I don’t know about you but I feel that this was a good week for trailers, not only because we got trailers for some highly-anticipated movies and TV shows, but it felt very diverse, like no matter what your taste is you will find something you like out of this bunch, and that’s always good. So let’s get to it. This week, we got new trailers for Doctor Strange, Suicide Squad, Game of Thrones, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, and much more. Take a look below.
Doctor Strange
Synopsis: "Doctor Strange" follows the story of neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions.
Release Date: November 4th
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Scott Derrickson
Writers: Jon Spaights, Robert C. Cargill
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Scott Adkins, and Amy Landecker.
Suicide Squad
Synopsis: It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?
Release Date: August 5th
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: David Ayer
Writer: David Ayer
Starring: Margot Robbie, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Cara Delevigne, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adam Beach, Jay Hernandez, Ike Barinholtz, Common, Scott Eastwood, Karen Fukuhara, and Viola Davis.
Game of Thrones (Season 6)
Synopsis: Following the shocking developments at the conclusion of season five, including Jon Snow’s bloody fate at the hands of Castle Black mutineers, Daenerys’ near-demise at the fighting pits of Meereen, and Cersei’s public humiliation in the streets of King’s Landing, survivors from all parts of Westeros and Essos regroup to press forward, inexorably, towards their uncertain individual fates. Familiar faces will forge new alliances to bolster their strategic chances at survival, while new characters will emerge to challenge the balance of power in the east, west, north and south.
Release Date: April 24th (HBO)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Fantasy (TV Series)
Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Starring: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Kit Harrington, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Synopsis: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
Release Date: November 18th
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: David Yates
Writer: J.K. Rowling
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, and Colin Farrell.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Synopsis: Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return to cinemas this summer to battle bigger, badder villains, alongside April O’Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell). After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (WWE Superstar Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly), to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
Release Date: June 3rd
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director: David Green
Writers: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec
Starring: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard, Stephen Amell, Tyler Perry, Brian Tee, Laura Linney, Sheamus, and Gary Anthony Williams.
The Angry Birds Movie
Synopsis: The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis – We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride – This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
Release Date: May 20th
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Directors: Clay Kaytis, and Fergal Reilly
Writer: Jon Vitti
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, and Peter Dinklage.
The Nice Guys
Synopsis: Set in 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Release Date: May 20th
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Director: Shane Black
Writers: Shane Black, Anthony Bagarozzi
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, and Ty Simpkins.
The Secret Life of Pets
Synopsis: For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.
Release Date: July 8th
Genre: Animation, Family, Comedy
Directors: Chris Renaud, and Yarrow Cheney
Writers: Brian Lynch, and Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio.
Starring: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Hannibal Buress and Albert Brooks.
Preacher
Synopsis: Preacher is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power. Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy come together and when they do, they are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between. The series stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, Ruth Negga as Tulip, Lucy Griffiths as Emily, W. Earl Brown as Sherriff Root, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Tom Brooke as Fiore, Derek Wilsonas Donnie Schenck and Ian Colletti as Eugene/Arseface.
Release Date: May 29th (AMC)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy (TV Series)
Creators: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Ian Colletti, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun, Jamie Anne Allman, Lucy Griffiths, Euphrates “Tee” Arthur,W. Earl Brown, and Thomas Barbusca.
The Birth of a Nation
Synopsis: Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
Release Date: October 7th
Genre: Drama
Director: Nate Parker
Writer: Nate Parker
Starring: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Penelope Ann Miller, Aunjane Ellis, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Jr, Colman Domingo, Dwight Henry, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Gabrielle Union.
Inside Amy Schumer (Season 4)
Synopsis: Amy Schumer switches from sketches, doing stand up, to interviewing people on the street and people of interest usually following a certain theme.
Release Date: April 21st (Comedy Central)
Genre: Comedy (TV Series)
Creator: Amy Schumer
Starring: Amy Schumer
Bloodline (Season 2)
Synopsis: You can't escape the past. The Rayburns struggle to conceal an unthinkable crime and begin to unravel in the midst of mounting lies, betrayal, and paranoia.
Release Date: May 27th (Netflix)
Genre: Drama, Thriller (TV Series)
Creators: Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman
Starring: John Leguizamo, Owen Teague, Kyle Chandler, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz, Sissy Spacek, Jacinda Barrett, Jamie McShane, Enrique Murciano, and Andrea Riseborough.
Our Kind of Traitor
Synopsis: While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgård), who unbeknownst to them is a kingpin money launderer for the Russian mafia. When Dima asks for their help to deliver classified information to the British Secret Services, Perry and Gail get caught in a dangerous world of international espionage and dirty politics. The couple is propelled on a perilous journey through Paris and Bern, a safe house in the French Alps, to the murky corners of the City of London and an alliance with the British Government via a ruthless and determined MI6 agent (Damian Lewis).
Release Date: May 6th (U.K.) July 1st (U.S.)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Sussana White
Writer: Hossein Amini
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, and Mark Gatiss.
A Monster Calls
Synopsis: A visually spectacular drama from acclaimed director Juan Antonio Bayona (“The Impossible”), based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel. 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to deal with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage, loss, and faith.
Release Date: October 14th
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Director: J.A. Bayona
Writer: Patrick Ness
Starring: Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, and Toby Kebbell.
Special Correspondents
Synopsis: Special Correspondents, a new Netflix original feature film was written and directed by Ricky Gervais and stars Eric Bana (Deliver Us From Evil, Lone Survivor) and Gervais (Muppets Most Wanted, Derek). The film is about a struggling New York based radio journalist whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career. With his job on the line, he fakes front line war reports from the comfort of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in Queens.
The film also stars Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel, Up in the Air), Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire, Brave), Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects, Casino), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty, How to Train Your Dragon), Raúl Castillo (Looking, Cold Weather), and Benjamin Bratt (Modern Family, 24: Live Another Day).
The film is a co-production between Bron Studios and Unanimous Entertainment. The producers are Gervais, Unanimous’ Chris Coen, Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert, Manuel Munz, and Larry Sanitsky. Jason Cloth and Ron McLeod are executive producers.
Release Date: April 29th (Netflix)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ricky Gervais
Writer: Ricky Gervais
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Eric Bana, America Ferrara, Benjamin Bratt, Vera Farmiga, and Kelly MacDonald.
Godzilla: Resurgence (Shin Godzilla)
Synopsis: Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
Release Date: July 29th (Japan)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Directors: Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
Writer: Hideaki Anno
Starring: Hiroki Hasegawa, Satomi Ishihara, and Yutaka Takenouchi.
The Neon Demon
Synopsis: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Release Date: June 2016
Genre: Horror Thriller
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writers: Nicolas Winding Refn, Mary Laws , and Polly Stenham.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Bella Heathcote, Jena Malone, and Desmond Harrington.