Trailer Blitz! The Weight, Motor City, Late Fame, Practical Magic 2, Sense and Sensibility and More
🎥 Here’s a list of films coming to screens soon!
🎥 “The Weight” Trailer: Ethan Hawke Takes on a Deadly Gold-Smuggling Mission in This Hard-Bitten Period Thriller with Russell Crowe — Hitting Theaters September 18th
Ethan Hawke has quietly aged out of the ’90s slacker persona he was once known for and into something far more interesting these days. Sure, he may have first caught our attention playing sensitive, restless young men in films like Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Training Day, and the Before Sunrise trilogy, but at 55, he has matured into one of the most compelling actors still taking major swings on screen.
With an uncanny ability to jump from one genre to the next, Hawke is stepping into a new leading-man era, one defined less by youthful angst and more by simmering, weathered intensity. Now, that’s not a slight about him getting older, but an acknowledgment of how his screen presence has deepened with time.
Hawke takes the lead in the new period thriller The Weight, which appears to draw from the same hard-bitten tradition as classic neo-westerns like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with a dose of the existential pressure found in The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin’s American remake, Sorcerer.
Meaning it’s a story of hard-pressed men whose nerves, morals, and survival skills are pushed to the limit after they’re handed an impossible mission with high stakes and almost no margin for error. And with Hawke in the lead, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in Blue Moon, the film gives him another chance to prove he’s more than just Maya Hawke’s dad. He might just be our generation’s Gary Cooper.
Here, Hawke stars as Samuel Murphy, a widower in 1930s Oregon who is torn away from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison. There, Warden Clancy, played by Russell Crowe, offers Samuel and several other inmates a dangerous proposition: smuggle stolen government gold out of a remote mine, survive the job, and earn a shot at freedom. Of course, it’s the kind of deal too good to pass up, but signing on may also mean signing their own death warrants.
The cast also includes Julia Jones (Wind River) as Anna, a headstrong Indigenous runaway who joins Samuel and the prisoners on the journey, along with Austin Amelio (Everybody Wants Some!!) and Avi Nash (Silo) as roughneck prisoners turned smugglers.
Padraic McKinley makes his feature directorial debut after working as an editor on projects like The Good Lord Bird and The Loudest Voice.
Following its world premiere earlier this year at Sundance, where it earned rave reviews, The Weight is now due to open in theaters September 18th.
🎥 “Motor City” Trailer: Alan Ritchson Tears Through 1970s Detroit on a Full-Throttle Revenge Mission in This Raucous Action Thriller with Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster, and Pablo Schreiber — In Theaters July 24th
There’s no delicate way to say this: Alan Ritchson is built like the human equivalent of a Mack truck. So no matter what dire scenario he’s thrown into, we can’t help but think: yeah, he’s almost cartoonishly equipped to survive it.
That massive frame has served him well in his breakout turn on Amazon’s action series Reacher, and it looks like it will come in just as handy in Motor City, a 1970s-set grindhouse revenge thriller where Ritchson gets unjustly thrown in prison, only to come out with a major score to settle.
Detroit is known for its steel and its muscle cars. Well, Alan Ritchson is here to remind everyone that he fits right in ’cuz the man basically looks like he rolled off the assembly line with dents already included. And from the look of things in this new trailer, he’s prepared to run through a brick wall to get back what was taken from him.
Set against the hard-rock backdrop of 1970s Detroit, Motor City sees Ritchson as John Miller, a working-class bruiser whose life gets knocked sideways after he falls for a local waitress played by Shailene Woodley. The problem is, she also happens to be the unrequited obsession of a ruthless Detroit gangster, played here by Ben Foster, looking quite smarmy and devious.
With plans to take John out of the picture, this gangster has him raided by police, framed for a crime he didn’t commit, and thrown into prison while the life he knew gets ripped away from him. Worse still, John’s girl seems to believe the lies, leaving him not only framed and imprisoned, but completely cut off from the one person he loves.
But once John is finally free, or perhaps breaks his way out, he’s not looking for closure, healing, or some noble second chance. He wants full-blown payback, and judging by this new trailer, he plans to collect it with pure Motor City fury. Anyone foolish enough to stand in his way is probably getting folded like a lawn chair.
Also co-starring Pablo Schreiber and Lionel Boyce, the film is directed by Potsy Ponciroli (Old Henry) from a Black List script by Chad St. John (Replicas). Motor City is scheduled to open in theaters July 24th.
Come for the metal-crunching revenge mayhem, but stay for Ritchson turning 1970s Detroit into his own personal demolition derby. Hell yeah!
🎥 “Late Fame” Trailer: Willem Dafoe Gets Rediscovered as a Forgotten Poet Facing an Unexpected Second Act with Greta Lee — Hitting Theaters August 7th
What is fame, really?
Well, for a young artist, it can seem pretty straightforward: becoming successful at something you love doing, whether that means earning money, respect, recognition, or simply proving you were right to chase it in the first place.
But for an older artist, fame becomes a little more complicated. It’s no longer just about being seen. It’s about what that attention costs, what it takes away, and whether the thing you once wanted still feels worth having once you finally get it. An older person is also more skeptical, more bruised by experience, and probably more aware that fame doesn’t fix everything. Sometimes it just gives your problems better lighting.
In Late Fame, Willem Dafoe stars as Ed Saxberger, a once-promising New York poet whose work barely made a ripple when it first appeared. Decades later, his forgotten poems are suddenly rediscovered by a younger generation of artists, turning him into an unlikely literary figure among a group of eager, eccentric creatives.
Now seen as one of the last living connections to a fabled old beat-poet era, Ed finds himself both flattered and deeply unsure of what any of this attention actually means. Do they truly believe his poems deserve rediscovery, or are they simply fascinated by the novelty of a forgotten relic from a cooler, vanished literary scene?
Greta Lee co-stars as Gloria, a free-spirited actress and admirer whose charming presence adds another layer of temptation and uncertainty to Ed’s late-in-life revival, as he begins to wonder whether this sudden attention is a second chance or just another letdown waiting to happen.
Edmund Donovan, Jake Lacy, and Clark Johnson also star.
Kent Jones, the filmmaker behind Diane and Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, directs, while the screenplay comes from Samy Burch, whose Oscar-nominated script for May December showed a sharp eye for performance, self-deception, and the messy stories people tell about themselves.
For Willem Dafoe’s Ed, newfound recognition may be less a victory lap than a strange second audition. After all, being rediscovered is one thing. Believing it is another.
Late Fame opens in theaters August 7th.
🎥 “Practical Magic 2” Trailer: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman Bring the Owens Sisters Back for Another Round of Love, Magic, and Family Trouble with Joey King and Maisie Williams as the Next Generation — Arriving In Theaters September 11th
To break a family curse, sometimes you have to go back to where the magic first began. And for the Owens women, that means digging into old secrets, dark family history, and a few powers that have been waiting to come out.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are back as Sally and Gillian Owens in Practical Magic 2, the long-awaited sequel to the beloved 1998 romantic fantasy. It’s been nearly three decades since we last saw the Owens sisters dealing with love, loss, small-town suspicion, and the very inconvenient problem of being witches in a family haunted by a curse that puts any man they love in danger.
This time, the story moves toward the next generation. Sally’s daughters, Kylie and Antonia, played by The Kissing Booth’s Joey King and Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams, begin uncovering long-buried family secrets that may point to the truth behind the curse that has followed the Owens women for generations.
Before long, the family is pulled beyond their familiar Massachusetts home and into the United Kingdom, where they start tracing the origins of their magical bloodline. But finding the source of the curse also means confronting the dark magic that started it all, and breaking that cycle may demand a much bigger sacrifice than anyone expected.
The stakes feel even more personal now that Kylie has found someone she truly cares about, played by Blue Beetle’s Xolo Maridueña. If the Owens family curse has taught us anything, it’s that love rarely arrives without a price.
Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest also return as the eccentric Owens aunts, with Lee Pace joining the cast as a charming dark arts historian.
Acclaimed Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier, who previously worked with Bullock on Bird Box and Kidman on HBO’s The Undoing, is helming from a script by Akiva Goldsman, Georgia Pritchett, and Kelly Marcel, based on characters from Alice Hoffman’s best-selling 1995 novel.
So yes, witches are very much back in season. And this time, the Owens women are going to prove some witches don’t just cast spells... they break them too. Practical Magic 2 opens in theaters September 11th.
🎥 “Sense and Sensibility” Trailer: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles Navigate Love, Loss, and Family Duty in Jane Austen’s Classic Tale — Coming to Theaters October 16th
At this point, Jane Austen’s novels might as well be viewed as their own IP franchise universe. Every few years, her work gets dusted off, reimagined, modernized, remixed, or handed a fresh set of bonnets for a new generation.
But for an older generation, Sense and Sensibility may still be tied to Ang Lee’s beloved 1995 adaptation, starring Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, and Hugh Grant. But now there’s a new version on the way, bringing Austen’s classic story of heartbreak, social pressure, family duty, and carefully restrained longing back to the big screen.
And here’s the thing: Austen never really gets old. Her stories endure because the themes and emotional dynamics still work. Love, money, class, reputation, bad timing, and terrible suitors with excellent manners remain painfully recognizable.
This new Sense and Sensibility stars Twisters’ Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor Dashwood, the eldest Dashwood sister whose quiet strength and emotional restraint are tested after her family’s fortunes collapse. Following the death of their father, the Dashwood women are forced to leave their family estate in Sussex and move to a modest cottage on the property of a distant relative in Devon.
Elinor and her younger sister Marianne, played by Esmé Creed-Miles from Prime’s Hanna, must navigate love, heartbreak, and disappointment in very different ways. Elinor keeps everything carefully contained, while Marianne feels every wound out loud, giving Austen her classic clash between sisterly restraint and resentment.
The cast also includes Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood, 1917’s George MacKay as Edward Ferrars, Urchin’s Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, Killing Eve’s Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings, and The Testament of Ann Lee’s Stacy Martin as Fanny Dashwood.
English filmmaker Georgia Oakley, who made her feature debut with the acclaimed 2022 indie Blue Jean, directs from an adapted screenplay by newcomer Diana Reid.
Sense and Sensibility is scheduled to open in theaters October 16th.
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🎥 “Forgotten Island” Trailer: Two Lifelong Friends Enter a Magical Filipino Folklore World in DreamWorks’ New Animated Adventure Starring H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Dave Franco and Lea Salonga — Coming to Theaters September 25th
Growing up together is one thing. Trying to survive a magical island before your entire friendship gets erased is another. In this DreamWorks Animation adventure, Grammy Award-winning R&B singer H.E.R. and Filipino American actress Liza Soberano voice Jo and Raissa, high school graduates whose final night together turns into a portal-hopping journey through Nakali, a fantastical island filled with creatures from Filipino mythology. Joined by Dave Franco’s well-meaning weredog Raww, the pair must confront the feared Manananggal, voiced by Filipina icon Lea Salonga, while racing to get home before they forget why they were fighting so hard to stay together in the first place. Sometimes, being friends means refusing to let the best parts of growing up together disappear.
🎥 “Charlie Harper” Trailer: Emilia Jones and Nick Robinson Question Whether Love Is Enough in This Modern Romance — Only in Theaters September 25th
What happens when the person you love is also the person you may have to outgrow? Emilia Jones and Nick Robinson star as Charlie and Harper, two people whose deep connection keeps pulling them back together, even as life begins pushing them in different directions. But their relationship is tested by ambition, identity, and the slow, painful changes that come with figuring out who you are. Directed by Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean, and written by Dean, this modern romance follows a couple caught between intimacy and independence, where staying together may be just as hard as letting go. Love can feel permanent until change becomes the thing neither person can outrun.
🎥 “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” Teaser Trailer: Mahershala Ali’s Religious Hitman Faces a Crisis of Faith and Family in Filmmaker Bassam Tariq’s Houston-Set Thriller — Hitting Select Theaters September 25th, Everywhere in October
Prayer and violence make for uneasy company. Mahershala Ali stars as a devout hitman whose world unravels after his wife’s death, forcing him into a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children. Writer-director Bassam Tariq keeps the pressure on a man being hunted from the outside and hollowed out from within, while John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Tramell Tillman, and Tiffany Boone help fill out the storm around him. In this thriller, the hardest fight may not be against the people coming for him, but the beliefs falling apart inside him.
🎥 “Remake” Trailer: Documentarian Ross McElwee Rebuilds a Life, a Film, and a Father-Son Story From Decades of Personal Footage — Hitting Select Theaters July 10th
Some movies become family albums. Some become unfinished conversations. Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee turns forty years of personal filmmaking into this deeply reflective documentary about his son Adrian, who grew up inside his father’s films, picked up a camera himself, and later died from a fentanyl overdose. As McElwee revisits Adrian’s final years through the footage he left behind, the stalled fictional adaptation of Sherman’s March becomes part of a larger meditation on grief, memory, and what the camera can never fully hold. This is a remake in the truest sense: not of a movie, but of how a father learns to live with what remains.
🎥 “WHAM! 10 Days In China” Trailer: New Retrospective Documentary Revisits How George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley Took Western Pop Into China — In Cinemas Worldwide July 28th
Pop history rarely comes with this much political noise. Directed by Mike Christie, this documentary revisits WHAM!’s landmark 1985 trip to China, where George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley became the first Western pop act to perform in the country with concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou. Built from newly restored, newly digitized, and never-before-seen archive footage, along with firsthand interviews, the film looks at the cultural collision of East and West, music and politics, and two young stars stepping onto a much larger world stage. Forty years later, those ten days still play like a tour story that became part pop spectacle, part cultural time capsule.
🎥 “Los Vampires” Trailer: Henry Ian Cusick and Thomas Kretschmann Turn the Making of Spanish Dracula Into a Murderous Hollywood Nightmare — World Premiering at Fantasia 2026
Hollywood’s graveyard shift gets more than it bargained for. Set in 1930, this period horror film fictionalizes the making of George Melford’s Spanish-language Dracula, which was famously shot at night on the same Universal sets after the English-language version wrapped for the day. The story follows a Spanish actor hired for the nocturnal production and forced to imitate the daytime performance of the English-speaking star, turning a strange bit of studio efficiency into a simmering rivalry. But as tensions rise between the two performers, a string of murders begins stalking the soundstage. Written and directed by Craig Mitchell, with Lost’s Henry Ian Cusick and King Kong’s Thomas Kretschmann leading a cast that includes Daniela Couso, Jefferson Mays, Oscar Nuñez, and Jorge Diaz, this offbeat vampire chiller suggests the darkest performance may be happening offscreen.
🎥 “Evil Dead Burn” New Trailer: The Deadites Crash a Family Reunion From Hell in Sébastien Vaniček’s Savage New Franchise Chapter — Coming to Theaters July 10th
Grief comes home, and something rotten answers the door. After her husband’s death, Alice (Souheila Yacoub) retreats to his family’s secluded house, where mourning turns into survival when her in-laws begin transforming into Deadites. Produced by franchise veterans Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, with Bruce Campbell among the executive producers, this family reunion does not just go wrong. It goes straight to hell. French horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček (Infested) takes the reins, proving the dead still know how to make a house feel very, very crowded.
🎥 “The Outer Threat” Trailer: An Astrophysicist’s Alien Discovery Turns Into a Paranoid Fight for Survival in This Sci-Fi Thriller Starring Mark O’Brien, Constance Wu, and William Fichtner — On VOD/Digital July 10th
The truth is out there, but that doesn’t mean anyone is ready to survive it. This sci-fi thriller stars Mark O’Brien as Daniel, an astrophysicist who discovers evidence of alien life and alerts his team, only to find himself and his family hunted by a mysterious pursuer. Written and directed by William Woods, and also starring Constance Wu and William Fichtner, the film turns first contact into a tense escape story where cosmic discovery may be indistinguishable from paranoia. Sometimes looking to the stars only makes the danger feel a little closer than anyone wants to admit.
🎥 “The Souffleur” Teaser: Willem Dafoe Fights to Save a Vanishing Vienna Hotel in Gastón Solnicki’s Dark Comedy — Coming Soon to Kino Film Collection
Willem Dafoe checks into a losing battle against time, money, and modern development in this dark comedy from writer-director Gastón Solnicki. Dafoe stars as Lucius, the longtime manager of an iconic Vienna hotel who learns the building has been sold to a developer planning to tear it down and remake it. With help from his daughter and a small circle of employees, Lucius launches a strange crusade of detours, espionage, and paranoid resistance to protect the life he has built. Some people fight for property; Lucius seems to be fighting for a whole disappearing world.
🎥 “Wet Hot American Summer: 25th Anniversary” Re-release Trailer: David Wain’s Cult Camp Comedy Returns for One More Absurd Last Day at Camp Firewood — Back in Theaters August 14th
Camp Firewood is open again, and subtlety is still not on the activity schedule. David Wain’s 2001 satirical comedy returns to theaters for its 25th anniversary, bringing back the last day of summer camp, the big talent show, messy romance, and one very inconvenient chunk of NASA’s Skylab hurtling toward Earth. Co-written by Wain and Michael Showalter, the cult favorite packs an absurdly stacked ensemble including Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Molly Shannon, Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Ian Black, and Showalter, among others. Some summer seasons fade, but this one just keeps getting wetter... eww.
🎥 “Ghosts: The Possession of Button House” Trailer: The Beloved BBC Sitcom Haunts the Big Screen in a Feature-Length Halloween Adventure — Arriving in UK Cinemas October 23rd
Button House is heading from television to theaters, which feels only right for a place already crowded with unfinished business. The beloved BBC comedy series, which sparked a popular American remake on CBS, will make its big-screen debut as a feature-length family adventure, bringing back stars, writers, and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond. Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie, and Kiell Smith-Bynoe also return for this big-screen haunting, as the ghosts get one more chance to make a supernatural mess of things. Some homes are hard to leave, especially when the residents are already dead.
🎥 “Ken Russell’s The Devils” Teaser: One of Cinema’s Most Controversial Masterpieces Returns Uncut and Restored in 4K — Hitting Theaters October 16th
Once deemed one of the most controversial films in history, Ken Russell’s infamous 1971 masterpiece is finally returning in the form he always wanted audiences to see. Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, this epic story of obsession, corruption, faith, and power has long stood as one of cinema’s most provocative works, even drawing condemnation from the Vatican. Assembled from the original camera negative and guided by Russell’s privately constructed 2004 edit, this new 4K restoration presents The Devils uncut, unfiltered, and back on the big screen. Some films are rediscovered; this one feels like it has been waiting to be released from the vault. So grab those bibles and prepare for one hell of a restoration.
🎥 “Mars Attacks! 30th Anniversary” Promos: Tim Burton’s Bonkers ’90s Alien-Invasion Spoof Gets Newly Remastered in 4K — Arriving on Digital 4K and 4K UHD Blu-ray Tuesday, August 11th
Ack! Ack! Ack! Tim Burton’s gleefully absurd 1996 alien-invasion comedy is getting the 4K treatment just in time for its 30th anniversary, with the newly remastered film arriving on Digital 4K and Blu-ray this summer. Featuring a stacked all-star cast that can rival any MCU ensemble, Mars Attacks! stars Jack Nicholson as the President of the United States, desperately failing to protect Earth from a full-blown intergalactic crisis. Some movies age gracefully; this one still feels like it came blasting in from another planet. File this under one of Burton’s most underrated gems, now ready to fry our brains all over again in glorious 4K.
🎥 “The Magic Faraway Tree” New Trailer: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, and Nicola Coughlan Enter a Storybook World of Family Magic — In U.S. Theaters August 21st
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy head to the countryside for a family reset with a very enchanted surprise. They star as Polly and Tim, parents whose children discover a magical tree that leads to extraordinary residents and fantastical lands beyond imagination. With Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan also starring, this family adventure turns Enid Blyton’s classic children’s book series into a reminder that the best escapes are the ones the whole family can take together.
🎥 “Momo and the Time Thieves” International Trailer: A Young Orphan Takes on Time-Stealing Villains in Signature’s Family Fantasy Adventure Starring Alexa Goodall and Martin Freeman — In U.K. Cinemas August 14th
The clock is ticking, and Martin Freeman may know why. Based on the 1973 children’s book by Michael Ende, this family fantasy stars Alexa Goodall as Momo, an orphan whose gift for listening becomes vital when an international corporation steals time from everyone around her. With Araloyin Oshunremi as her best friend Gino and Freeman as Master Hora, the story sends Momo into a race where saving the day means giving people back the moments that make life matter.
🎥 “Sia: Nostalgic For The Present - 10th Anniversary” Trailer: Sia’s Cinematic 2016 Stage Spectacle Graces the Big Screen for a Limited Anniversary Run — In Theaters July 23rd
Sia’s 2016 stage experience gets a big-screen return with this remastered concert film co-directed by Sia and Daniel Askill. Built around vocals, choreography, and cinematic performance, the film features Maddie Ziegler, Nicholas Lanzisera, Stephanie Mincone, and Wyatt Rocker, with appearances from Paul Dano, Gaby Hoffman, Ben Mendelsohn, Tig Notaro, and Kristen Wiig. With Ryan Heffington’s choreography shaping the movement, this looks less like a standard concert film and more like a full visual performance piece built around one of pop’s most distinctive catalogs.
🎥 “The Floaters” Trailer: Jackie Tohn Stars as A Struggling Musician Returning to Jewish Summer Camp in This Underdog Comedy From Director Rachel Israel — In Select Theaters July 10th
Camp rivalries, old friendships, and last-resort employment all come together in this summer-camp comedy. GLOW’s Jackie Tohn stars a struggling musician who takes a job from her overachieving best friend, helping supervise a group of misfit campers at the Jewish summer camp where they grew up. With the camp’s future on the line and a longtime rival waiting across the field, this looks like the kind of scrappy ensemble comedy where saving the summer means getting everyone to stop fighting long enough to care.
🎥 “Visitation” Trailer: Legendary German Filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff Turns a Berlin Lakeshore House Into a Witness to Germany’s Troubled History — In German Cinemas October 15th
A house can hold more than memories. Written and directed by 87-year-old Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, of The Tin Drum fame, this century-spanning historical drama follows a lakeshore home near Berlin as generations pass through its walls during Nazism, war, Soviet occupation, German reunification, and the arrival of a new era. Starring Detlev Buck, Susanne Wolff, Stella Denis-Winkler, Lars Eidinger, and Martina Gedeck, the film follows twelve lives searching for peace and belonging while history keeps leaving its mark. Some homes don’t just survive history; they absorb it.
🎥 “Battle of Oslo” Trailer: Colonel Birger Eriksen Makes the Call That Changed Norway’s Wartime History — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital July 3rd
History can turn on one impossible order. Directed by Daniel Fahre, this Norwegian historical war thriller revisits April 9, 1940, as German warships close in on Oslo and Colonel Birger Eriksen commands the undermanned Oscarsborg Fortress. Led by Bjørn Sundquist, with Jon Øigarden, Øystein Røger, Axel Bøyum, Fridtjov Såheim, and Odin Waage in the cast, the film shifts between the Battle of Drøbak Sound and the 1946 military inquiry that forced Eriksen to defend the decision that sank the Blücher.
🎥 “The Samurai and the Prisoner” Trailer: Filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa Turns a Castle Siege Into a Feudal Murder Mystery Starring Masahiro Motoki — Opening in U.S. Theaters July 31st
Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) takes the samurai film into shadowy mystery territory. Set inside a besieged castle, the film follows Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) as his rebellion against Nobunaga Oda (Bando Shingo) gives way to fear, betrayal, and a string of crimes within his own court. With Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant strategist locked in the dungeon, becoming his uneasy ally, this historical thriller turns wartime strategy into a deadly game of trust.
🎥 “The Debt Collector” Trailer: Nadech Kugimiya Fights to Repay the Sins of His Past in Netflix’s Thai Action Thriller — Premiering July 23rd on Netflix
Some debts come with interest. Some come with blood. Nadech Kugimiya stars as Num, a former debt collector whose prison sentence, terminal illness, and guilty conscience leave him trying to escape the violence that once defined him. But when he is pulled back into Thailand’s brutal illegal lending underworld, one final rescue mission forces him to confront the victims, scars, and moral debts he can no longer outrun. Directed by Surapong Ploensang and co-starring DAOU Pittaya Saechua, this Thai action thriller turns every punch into a payment past due.
🎥 “Kill Trip” Trailer: Festival-Goers Take the Wrong Ride Toward a Road-Trip Nightmare — On VOD/Digital July 17th
The road to Austin takes a very bad detour. A group of carefree festival-goers hitch a ride toward what should be the best weekend of their lives, only to realize they have trusted the wrong stranger. As bodies vanish and the group begins to shrink, survival turns into a desperate fight against something lurking just out of sight. Starring Tate Christensen, Diletta Guglielmi, Stelio Savante, and Corin Nemec, this road-trip horror thriller makes one thing clear: the path to paradise can get bumpy real fast.
🎥 “Cruel Hands” Trailer: A Mother and Son Are Trapped Between an Abusive Husband and a Raging Bushfire in Al Kalyk’s Survival Thriller Starring Mavournee Hazel — On VOD/Digital July 24th
There are some homes you run from, and some nightmares that refuse to stay behind. Directed by Al Kalyk, this survival thriller follows a mother (Mavournee Hazel) and her young son as they flee an abusive husband and seek refuge in an isolated farmhouse, only to realize safety is still out of reach. With a raging bushfire closing in and their pursuer drawing near, escape becomes a brutal test of courage, instinct, and how far a mother will go to protect her child.
🎥 “Golden Kamuy: The Abashiri Prison Raid” Trailer: Sugimoto and Asirpa Break Into Japan’s Most Dangerous Prison in Netflix’s Live-Action Manga Adventure — Streaming July 13th on Netflix
An ironclad prison, hundreds of criminals, and one hidden treasure map tattooed across dangerous men. This live-action action film continues Netflix’s Golden Kamuy saga as Saichi Sugimoto and Asirpa push deeper into the hunt for stolen Ainu gold, leading them toward the heavily guarded Abashiri Prison. Starring Kento Yamazaki, Anna Yamada, Gordon Maeda, Yūma Yamoto, and Asuka Kudo, the film adapts the manga’s iconic prison arc into a high-stakes raid where getting inside may be the easy part. In this treasure hunt, every scar could point the way to a war.
🎥 “EVANGELION:DEATH (TRUE)² & REBIRTH” Re-release Trailer: Hideaki Anno’s Landmark Anime Film Returns to Theaters for Evangelion’s 30th Anniversary — In Theatres July 21st
The end was never going to be simple. Hideaki Anno’s original film adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion returns to theaters as part of the Evangelion 30th Movie Fest, bringing together EVANGELION:DEATH, a compilation of the TV anime’s first 24 episodes, and EVANGELION:REBIRTH, an early portion of the alternate ending that would become “Air.” First released in Japan in 1997, this theatrical turning point revisits the fractured minds, apocalyptic pressure, and unresolved questions that made the series a landmark.
🎥 “The Ribbon Hero” Trailer: Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight Gets a Modern Anime Reimagining — Streaming August 8th on Netflix
A classic hero is being redrawn for a new generation. Inspired by Osamu Tezuka’s 1953 manga Princess Knight, this anime feature follows Princess Sapphire as she rises from loss and trauma to become the Ribbon Hero after the monstrous Nergal devastates her kingdom. Directed by Yuki Igarashi, with production from TWIN ENGINE and animation by OUTLINE, the film reimagines Sapphire’s fight to protect her new home from the same dark fate. Destiny may be harsh, but this heroine clearly has no plans to bow to it.
🎥 “The Bay” Trailer: Francesca Eastwood and Dani Oliveros Star as Two Best Friends Fighting to Survive Shark-Infested Waters in This Shark Thriller — Coming July 17th on VOD/Digital
A destination wedding in Thailand takes a deadly turn in this survival thriller from writer-director Phil Volken. Francesca Eastwood and Dani Oliveros star as Emma and Lani, two best friends whose tour boat sinks in the middle of a tiger shark sanctuary, leaving them stranded in waters where every move could draw something closer. It’s a lean shark-attack setup built around panic, friendship, and the very bad realization that the shore is not nearly close enough.
🎥 “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez” Trailer: David Alvarado’s Documentary Celebrates the Father of Chicano Theater and the Filmmaker Behind ‘Zoot Suit’ and ‘La Bamba’ — Opening July 17th at NY’s Film Forum; Other Cities to Follow
Written and directed by David Alvarado, this documentary chronicles the life and career of Luis Valdez, the playwright and filmmaker who brought Chicano stories from the farm fields of Delano to Broadway and Hollywood. Narrated by Edward James Olmos, who starred in Valdez’s landmark Zoot Suit and its 1981 film adaptation, the film traces the founding of El Teatro Campesino alongside the United Farm Workers, as well as the creation of Zoot Suit and La Bamba. It’s a portrait of an artist whose work became inseparable from a larger cultural movement that changed the American stage.
🎥 “Never Stop Chasing” Trailer: Storm Chaser Reed Timmer Drives Straight Into the World’s Most Violent Tornadoes in This New Documentary — Coming to Theaters August 21st
For most people, severe weather means taking shelter. For Reed Timmer, it means driving the armored Dominator 3 straight into the path of the world’s most violent tornadoes. This documentary follows the storm-chasing legend and his crew as they hit the road in their souped-up truck to pursue extreme weather while confronting the danger, obsession, friendship, and human cost left behind in the storm’s wake. Chasing tornadoes may look like a thrill ride, but it’s a job meant for those crazy enough to run toward the danger everyone else is trying to escape.
