Pop culture is a never-ending world of updates, teases, trailers, and hopefully releases. What’s New Wednesday is Dorkaholics’ way to keep us all up to date with what’s new across comics, tv, film, games, and more! This week, the focus is on Doona!, PLUTO, Priscilla, and Expats.
- Doona!: Official Trailer
The official trailer for Doona! is now available, and promises viewers a heart-fluttering romance. Anyone else getting manic pixie dream girl energy à la 500 Days of Summer?
Release Date: October 20, 2023 on Netflix
Synopsis: A college student navigates life and school while dealing with a unique predicament – he’s living with a beautiful former K-pop idol.
- PLUTO: Final Trailer
Netflix has released the final trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation, PLUTO. The trailer establishes a distant future where humans and advanced robots coexist with a delicate balance. This balance extends out to a contrast of intense action sequences as well as poignant dialogue, indicating an emotional depth to this story and setting expectations high for what may be one of the most heart-wrenching anime films of the year.
Release Date: October 26, 2023 on Netflix
Synopsis: In a world where humans and robots coexist, Europol detective Gesicht is on the case when a string of powerful robots are destroyed, leading him to believe that the culprit is targeting the most advanced robots in the world – including himself. But things take a shocking turn when key humans involved in robot law start getting killed off one by one, and there’s no clear sign of a perpetrator at the murder scenes. As Gesicht investigates, he meets the highly advanced robot Atom, whose emotions and AI leave him questioning his own identity. Together, they uncover a dark plot that could spell the end of the world as they know it. But with the clock ticking, can they stop the greatest evil in history before it’s too late?
- Priscilla: Official Trailer
It feels just like yesterday that there was a new biopic on Elvis Presley, but A24 is releasing their own about his wife Priscilla Beaulieu, aptly titled Priscilla. The film stars Cailee Spaeny as titular woman and Euphoria actor Jacob Elordi as her husband.
Release Date: November 3, 2023 in theaters
Synopsis: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.
- Expats: Date Announced & Teaser Art
Prime Video has announced that Expats, the upcoming six-part limited series directed by Lulu Wang and based on the internationally best-selling novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee, will premiere January 26, 2024.
Release Date: January 26, 2024 on Prime Video
Synopsis: Set against the complex tapestry of Hong Kong residents, Expats depicts a multifaceted group of women after a single encounter sets off a chain of life-altering events that leaves everyone navigating the intricate balance between blame and accountability.
