2016 is now underway and trailers for upcoming movies and TV shows definitely picked up steam this week to get you excited for what is to come. To help you choose what you will watch next, we gather up the trailers of the week all in one place. This week, new trailers were released for The Conjuring 2, Daredevil Season 2, Free State of Jones, The Walking Dead, High-Rise, Better Call Saul, Vikings and plenty more. Watch the latest trailers below.
The Conjuring 2
Synopsis: The supernatural thriller brings to the screen another real case from the files of renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. Reprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. The Conjuring 2 in theaters June 10, 2016.
Release Date: June 10th
Genre: Horror
Director: James Wan
Writers: Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes, James Wan, and David Johnson
Starring: Patrick Wilson, and Vera Farmiga.
Daredevil Season 2
Synopsis: A blind lawyer, with his other senses superhumanly enhanced, fights crime as a costumed superhero.
Release Date: March 18th (Netflix)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama (TV Series)
Creator: Drew Goddard
Starring: Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Elodie Yung, and Jon Bernthal.
Free State of Jones
Synopsis: Written and directed by four-time Oscar® nominee Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit, Pleasantville), and starring Oscar® winner Matthew McConaughey, Free State of Jones is an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.
Release Date: March 11th
Genre: Biography, History, Drama
Director: Gary Ross
Writer: Gary Ross
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell, and Mahershala Ali.
The Walking Dead Midseason Premiere Trailer
Synopsis: Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.
Release Date: February 14th (AMC)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller (TV Series)
Creator: Frank Darabont
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Chandler Riggs, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, and Steven Yeun.
High-Rise
Synopsis: When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
Release Date: March 18th (U.K.)
Genre: Drama, Action, Sci-Fi
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writer: Amy Jump
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, and James Purefoy.
Better Call Saul Season 2
Synopsis: The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman, in the time leading up to establishing his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Release Date: February 15th (AMC)
Genre: Crime, Drama (TV Series)
Creators: Vince Gilligan, and Peter Gould
Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, and Michael McKean.
Love
Synopsis: Created, written and executive produced by Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin, Love follows nice guy Gus (Rust) and brazen wild-child Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) as they navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, love and other things they were hoping to avoid. Love is an unflinching, hilarious and excruciatingly honest take on modern relationships. Brent Forrester and Dean Holland also serve as executive producers of Love.
Release Date: February 19th (Netflix)
Genre: Comedy (TV Series)
Creators: Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, and Paul Rust
Starring: Gillian Jacobs, Paul Rust, Dave Allen, Steve Bannos, and Chris Witaske.
Vikings Season 4
Synopsis: HISTORY’s hit drama series “Vikings” returns for a gripping fourth season led by Travis Fimmel, star of the upcoming film Warcraft, on Thursday, February 18 at 10 p.m. ET. The network has added four episodes to its initial 16 episode order. Beginning February 18, a new episode will air every Thursday for ten weeks with the remaining episodes to air later in the year.
Season three culminated with the extraordinary battle in Paris, where Ragnar (Fimmel) seized victory from the jaws of defeat – but still returns to Kattegat dangerously ill. Thoughts of his death galvanize the forces who seek to succeed him as king, including his wife Queen Aslaug (Alyssa Sutherland) and his oldest son, Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig). Meanwhile, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) continues power struggles with her calculating, former second in command, Kalf (Ben Robson); Rollo (Clive Standen) betrays his Vikings heritage by remaining in Frankia and Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård) is seized for his brutal actions to the Christian priest Athelstan.
Release Date: February 18th (History Channel)
Genre: Action, Drama, History (TV Series)
Creator: Michael Hirst
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Alexander Ludwig, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, and Katheryn Winnick.
A Bigger Splash
Synopsis: Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue.
A BIGGER SPLASH is a sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock and roll, under the Mediterranean sun.
Release Date: May 13th
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: David Kajganich
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Aurore Clément.
The Get Down
Synopsis: The Get Down will focus on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco — told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world…forever.
Release Date: TBA 2016 (Netflix)
Genre: Drama, Musical (TV Series)
Creator: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mamoudou Athie, Skylan Brooks, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Damien
Synopsis: Produced by Fox Television Studios and based on Twentieth Century Fox’s classic horror film,The Omen, the series follows the adult life of Damien Thorn, the mysterious child from the 1976 motion picture who has grown up, seemingly unaware of the satanic forces around him. Haunted by his past, Damien must now come to terms with his true destiny — that he is the Antichrist, the most feared man throughout the ages.
Release Date: March 7th (A&E)
Genre: Horror (TV Series)
Creator: Glen Mazzara
Starring: Omid Abtahi, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Barbara Hershey, Bradley James, David Meunier, Brody Bover, and Melanie Scrofano.
Elvis & Nixon
Synopsis: On a December morning in 1970, the King of Rock ’n Roll showed up on the lawn of the White House to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Nixon. Starring Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon as Elvis Presley and two-time Academy Award® winner Kevin Spacey as Richard Nixon, comes the untold true story behind this revealing, yet humorous moment in the Oval Office forever immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
Release Date: April, 2016
Genre: Comedy, History
Director: Liza Johnson
Writers: Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Ashley Benson, Evan Peters, and Sky Ferreira.
Vinyl
Synopsis: Richie Finestra, the founder and president of American Century Records, is trying to save his company and soul without destroying everyone in his path. With his passion for music and discovering talent gone by the wayside, and American Century on the precipice of being sold, he has a life-altering event that reignites his love of music, but severely damages his personal life.
Release Date: February 14th (HBO)
Genre: Drama, Music (TV Series)
Creator: Terence Winter
Starring: Bobby Cannavale, Juno Temple, Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Andrew “Dice Clay, Ato Essandoh,Max Casella, James Jagger, Jack Quaid, Brirgitte Hjort Sorenson, and P.J. Byrne.
The Veil
Synopsis: The film centers around a charismatic cult leader (Thomas Jane) who, back in the 1980’s led his followers to the largest mass suicide in United States history. Only one little girl survived and we discover her 25 years later (Lily Rabe) as she journeys back to the Heaven’s Veil Compound with a director (Jessica Alba) and her rag-tag documentary crew (Reid Scott, Shannon Woodward et al) in an attempt to find answers as to what really happened that fateful day. Supernatural mysteries are revealed, and lives are changed forever as we discover that things truly are not what they appear to be at The Veil…
Release Date: February 2th (VOD)
Genre: Horror
Director: Phil Joanou
Writer: Robert Ben Garant
Starring: Thomas Jane, Lily Rabe, Jessica Alba, Aleksa Palladino, Reid Scott, and Shannon Woodward.
11.22.63
Synopsis: 11.22.63 follows JAKE EPPING, an ordinary high school teacher, into a “rabbit hole” that leads back to 1960. His mission – to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Jake travels back in time, willing to live in the past, in order to solve perhaps the greatest mystery of the 20th century: who killed JFK? And could it have been stopped? But as Jake fights to save Kennedy’s life, he discovers an enemy he never could have expected – the past itself, which doesn’t want to be changed. It will throw anything into Jake’s path to stop him.
Release Date: February 15th (Hulu)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller (TV Mini-Series)
Starring: James Franco, Chris Cooper, Josh Duhamel, T.R. Knight, Cherry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Lucy Fry, George MacKay, and Daniel Webber.