Every film trailer from this year’s Superbowl
It may be an event originally based around watching and celebrating America’s golden sport: American football, but over the years, the annual league championship NFL game, the Superbowl, has developed to spotlight anticipation for its musical performances and trailers.
This year’s Super Bowl, featuring a game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks and additional musical performances by Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, also featured Big Game Spots for upcoming, awaited film and media releases.
Super Bowl audiences oversaw trailers from the horror, sci-fi, and children’s animation genres as well as adaptations of comic books, novels and video games. Some teased sequels, while others dropped as original stories.
Minions and Monsters
As the seventh entry in Illumination’s Despicable Me franchise (which began in 2010), Minions and Monsters is set to be released as the third film in the spin-off Minions trilogy. The monster-comedy animation was written and directed by Pierre Coffin, who wrote the first four Despicable Me films, with Brian Lynch being credited as a co-writer. The plot is set to focus on the Minions, the little yellow species who have historically existed as servants to evil masterminds, with three of them “going to Hollywood to pursue their dreams of becoming filmmakers, but they discover a spellbook, and accidentally summon a monster”. It will stand as a prequel to 2015’s Minions, 2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, and 2010’s Despicable Me.
Minions and Monsters will be released on 1st July.
Project Hail Mary
Filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller direct the second adaptation of an Andy Weir sci-fi novel, following Ridley Scott’s adaptation of 2011’s The Martian in 2014, with Drew Goddard working as screenwriter. This science-fiction adventure flick stars Barbie’s Ryan Gosling (who also produces) as Dr Ryland Grace, who awakes on a spacecraft with a case of retrograde amnesia but soon discovers he has been tasked with discovering why the sun is dying out. “ In his search for answers, Grace must rely on his vast array of scientific knowledge, sheer ingenuity, and human will – but he may not have to search alone.” The film also stars Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung and Milana Vayntrub, with Priya Kansara providing the voice of the spacecraft.
Project Hail Mary will be released on 19th March (UK Previews 14th & 15th March).
Scream 7
Another installment in an ever-growing franchise, Scream 7 sees screenwriter and director Kevin Williamson take over from horror creators Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett in directing the seventh film in one of the slasher genre’s most profitable franchises. Scream 7 focuses on Scream Queen/Final Girl legend Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) in another attempt to rebuild her life post-Ghostface massacre. However, another stranger had donned the mask and knife in the seemingly never-ending Ghostface family tree and is out for Prescott’s blood. This Ghostface gets close to home by targeting Prescott’s daughter Tautm. Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Courteney Cox also appear in the film, with additional performances by Isabel May, Anna Camp, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, McKenna Grace, Asa Germann, Celeste O’Connor, Sam Rechner, Mark Consuelos, Tim Simons, and Joel McHale.
Scream 7 will be released on 27th February.
Supergirl
DC Comics has undeniably struggled and staggered in its attempts to cement a finalised and cherished cinematic universe based on its iconic characters and narratives, especially compared to a certain rival comic book company whose teamed up with one of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations. However, 2025’s Superman, directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, saw mass applause and set a new standard for the media franchise. This has led to anticipation around the next release in the next DC universe Supergirl, which is directed by Craig Gillespie and stars Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl. This film, part of DC’s planned God and Monsters Chapter, centres on Zor-El celebrating her 23rd birthday with her beloved dog Krypto. However, a tragedy soon leads her on a “murderous quest for revenge”. Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley and Jason Momoa are also set to appear.
Supergirl will be released on 26th June.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
2023’s The Super Bros. Movie, the second adaptation of Nintendo’s popular video game franchise, was received with box office success and accolade nominations. Such success has led to an upcoming sequel directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, which will see plumbers Mario and Luigi befriend Yoishi in an out-of-space adventure. The trio soon find themselves in a battle against Bowser Jnr., the son of Bowser, whom the pair took down in the first film, in order to save the targeted Princess Rosalina. This sequel will see the reprised voice acting of Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, and Kevin Michael Richardson, with newcomers Benny Safdie and Brie Larson also featuring.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be released on 1st April.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Director Jon Favreau is set to lead the film sequel to Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019-2023), titled The Mandalorian and Grogu. This film grew from the concept of a fourth season, which was delayed and reworked into a feature work following the 2023 Hollywood labour disputes. In a story written by Favreau and Dave Filoni, Mando Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and his apprentice Grogu are enlisted by The New Republic as warlords loom over the post-Galactic Empire fall galaxy. Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White also make appearances in this installment of the monumental Star Wars franchise by Lucasfilm.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu will be released on 22nd May.
Hoppers
Hoppers will be Disney Pixar’s milestone 30th feature release in a beloved film collection, which began in 1999 with the game-changer Toy Story. The upcoming sci-fi comedy animation is directed by Daniel Chong from a Jesse Andrews story, focusing on a group of scientists who crack down on a way to transfer human minds into robotic animals in order to communicate with real animals. A young girl called Mabel uses the technology to appear as a beaver in a mission to ally with the real animals and stop a company from destroying a local nature habitat. Hoppers will feature the voice work of Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan and Jon Hamm.
Hoppers will be released on 6th March.
Disclosure Day
EGOT achiever Steven Spielberg has producing and directing credits on this upcoming sci-fi feature starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo. In a story conceived by Spielberg and written down by David Koepp, humankind gradually learns that it may not be alone in the universe, a revelation which strikes both optimism and fear into civilians’ hearts.
Disclosure Day will be released on 12th June.
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