The End Of Oak Street Trailer Looks Like A Cloverfield Movie With Dinosaurs

This is not a drill: J.J. Abrams, 1 of nan cardinal creatives down nan "Cloverfield" franchise and nan head of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," has produced a dinosaur movie directed by David Robert Mitchell of "It Follows" fame. The result? "The End of Oak Street," which very overmuch looks for illustration Abrams and Mitchell made a "Cloverfield" movie pinch dinosaurs successful it, based connected nan first trailer. Check it retired for yourself above.

Said trailer very overmuch leans into nan enigma of it all, but it sees Anne Hathaway ("Interstellar") and Ewan McGregor ("Obi-Wan Kenobi") playing nan heads of a family whose location — and their full thoroughfare — are moved to a prehistoric hellhole somehow. We don't spot excessively galore dinosaurs, but nan trailer does a awesome occupation trading nan halfway thought astatine play. It benignant of looks for illustration a very costly section of "The Twilight Zone." Paramount has had different "Cloverfield" movie successful nan works for immoderate time, but this looks for illustration it could scratch nan aforesaid itch.

This is besides Mitchell's first movie arsenic a head since the A24 container agency flop that was "Under nan Silver Lake." A24 benignant of conscionable ended up dumping that 1 to VOD. In this case, however, it looks for illustration Warner Bros. has fixed Mitchell some a sizable fund and an A-list cast. The synopsis for nan movie sounds arsenic follows:

After a mysterious cosmic arena rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their vicinity to someplace unknown, nan Platt family soon discovers that their very endurance depends connected them sticking together arsenic they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Having antecedently gone nether nan title "Flowervale Street," nan movie made /Film's database of movies from 2026 that sound amazing but you astir apt don't cognize astir yet. After having watched nan trailer, it seems adjacent to opportunity it looks arsenic cool arsenic it sounded connected paper.

The different large point to statement is that this is 1 of Hollywood's uncommon attempts to make a dinosaur movie extracurricular of nan "Jurassic Park"/"Jurassic World" franchise. For immoderate reason, that spot has an almost unspoken monopoly connected dinosaurs. That shouldn't beryllium nan case, though. 2025 saw nan merchandise of "Primitive War," which I called nan top non-"Jurassic Park" dinosaur movie ever, proving that these creatures tin and should beryllium extracurricular of a singular, multi-billion-dollar franchise.

For Warner Bros., there's evidently consequence progressive here. Original ideas are a reliable sell, and bringing dinosaurs backmost to life connected nan large surface isn't cheap, mostly speaking. But J.J. Abrams has a bully commercialized way grounds (both arsenic a shaper and director), and nan film's premise, coupled pinch its cast, seems bankable. Here's hoping.

The movie besides stars Maisy Stella ("My Old Ass") and Christian Convery ("Sweet Tooth"), pinch David Robert Mitchell having directed from his ain original script. Elsewhere, Abrams, Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, Matt Jackson, Tommy Harper, and Mitchell are each connected committee arsenic producers, pinch Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Joanne Lee, and Leeann Stonebreaker having served arsenic executive producers.

"The End of Oak Street" hits theaters connected August 14, 2026.