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“They look exactly like us,” Lupita Nyong’o’s character says on the trailer. “They think like us. They knew where we are. We need to move and keep moving. They won’t stop until they kill us. Or we kill them.’’

It is no surprise that Jordan Peele’s next feature is already one of the most highly anticipated 2019 films, given that his 2017 directorial debut “Get Out” was both a critical and boxoffice smash.

Like “Get Out”, the upcoming horror thriller is both quirky and creepy. Here we see a family on an innocent relaxing getaway when cissor-wielding doppelgängers shows up and took their vacation to a terrifying turn.

Thanks to the remix of “I Got 5 on It,” the trailer is genuinely twisted, scary and bizarre, the right kind of mix for another potential hit for the actor director and his production collaborators Jason Blum and Sean McKittrick, who had another success this year in “BlacKkKlansman.” It helps that the film’s plot was not fully spoiled and kept vague by the trailer.

Also in the film are Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright,and Evan Alex.

Universal Pictures is set to release the film on March 15, 2019.

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Focus Features

Based on the thrilling trailer from Focus Features, you should probably take that advice and think twice about getting close to stray bags left by strangers on a train.

The trailer highlights the thrilling stalkerish nature of title character in the film, events that led to their encounter, and shocking visuals such as chilling syringes, floor full of blood, and Moretz trapped in a rapidly rising elevator.

Jordan wrote the film with Ray Wright, and co-stars Maika Monroe, Colm Feore and Stephen Rea.

“Greta” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and is set for release in the US on March 1, 2019.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

A sweet, naïve young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) doesn’t think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends — but Greta’s maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta’s life is what it seems in this suspense thriller from Academy Award®-winning director Neil Jordan.

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Yes, it looks like everything’s going to awesome, even in space. The film picks up where the first Lego Movie left off, and what our favorite characters are put to this time.

“Aliens kidnapped my friends. I’m going to get them back,” Emmet says in the trailer.

Based on the popular children’s toy, the Lego Movie franchise franchise has also spawned two spinoffs: The Lego Batman Movie (2017) and The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017).

The trailer also shows a fun bit where Green Lantern (Jonah Hill) complains about being left behind by Superman (Channing Tatum) and Wonder Woman (Cobie Smulders). “I’m literally a lantern, how did you miss me!”. He’s got a point.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part is set for release on Feb. 8, 2019.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

The much-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, global box office phenomenon that started it all, “The LEGO® Movie 2: The Second Part,” reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.

The battle to defeat them and restore harmony to the LEGO universe will take Emmet, Lucy, Batman and their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds, including a strange galaxy where everything is a musical. It will test their courage, creativity and Master Building skills, and reveal just how special they really are.

Reprising their starring roles from the first film are Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Lucy (aka Wyldstyle), Will Arnett as LEGO BatmanTM, Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, and Alison Brie as Unikitty. They are joined by Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, and Arturo Castro as, respectively, new characters Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi, Sweet Mayhem and Ice Cream Cone.

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Focus Features

The film features Matthias Schoenaerts as Roman, a convict in a rural Nevada prison who undergoes rehabiblitation program where he tame wild horses as he tries to escape his violent past.

The Mustang is set for world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and on select theaters on March 15, 2019.

Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (Rabbit), who also co-penned the script with Brock Norman Brock (Bronson) and Mona Fastvold (The Sleepwalker).

Also in the film are Bruce Dern (Django Unchained, White Boy Rick), Connie Britton (The Last Winter), Jason Mitchell (The Chi), Gideon Adlon (Blockers), and Josh Stewart (The Neighbour, Interstellar).

Here is the film’s official synopsis courtesy of Focus Features:

Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a convict in a prison in rural Nevada, participates in a rehabilitation program in which he trains wild mustangs. He struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates alike. But in time, working alongside young convict Henry (Jason Mitchell) and an old trainer Myles (Bruce Dern), Roman soothes an especially feisty horse and confronts his own violent past.

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The King has returned.

Disney dropped the first trailer for “The Lion King,” the much-anticipated live action remake of its beloved 1994 film of the same name.

The teaser features a stunning Serengeti wildlife and the popular image of Rafiki hoisting Simba above the rock, while part of the song Circle of Life plays in the background. The teaser debuted on during a commercial break on the Thanksgiving NFL game.

The film is the latest film transferred from traditional animation to CGI and is directed b Jon Favreau, who previously successfully remake “The Jungle Book” in 2016. That film went on to gross almost $1 billion and Best Achievement in Visual Effects at the 2016 Oscars.

The film will see James Earl Jones reprise his role as Mufasa. It is also set to feature the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Billy Eichner, John Oliver, Keegan-Michael Key and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.

The original 1994 animated musical fantasy was a global hit, grossing $766 million at the global boxoffice and was later a adapted into a hit Broadway musical.

The upcoming version is said to include popular songs from that 1994 film, including the Oscar-winning “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” which was written by Elton John and Tim Rice.

The Lion King is set for release next summer on July 19, 2019.