The biggest movie trailers and release dates in 2024 – The Verge

Trailers of the week: Star Trek, Severance, and Gundam

2024-12-08T18:48:11-05:00

Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Section 31. | Image: Paramount Plus

It's the first week of December, and the end of the year is coming in fast and with a lot to look forward to at theaters this month. That very cool-looking Lord of the Rings anime hits US theaters on the 13th; Sonic the Hedgehog 3 follows on the 20th; and I'm deeply excited to see Nosferatu on December 25th. (If you're not with me on that last one, give Matt Zoller Seitz's RogerEbert.com review of it a read and get back to me.)

While I'm waiting to go be unnerved by Robert Eggers' new spooky vampire movie, let's take a look at some good trailers from the last week.

Star Trek: Section 31

I'll admit that the biggest appeal for me about this s …

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Michelle Yeoh’s spy team assembles in Star Trek: Section 31’s official trailer

2024-12-07T16:16:17-05:00

There's a lot of Star Trek: Discovery in the official trailer for the Star Trek: Section 31 movie that Paramount Plus just released - big drama, explosions, and some looming threat that's "unlike anything that Starfleet's ever seen."

The trailer shows off a little more of the film, with moody corridors, some sort of electrified space ball, and brief looks at the spaceships that the show will feature. It also devotes more time to characters besides Michelle Yeoh's Emperor Philippa Georgiou - namely Omari Hardwick's Alok Sahar and Kacey Rohl's future Enterprise C captain, Rachel Garrett. It's still a mystery what trouble Emperor Philippa is l …

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Trailers of the week: Minecraft, Elio, and Alien: Earth

2024-11-24T18:09:11-05:00

A still from the latest A Minecraft Movie trailer. | Screenshot: YouTube

This week, I went to a theater to watch a showing of the black-and-white version of Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves. Old-heads like me may recall it as a bad mid-90s cyberpunk film (written by William Gibson!) about a data courier whose brain is the storage medium, but who had to have his childhood memories erased to make space for the work.

I hadn't seen it since I was a kid, and you know what? It's still not a good movie. But if you ignore the plot holes, mostly awful acting, and terrible pacing, it's at least very cool to look at. Also, I had totally forgotten about Ice T's turn as J-Bone, leader of the Lo-Tek underground. It was …

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Trailers of the week: Squid Game, Presence, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

2024-11-02T17:31:51-04:00

With all the noise from the lead-up to the 2024 US Presidential election next week, you'd be forgiven for having missed some of the trailers that came out over the last few days. Not to worry; I've got you covered for some of the best ones.

This week's trailers included a teaser for Netflix's second season of Squid Game, a new haunted house horror film from Steven Soderbergh, and a look at Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Daniel Craig showed up in a trailer for a new A24 movie called Queer.

Squid Game season 2

Squid Game is finally returning for its second season soon, and in a new teaser, Lee Jung-jae's Gi-hun looks like he's preparing to stage a …

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Trailers of the week: Nosferatu, The Franchise, and Squid Game 2

2024-10-06T12:22:14-04:00

Willem Dafoe in Nosferatu. | Screenshot: YouTube

Can you feel it? There's a slight chill in the air, the Sun is retiring earlier, and the leaves are beginning to change (at least in my Midwestern city). We're wading right into the time of year when everyone starts posting the vampire Kermit the Frog meme to show how ready they are for Halloween. I'm even starting to eye that Shudder re-subscribe button.

October has its own vibe at the cinema, and theatrical releases this month include Operation Blood Hunt, a movie about 1944 special forces fighting werewolves in the Pacific theater, and Seven Cemeteries, a Danny Trejo-starring film about a guy who hires a witch to resurrect his posse to s …

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Trailers of the week: Thunderbolts, Rumors, and Disclaimer

2024-09-28T12:19:13-04:00

“So full. So filled.” | Image: Disney

This week, I've been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I'm about 20 hours into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch; and I'm still trying to work a trip to the movie theater into my schedule to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

I'm behind, in other words! And this week's trailers shoveled so much more onto my need-to-watch pile, from the next Marvel MCU film, Thunderbolts, to the amusingly bizarre black comedy Rumours, to Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuarón's new Apple TV Plus series. That's to say nothing of all the game trailers from Sony's State of Play event this week.

Check out some of my favorite trailers from this week below.

Thund …

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Trailers of the week: Sonic 3, Napoleon, and Agatha All Along

2024-08-31T17:58:28-04:00

This week brought a few noteworthy movie and TV trailers - the big one being Sonic the Hedgehog 3. And while I won't include them here, you should check out some of the trailers included with our coverage of the most recent Nintendo Direct (shoutout to the Nintendo DS Castlevania games collection).

It's clear that summer is winding down, and so are the big blockbusters. Things will liven up a bit with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice next week, but things are looking quiet for a little bit after that.

Sonic the Hedghehog 3

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 finally brings Sonic's big nemesis, Shadow, into the mix, played by Keanu Reeves. The trailer only gave a b …

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The biggest trailers of the week: June 23rd to June 29th

2024-06-29T19:31:33-04:00

Willem Dafoe in Nosferatu. | Screenshot: YouTube

I'm stuck in a weird spot when it comes to movies and TV, these days. On one hand, the constant churn of remakes, reboots, franchise movies, and sequels often feels like it comes at the expense of original storytelling. But on the other, I am unabashedly looking forward to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, I'm really enjoying The Acolyte, and I'm sorry, but I'm the reason Nintendo just keeps remaking games, and I will continue to be. (Also, I feel I must apologize to my friends and family in advance for my absence when Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is released.)

Thankfully, the trailers that showed up this week look as promising as any of the best of thos …

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Logan is so annoyed in the third Deadpool & Wolverine trailer

2024-06-08T15:06:15-04:00

There's virtually no indication in the trailers for Deadpool & Wolverine so far that Wolverine feels anything but disgust and irritation at Deadpool as they get down to whatever fourth wall-breaking multiverse shenanigans the film holds in store. That's made all the more apparent by a Hugh Jackman whose increasingly craggy face only seems to be more fit to represent Logan as time goes on.

The new trailer leans way more into bits and one-liners than the previous two. Maybe that's because Marvel and Disney have already set up the movie's emotional stakes, first for Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and then for Wolverine. This one is all dick jokes an …

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The biggest movie trailers for the first week of June

2024-06-08T10:35:06-04:00

We are Venom! | Screenshot: YouTube

Two of my favorite trailers for this week share a common theme: parasitic aliens. The trope has given us some of the finest moments in cinema history; consider the whole Alien franchise, the horrifying dog transformation in The Thing, or that scene from Spaceballs. You could make a convincing argument that Star Trek's Borg race are parasites of a kind, too.

It's a versatile premise that lets a movie be as heady or grotesque or action-packed as its creators want. And two of sci-fi's most beloved fictional freeloaders are showing up this week.

Venom: The Last Dance

Venom doesn't like being called a parasite, but that's still basically what i …

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