Trailer Watch: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Materialists,’ ‘Elio,’ ‘On Swift Horses,’ ‘Together,’ ‘Freakier Friday’

Teasers, trailers and even teasers for trailers coming next week, including much-anticipated next films from Oscar-nominated auteurs, follow-ups to major feature debuts, this summer’s Pixar event, a sequel 20 years in the making, and more.

One Battle After Another

11-time Oscar-nominated writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson returns with a $140m action-comedy-drama starring Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio, loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, about a group of ex-revolutionaries who reunite to rescue the daughter of their own when their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years. The film also stars Academy Award winner Sean Penn, Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti and Alana Haim. Warner Bros will release the VistaVision-shot film on September 26 in theaters and IMAX.

Materialists

Hot off her Oscar-nominated debut feature Past Lives (2023), writer/director Celine Song is back with another triangle of love, this time of the rom-com variant, starring Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker whose lucrative business is complicated when she falls into a toxic trio with Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal that threatens her clients. A24 will release the film in theaters on June 13.

Elio

Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab), a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. The Pixar animated film also features the voice work of Academy Award winner Zoe Saldaña, Brad Garrett, Shirley Henderson and Jameela Jamil. Walt Disney Pictures will release the film in theaters on June 20.

On Swift Horses

Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her husband Lee (Will Poulter) are about to begin a bright new life, which is upended by the arrival of Lee’s brother Julius (Jacob Elordi). Muriel embarks on a secret life, gambling on racehorses and discovering a love she never thought possible. Also starring Diego Calva and Sasha Colle. Sony Pictures Classics will release the Daniel Minehan-directed film in theaters on April 25.

Together

A couple’s move to the countryside triggers a supernatural incident that drastically alters their relationship, existence, and physical form. Starring real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, with Jeremy O. Harris and Damon Herriman, written and directed by Michael Shanks. In theaters August 1 from NEON.

Freakier Friday

20 years after Tess (Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsay Lohan) endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice. Co-starring Julia Butters, Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Manny Jacinto, Elaine Hendrix and Christina Vidal. Walt Disney Pictures will release the film in theaters on August 8.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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