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10 Pop Culture Juggernauts that are 20 years old in 2025

2005 was a big year for pop culture. Twilight, Supernatural, and Percy Jackson are among the epic series celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. These pieces of media redefined what fandom and popular culture meant when they were released and continue to do so to this day.

Expanding beyond text, television, and film, these pop culture phenomena that turned 20 created a legacy that continues to draw in fans to date, with growing online fandoms and conventions.

Twilight (Book) Date of release: October 5, 2005 Creator: Stephanie Meyer

Plot: When Meyer wrote the first draft about a vampire falling in love with a human based on a dream,...

Exclusive: Arden Cho is riding a wave thanks to the record-breaking success of Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters, in which she voices the character Rumi.

The actress and singer is soon to star with Adeline Rudolph in another KPop-themed project in the shape of horror-thriller Perfect Girl, which as we revealed yesterday has newly added international KPop star Jeon Somi to its cast in her first acting role.

The former BlackList script has been described as “Scream meets Black Swan” and charts the story of a new K-Pop super group preparing for its debut, only to see its members mysteriously come under attack after the arrival of a talented new performer. Cho is a producer on the movie alongside Badlands and John Wick outfit Thunder Road.

Cho told Deadline of Jeon Somi’s casting: “This film is so huge, and we had an extensive casting process. We had some really incredible talents audition,...

When the clock struck midnight on Aug. 28, 2015, Halsey was sitting in her first Los Angeles apartment. Her one-bedroom in Studio City was hundreds of miles away from the Brooklyn neighborhoods that inspired her anagrammed stage name and countless stories to tell. Those streets, with their bizarre characters and ominous affairs, were a short distance from where she grew up in New Jersey, though that place seemed far away, too. Everything was changing for the musician, who was 20 years old at the time, but she was removed from it. There were...

Halsey has announced”Back to Badlands Tour,” a run of concerts celebrating the 10th anniversary of her 2015 debut album Badlands.

The 22-date international tour launches on October 14th at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, spanning across North America, Europe, UK, and Australia through February 2026.

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Tickets for Halsey’s “Back to Badlands Tour” will first be available through an artist presale beginning Tuesday, September 2nd. A Live Nation pre-sale is also available beginning on Thursday, September 4th at 10:00 a.

Halsey and Avan Jogia have landed in Italy for the 2025 Venice Film Festival!

The engaged couple held hands as they left the airport and boarded a water taxi on Saturday afternoon (August 30) in Venice, Italy.

For their arrival, the 30-year-old “Without Me” singer wore a striped crop top and black capris while the 33-year-old Victorious actor wore a gray blazer, black and white striped button-down shirt, tan pants, and white boots.

On Monday, September 1, Halsey and Avan will be premiering their new short film How to Shoot a Ghost, which they produced with alongside her manager Anthony Li. Directed by Charlie Kaufman, the 27-minute film stars Jessie Buckley and Josef Akiki.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere rejects the familiar architecture of the music biopic. It is not a grand survey of a legendary career. The film instead offers a spare, concentrated examination of Bruce Springsteen during a pivotal moment of crisis. The year is 1981, and after the triumphant The River tour, he stands at the precipice of global fame.

Instead of taking the leap, he pulls back. The story depicts an artist exhausted, overwhelmed by the machinery of stardom, and sinking into a deep depression. It reframes a cultural icon as a man haunted by his past, using his forced solitude in his native New Jersey to create the stark album Nebraska.

Over the past decade, there has been a deluge of big Hollywood movies about rock stars, among them 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, 2019’s Rocketman and 2022’s Elvis, each of which made a fortune at the box office and was Oscar-nominated, with Bohemian Rhapsody winning four little gold men, including best actor, and Rocketman taking home one. Those films certainly addressed dark aspects of their subjects’ personal lives, but they were essentially jukebox musicals, excuses to showcase the greatest hits from across their subjects’ careers. That, for better or worse, depending on what you’re looking for, is not what you should expect from Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. And it will be interesting to see how that goes over with the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Scott Cooper’s film, which stars two-time Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White (Carmy from The Bear) as The Boss, had...

There’s always pressure when you’re making a biopic about a living subject, but fortunately for fans of The Boss, it looks like Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is born to run, taking in hugely positive reviews out of its debut at the Telluride Film Festival.

Based on the first screening, Deliver Me from Nowhere proved all night that it has taken a unique approach to the biopic. We knew it centered on a specific moment in Springsteen’s life, but it has apparently found a tone that finds an intimacy and truth in ways that we have practically been trained to expect in such movies. Check...

By some perverse coincidence, this year at the Telluride Film Festival there were three movies about William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” but it’s the one spelled with the “n” that confronts the specter of death most profoundly — and packs the greatest catharsis.

As conceived by “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet” is so emotionally raw as to be almost excruciating at times. Jessie Buckley delivers a heroic performance as Shakespeare’s wife and the mother of his children — although as presented, she could be the mother of us all — the grounded, near-shamanic spirit forced to confront the death of her son, Hamnet. Meanwhile, Paul Mescal plays Shakespeare, who pours his grief into “the Danish play,” but both actor and character are eclipsed by the feminine elements of this story.

Here, I’m thinking about a conversation I had with its creator a couple of years ago. We were talking about the filmmaker Agnès Varda,...

Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere makes affecting gains by focusing on the Artist as a Depressed Young Man. Which is not to say Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen portrait is a downer. If you’re looking to celebrate the anthemic hits of blue-collar New Jersey’s favorite son, this highly personal movie might not meet your requirements. But serious fans — particularly those who admire the lo-fi 1982 album Nebraska — should connect with the intimate drama.

Released between the seminal 1980 double album The River and the definitive leap to superstardom four years later with Born in the U.S.A., Nebraska was a bold career move and not the fresh crop of Top 10 singles for which Columbia Records likely was hoping. A thematically dark acoustic...

In an industry where even “Weird Al” Yankovic has a movie about his life story, it’s about time the Boss got his due. But “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” isn’t just another assembly-line biopic — and that’s a blessing — in that it focuses not on the blue-collar troubadour’s glory days, but on the darkest chapter of his career: the narrow, near-suicidal period in which he stepped back from the success of his tour for “The River,” returned to his working-class roots and wrote what many consider to be his greatest album, “Nebraska.”

Too many music-centric movies subscribe to the same formula, dramatizing the arc whereby talented nobodies get discovered, shoot to stardom and then stumble with drugs and infidelity when fame becomes too much, only to be redeemed (“Rocketman”) or buried (“Fade to Black”) in the end. It’s an exasperating genre in that it forces some...

“Deliver Me from Nowhere” — that’s what we’re calling it — is a semi-desolate sketch of a biopic about a depressed 32-year-old man who channel surfs across a much better movie on TV one night in the fall of 1981. The man is Bruce Springsteen (a possessed Jeremy Allen White), the movie is Terrence Malick’s “Badlands,” and its story of a Korean War vet who takes his 15-year-old girlfriend on a killing spree across the American heartland gives the wayward rock god a newfound sense of direction that just might save his life.

Adapted from Warren Zanes’ book of the same name, and directed by Scott Cooper (“Out of the Furnace”) with all of his usual self-seriousness, the chilly but tender “Deliver Me from Nowhere” begins with Bruce returning to Freehold after a triumphant year on tour with the E Street Band. He’s on the cusp of the megastardom he would claim soon thereafter,...

It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his Ok to that particular film. Bruce Springsteen, however, after turning down numerous past attempts and offers, is around to pass judgment on director-writer Scott Cooper’s anti-biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which prefers to focus on the man, in a key moment of his life and career creating his sixth studio album Nebraska, as he resisted all commercial temptation to to find himself, and the truth, in his art.

It would seem for a major star, who six years earlier had appeared simultaneously on the covers of Time and Newsweek and had just come off a wildly successful release and tour for his fifth album The River, a bit of a risk. But as this exceptional film shows,...

Halsey is hitting the road again!

The 30-year-old superstar has announced the Back to Badlands Tour, a celebration of the 10th anniversary of her debut album Badlands.

The Live Nation trek will launch at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on October 14 and continue through cities like Boston, Chicago, and New York before making stops in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Keep reading to find out more…

Artist presale tickets will be available beginning on Tuesday, September 2, with additional presales running through the week. General onsale starts Friday, September 5 at 10 a.m. local time. For all tickets, head to Ticketmaster.com.

There are also VIP package options at VIPnation.com.

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Halsey will celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut album on the road this fall on her just-announced Back to Badlands Tour.

Less than a week after the singer concluded the For My Last Trick tour, Halsey announced Thursday she will return to the stage in October; however, instead of playing arenas this time around, Halsey will instead play theaters, ballrooms, and Fillmores across North America.

“A Badlands club tour. Tiny venues. Ga floors. 10 years later. I’ve been waiting a decade to re-live it all over again with you,...

In February of 2024, it was announced that Prey director Dan Trachtenberg would become the first filmmaker to take the helm of two films in the Predator franchise, as he was moving ahead with a new Predator film titled Badlands, working from a screenplay by Prey screenwriter Patrick Aison (based on a story crafted by Trachtenberg himself). Then we found out that while Trachtenberg was making the live-action Predator: Badlands, he was also working on an animated anthology movie called Predator: Killer of Killers, which he wrote with Micho Robert Rutare and directed with Josh Wassung of the animation company The Third Floor. So he has actually made three Predator movies.

Ahead of Predator: Badlands' release in theaters this November, Marvel Comics will publish Predator: Badlands #1. The tie-in comic is written by Ethan Sacks, known for his work on Marvel's Star Wars titles, and, in his Marvel Comics debut, artist Elvin Ching, a recent participant in Marvel's Art Atelier program.

As we first reported on SFFGazette.com, this will serve as the official prelude to the highly anticipated film. The one-shot is also being produced in close collaboration with director Dan Trachtenberg, who will also write a foreword for the issue.

Predator: Badlands, which stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, is set in the future on a remote planet, where Dek,...

Those anticipating the upcoming Predator: Badlands film can now mark an official prequel on their calendars as well, with Marvel confirming a new comic one-shot set before the events of the movie, created in close collaboration with Badlands' filmmakers.

The one-shot comic will arrive in November alongside the movie itself, delivering a brand new story to introduce the franchise's new Yautja hero, Dek, to the world of Predator fans. Described as a "puzzle piece" intended to fit into the overall story of the revitalized film franchise, the special prequel is a story fans won't want to miss:

The Hunt Begins. In the one-shot, a young Yautja warrior is given a...

We may be done with superhero movies for another year, but there are still some exciting sci-fi and fantasy flicks heading our way in 2025, and LA Times has shared over 20 new images as part of a Fall preview.

In addition to new stills from Tron: Ares, Wicked: For Good, and The Running Man, we have another look at what might just be the most highly-anticipated upcoming release, Predator: Badlands.

This latest look at Dan Trachtenberg's Prey follow-up spotlights Dek, a young Yautja who will be introduced as the franchise's first Predator protagonist. Dek will join forces with Thea, a Weyland-Yutani synth played by Elle Fanning, as they traverse an...

Carrie, the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's literary debut, and one of the best horror movies ever made, is set to receive an awesome 4K Uhd release, courtesy of Imprint Films. Imprint Films is the world-renowned boutique label based in Australia with an extensive catalog of high-definition re-releases. Carrie is their latest announcement, with the set going on sale October 29, 2025—just in time for Halloween. That is, if you have the money to purchase this expensive edition of the horror classic.

The 4K Uhd edition of Carrie can already be pre-ordered on the Imprint Films official website. Only 1500 copies are being released, and the set can be purchased individually or...

Halsey is teasing a special surprise ahead of the 10-year anniversary of her album Badlands.

The 30-year-old singer began teasing a music video for her song “Drive” with the video for her song “New Americana,” both featured on her debut album.

Despite the teaser, a video for “Drive” was never released. As Halsey moved on with her music career, fans were left disappointed that she never released the video.

Now, Halsey is teasing a special surprise for the 10th anniversary of her debut album. On Friday (August 15), Halsey took to X to tell fans it was time to “kick it into gear” before announcing a special double feature release.

Keep reading to find out more…

On the same day, Halsey released a teaser video for the Badlands anniversary special, featuring long-awaited music videos for “Drive” and “Gasoline.”

In the trailer, Halsey‘s “Colors” music video costar Tyler Posey as the...

Back in 2015, Halsey made her bid for an alternative approach to pop stardom with her debut album Badlands. She was already Tumblr royalty, so similarly conquering pop didn’t seem too far out of reach. The young artist set herself apart with an elaborately planned narrative that accompanied the record and pulled fans into another world. Each detail was immaculate and intentional, which is why listeners have wondered for an entire decade about whatever happened at the end of the “New Americana” music video, when Halsey awakes in the desert...

Paramount is going later with its Edgar Wright-directed, Glen Powell-starring The Running Man, setting a November 14, 2025 release date to take advantage of access to Imax screens. The previous date for the redo of the Stephen King was November 7.

Additionally, Paramount has dated Primate from Walter Hamada’s genre label 18hz for January 9, 2026. We also understand Primate will be making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest.

Running Man moves away from 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Predators: Badlands and Mubi’s Die My Love, which are already set to be released November 7. It will now run into Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t and Neon’s Osgood Perkins horror pic’s Keeper. That’s quite the crowd of genre and fanboy fare ahead of the Thanksgiving stretch.

Set in the future, Running Man follows a man who joins a game show where contestants, who are...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2023 SXSW coverage. Americana opens in theaters on August 15.

Sometimes it can be fun to watch a skillful band cover songs. Tony Tost’s Americana is precisely that: an ode to the drive-in B-movie which in turn influenced filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, who in turn influenced a generation of filmmakers making quirky violent ensemble films with scrambled chronologies. What’s new is old again and Americana, influenced by films from the 1970s, feels more like a film from the 1990s with notes of Allison Anders’ Gas Food Lodging, David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, and the Kiefer Sutherland-directed neo-noir Truth or Consequences, N.M. The result, thanks in part to a compelling cast, elevates this material past the cinematic equivalent of the local dad band playing Springsteen covers at the corner bar on a Saturday night.

Americana is divided into chapters. In the first,...

Gareth Evans, the director of the action movie The Raid, co-created AMC’s Gangs of London, which will soon leave Netflix and will only be available to stream on AMC+ (via Decider). Two seasons of the crime drama series was a spinoff of the game The Getaway, were available to stream on Netflix, but the streamer did not renew the licensing deal for season 3.

Evans directed some episodes of the first season, including its pilot. While he co-created the show, he did not take on a showrunner role in its second and third seasons. The series has received good reviews from critics and audiences alike, with the show receiving a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes. However, the series will now find a new home at AMC+ this month.

The Raid Director Took Inspiration for Gangs of London From TV’s Coldest Antihero A still from The Raid | Credits: Pt Merantau Films...

Legendary singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen’s fifth studio album, a double album called The River, was his fastest-selling release yet when it reached stores in 1980, became an international hit, and was his first album to reach #1 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. So when his sixth album, Nebraska, came along in 1982, it was surprise that it was so pared down in comparison to its predecessor: Springsteen recorded the songs for Nebraska without the accompaniment of the E Street Band, sitting in the bedroom of his home with a four-track recorder, drawing inspiration from Gothic literature, American history, and Terrence Malick’s Badlands. He had intended to re-record the songs with the band, but he wasn’t satisfied with how they sounded when the band performed them, so he just sent his solo recordings out into the world. It was such an interesting decision, Warren Zanes was inspired to write...

With Marvel and DC's superheroes quietly stepping away from this year's recent San Diego Comic-Con, other buzzy franchises like Predator stepped right up to own the spotlight. Filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg was on hand at Sdcc following the success of Killer of Killers, now streaming on Hulu, to promote his next installment, Predator: Badlands. And boy, do fans seem thrilled about what's to come, especially since the acclaimed writer-director hinted at the possibility of a crossover movie between Alien and Predator down the line. Chances are it will more than surpass the 2004 attempt and the sequels that followed.

MovieWeb also had the chance to speak with Trachtenberg directly following the release of Killer of Killers to learn more about his latest work — including his older projects that helped pave the way for his groundbreaking Predator installments. That includes helming the pilot episode of The Boys, the Emmy-nominated series on FX whose final season is coming soon.

Halsey will celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut album Badlands with a new reissue project featuring previously unreleased demos and other rarities.

Badlands: Anthology is set to arrive Aug. 29 as a triple-disc vinyl set. It’ll include the original breakthrough album, orchestral versions of several songs, and demos of tracks like “Drive,” “Ghost,” “Hurricane,” and “Trouble.”

Among the rarities are “You(th),” a song previously released on an old Badlands box set, and “Garden,” which Halsey only made available on a CD shared with fans on her 2016 European tour.

FX‘s highly anticipated drama Alien: Earth is slated for release on August 12, 2025. The 8-episode show has a stunning line-up with a stellar ensemble cast that includes Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Adarsh Gourav, and others. And it is very much possible that you might have seen them in other movies and series as well.

Created by Noah Hawley, the upcoming sci-fi horror is based on the Alien franchise, serving as the prequel set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien, which was directed by the highly acclaimed Ridley Scott.

For any movie or show to be a hit, its heart should lie with the actors who bring their own essence to the series or film. Let’s get on the road to explore the Hulu show’s characters and casts who face off against the crafty Xenomorphs.

Sydney Chandler as Wendy: The Human-Synthetic Hybrid Sydney Chandler in Alien: Earth...

Elle Fanning has teased her character Thia will be the Predator Dek’s “little companion” in Predator: Badlands.The 27-year-old actress portrays the synthetic - a biomechanical humanoid - opposite Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi’s Yautja hunter Dek in the upcoming action movie, and Fanning has now given fans some clues as to what to expect out of her character in Predator: Badlands.Speaking with Screen Rant, Fanning said of Dek: “He's speaking another language, and Thia is there to guide him in a lot of ways, and to be his buddy. “But I think she's also wanting respect, as well. I think Dek wants respect in the film from other things you'll figure out, and Thia also wants her respect also from Dek, in some ways. “So, she is his little companion, his little buddy, and I love she has a different personality than any other synthetic we've seen before in any of the films.

Elle Fanning said she was a fan of the character Effie Trinket before she cast to take on the role in the next “Hunger Games” film. Fanning has fans of her own to thank for getting to play the part.

The actress, who will soon star in “Predator: Badlands,” sat down with “Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg and co-star Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi for an interview at San Diego Comic-Con. At the end of the interview, panel moderator Josh Horowitz turned the conversation to “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,” congratulating Fanning on what he called “perfect casting.”

“I think fans kind of made this happen in a way,” Fanning said. “The studio said, like, they were getting kind of hounded online, being like ‘Elle needs to play Effie,’ and they were like, ‘Ok.'”

You can watch the full interview below.

She’s not the only fan-casting subject to get the actual job.

Following the animated return of Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s Dutch to the Predator franchise, the actor could soon reprise the role in a live-action capacity.

During Friday’s Predator: Badlands panel at Comic-Con, director Dan Trachtenberg teased the Hall H audience that he’s planning to “cook up stuff for that guy” after a recent breakfast meeting with the Golden Globe-winning actor and former governor of California.

Schwarzenegger starred in the original John McTiernan-helmed Predator (1987) as Major Alan ‘Dutch’ Schaefer, who encounters the titular extraterrestrial with his paramilitary team during a rescue mission in a Central American rainforest.

Although the franchise has expanded to nine movies over the years—including two crossovers with the Alien franchise and the upcoming Badlands, premiering Nov. 7 in theaters—Schwarzenegger has yet to reprise his role.

Following the release last month of the franchise’s first animated installment, Predator: Killer of Killers, Trachtenberg debuted an...

Despite the trailer pointing towards more insight about the Predator culture and Yautja homeworld, Predator: Badlands apparently only provides a brief glimpse at where the cosmic hunters come from as explained by director Dan Trachtenberg. Set for a November 7th, 2025 release date, Predator: Badlands is the seventh movie in the mainline Predator franchise.

Set somewhere in the untold reaches of space, Predator: Badlands chronicles the first hunt of an outcast Predator named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi). With the help of a Weyland-Yutani android named Thia (Elle Fanning), Dek battles his way across the most dangerous planet in the universe in search of an apex predator that will allow him to regain his place among his clan.

During an interview with Screen Rant's Joe Deckelmeier at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg revealed that the new movie only provides a small taste of the Predator culture and homeworld. Per Trachtenberg,...

San Diego — A towering costumed hunter prowled Hall H on Friday before director Dan Trachtenberg rolled the first fifteen minutes of Predator: Badlands, the franchise’s seventh mainline film and the first told entirely from the Yautja point of view, scheduled for a November 7, 2025 theatrical release by 20th Century Studios.

The sequence opens with Dek, a slight‑built adolescent predator, locked in a ceremonial cave fight against his brother Kwei; when Dek falters, clan elders banish him to Kalisk, a death world teeming with gargantuan fauna.

His only companion is Thia, a mutilated Weyland‑Yutani android literally strapped to his back and played by Elle Fanning, whose facial capture rigs were modified so she could deliver dialogue in the growling Yautja dialect. Sweeping shots of apex beasts and Dek’s fluid staff work drew cheers, while a voice‑over warns that a predator is “friend to none, hunter to all,...

San Diego, California – July 25: (L-r) Alec Gillis, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Kevin Smith, Elle Fanning and Dan Trachtenberg participate in the Predator: Badlands panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con on July 25, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney) San Diego Comic-Con 2025 was buzzing as Disney’s Hall H hosted two of the convention’s most anticipated events: the Predator: Badlands and Tron: Ares Comic-Con 2025 panels. Filmmaker Kevin Smith moderated both star-studded showcases, giving fans exclusive footage, behind-the-scenes details, and unforgettable surprises from these highly anticipated blockbusters. Predator: Badlands Comic-Con 2025 Panel San Diego, California – July 25: (L-r) Dan Trachtenberg, Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, and Alec Gillis participate in the Predator: Badlands panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con on July 25, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) The Predator: Badlands panel brought out stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi,...

Disney was in full on show, don’t tell mode for Predator: Badlands, unveiling the intense first 15 minutes of the upcoming sci-fi adventure movie for a primed Comic-Con crowd.

The panel showed a cameo by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Glover that is being inserted into the animated Predator movie beginning today, and it wrapped up the panel by giving away Predator masks for every person, all 6,500 of them, in the cavernous Hall H.

You’re a Yautja, I’m a Yautja, we are all Yautja… Everyone in Hall H at the Predator: Badlands panel, all 6500 geeks, get a Predator mask. pic.twitter.com/GxbW4K0QYm

— Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) July 26, 2025

The latest Predator installment is coming in with heat thanks to a reinvigorated franchise due to the electric current whipped up by filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg. The movie is coming on the heels of Predator: Killer of Killers, the...

20th Century Studios debuted the first 15 minutes of Predator: Badlands during San Diego Comic-Con tonight, and a brand new official poster has also been released. Check it out below.

Predator: Badlands centers on an unexpected team-up between a young Yautja warrior and a Weyland-Yutani synth, with Prey director Dan Trachtenberg’s film bringing the Alien and Predator franchises back together. Badlands will release in theaters November 7, 2025, in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, Cinemark Xd, 4Dx, ScreenX, and premium screens.

Elle Fanning stars alongside Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi.

The newest entry in the franchise is set on a remote planet where a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. Watch the new trailer right here.

Owned by Disney under the 20th Century Studios umbrella, the Predator franchise of course kicked off with the original...

“Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg has a long history with Hall H. For eight years in a row, he lined up and waited overnight to witness some of San Diego Comic-Con’s most epic moments, from the first footage of Iron Man to the moment the Avengers assembled. “I was here for the infamous pencil stabbing,” Trachtenberg told the sold-out crowd. “I was a material witness.”

But on Friday, it was time for Trachtenberg to make a little Hall H history of his own — as the “Predator” guru debuted new footage from not one, but two of his entries in the “Predator” franchise.

Kevin Smith and “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney

First, Trachtenberg addressed “Predator: Killer of Killers,” which is currently streaming on Hulu. “Unfortunately, some bits of ‘Killer of Killers’ were left on the cutting room floor,...

At San Diego Comic-Con, Predatorfranchise director Dan Trachtenberg addresses the possibility of making a new Alien vs. Predator movie. Both the Predator and Alien franchises have been going on for decades now, and famously had a crossover with Alien vs. Predator. The 2004 movie was directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. It was followed by a Requiem sequel, but the attempts have failed to impress critics.

However, Trachtenberg became a key filmmaking figure behind the modern Predator franchise. His tenure started with the prequel film Prey, which was well-received upon its 2022 release. The success continued with Predator: Killer of Killers and is set to helm Predator: Badlands, which releases this fall.

At an Sdcc panel to speak about Badlands, Trachtenberg discussed the challenges of making a new Alien vs. Predator movie. The director explained that it is hard to do such a crossover without feeling the "seduction to grab all the action figures and smush them together.

In February of 2024, it was announced that Prey director Dan Trachtenberg would become the first filmmaker to take the helm of two films in the Predator franchise, as he was moving ahead with a new Predator film titled Badlands, working from a screenplay by Prey screenwriter Patrick Aison (based on a story crafted by Trachtenberg himself). Then we found out that while Trachtenberg was making the live-action Predator: Badlands, he was also working on an animated anthology movie called Predator: Killer of Killers, which he wrote with Micho Robert Rutare and directed with Josh Wassung of the animation company The Third Floor. So he has actually made three Predator movies. Predator: Killer of Killers was released through the Hulu streaming service earlier this month and Predator: Badlands is aiming for a November 7, 2025 theatrical release. The film was promoted with a panel at San Diego Comic-Con today, and JoBlo’s own...

Dan Trachtenberg has been doing things with the Predator franchise that no one could have imagined just several years ago. After delivering the best Predator movie since the 1987 original with Prey, and following that up with the excellent animated anthology, Predator: Killer of Killers, and the upcoming Predator: Badlands, the director has now gone one step further and brought back two of the most iconic characters of the franchise in the most unexpected way.

Fans who have watched Predator: Killer of Killers on Disney+/Hulu since its debut will have to go and check it out again as, from 7p.m. Pt tonight (July 25), a new deleted epilogue will be added to the film, which will bring Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch and Danny Glover’s Mike Harrigan back to the franchise for the first time in over 30 years.

While appearing at Sdcc, Trachtenberg announced the new cut of the movie...

There’s no Marvel here at Comic-Con this year, but Disney has a one-two punch with 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands, followed by Tron: Ares.

Before the first 15 minutes were shown, the Badlands panel began with one of the Predator warriors coming on stage and scanning the Hall H audience with his uber-multi-color-vision. Suddenly he spotted the moderator, filmmaker Kevin Smith.

The director joked, “I don’t speak [Predator] Yautja, but I’m pretty sure he said something about the Jeffrey Epstein files!”

Smith also teased whether director Dan Trachtenberg will be the Alien vs. Predator guy, which drew great cheers from the crowd.

Appearing on stage were Trachtenberg, Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and VFX maestro Alec Gillis. In Badlands, a young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary. It...

This week, the official trailer for Predator: Badlands dropped, marking the ninth overall Predator movie in the film franchise. With excitement around the upcoming release increasing, especially with positive reactions to the new preview, we can't help but feel appreciative for how far the series has come—transforming it back into a big-budget, high-octane franchise worth paying to see.

Not only is Dan Trachtenberg’s follow-up to Prey set for a proper theatrical release rather than being exiled to streaming, it’s going all-in on big-budget, premium format filmmaking. Set for release in November of this year, Badlands will be playing on IMAX screens and sports easily the largest budget of any Predator film ever made.

In addition to all of these factors, this trailer also makes it clear that the film is laying the groundwork for even bigger and more ambitious swings to come, with one of the lead...

There’s never been a better time to be a Predator fan. A few years back, Dan Trachtenberg brought the series back to rude health with the knockout Prey, dialling the clock back a few hundred years for the tale of a Comanche warrior woman battling an intergalactic hunter. Then, this year, Trachtenberg followed it up with the eye-popping animated gore-fest Predator: Killer Of Killers, produced concurrently with the franchise’s return to the big screen (both Prey and Killer Of Killers were Disney+ exclusives) in the much-anticipated live-action Predator: Badlands. The latest Badlands trailer shows that Trachtenberg isn’t resting on his laurels – instead cranking up all the dials and giving us a completely different Predator movie than we’ve ever seen before. Check out the thrilling new trailer:

Ooft, doesn’t that look stellar? In a major shift for the series, our hero this time is a Predator itself,...

A new trailer for Predator: Badlands, the latest entry in the “Predator” franchise from director Dan Trachtenberg, has just been released. Predator: Badlands opens exclusively in movie theaters on November 7th in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, Cinemark Xd, 4Dx, ScreenX, and premium screens everywhere.

Synopsis: Predator: Badlands, which stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

About The Film

Genre: Sci-Fi Starring: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi Director: Dan Trachtenberg Screenplay: Dan Trachtenberg, Patrick Aison Produced by: John Davis, Dan Trachtenberg, Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, Brent O’Connor

Predator: Badlands

is exclusively in theaters on November 7, 2025!

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20th Century Studios has unveiled an official trailer for Predator: Badlands, starring Elle Fanning, which gives Dek, a young Yautja outcast, a voice, marking a first for the franchise. Although the franchise has its fair share of highs and lows, with Predator: Killer of Killers proving to be a critical hit, Badlands could set a new precedent for the series.

Moreover, this trailer doubles down on the Alien connections, which could fuel another potential crossover between the two IPs in the foreseeable future.

Predator: Badlands Finally Gives Predator a Voice

While it has been decades since the IP commenced, it appears Badland is the first live-action entry to explore Predators’ cultural and emotional depth, as seen with the character of Dek, played by Dimitrius Koloamatangi.

A still from Predator: Badlands | Credits: 20th Century Studios

It also gives a literal voice to a Predator for the first time, as Dek can be seen speaking Yautja,...

The thrilling full trailer for Predator: Badlands has just dropped (via SFFGazette.com) ahead of the movie's panel at this weekend's San Diego Comic-Con.

The action-packed preview reveals much more about what we can expect from what looks to be a unique team-up, as a Weyland-Yutani android, Elle Fanning's Thia, is paired up with Dek, a young Yautja looking to prove himself on a planet inhabited by some pretty gnarly-looking monsters.

After Predator: Killer of Killers gave these iconic aliens the chance to speak and reveal more about their culture, it appears we can expect Dek to communicate with his unexpected ally. It doesn't appear this Predator is looking for an ally, though.

The latest Predator: Badlands trailer also doesn't shy away from including some Alien references, and it definitely feels like this could be a stepping stone to another Alien vs. Predator project somewhere down the line. If nothing else,...

If fans were skeptical over just how much of the "Alien" franchise was going to crossover into "Predator: Badlands" in its first teaser, now they can be sure that Weyland-Yutani is going to be all over the upcoming sequel, thanks to the arrival of a brand new trailer. Revealing more of Elle Fanning's wise-cracking android that comes with a few loose wires, and an epic showdown between a very aggressive lifeform and a Powerloader at the end, one thing that might have caught the attention of die-hard fans of both franchises is the small squad of soldiers that our heroic Predator is up against.

Around the 1:26 mark, the aforementioned army is seen wandering through what looks like a storage facility, most likely on the hunt for our young Yautja (confirmed as Dek and played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), who's out for something to prove. What's interesting about this particular squad is that,...

Disney and 20th Century Studios released a new trailer for the upcoming "Predator: Badlands" today, and it offered up a much more thorough look at director Dan Trachtenberg's live-action follow-up to 2022's much-acclaimed "Prey." While that movie took things back to the distant past, this new entry in the franchise will take us deep into the future. It also, very evidently, is going to deliver a big sci-fi crossover, possibly even building out a new cinematic universe. Get ready for a new "Alien"/"Predator" shared universe.

The first "Badlands" trailer introduced us to Elle Fanning's character, an android named Thia. Eagle-eyed fans noticed that her eyes featured a Weyland-Yutani logo, referencing the company that produces androids in the "Alien" universe. That seemed to be laying the groundwork to bring these universes together for the first time since the "Alien vs. Predator" movies in the early 2000s. This latest...

In February of 2024, it was announced that Prey director Dan Trachtenberg would become the first filmmaker to take the helm of two films in the Predator franchise, as he was moving ahead with a new Predator film titled Badlands, working from a screenplay by Prey screenwriter Patrick Aison (based on a story crafted by Trachtenberg himself). Then we found out that while Trachtenberg was making the live-action Predator: Badlands, he was also working on an animated anthology movie called Predator: Killer of Killers, which he wrote with Micho Robert Rutare and directed with Josh Wassung of the animation company The Third Floor. So he has actually made three Predator movies. Predator: Killer of Killers was released through the Hulu streaming service earlier this month and Predator: Badlands is aiming for a November 7, 2025 theatrical release. We saw a teaser trailer a few months ago, and now a full trailer has dropped online.