Download Trailer 1 for Mortal Kombat II (2026)

* This post has been updated to reflect the change in release date. It has moved from October 24, 2025 to May 15, 2026.

For this week’s update I have the RED BAND and regular versions of Trailer 1 for Mortal Kombat II (2026). Yes, both are 4K UHD 3840×1608 and available with an HEVC 10 bit encode. Yes, both have the official 5.1 audio track. No, the regular version does not contain the blood and gore that you will find in the RED BAND version, or the F word either.

Mortal Kombat II (2026) is directed by Simon McQuoid, who returns after directing the franchise reboot in 2021. Karl Urban appears as the iconic fighter Johnny Cage. The plot centers on the Mortal Kombat tournament, which as its name suggests is a battle to the death. And the RED BAND has some intense gore-filled battle shots.

Although the RED BAND has the ‘Filmed For IMAX’ tag at the end, the filming did not use IMAX cameras. From what I have found, Simon McQuoid has indicated that the film will have some expanded ratio scenes in IMAX theaters. These were likely created in post production using digital special effects. IMAX enhanced may be a better term to use. You can get these trailers at the Mortal Kombat II (2026) page.

Mortal Kombat II (2026) is set to hit theaters and IMAX on May 15, 2026.

In other news I am performing some encoding experiments to improve the quality of my HEVC encodes. I will have more to share on this in the near future.

Download Trailers for The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

Trailers 1 and 2 for The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) have been posted. They are both available in 4K UHD with 5.1 audio. I have brought back 4K AVC encodes since some people have contacted me to say that they can not playback 4K HEVC. So, going forward I will also do AVC 4K encodes for 4K source content.

Scheduled to be released on September 5, 2025 in North America, and September 3 internationally, The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) appears to be the final film in the series of Conjuring films. But who knows. I though Revenge of the Sith was going to be the last Star Wars film. I thought Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) was going to be the last Jurassic World film! There are also lots of spin off opportunities, including The Nun, and Annabelle. I am sure there will be more, considering that The Conjuring Universe holds the title of the highest-grossing horror film series of all time, with a total gross surpassing $2.25 billion worldwide.

Head over to The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) and check out the trailers.

Download Trailers for One Battle After Another (2025)

I have two trailers for One Battle After Another (2025), the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film with an ensemble cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and others. I heard that this is Anderson’s biggest budget film at approximately $110 million. An interesting aspect to this film is that it is shot in VistaVision.

I did not know about VistaVision until a few days ago. I will share with you what I have learned, as it is quite interesting. In the early part of the 20th Century, cinema screens were largely 1.37:1 (the Academy ratio). This is a fairly square image, similar to the old 1.3 aspect ratio of television sets. As televisions became more popular in the home, the movie industry moved to wider images to differentiate from the television screen.

In 1952, 20th Century Fox created a format called Cinerama, which offered a very wide 2.59:1 aspect ratio utilizing huge screens. Shortly after, 20th Century Fox introduced CinemaScope, which used anamorphic lenses to display a wide 2.35:1 aspect ratio image that we are familiar with today. But back in the 50’s these formats provided challenges for both filming and exhibition. Cinerama required three projectors (I am not sure how that was sync’d) and of course CinemaScope required anamorphic lenses, which can create distortion at the film edges.

To address these challenges, Paramount came up with a rather ingenious solution. They took standard 35mm film, and rotated it 90 degrees to arrive at a widescreen frame that was over 2.6 times larger than the standard 35mm. This increased the resolution providing greater detail and since it did not need an anamorphic lens, was distortion free.

The first film to be shown in VistaVision was White Christmas in 1954. Hitchcock used it for Vertigo (1958). However, the even larger Todd-AO 70mm format arrived and made VistaVision obsolete. The last Hollywood film in VistaVision was One Eyed Jacks (1961).

Last year, The Brutalist (2024) was shot with VistaVision and this year One Battle After Another (2025) and Bugonia (2025). There are more films set to come out next year, including Netflix’s Narnia adaptation. Between 1961 and 2024, due to its high resolution and low distortion, VistaVision was used for special effects scenes in a wide array of films beginning with Star Wars (1997).

You can find the trailers at the One Battle After Another (2025) page.