Pop Culture News & Trailers: ‘Ahsoka’, ‘Twisted Metal’, ‘Alien’, ‘The Hunger Games’, and More
Catch up with all the big pop culture news, announcements, and new trailers you may have missed this week.
Pop Culture News
- New Indiana Jones 5 photos
- Pattie LuPone talks Agatha: Coven of Chaos
- SAW X new logo and date revealed
- Fede Alvarez’s Alien is filming
- The Caped Crusader has been picked up for 2 seasons
- Dave Filoni talks Ahsoka
via Lucasfilm
New Movie & TV Trailers
Black Knight – Netflix May 12th
“In a dystopian future devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average deliverymen.”
McGregor Forever – Netflix May 17th
NOTE: the trailer starts with graphic footage of McGregor breaking his leg. “This series will put you in the room with one of the greatest mixed martial arts stars on the planet as he takes on the most important battle of his career. Now, as the superstar who put the sport on the map prepares for his return to the octagon, you get a behind-the-scenes look at how Conor got here and why he’s still the driving force in the UFC.”
Dark Nature – Theaters May 19 & Digital May 23
“Joy, a survivor of an abusive relationship, joins her friend Carmen and her therapy group on an isolated weekend retreat in the Canadian Rockies. Led by the enigmatic Dr. Dunnley, whose methods are experimental and, at times, dubious from Joy’s outside perspective. The experience eventually shatters the border between reality and delusion.”
Maggie Moore(s) – Theaters & Digital June 16
“Police Chief Sanders (Hamm) investigates the bizarre murders of two women with the same name and unravels a web of small-town lies,” reads the synopsis. “He meets and quickly falls for Rita (Fey), a nosy neighbor who is eager to help solve the mystery.”
Warrior S3 – Max June 29
“In the wake of the race riots that upended Chinatown in season two, Mai Ling uses her government connections to consolidate power, while Ah Sahm and the Hop Wei must find new ways to survive.”
Twisted Metal – Peacock July 27th
Releasing This Fall
The Equalizer 3 – Theaters September 1st
“Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do.”
The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – Theaters November 17th
“[The Hunger Games prequel] follows a young Coriolanus Snow who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates.”
A Haunting in Venice – Theaters TBA 2023
“Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve, the film is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.”
It Lives Inside – Theaters TBA
“Sam is desperate to fit in at school, rejecting her Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. When a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage in order to defeat it.”
