Warner Bros. has dropped the long-awaited teaser trailer for “The End of Oak Street,” the eagerly anticipated new film from director David Robert Mitchell, and the footage makes one thing immediately clear: this summer’s most unusual blockbuster is finally ready to show its hand.
The trailer, released this morning, offers the first real look at a film that has spent more than a year generating intense speculation online. Based on the footage and the plot now confirmed by Warner Bros., the story centers on the Platt family, a household navigating a turbulent period in their marriage, living on a quiet suburban street sometime in the 1980s. Without warning, their entire neighborhood is ripped from the present and deposited somewhere deeply, lethally prehistoric. Surrounded by dinosaurs and other ancient creatures, the residents of Oak Street must fight to survive while searching for any way to get back home.
Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway lead the cast, with Hathaway playing the mother at the emotional core of the story. Her character, early reports suggest, is wrestling with the desire to abandon her family and start fresh, a crisis that gets violently overtaken by events far beyond anyone’s control. McGregor plays her husband. Christian Convery and Maisy Stella round out the family as the couple’s children.
The project, originally announced under the title “Flowervale Street,” has endured a winding road to release. Principal photography wrapped in June 2024 after shooting on location in London and Atlanta beginning in March of that year. The film was initially dated for May 2025 before being pushed twice, landing on its current theatrical date of August 14. Warner Bros. co-film chief Michael De Luca has previously drawn comparisons to “The Twilight Zone,” calling it a “Twilight Zone kind of J.J. Abrams-produced movie,” and early test screening reactions circulating online have leaned into Spielbergian comparisons, with the film being likened to a blend of “E.T.” wonder and “Jurassic Park” spectacle. The film reportedly pushes its PG-13 rating close to its limits.
Mitchell, best known for writing and directing the decade-defining supernatural horror “It Follows,” last released a feature with “Under the Silver Lake” in 2018. His return to wide-release filmmaking carries considerable weight given that eight-year gap, and the scale here represents a significant leap. The film was shot natively in IMAX on a reported budget of approximately $85 million, and clocks in at 100 minutes. J.J. Abrams produced.
For Mitchell, the summer of 2026 looks to be a career-defining moment on multiple fronts. Beyond “The End of Oak Street,” he is also set to begin production on “They Follow,” a sequel to “It Follows,” in the early summer months, with Maika Monroe returning in the lead role.
“The End of Oak Street” opens in theaters and IMAX on August 14.
