extreme environments with films like Everest, Adrift, and Beast, directs here, seemingly leaning into both the physical and mental strain of being hunted and pushed to the absolute limit.

Apex is scheduled to premiere April 24th on Netflix. Suddenly, the great outdoors doesn’t feel so inviting.

🎥 “The Sheep Detectives” New Trailer: Hugh Jackman’s Death Sets Off a Twisty Whodunit as His Crime-Solving Flock Hunts for the Truth in This Offbeat Mystery Comedy with Emma Thompson, Nicholas Braun, Molly Gordon and More — In Theaters May 8th

What makes a great detective?

Well, someone who can sniff out the truth before anyone else. Someone who can spot clues no one else sees. Someone with sharp enough instincts to know when something isn’t quite adding up. But here’s the thing... no one said great detectives have to be human.

Sometimes the best detectives are four-legged, extremely determined, and impossible to fool. No one’s pulling the wool over their eyes, that’s for sure… and these guys don’t just flock around.

Get ready to be charmed by a delightfully oddball comedy where a shepherd’s flock becomes the last hope for justice after he’s found dead under mysterious circumstances.

In the aptly titled film The Sheep Detectives, Hugh Jackman stars as George, a kind-hearted shepherd who spends his evenings reading tawdry paperback detective novels to his flock of unusually observant sheep, never realizing they’re hanging on every word. But when George is suddenly found dead outside his mobile home, local authorities are quick to write it off as an accident.

Case closed, right? The problem is, the sheep aren’t buying it.

Armed with everything they’ve picked up from George’s nightly readings, the flock begins conducting their own quiet investigation: watching, listening, and piecing things together. What starts as a curious suspicion soon turns into a full-blown mystery as they begin sniffing out clues, sizing up the humans around them, and realizing there’s a motive: George has a will worth 30 million dollars.

Now the question is… who benefits from his death? His estranged daughter (Molly Gordon)? His suspiciously sleek lawyer (Emma Thompson)? The bumbling local police officer (Nicholas Braun)? Or the countless locals (Conleth Hill, Hong Chau, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Nicholas Galitzine) who might have had their own reasons to want George out of the picture?

Well, as they say, never bet against a sheep… ‘cause they always find a way to get to the baaaa-ttom of things. (Okay, they don’t say that.) But these woolly sleuths are on the case. Now they just have to stop themselves from ramming into things long enough to sniff out the culprit.

Based on Leonie Swann’s best-selling detective novel Three Bags Full, the film marks the live-action debut of Illumination animator Kyle Balda, known for directing the animated hits Minions and The Lorax. Acclaimed writer Craig Mazin (creator of Chernobyl and co-showrunner of The Last of Us) adapts.

Featuring a voice cast that includes Chris O’Dowd, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein, and Rhys Darby as the sheep, The Sheep Detectives is coming to theaters May 8th.

🎥 “Forgotten Island” Trailer and Featurette: H.E.R. and Liza Soberano Voice Best Friends Embarking on a Magical Adventure Before Growing Apart in DreamWorks’ Filipino Folklore-Inspired Animated Fantasy — Hitting Theaters September 25th

Anyone who had the good fortune of growing up with a very close childhood friend knows that, inevitably, there comes a time when that friendship begins to drift. Life starts pulling you and your best friend in different directions. And before you know it, the distance feels a lot bigger than you ever expected. But what if you could pause that drift before it starts? What if you could hold onto those moments just a little longer?

Well, that’s the emotional thread at the heart of Forgotten Island, DreamWorks Animation’s latest original feature about two lifelong best friends standing at the edge of growing up, watching (and fearing) that they’re on the verge of drifting apart. All of a sudden, they’re whisked away to a magical island for one last fantastical adventure together before reality can set them on separate paths.

Grammy Award– and Oscar-winning R&B singer-songwriter H.E.R. and Filipino-American actress Liza Soberano (from the Philippine series Make It with You) voice Jo and Raissa, high school graduates spending one last night together before heading out on different paths. But what begins as a sentimental goodbye quickly takes a wild turn when they stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the hidden island of Nakali, a place filled with magical creatures pulled straight from the Filipino folklore they grew up hearing.

From there, things get complicated. The island isn’t just a fantasy playground... it’s a test! A test only their friendship can pass, if they can hold onto those memories long enough to find their way back home. Now, Jo and Raissa must navigate this strange new world, where some creatures lend a hand… and others definitely don’t.

Dave Franco lends his voice as Raww, the lovable weredog, while legendary Filipino actress and singer Lea Salonga takes on the voice of the Manananggal, a mythic vampire-like figure who brings real stakes to the girls’ adventure.

Also featuring Jenny Slate, Manny Jacinto, Dolly de Leon, Jo Koy, and Ronny Chieng, the upcoming film is written and directed by Joel Crawford and storyboard artist Januel Mercado, the same team behind the hit animated sequel Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

Forgotten Island is due to open in theaters September 25th. Maybe bring a friend to this one.

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