Warner Bros. held a series of press screenings for its high concept sci-fi survival feature The End of Oak Street in the last few days, and the early reaction on social media suggests the studio may, finally, have a film to get it out of its box office rut in 2026.
The logline for The End of Oak Street reads, “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 star as the Platt family. The cast also includes P. J. Byrne and Chris Coy.
The film was written, directed and produced by David Robert Mitchell, the filmmaker behind the highly rated 2014 horror film It Follows and A24’s 2018 black comedy Under the Silver Lake. Notably, The End of Oak Street is produced by J.J. Abrams as well as Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, Matt Jackson and Tommy Harper.
There has been some online chatter that The End of Oak Street is secretly connected to Abrams’ Cloverfield franchise. Alas, Abrams shot down the speculation “The only connection to our Cloverfield movies is that Ewan’s partner is Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who was the star of 10 Cloverfield Lane, who we were very lucky to get to work with and who I adore,” Abrams told The Hollywood Reporter. “So there was that, but other than that, people are just making connections that they happen to see.”
Full reviews of The End of Oak Street are embargoed until Aug. 12, ahead of the film’s wide theatrical release on Aug. 14.
For Warners, there’s an added pressure for The End of Oak Street to succeed at the box office. The studio had a stellar 2025, when Sinners, A Minecraft Movie, Superman, Final Destination Bloodlines, Weapons and One Battle After Another all made hay at the global box office —and in the case of Sinners and OBAA dominated the Oscars. However, Warners has struggled this year, with The Bride!, Mortal Kombat II and Supergirl all proving to be huge bombs at the box office, with only Wuthering Heights finding any success.
See a selection of social media reaction to The End of Oak Street from the various screenings below.
