Trailers have become a significant part of anticipation culture. These days, eager fans analyze every frame of any advance look at shows like Game of Thrones or movies like Avengers: Endgame. The Verge can help you find the latest trailers as they’re released — not just the biggest and most analysis-worthy sneak peaks, but teasers for promising indie films and streaming shows as well. Follow along for first-look sneak peaks at everything from Netflix’s latest releases to the newest Marvel Cinematic Universe film.
That’s the first thing that struck me in the new trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a sequel that reunites director Tim Burton with stars Michael Keaton and Winona Ryde, while adding Jenna Ortega to the festivities. It hits theaters on September 6th.
Comics legend Frank Miller has largely withdrawn from the public eye in recent years. But with the release of Frank Miller: American Genius — director Silenn Thomas’ new documentary — he’s opening his life back up to fans for one night only (June 10th) when the film hits Cinemark theaters across the country. New Yorkers can also catch an earlier screening on June 6th.
While we wait for the final season of Stranger Things and its animated spinoff, Netflix is teasing fans with a trailer for The First Shadow, a play in London that also serves as a prequel. But hey, maybe the trailer is a sign that a home version of the production will eventually be available to stream.
Netflix is gearing up for the finale of its post-apocalyptic series Sweet Tooth, and the first season 3 trailer reveals that fans can finally expect some answers to the show’s big questions. It starts streaming on June 6th.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II launches tomorrow and the developers at Ninja Theory have released a new launch trailer detailing all the trials and tribulations Senua will experience on her journey. There’s fights against demons, a lot of crying, and a particularly harrowing burning at the stake. After all the game is called Hellblade and not “Very Nice Spring Day Blade” for a reason.
MoviePass, MovieCrash — director Muta’Ali’s documentary chronicling how two growth-obsessed executives ran the innovative theater subscription service into the ground — made a spash at this year’s SXSW. And now the movie’s slated to make its streaming debut on Max later this month.
Ultraman: Rising’s first teaser gave us a glimpse of the big man’s adoptive kaiju daughter, and framed their relationship as somewhat uneasy. But the movie’s latest trailer makes Ken Sato (Christopher Sean) seem like one hell of a dad who’s going to fight the world for his kid this June.
A trailer for season 4 of the streaming whodunit has the crew of would-be detectives venturing to Hollywood, which is a big change of pace. You can check it out on Hulu starting on August 27th.
Like Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon has alluded to how the great oncoming winter is the actually the biggest threat the people of Westeros will face.
But the prequel series’ latest season two trailer is firmly focused on the past at a time when all the matters is the war within the fractured Targaryen family.
Sauron (Charlie Vickers) was careful about keeping his true identity secret all throughout the first season of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But the dark lord’s powers are on full display in the series’ new season two teaser, and it seems like he’ll be laying waste to Middle-earth when we see him next. Show’s back on August 29th.
A Peridot, that is. Pokémon Go maker Niantic is attempting to expand its virtual pet game with a new mixed reality spinoff for the Meta Quest 3. If you own the headset you can check it out right now.
If you combined Squid Game with Survivor and set it in a South Korean high school, you’d get something that looks a lot like Pyramid Game. The series follows a group of students contending with “a ranking system that chooses class outcasts via secret vote.” As if being a teenager wasn’t bad enough. It starts streaming on Paramount Plus on May 30th.
AMC’s original Orphan Black series always left open the possibility of there being even more people wandering around in the world not knowing they were clones. And the first trailer for Anna Fishko’s spin-off Orphan Black: Echoes makes it seem like Kira Manning’s (Keeley Hawes) experience dealing with genetic dupes is going to come in very handy.
The first A Quiet Place featured a fair number of shots showing off the movie’s terrifying looked like up close, but the franchise’s latest entry seems like it’s going to spotlight what groups of the creatures can do in packs judging from the looks of this new trailer.
In its first teaser, the new LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy (on Disney Plus September 13th) goes where no Star Wars production has gone before by entering Darth Jar Jar into the canon.
Just kidding, it’s not canon. But it does look like a fun DC Elseworlds or Marvel’s What If...? kind of approach, which I’d like more of (no multiverse though, please).
Though Apple TV Plus has been crushing it on the sci-fi front lately, the streamer is gearing up for a crime thriller turn with a new series adaptation of author Scott Turow’s novel Presumed Innocent from David E. Kelley starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Negga. The series debuts on June 12th.
The first season of My Adventures with Superman left most of the superheroic heavy lifting to Clark Kent (Jack Quaid) as villains terrorized metropolis. Even more of Superman’s classic foes are making their way to the show in its second season (out May 25th.) But this time around, the Man of Steel is going to have a bit more Kryptonian muscle on his side.
Disney Plus is well on its way to becoming a cable channel, and the final trailer for X-Men ‘97 makes it feel like the series is going to be following suit given the Cable of it all.
While it might still be a while before you can stream The Boy and the Heron on Max, you’ll be able to buy digital copies beginning June 25th, and limited edition 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD steelbook edition will be available on July 9th.
Given the success of Disney’s “live-action” remake of The Lion King, a prequel seemed inevitable, so here we are with Mufasa. It looks a lot like the original, only this time they added an ice level and a villain voiced by Mads Mikkelsen. It hits theaters on December 20th.
Romulus is looking pretty scary, but if you’re in the mood for something more immersive there’s an Alien horror game for VR on the way as well. Unfortunately there’s no actual gameplay in this trailer for Rogue Incursion, but the developers at Survios describe it as a “single-player, action-horror game” launching this holiday on PS VR2, PCVR via Steam, and Meta Quest 3.
Jason Parham’s 2021 Wired article about Black Twitter detailed quite a bit about what made the community such an enriching space for Black people. But Hulu’s new docuseries based on the piece looks like going to be focused on detailing how Black Twitter became a broader cultural phenomenon. The series premieres on May 9th.
Jim Henson Idea Man, Ron Howard’s new Disney Plus documentary about the man who dreamt up the Muppets, is obviously going to have its lighthearted moments. But the doc’s first trailer makes it feel like a sentimental tearjerker that will have people putting on their favorite Henson productions after it debuts on May 31st.
Blink Twice, director co-writer Zoë Kravitz’s new psychological thriller about two women (Naomi Ackie and Alia Shawkat) trapped on an eccentric billionaire’s (Channing Tatum) island, sounds like a cross between Glass Onion and The Menu.
And the movie’s first trailer makes it seem like those two flavors are going to go pretty well together Blink Twice hits theaters on August 23rd.
It’s never easy to tell whether M. Night Shyamalan’s about to whip out another banger like Split, or a dud like Old. And the trailer for Trap — Shyamalan’s new thriller about cops luring a killer into the open with a concert — makes it extremely hard to tell which camp it’s going to fall into.
Stitch is an embroidery game that challenges players to thread together all kinds of interesting embroidery puzzles. It’s like paint-by-numbers with thread, with increasing levels of difficulty and complexity. It’s a neat concept that reminds me a bit of the comfort of playing A Little To The Left.
Though Stitch is already out on Apple Arcade, it will make its Switch debut sometime today.
