New Trailers! Verity, Paper Tiger, and Josephine

🎥 Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson play mind games, Adam Driver and Miles Teller walk straight into trouble, and Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan face a parent’s worst fear!

🎥 “Verity” Trailer: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson & Josh Hartnett Get Tangled in This Tawdry Psychological Thriller Based on Colleen Hoover’s Bestselling Novel — In Theaters October 2nd

The surprise box office success of last year’s The Housemaid proved there’s a pretty sizable audience out there for shamelessly trashy thrillers about two women entering the same beautiful home and quickly realizing there probably isn’t enough room for both of them.

Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried turned domestic routine into a twisted game of psychological warfare, and audiences clearly enjoyed watching them go at it. Meanwhile, perhaps to a lesser degree, the recent The Hand That Rocks the Cradle remake took another swing at that same familiar setup: an outsider steps into someone else’s family, gets a little too comfortable, and before long the home becomes a battleground. Because in these kinds of thrillers, letting the wrong person through the front door is usually just the first bad decision of many.

Now Verity looks ready to join that particular club. You know, the tawdry psychological-thriller club, only this time with Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett adding a nice layer of psychosexual tension to the whole thing.

Only Johnson isn’t here to clean the house or watch the kids. She’s stepping into the home of a woman who, at least on the surface, doesn’t appear capable of putting up much of a fight.

Anne Hathaway, who certainly seems game to get down and dirty in this genre, plays the other woman in this scenario. And judging by the trailer, she may be the most dangerous person in the house despite being a world-famous novelist who, after a recent accident, has been left nearly paralyzed and unable to speak or move on her own.

Johnson plays a ghostwriter who has been brought in by the publisher to find out why Hathaway’s character hasn’t finished her book and, if possible, write the remaining pages before the impending deadline. It’s a job that requires Johnson to study the author’s writing voice, dig through her private notes, and poke around in her personal life, including getting a little too close to Hathaway’s husband, played here by Josh Hartnett.

Obviously, trying to step into someone else’s identity can blur a few boundaries. But what happens when you start becoming a little too comfortable living their life? And what happens when the woman you’re slowly becoming turns out to be someone you probably should have been running from in the first place?

Judging from the footage, that may be exactly what this film is going for, with Hathaway’s character seemingly manipulating Johnson, pulling her deeper into secrets she never wanted uncovered.

And we wouldn’t blame you if you think this is all some kind of twisted psychosexual game Hathaway’s character is playing, because judging by the trailer, that may be exactly what’s going on.

And just a quick note: Hathaway has turned 2026 into one hell of a year for her career, coming off The Devil Wears Prada sequel and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. But what really stands out is how willing she’s been to take on some pretty audacious roles. No two characters she’s played this year feel remotely the same. And this might be one of the strangest characters Hathaway has taken on this year. And remember, it’s the same year that also includes Mother Mary.

Based on the bestselling novel by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover, Verity is directed by Michael Showalter, the comedian-turned-filmmaker behind The Big Sick and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The script comes from TV writer-producer Nick Antosca, whose credits include The Act, Channel Zero, and the recent Cape Fear remake series.

The film is due to arrive in theaters October 2nd.

🎥 “Paper Tiger” Teaser Trailer: Adam Driver and Miles Teller Walk Into Trouble in James Gray’s Throwback New York Crime Drama with Scarlett Johansson — In Select Theaters November 13th, Nationwide November 20th

Anyone with an inkling of filmmaker James Gray’s work knows that New York City is his signature setting. It’s his north star. His home base. Gray began his career with gritty New York crime dramas, starting with his impressive 1994 debut, Little Odessa, set within the Russian-Jewish community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He followed it with films like The Yards and We Own the Night, once again exploring New York crime, local law enforcement, and the families caught in the middle.

Gray, much like many New York-born filmmakers, has his own point of view on what the city means to him. And like all great New York filmmakers, no two perspectives are exactly the same. Martin Scorsese’s New York isn’t Woody Allen’s New York. Spike Lee’s Brooklyn isn’t Sidney Lumet’s Manhattan. Each filmmaker sees the city through their own experiences, families, and memories.

For Gray, New York has often been a deeply personal place, less a postcard version of the city than a collection of neighborhoods and communities where family history, ambition, loyalty, and regret all seem to live on the same block.

And likely because he was raised on 1970s cinema, Gray seems to have a strong affinity for that era. It’s an influence that runs throughout his filmography, from the atmosphere and deliberate ’70s-style pacing to morally complicated characters who constantly toe the line between right and wrong.

And while Gray has stepped outside that world with films like the historical explorer drama The Lost City of Z and the Brad Pitt–starring astronaut thriller Ad Astra, he returned home for something personal with his semi-autobiographical 2022 drama Armageddon Time. Once again set in New York, it offered a fascinating exploration of privilege between two historically marginalized yet very different families, set against the social divides of early-1980s New York.

Now, with Paper Tiger, it feels like Gray has come full circle. He’s back in familiar territory with a throwback early 1980s New York crime story that feels like a mix of classic Lumet, the grittiness of Scorsese, and the kind of morally murky character drama that Gray has been drawn to since the beginning of his career.

Starring Miles Teller, Adam Driver, and Scarlett Johansson, Paper Tiger centers on two brothers pursuing what seems like a promising opportunity, only to be drawn into something far more dangerous than either of them expected.

Here, Driver and Teller play Gary and Irwin Pearl. Gary is a well-connected former police detective running around the city with his fingers in various schemes. His ties to the Russian mafia may have inadvertently put both him and his family in serious danger. Meanwhile, Irwin is an engineer and family man who lives with his wife Hester (Scarlett Johansson) and their two sons. Struggling to get by, he never fully realizes just how much trouble his brother’s connections could bring to their doorstep, let alone how quickly Gary’s problems could become his own.

Two brothers, one city, and one deal that could cost them everything. In other words, it’s classic James Gray.

Written and directed by Gray, Paper Tiger is set to premiere next month at New York Film Festival before landing in select theaters November 13th, followed by a nationwide rollout on November 20th.

🎥 “Josephine” Trailer: Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan Fight to Protect Their Daughter in Beth de Araújo’s Sundance-Winning Drama — In Theaters November 20th

Protecting an innocent child isn’t just a parent’s duty; it’s an entire society’s responsibility to keep them safe. At least, that’s the general consensus, right?

This new film starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan will explore what happens when that sense of responsibility begins to break down. When parents face one of their greatest fears, yet must also contend with a whole system meant to protect their child that instead begins to work against them.

In the upcoming thought-provoking drama Josephine, Tatum and Chan star as the loving parents of an eight-year-old girl who becomes the sole witness to a brutal crime. While playing in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Josephine (played by newcomer Mason Reeves in her acting debut) witnesses a savage act of violence while hiding behind a tree.

When she tells her parents what happened, they do what any parent would do: report it to the proper authorities. But as the process of seeking justice begins to drag on, Josephine starts to unravel under the weight of what she saw.

First, the trauma begins to take a toll on Josephine and her parents. Then comes an even harder question: what exactly did she see, and how much of it can she still remember clearly? As her account comes under greater scrutiny, the pressure only builds on a family already struggling to keep it together.

Written and directed by Beth de Araújo, following up her acclaimed debut thriller Soft & Quiet, Josephine premiered earlier this year to rave reviews at Sundance, where it was awarded both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award.

The film is already being touted as one of the year’s best, with Mason Reeves’ debut performance earning particular praise. And judging from the trailer, it certainly looks like an intense and emotionally raw experience. It will likely be a stomach-turning ordeal for any parent who has ever worried about being unable to protect their child from the ugliness of the world.

Josephine is arriving in theaters November 20th.