Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Anniversary, a contemporary thriller from director Jan Komasa that will open in theaters on October 29. The film stars Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler as a long-married couple whose celebration is upended when their son, played by Dylan O’Brien, introduces a new girlfriend, portrayed by Phoebe Dynevor. The trailer arrived August 19 across studio channels, and early materials position the movie as a tense domestic drama set against national unrest.
The footage shows Lane’s character recognizing her son’s partner as a former student and bristling at the young woman’s ties to a rising movement called “The Change,” a detail that threads through scenes of neighborhood unease and family infighting. People premiered the video and featured comments from Lane calling the story timely; the cut uses a cover of “Don’t Dream It’s Over” to underscore the family’s fracture. The ensemble also includes Zoey Deutch, Mckenna Grace, Daryl McCormack and Madeline Brewer.
Komasa, whose credits include Corpus Christi and The Hater, developed the story with screenwriter Lori Rosene-Gambino, who wrote the script. Production history indicates the project assembled its cast in 2023 and filmed in Dublin, with documentation noting the shoot navigated strike-era protocols before moving forward. The film is produced with backing from Fifth Season.
Marketing language describes Anniversary as a “provocative” portrait of a close-knit family torn apart as a political-style movement spreads across the country, suggesting a blend of domestic suspense and social allegory. The studio’s trailer rollout highlights the cross-generational pairing of Lane and Chandler with rising leads O’Brien and Dynevor, framing the conflict as both intimate and systemic ahead of the fall theatrical release.
