Trailer Updates: Paul Thomas/Wes Anderson, New Naked Gun, Tron and More

Time to catch up on the most recent trailer update.
A sequel to Freaky Friday wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are. Freakier Friday releases this August and looks like a lot of fun.
Less surprise in terms of getting a sequel with&n…



Time to catch up on the most recent trailer update.

A sequel to Freaky Friday wasn't on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are. Freakier Friday releases this August and looks like a lot of fun.

Less surprise in terms of getting a sequel with Fight Nights At Freddy's 2 getting a teaser trailer (an our exclusive music-only version of that teaser).

The sequel theme continues with the soft-reboot of The Naked Gun.

I can't be the only one that confuses Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson, and the confusion is compounded by the fact that both have new movies out and new trailers coming one after another. One Battle After Another came just before The Phoenician Scheme (music-only trailer here). 

The big blockbusters of 2025 also got new trailers, with Tron: Ares being the headline new release, but also new trailers for Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningBallerina, and a sneak peek of the new Superman. A lot of these came out during CinemaCon.

There were also new trailers for ElioA Working ManFinal Destination: BloodlinesDrop (music-only trailer), Hurry Up TomorrowThe Accountant 2, and Karate Kid: Legends.

Streaming trailers include Careme: Season 1Andor: Season 2Sea Lions of the GalapagosStar Wars: Tales of the Underworld - Season 1, and Predator: Killer of Killers.

Check out all of our recently added trailers here.

Bundeskartellamt: Vodafone hat 1&1 beim Antennenaufbau wohl behindert

Das Bundeskartellamt hat den Verdacht, dass die Vodafone-Antennensparte den Konkurrenten 1&1 bewusst beim Netzaufbau behindert hat. Doch entschieden ist noch nichts. (1&1, Mobilfunk)

Das Bundeskartellamt hat den Verdacht, dass die Vodafone-Antennensparte den Konkurrenten 1&1 bewusst beim Netzaufbau behindert hat. Doch entschieden ist noch nichts. (1&1, Mobilfunk)

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Even weirder: why would Google give so many the “Featured” stamp for trustworthiness?

Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million devices that have installed it and that the developer has taken pains to carefully conceal.

The extensions, which so far number at least 35, use the same code patterns, connect to some of the same servers, and require the same list of sensitive systems permissions, including the ability to interact with web traffic on all URLs visited, access cookies, manage browser tabs, and execute scripts. In more detail, the permissions are:

  • Tabs: manage and interact with browser windows
  • Cookies: set and access stored browser cookies based on cookie or domain names (ex., "Authorization" or "all cookies for GitHub.com")
  • WebRequest: intercept and modify web requests the browser makes
  • Storage: ability to store small amounts of information persistently in the browser (these extensions store their command & control configuration here)
  • Scripting: the ability to inject new JavaScript into web pages and manipulate the DOM
  • Alarms: an internal messaging service to trigger events. The extension uses this to trigger events like a cron job as it can allow for scheduling the heartbeat callbacks by the extension
  • <all_urls>: This works in tandem with other permissions like webRequest, but allows for the extension to be functionally interact all browsing activity (completely unnecessary for an extension that should just look at your installed extensions

These sorts of permissions give extensions the ability to do all sorts of potentially abusive things and, as such, should be judiciously granted only to trusted extensions that can’t perform core functions without them.

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“What the hell are you doing?” How I learned to interview astronauts, scientists, and billionaires

The best part about journalism is not collecting information. It’s sharing it.

I recently wrote a story about the wild ride of the Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station last summer. It was based largely on an interview with the commander of the mission, NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore.

His account of Starliner’s thruster failures—and his desperate efforts to keep the vehicle flying on course—was riveting. In the aftermath of the story, many readers, people on social media, and real-life friends congratulated me on conducting a great interview. But truth be told, it was pretty much all Wilmore.

Essentially, when I came into the room, he was primed to talk. I'm not sure if Wilmore was waiting for me specifically to talk to, but he pretty clearly wanted to speak with someone about his experiences aboard the Starliner spacecraft. And he chose me.

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