9 Game and Movie Trailers Worth Watching This Week

Despite Sony’s double State of Play this week being a little bit of a dud — though did you catch the hard-as-hell new Resident Evil clip at the very beginning? — the trailer-sphere nonetheless kept chugging along as it always does. We got a new look at Street Fighter and a bunch more trailers ahead of Venice and Toronto Film Festivals for movies that are already catching Oscar buzz, a holdover from gamescom, and an indie game that caught my attention at the Tribeca Festival this past summer. These are the trailers worth checking out this week (and here’s what you missed last week).

Street Fighter

It’s been about four months since the last Street Fighter trailer, and with a little more than a month before release, I’m excited we got another 3-ish minute taste of what to expect from the Kitao Sakurai-directed movie. I might never not be taken aback by blond Noah Centineo as Ken, but the tone of this movie remains convincingly super fun. Like Eric Andre spittles in the new trailer, “This is STREET FIGHTERRRRR!”

Street Fighter releases in theaters October 16.

Stranger Than Heaven official gameplay

As a member of the RGG hive — if this isn’t you, you’re making a big mistake with your life — this extended look at the environments and fight mechanics of the not-Yakuza-prequel game Stranger Than Heaven from gamescom has me mega-hyped. As we’ve already previewed out of SGF, the combat definitely looks more difficult than RGG’s other non-turn-based games, but I’m glad they still found a way to make early-to-mid-1900s street goons look nearly as ridiculous as present-day Kamurocho.

Stranger Than Heaven releases on PS5, Xbox X|S, and PC on January 15, 2027.

Ink

Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy star in INK, from Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle.

A group of visionaries and misfits had an idea for a new kind of news — one that would give the people what they want and would change the face of the world we live in today.… pic.twitter.com/5EHsGjl0Pl

— Netflix (@netflix) September 2, 2026

Danny Boyle seems to have locked the eff in for Ink, starring Jack O’Connell and Guy Pearce, who are both always locked in, as Larry Lamb and Rupert Murdoch as they orchestrate the salacious relaunch of the British tabloid The Sun while Claire Foy tries to talk some sense into them. Maybe it’s too on the nose for a media person to be excited about a media movie, but Ink, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has me hooked.

Ink releases in theaters December 11 before coming to Netflix on January 8.

Until Dawn 2

The first look at Until Dawn 2 in Sony’s June State of Play gave very little in the way of “what are we getting into here?” This new clip from this week’s presentation revealed the release date and more about the concept: It’s set during a reality-show shoot on a haunted tropical island where the slimy host/producer goads the cast into messy situations that you, the player, need to decide how to react.

Until Dawn 2 releases on PS5 January 28, 2027.

Rhapsody in Scarlet

Konami’s new game reveal: Baffling! Sign me up. Set in the 1920s jazz scene in New York City, Rhapsody in Scarlet is an action game where the characters use magic and direct large beasts to fight, I guess. Again, very jazzy. I’m intrigued.

Rhapsody in Scarlet doesn’t have a release window yet.

Pendulum

A horror movie? Releasing on January 1??? There’s absolutely no way this movie, written and directed by Black Swan co-writer Mark Heyman, is going to be making year-end lists in 2027, but it seems like a wellness cult movie that’ll make the winter movie graveyard a little more fun. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Norman Reedus, and Phoebe Dynevor star.

Pendulum releases in theaters January 1.

Rebounder

I got to play a demo of Rebounder at the Tribeca Festival this summer and it was easily among my favorite games. It’s a tricky but addicting precision platformer rocking an insanely cool hyper-stylized, newspaper comics-print art direction as you bounce around an alien planet in an astronaut suit. The new trailer came with the announcement that Rebounder is being published by Aggro Crab, which also put out the viral friendslop (affectionately) game Peak.

Rebounder releases on Steam in 2027.

La Bola Negra

LA BOLA NEGRA tells the story of three generations of men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, and love.

Starring Spanish music sensation Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Julio Torres, Penélope Cruz and… pic.twitter.com/inXEYsrRE8

— Netflix (@netflix) September 1, 2026

La Bola Negra’s directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi won the best directing award at Cannes, where it premiered. The Spanish-language film, following three generations of men across three era-defining years in Spain’s history, has since been celebrated as an early Oscar lock. Netflix certainly has high hopes for it: The streamer is giving it a chunky qualifying theatrical run, with no streaming date attached yet.

La Bola Negra releases in theaters October 16 before coming to Netflix some time this fall.

The Unknown

Léa Seydoux stars alongside Neils Schneider in this French-language body-swap horror written and directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Anatomy of a Fall, Arthur Harari. This first teaser is short, sub-2 minutes, but this highlight reel of Seydoux’s reactions has me sold. (Also, people who reviewed it out of Cannes had nice things to say about it; it’ll make the rounds at the Toronto and New York film festivals.)

The Unknown doesn’t have a release date yet.

Leanne Butkovic (she/they) is an Editorial Programming Manager at IGN, where they've also written about TV, movies, and games.