Director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) is giving a new spin on dinosaur movies with The End of Oak Street, and a fresh new image from Empire highlights the film’s unique setting for rampaging beasts.
The mystery box sci-fi horror movie releases in theaters August 14, 2026, from Warner Bros. and producer J.J. Abrams.
In the film, “After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.”
Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery come face-to-face with prehistoric predators in the suburbs, atypical of dinosaurs’ usual jungle setting in film.
“I think people are hungry for new stories, original stories, and to me, the undeniable appeal of this is the fact that it takes place in suburbia,” Abrams told Empire. “I love the Jurassic movies as much as anyone, but those films, for the most part, take place in these beautiful jungles, these distant islands. David’s whole approach here was the juxtaposition of the absolute mundane suburban family life — swing sets and ice-cream trucks, and above-ground pools and school buses — and dinosaurs. If there’s any part of you that is excited by what you saw in the trailers, I can promise that the movie will deliver on everything.”
Though Spielberg’s dino classic was influential here. The filmmaker previously revealed to Entertainment Weekly that his inspirations for the film include Jurassic Park, The Twilight Zone, Poltergeist, The Valley of Gwangi, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs.
The film is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and produced by J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, David Robert Mitchell, Matt Jackson and Tommy Harper. The executive producers are Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Joanne Lee and Leeann Stonebreaker.
