Weekly trailer roundup 16/01

Ash Walker • 16 Jan 2025 Features

The biggest, most exciting new movie and TV trailers this week.

We live in a golden age of entertainment, with great new movies and TV shows being released all the time. There’s so much, in fact, that it can be hard to keep track of what’s coming, and what to get excited about.

With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of the biggest and best trailers released this week. And there’s some good stuff on the horizon, featuring everything from creepy ghosts to gangsters and masked vigilantes.

Movies

Presence

Credit: PRESENCE - Official Trailer #2 (NEON, YouTube)

In cinemas 24th January

The new film from Steven Soderbergh is certainly something different. The director of Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven and, er, Magic Mike finally turns his hand to horror in this high-concept haunted house thriller.

The twist? The whole movie is shot from the ghost’s perspective, putting the audience in the thing’s spectral shoes as it lurks about, watching people sleep and generally being a creepy nuisance.

The Alto Knights

Credit: The Alto Knights | Official Trailer (Warner Bros. Pictures)

In cinemas 21st March

Screen legend Robert De Niro makes a surprise return to the gangster genre - following his presumed swansong in 2019’s The Irishman - not once, but twice!

No, your eyes don’t deceive you. There are definitely two De Niros in the trailer for Barry Levinson’s (Rain Man) new crime epic, based on the real-life feud between wise guys Frank Costello and Vito Genovese - both of whom are played by the veteran actor.

Until Dawn

Credit: Until Dawn Movie - Full Trailer (PlayStation, YouTube)

In cinemas 25th April

Director David F Sandberg (Lights Out, Shazam!) returns with an adaptation of the popular video game. But rather than a straight translation of the game, this instead aims to capture the choose-you-own-adventure vibes with a canny time loop gimmick.

Our group of teen protagonists are murdered over and over again, each time popping up in a new horror subgenre and facing off against a new threat. The only way to make it out is, of course, to survive until dawn.

With shades of meta-horror favourites like The Cabin in the Woods and Happy Death Day, this one should be a ton of fun for horror fans.

Back in Action

Credit: Back in Action | Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz | Official Trailer (Netflix, YouTube)

On Netflix 17th January

Just in time for the weekend comes this fun-looking action comedy, which marks the return of superstar Cameron Diaz after ten years away from the silver screen. Ten years!

Diaz and Jamie Foxx play a seemingly ordinary married couple who, in reality, were once highly trained CIA operatives. When their past catches up with them they must take matters into their own hands to protect their family.

Looks like there’s some decent action here, and some genuine laughs - most of which come from the reactions of their kids: “Can you beat up all the other dads in my school?” “Yes, I can beat them all up, but not at the same time.”

Good stuff.

TV Shows

Daredevil: Born Again

Credit: Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again | Official Trailer (Marvel Entertainment, YouTube)

Season 1 on Disney+ from 4th March

It’s been ten(!) years since Marvel’s brilliantly bloody Daredevil show first aired on Netflix, to critical acclaim. Now the whole cast returns in a brand new, Disney-backed continuation.

And while the MCU connections may now be more obvious - there’s a glimpse of a Rogers: The Musical billboard in this trailer - this very much feels like the same old gloriously violent stuff we came to expect from the original series.

Bones are breaking, blood is splattering and the Punisher has a hatchet. As Vincent D’Onofrio’s menacing Kingpin says: “It’s hard to come to terms with a violent nature.”

But we wouldn’t have Daredevil any other way.

Prime Target

Credit: Prime Target — Official Trailer (Apple TV, YouTube)

Season 1 on Apple TV+ from 22nd January

An action adventure series about… maths? That’s the gist of this new thriller series from Apple and former Sherlock writer Steve Thompson, which looks essentially like a mash-up of Good Will Hunting and The Da Vinci Code, with a little bit of Bourne sprinkled on top.

Rising star Leo Woodall (One Day), plays a young Cambridge postgrad whose work on prime numbers uncovers some alarming numerical secrets. Soon enough he’s on the run, pursued by shadowy forces and travelling the globe in search of answers.

It’s a bonkers concept, but it looks like a lot of fun.