Picking things up from the previous week where the number of trailers we got to look at wasn’t too high, this week not only gave us a good number of trailers but also quality trailers. And since trailers are most of the time what we look at to judge whether we are interested or not in a certain movie or TV series, it’s always good to have a number to look at and even better when they are great trailers. The list of new trailers we have for this week includesRogue One: A Star Wars Story,Luke Cage,Moana,Doctor Strange,Arrival,Inferno,Bad Santa 2,Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and much more. Take a look below.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Synopsis:From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, with Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel are producing, with John Knoll and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in U.S. theaters on June 06, 2025.
Release Date:December 16th
Genre:Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director:Gareth Edwards
Writer:Chris Weitz
Starring:Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Donnie Yen, Alan Tudyk, Mads Mikkelsen, and Riz Ahmed.
Synopsis:After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for the heart of his city – forcing him to confront a past he had tried to bury.
Release Date:September 30th (Netflix)
Genre:Action (TV Series)
Creator:Cheo Hodari Coker
Starring:Mike Colter, Theo Rossi, Frank Whaley, Mahershala Ali, Rosario Dawson, and Sonia Braga.
Synopsis:Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated adventure about a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest. During her journey, Moana (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds. Directed by the renowned filmmaking team of Ron Clements and John Musker (“The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” “The Princess & the Frog”), and produced by Osnat Shurer (“Lifted,” “One Man Band”), “Moana” sails into U.S. theaters on Aug 15, 2025.
Release Date:November 23rd
Genre:Animation
Directors:Ron Clements, and John Musker
Writers:Jared Bush, Ron Clements, John Musker, Pamela Ribon, and Taika Waititi.
Starring:Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Auli’i Cravalho, and Phillipa Soo.
Synopsis:When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) – are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Release Date:November 11th
Genre:Sci-fi, Drama
Director:Denis Villeneuve
Writer:Eric Heisserer
Starring:Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, and Michael Stuhlbarg.
Doctor Strange
Synopsis:Marvel’s Doctor Strange follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilizing a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel cinematic universe.
Release Date:November 4th
Director:Scott Derrickson
Writers:Jon Spaights, and Robert C. Cargill
Starring:Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Scott Adkins, and Amy Landecker.
Bad Santa 2
Synopsis:BAD SANTA 2 returns Academy Award®-winner BILLY BOB THORNTON to the screen as America’s favorite anti-hero, Willie Soke. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus (TONY COX), to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is ‘the kid’ – chubby and cheery Thurman Merman (BRETT KELLY), a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie’s sliver of humanity.
Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Academy Award®, Golden Globe and Emmy-winner KATHY BATES, as Willie’s horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke. A super butch super bitch, Sunny raises the bar for the gang’s ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior. Willie is further burdened by lusting after the curvaceous and prim Diane, played by Emmy Award-nominee CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, the charity director with a heart of gold and libido of steel.
Genre:Comedy
Director:Mark Waters
Writers:Johnny Rosenthal, Doug Ellin, and Sauna Cross.
Starring:Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Kathy Bates, Brett Kelly, Christina Hendricks, Ryan Hansen, Jenny Zigrino, and Jeff Skowron.
Synopsis:Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
Release Date:October 12th (International Release) October 28th (U.S. Release)
Genre:Mystery, Thriller
Director:Ron Howard
Writer:David Koepp
Starring:Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Ben Foster, and Sidse Babett Knudsen.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Synopsis:Jack Reacher: Never Go Back follows the title character as he returns to Virginia to meet the head of his former unit. But she’s missing, he’s being charged with a crime committed nearly 20 years ago, and he may even have a daughter. Making things right will lead him on a cross-country chase to uncover the truth - and maybe even a family.
Release Date:October 21st
Genre:Action
Director:Edward Zwick
Writers:Lee Child, and Marshall Herskovitz
Starring:Tom Cruise, Colbi Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Holt McCallany, and Robert Knepper.
Synopsis:“ALLIED” is the story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
Genre:Drama, Thriller, Romance
Director:Robert Zemeckis
Writer:Steven Knight
Starring:Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan, and Matthew Goode.
Don’t Breathe
Synopsis:In the terrifying thriller DON’T BREATHE, a group of friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man, thinking they’ll get away with the perfect heist. They’re wrong.
DON’T BREATHE stars Jane Levy (EVIL DEAD), Dylan Minnette (GOOSEBUMPS), Daniel Zovatto (IT FOLLOWS), and Stephen Lang (AVATAR).
Release Date:August 26th
Genre:Horror
Director:Fede Alvarez
Writers:Fede Alvarez, and Rodo Sayagues
Starring:Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, and Stephen Lang.
