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.
The first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ upcoming crime drama Smoke starring Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett as a detective / arson investigator duo forced to team up in order to take down a pair of serial fire starters is — apologies — hot as hell. The show debuts on June 27th.
While you may have forgotten that Elio is hitting theaters next month, the film’s latest trailer makes it seem like Pixar has been listening to the ridiculous 100 men vs 1. gorilla hypothetical fight people have been debating about for the past few weeks.
In writer / director Nacho Vigalondo’s Daniela Forever, the grief Nick (Henry Golding) feels over the sudden death of his girlfriend Daniela (Beatrice Grannò) leads him to a clinical trial for a drug that induces lucid dreaming. Nick’s drug-fueled dreams are meant to help pull him out of his depression, but as the movie’s new trailer teases, things go terribly (and beautifully) wrong. The movie’s in theaters July 11th.
If nothing else, the Jurassic Park franchise has done a solid job of coming up with reasons for people to keep returning to dinosaur-infested islands. The latest example is Jurassic World Rebirth, which has Scarlett Johansson searching for some life-saving dino DNA. It also looks like a mix of a number of film franchises — a little Alien, a little Indiana Jones — and it hits theaters on July 2nd.
The new trailer for Hulu’s Predator: Killer of Killers gives a little bit too much of the plot away, but it also makes the movie seem like it’s going to be kinda fantastic when it premieres on June 6th.
Here’s one more trailer before the John Wick spinoff Ballerina hits theaters on June 6th. The new clip plays all of the Wick hits — pulsing nightclub, hotel shootout, bulletproof jackets — but with Ana de Armas as the new trained killer. It also hints that we might get an answer to how John is still actually alive.
Blizzard just announced the latest collaboration for its hero shooter, and this time it’ll bring characters from Street Fighter 6 into the game. There aren’t a lot of details yet, but things kick off on May 20th.
The first trailer for The Long Walk, the latest Stephen King adaptation, starts out pretty cheerful and wholesome before fully revealing its much darker premise. It’s being directed by Francis Lawrence, best-known for his work on The Hunger Games series, and hits theaters on September 12th. It’s also not the only dystopic King film in the works, as Edgar Wright is making a new version of The Running Man due out in November.
As Fortnite is in the midst of a big Star Wars collaboration, Destiny 2 has teased its own coming later this year. It’s called Renegades, and a proper reveal is happening on September 9th, with a launch in December.
Fair warning: the new trailer for Michael Shanks’ Together may only be two minutes long, but it’s full of body horror moments that will stick with you. The movie hits theaters on July 30th.
Here’s the first, very brief, teaser for Highest 2 Lowest, which has Denzel Washington and Spike Lee working together once again. The thriller is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, only set in New York in the present, and it also stars Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky. It hits theaters on August 22nd before streaming on Apple TV Plus on September 5th.
If you’re still unsure just what the deal is with the multiplayer spinoff of Elden Ring, Bandai Namco just put out a 10-minute-long overview trailer that does a good job of summing up what exactly you’ll be doing in the game, covering combat, enemies, gear, and your home base, among other details. And it’s right on time: Nightreign launches on May 30th.
After premiering at last year’s TIFF, R.T. Thorne’s post-apocalyptic thriller 40 Acres is finally making its way into movie theaters this summer on July 2nd.
Co-writer / director Matt Palmer’s Fear Street: Prom Queen is the first of Netflix’s new trilogy of horror features inspired by R.L. Stine’s books, and the movie’s first trailer makes it look like it’ll be a teen-friendly (albeit R-rated) riff on classic slashers when it debuts on May 23rd.
The Slayer approacheth. Every day we get closer to the May 15th release date of Doom: The Dark Ages. In the lead up to launch, id Software has been drip feeding fans new trailers and tidbits to keep the hype high. With this latest update, the developers at id are showing off an all new location, the cosmic realm, new Lovecraftian enemies, and new combat mechanics that are gonna look mighty familiar to anyone who’s played Returnal.
In addition to dropping a new trailer for Wednesday’s upcoming second season, Netflix has confirmed that the series’ next chapter will be split in two with the first half debuting on August 6th, and the second on September 3rd.
Summer is still a few months away, but there’s a new trailer for director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, which looks fine save for the conspicuous lack of Brandy Norwood’s Karla Wilson. The movie’s out July 18th.
Warner Bros.’ unsettling new teaser for writer / director Zach Cregger’s latest film Weapons doesn’t reveal all that much. But the movie’s promotional website makes it seem like we might be in for an expansion of the Barbarian universe when it hits theaters on August 8th.
With just a few weeks left before its May 15th launch date, Bethesda has released a second trailer for Doom: The Dark Ages. The last two Doom games have slowly been building up the mythology of the Doom Slayer, the nigh godlike entity whose favorite hobby is ripping and tearing until it is done. With this The Dark Ages trailer, it seems like Bethesda is poised to give us the most story laden Doom game yet.
After a long struggle to find a distributor — one producer told World of Reel it was seen as “unreleasable” because of how gross it is — the Dinklage-starring remake of The Toxic Avenger is finally due for theatrical release on August 29th in the US.
In its second teaser, Dinklage’s Winston Gooze, AKA Toxie, seeks help for a mysterious illness from the head of his company, played by Kevin Bacon. And yeah, it looks gross.
Sports are already pretty scary if you’re a Maple Leafs fan like me, but Him somehow looks even more terrifying. Directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele, the movie follows an up-and-coming quarterback (Tyriq Withers) dealing with “potentially career-ending brain trauma” after an attack from a fan. Things only get darker from there. The movie hits theaters on September 19th.
The latest trailer for FBC: Firebreak — a multiplayer spinoff of Control — looks delightfully weird, and is making me feel justified in my irrational hatred of sticky notes. The game launches this summer, but Remedy is also hosting a livestream on April 24th at 1PM ET with a deeper look and some news. Hopefully we get a release date.
It seems like there are actually going to be quite a few uninfected humans running around in 28 Years Later. The film’s latest trailer is filled with survivors and soldiers armed with lethal weapons, but once Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) leave from the safety of their remote home, they’ve got to fend for themselves to keep the rage-fueled ghouls at bay.
