J.J. Abrams’ next movie is coming to Imax theaters this fall, Warner Bros. announced Friday.
The film, starring Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega, is officially titled “The Great Beyond” and will launch into theaters on Nov. 13. Abrams wrote and directed the movie, which marks his return to big-screen blockbusters after helming 2019’s “Star Wars: Episode IX -The Rise of Skywalker.” He also produced the project alongside Tommy Gormley. Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Merritt Wever and Samuel L. Jackson round out the film’s starry ensemble cast.
Warner Bros. also announced release dates for a couple of 2027 releases: Sam Esmail’s “Panic Carefully,” starring Julia Roberts, will debut in Imax theaters on February 26, 2027; meanwhile, Tim Miller and Keanu Reeves’ yet-to-be-titled team-up will premiere on August 13.
“Panic Carefully” marks the latest collaboration between Esmail and Roberts, following their Prime Video series “Homecoming,” the Starz show “Gaslit” and the Netflix movie “Leave the World Behind.” Starring alongside Roberts are Eddie Redmayne, Brian Tyree Henry, Ben Chaplin, Aidan Gillen, Joe Alwyn, Naledi Murray and Elizabeth Olsen. Esmail and Roberts produced the new movie with Scott Stuber, Chad Hamilton, Marisa Yeres Gill and Lisa Gillan.
Details about Miller and Reeves’ sci-fi film have been kept largely under wraps, but an early logline teased that the plot focuses on “a smuggler caught in a mysterious time loop must survive both bloodthirsty mercenaries and sharks in Caribbean waters, repeating the same deadly day until he finds a way out.” Miller directs from a script by Ian Shorr; Matthew Vaughn, Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swett and John Zaozirny are producing.
New Line Cinema’s next installment in “The Conjuring” franchise, “First Communion,” is dated for September 10. The prequel movie — directed by Rodrigue Huart from a screenplay by Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg — further expands the $2.7 billion-grossing “Conjuring” universe. The most recent film, “The Conjuring Last Rites,” is the highest-grossing installment to date, earning nearly $495 million worldwide.
