New Trailers! World Breaker, The Sheep Detectives, Digger, Anaconda & Send Help
🎥 Luke Evans & Milla Jovovich battle monsters, Hugh Jackman’s sheep are on the case, Tom Cruise digs, Jack Black & Paul Rudd chase a giant snake, and Rachel McAdams proves she’s built to survive!
🎥 “World Breaker” Trailer: Luke Evans and Milla Jovovich Fight to Protect Their Daughter in a Monster-Ravaged Post-Apocalyptic World — Hitting Theaters January 30th
The post-apocalyptic thriller is a genre that, at this point, feels a bit exhausted, as we’ve seen just about every possible way the world can end... usually under a blanket of gray skies and dead, wasted landscapes with danger lurking at every corner. In these end-of-the-world stories, humanity is perpetually teetering on the brink, with hope flickering like a dying flashlight. We’ve seen it all before. The genre has become something of a wasteland itself, rotting under the weight of tired tropes and familiar visual cues.
But dang nabbit! Call us suckers. Maybe even fools who keep falling for these kinds of movies. Because every time a new post-apocalyptic thriller shows up on our radar, we can’t help but lean in, hoping this one finally finds a fresh way to pick through the rubble.
Brad Anderson, the director of cult films like The Machinist, Session 9, and The Call, will be offering his own bleak spin on the post-apocalyptic horror genre, dropping us into a world shattered beyond belief. The new take here is that the last remaining human survivors have banded together into clans, leaning into Arthurian-like myths and legends as they struggle to survive a broken world now crawling with monsters. Still relying on army tanks and high-powered machine guns to keep the deadliest creatures at bay, swords have unexpectedly emerged as the weapon of choice for up-close survival. So there’s a touch of medieval aesthetic woven throughout, giving the apocalypse an old-world, mythic edge.
World Breaker stars Luke Evans and Milla Jovovich as the parents of a young teen girl named Willa, portrayed by relative newcomer Billie Boullet, the English actress who previously played Anne Frank in the 2023 WWII miniseries A Small Light.
While Evans and Jovovich might be top-lining here and are well known for their genre pedigree (Evans from the Fast & Furious and Hobbit films, and Jovovich from her time leading the Resident Evil franchise), the emotional weight of the story, however, seems to center on Willa’s coming-of-age journey as a girl raised in a hostile world where death is constant and childhood is cut painfully short. It’s also a place where, if the giant insect-like monsters don’t get you, the zombie-like crab people probably will.
Penned by Joshua Rollins, World Breaker is set to arrive in theaters on January 30th.
🎥 “The Sheep Detectives” Trailer: Hugh Jackman Tends a Flock of Crime-Solving Sheep in This Light-Hearted Whodunit Family Mystery — In Theaters May 8th
Sometimes the greatest mysteries can be solved by the most unlikely people... or in this case, the most unlikely animals! Sure, sheep might look sweet and harmless, but don’t let the wool fool you. These four-legged sleuths are sharper than anyone ever gave them credit for. And even the likes of Sherlock Holmes would be hard-pressed to keep up once a clever herd puts their heads together to solve the murder of a loved one. This is one case where the smartest detectives just happen to chew grass... and produce about 5–15 pounds of wool per year.
Look, there’s something instantly charming about a whodunit mystery that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and The Sheep Detectives leans all the way into that sweet spot between cozy detective story and playful family comedy. After all, it features Hugh Jackman as the nicest shepherd you could ever hope to meet. He’s a gentle soul who spends his days tending to his sheep while happily singing the ’90s classic earworm “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers. But at night, Jackman’s George reads page-turning detective novels out loud to his flock, blissfully unaware that they’re listening a little more closely than he thinks.
So when George is inexplicably found dead in front of his mobile home, the local police are quick to chalk it up as a tragic accident. Nothing to see here. But with George’s sad and untimely death disrupting the quiet rhythms of farm life, the sheep soon realize it’s time to put all that late-night detective fiction to practical use. The game is afoot... or a hoof!
Now operating quietly under the noses of the humans around them, the flock begin observing sketchy behavior, sniffing out clues, and sizing up suspects. Because George deserves justice. And if the humans won’t uncover the truth, then his sheep will. They simply have a baaaaaaad feeling that something about George’s death doesn’t add up, and they’re going to get to the bottom of it — even if it means stepping beyond the safety of the farm to do it.
Based on Leonie Swann’s best-selling novel Three Bags Full, the film marks the live-action feature debut of Illumination animator Kyle Balda, whose experience directing animated blockbusters (Minions, The Lorax, Minions: The Rise of Gru) makes him a natural fit for blending visual comedy with a cast of mostly talkative sheep.
Among those providing voices to the flock are Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein, and Rhys Darby, while Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, along with Hong Chau and Emma Thompson, appear in the flesh as several locals and police officers.
Craig Mazin, the creator of the Emmy-winning miniseries Chernobyl and co-showrunner of the hit zombie series The Last of Us, wrote the adapted screenplay, showcasing his ability to jump effortlessly between genres.
The Sheep Detectives is scheduled to open in theaters May 8th. Sometimes when it comes to solving a murder, it takes a whole flock to get the job done... and they know when something smells off.
🎥 “Digger” Sneak Peek Teaser: Tom Cruise Prances Around With a Shovel in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Mysterious Comedy — Coming This October
Last month, Tom Cruise was recognized for his decades-long film career and his unwavering commitment to cinema, receiving his first Oscar at the 2025 Academy Governors Awards. Sure, it was an Honorary Oscar and shouldn’t be looked at as a consolation prize or a polite afterthought. It was a great honor. But it did have people wondering if Cruise will ever get the chance to win an Oscar for acting.
Well, Cruise certainly seems to be moving into the next stage of his acting career. Now that he appears to be done with the Mission: Impossible films—which consumed a massive chunk of his time and energy for years—the door certainly feels like it’s been cracked open for something different for the 63-year-old actor. Especially now that his next film project is being handled by Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, of Birdman and The Revenant fame.
Now fans are thinking this might be the movie that not only course-corrects Cruise’s career toward more award-worthy work, but also delivers the role that could finally put him back in serious Oscar contention.
So, what is it? What is this movie that might finally do the trick… might finally give Cruise his first “real” Oscar? And the answer is… well, we don’t really know quite yet. But we do know the film’s got a title: Digger. It already has a cool-looking poster with strong Saul Bass vibes, and it just picked up a logline: “A comedy of catastrophic proportions.”
Okay, that’s not much to go on. But it does involve a shovel (hence the digger part), and Cruise looking like a slightly older man in cowboy boots and shorts… which, honestly, might be intriguing enough for now. So keep this one on your radar. We expect this film to reveal itself in due time, and likely in much stranger, more interesting ways.
Digger is slated to open in theaters sometime in October, which is the same month Birdman came out—a film that ended up earning Michael Keaton his first and only Oscar nomination. Cruise could very well be hoping lightning strikes twice, especially under Iñárritu’s watch.
🎥 “Anaconda” Final Trailer: Jack Black and Paul Rudd Are Two Amateur Filmmakers Chasing Down a Giant Jungle Snake in This Movie-Meta Buddy Comedy — Hitting Theaters Christmas Day
The 1997 film Anaconda is not a great film. But it’s a fun ’90s film. Meaning, it’s the kind of goofy, star-studded studio creature feature we grew up catching on cable, half-watching while flipping channels, and fully enjoying despite knowing it’s absurd. It’s big, loud, unapologetically silly, and powered by movie stars chewing scenery like they know exactly what kind of movie they’re in. It’s not a comedy, but we can’t help but laugh while watching it, because it’s so fully committed to its own ridiculousness that resisting the fun feels beside the point.
Now this year’s Anaconda is a full-blown comedy, featuring the onscreen pairing of two of the funniest actors working today: Jack Black and Paul Rudd. At first, we thought this was going to be a straight-up remake of the 1997 film, just done with a comedic twist — like a modern, winking redo of the same basic setup. Well, that’s not exactly the case.
The premise is as silly as you might expect: Black and Rudd play two childhood friends who grew up loving the original 1997 Anaconda film so much that decades later they decide to shoot a DIY remake on their own dime. It’s a passion project. It’s something they’ve dreamt of doing for years. So, “no” is not an option. But as they round up a makeshift crew to shoot their lifelong dream project deep in the Amazonian jungle, reality hits them in the face like a bucket of cold water. To film a giant snake, they must find it first. And they never quite thought through what happens when the snake finds them instead. And this snake doesn’t take direction all that well, though it’s quite ready for its close-up. Yikes!
Joining Black and Rudd among their panicked crew members are Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior, and Selton Mello as a hapless snake handler who may have bitten off more than he can chew on this shoot. Also, there will be a certain surprise guest appearance that will connect this to the original film. And his name rhythm with “Nice Dude.”
The film hails from filmmaker Tom Gormican, who was also behind the similarly cinephile-driven meta buddy comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, featuring Nicolas Cage as himself. So it’s safe to say you can expect midlife meltdowns, some jungle mayhem, and two friends learning, very painfully, that some movies are better left as memories.
Anaconda slithers into theaters nationwide on Christmas Day, December 25th.
🎥 “Send Help” New Trailer: Rachel McAdams Turns the Tables on Dylan O’Brien in Director Sam Raimi’s Darkly Comic Survival Thriller — In Theaters January 30th
Have we taken Rachel McAdams for granted? For years she has delivered powerfully impressive performances (see Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Game Night, Southpaw, Doctor Strange, etc.), yet she rarely gets talked about like a capital-A Movie Star—even though she’s quietly built one of the most versatile and consistent filmographies of her generation. Well, maybe it’s about time we give her some respect, damnit. But let’s say you won’t... because from the looks of her latest film, she’s not asking for it anyway.
In Send Help, McAdams stars as Linda Liddle, a tightly coiled assistant who’s spent years swallowing mistreatment from her boss, Bradley Preston, played by Dylan O’Brien. Bradley is arrogant, entitled, and emotionally careless—the kind of boss you want to punch in the face but don’t, because he holds too much power and can also withhold your paycheck.
But when Linda and Bradley survive a horrific plane crash during a business trip and wash up on a remote tropical island, the power imbalance initially follows them ashore. That doesn’t last long. Bradley is badly injured and barely mobile, leaving Linda to hunt, gather, and keep them alive. And soon, the long-simmering resentment Linda has buried begins to surface in unsettling ways.
Now Linda doesn’t wait for anyone to give her respect; she demands it. And on this island, she finally has the leverage to take it. After all, she’s been training for this moment ever since her dream of winning a spot on the show Survivor. Now “outwit, outplay, outlast” are exactly the things she’s doing to survive. And Bradley has no clue just how badly the rules of this game have shifted against him.
Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead franchise) is the helmer behind this twisty survival thriller, bringing his trademark brand of swooping camera effects, dark humor, and cruel irony to a story that gleefully flips the power dynamic on its head. It’s a psychological tug-of-war where survival isn’t just about who’s strongest, but who’s most ruthless. And from the looks of things, it ain’t Dylan O’Brien.
Written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (Freddy vs. Jason), Send Help is largely a two-character showdown, supported by a small ensemble that includes Dennis Haysbert and Chris Pang. The film is crash-landing in theaters January 30th. Payback never looked so well deserved.
