In this week’s installment of our Trailer Roundup series, we get a look at the new Pirates film, a couple of creepy new video games, and we find out what Negan and Kylo Ren have been up to in their off time. Check out all the trailers below for the latest and greatest of what’s coming soon:
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Ok, this is the fifth official trailer. Yes… fifth. There’s not much else to say that hasn’t already been said. Looks fun and exciting, especially for HP fans. Watch it on the big screen on November 18th.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The fifth film in the never-ending Pirates of the Caribbean series got a new trailer, and while it’s light on Johnny Depp, it’s heavy on Javier Bardem, who always makes a great villain, regardless of haircut. We’ll likely get at least five or six more trailers ahead of the May 26th theatrical release though, so stay tuned for more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MWtt7xfb-I
Good Girls Revolt
Take the story of Peggy Olsen from Mad Men, multiply it by ten, and you start to have the basis for Good Girls Revolt, a new series arriving on Amazon on October 28th. Based on real events, the show tells the story of a group of women who fight to overcome the male-dominated work world (this time it’s the newsroom instead of the ad agency) back in 1969. Watch out, Don Draper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-3yFPGUGlY
Battlefield 1
This ain’t your daddy’s WWI game. Next gen title Battlefield 1 reimagines the world’s first modern war, and while the big focus has been on multiplayer, there’s a single player campaign in there too, which got an official trailer this past week. The new game launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows on October 21st.
20th Century Women
Indie filmmaker Mike Mills returns to the big screen with a new outing on Christmas Day. 20th Century Women follows the tale of three women during different times of their lives, set in 1979. Starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning.
Resident Evil 7
The seventh installment in the Resident Evil series appears to be more of a back-to-basics iteration of the survival-horror-turned-action series. The latest trailer appears to focus heavy on the VR aspects of the game, which will immerse you in a very uncomfortable dinner table sequence. Coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows on January 24th.
SLASH
Slash fiction finally makes its way to the big screen! But not exactly in that way. Slash is the tale of a young writer who takes his work on the road to a fan convention at the urging of fellow writers and geeks and Michael Ian Black. Hits theaters on December 9th.
King Cobra
New film King Cobra is a based-on-a-true-story about the 2007 murder of a gay porn producer by competitors, told from the perspective of the rising star caught in the middle. Stars James Franco, Christian Slater and Alicia Silverstone and hits theaters on October 21st.
Hello Neighbor
One of the oddest new video game trailers of the past week is for indie title Hello Neighbor, which puts you in the shoes of a home invader. The quirk is the game’s AI, which supposedly gets smarter every time you play and learns to anticipate your moves and patterns. Despite the game’s somewhat sunny graphical style, it still feels like an anxiety attack waiting to happen just from the trailer. The game is coming to Steam sometime next summer, and probably other platforms as well.
Desierto
A timely bit of cinematic horror, Desierto takes The Walking Dead’s Negan and channels him into a brutal American hunter patrolling the currently wall-less Mexican border. Jeffrey Dean Morgan tackles the brutal role in theaters on October 14th, a couple of weeks ahead of election day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB5tc5SEEBo
Fences
Denzel Washington returns for his third directorial feature with Fences, the story of an African American father struggling to raise his son in the 1950s. Washington also stars, along with Viola Davis and Mykelti Williamson. In theaters on December 16th.
SMASH+GRAB
Waaarrrrioorrrssss… come out to plaaayeayyy! Smash+Grab is a new game that pits futuristic gangs in turf war battles that mix rioting and looting in a chaotic way. Weapon customization looks akin to the crazy combinations of Dead Rising series if the trailer is accurate. The game launched on Steam’s “Early Access” on September 27th with a full release planned in the future.
Paterson
Akron son Jim Jarmusch returns with a new indie installment called Patterson, which tells the story of a bus driver named Paterson who lives in a city named Paterson. The film appears to be poetic (both figuratively and literally) but it’s still a bit tough to watch Kylo Ren do anything else now that he’s been in Star Wars. Hits theaters on December 28th.