The End of Oak Street (2026)

Warner Bros. has quietly unveiled the first teaser for The End of Oak Street, their new sci-fi film formerly known as Flowervale Street from It Follows helmer David Robert Mitchell. Little has been known to this point about the plot of the film, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. But the trailer introduces them as [...]

If you know anything about J.J. Abrams , you know the man loves a secret. From Cloverfield 's iconic"what the heck is that thing" marketing campaign to his Star Wars era of carefully guarded plot details, Abrams has built an entire brand around keeping audiences in the dark until the lights go down. So when rumors started swirling about a new Bad Robot production called Flowervale Street (now retitled The End of Oak Street ), nobody should be surprised that the internet spent months trying to crack the code. Well, the first trailer just dropped, and well, it involves dinosaurs. The dinosaur rumors had been floating around for a while, and now we have a little tease of how they come into the story. The End of Oak Street is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell , the filmmaker behind the horror film, It Follows , and the weird and underrated Under the Silver Lake . This new movie stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor , and it's set up at Warner Bros. for an August 14, 2026 release. In the film, Hathaway's character tells her son, played by Sweet Tooth 's Christian Convery , that their house and their entire neighborhood have"moved." A beat later, we see exactly what she means, as a perfectly ordinary suburban street sits completely surrounded by a Cretaceous jungle. Warner Bros.' official plot description fills in the rest:"After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings." So yes, it's a dinosaur movie. It's also clearly something stranger and more personal than that, which is exactly the kind of filmmaker David Robert Mitchell is. Speaking of Mitchell, his return here is exciting. It Follows turned him into a cult horror icon back in 2014, and Under the Silver Lake in 2018, while divisive, proved he wasn't interested in repeating himself. That's an eight-year gap between features, and The End of Oak Street looks like he's coming back swinging. He's also brought his collaborators with him: cinematographer Mike Gioulakis , who shot It Follows , is back behind the lens, and Michael Giacchino , who's done everything from Star Trek to The Batman , and several Marvel movies, is handling the score. He also scored Abrams’ Mission: Impossible III , Cloverfield , and Super 8 . The other thing worth getting excited about is simply what this movie represents. A completely original science fiction blockbuster with no franchise strings attached, no cinematic universe implications. Just a wild, weird, ambitious story hitting theaters in peak summer. That's increasingly rare, and when it happens with this level of talent attached, it's worth gettting a little excited about. Abrams is back in mystery box mode, Mitchell is back making movies, and somewhere in the middle of a prehistoric jungle, Anne Hathaway is trying to keep her family alive.

'The End of Oak Street' is produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by 'It Follows' helmer David Robert Mitchell. It opens August 14.

The first trailer for The End of Oak Street, a new dinosaur movie starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, has been released.