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Updated · IndieWire · Aug 12
Warner Bros. Sets 99-Minute Dinosaur Thriller 'The End of Oak Street' for August 14 Release
Updated
Updated · IndieWire · Aug 12

Warner Bros. Sets 99-Minute Dinosaur Thriller 'The End of Oak Street' for August 14 Release

3 articles · Updated · IndieWire · Aug 12

Summary

  • August 14 is the theatrical release date Warner Bros. has set for David Robert Mitchell’s “The End of Oak Street,” a 99-minute PG-13 suburban dinosaur thriller led by Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway.
  • 250 million years into the past, a struggling Michigan family and its neighborhood are suddenly dropped into a prehistoric landscape, where the film turns marital strain and suburban malaise into a fast-moving survival story.
  • Anne Hathaway, McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery anchor the Platt family, with the story balancing domestic conflict, dark humor and creature attacks in an Amblin-style blockbuster frame.
  • With a budget roughly eight times the size of Mitchell’s previous films combined, the movie marks his Warner Bros. debut and a larger-scale turn after “It Follows” and “Under the Silver Lake.”

Insights

With a neighborhood trapped in the past, how does this upcoming blockbuster turn family drama into a bloody prehistoric nightmare?
Why is this 1980s-set sci-fi thriller keeping the actual science behind its catastrophic, dinosaur-infested wormhole a complete mystery?