From Outer Space to the Ocean Deep

As evidenced by its latest trailer, “Solo: A Star Wars Story” will be far from a solo mission. True, Alden Ehrenreich stands front and center as the younger version of Harrison Ford’s character, but we also get extended looks at Emilia Clarke as Han Solo’s comrade in arms/love interest, Woody Harrelson as his shady mentor and Donald Glover as the smuggler Lando Calrissian. Glover seems to be doing a vocal imitation of his predecessor, Billy Dee Williams, as he warns Han, a passenger on his spaceship, “You might wanna buckle up, baby.”

Nonhuman figures on display include the Wookiee Chewbacca, who reveals that he’s 190 years old (“You look great!” Han says), and Lando’s droid co-pilot L3-37, voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge of the British sitcom “Fleabag.” Two other English actors, Thandie Newton and Paul Bettany, can be briefly glimpsed. “Solo” reunites Bettany with his “A Beautiful Mind” director Ron Howard, who took over the prequel late in its production after the original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, left citing creative differences.

“I’ve got a really good feeling about this,” Han says at one point in the trailer. Disney hopes fans of the franchise will share that enthusiasm when “Solo: A Star Wars Story” opens on May 25.

Ever since “Jaws” took a huge bite out of the box office in 1975, shark movies have become a cinematic staple. Two summers ago, Blake Lively’s “The Shallows” gobbled up $119 million worldwide, and Jason Statham will soon take on the world’s largest shark in “The Meg,” which has just released its first trailer.

The title is short for the megalodon, a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark believed to be extinct — until one turns up in the Pacific. It’s no coincidence the creature appears off the coast of China, as “The Meg” seems to be targeting the vast Chinese market with the casting of the Chinese star Li Bingbing (“Transformers: Age of Extinction”) as its female lead, an oceanographer’s daughter.

Statham, a Brit, has proved more bankable as a member of an ensemble cast (“The Fate of the Furious”) than he has as a solo star, and “The Meg” surrounds him with recognizable faces from TV series, including Cliff Curtis (“Fear the Walking Dead”), Rainn Wilson (“The Office”) and Ruby Rose (“Orange Is the New Black”).

The teaser displays cheeky humor, as Bobby Darin’s upbeat “Beyond the Sea” plays beneath scenes of beachfront mayhem that owe a sizable debt to the “Jaws” director Steven Spielberg. “The Meg” opens on Aug. 10.

Fresh off her Oscar-nominated turn as the sharp-edged ice skater in “I, Tonya,” Margot Robbie returns to the screen as a fictional femme fatale in “Terminal,” which has released its first full trailer. Robbie plays a waitress in an unnamed metropolis that looks a lot like the neon-lit, dystopian universes of “Blade Runner” and “Sin City.”

Like “I, Tonya,” “Terminal” was produced by Robbie (among others), and her character seems to be calling the shots as well, as she manipulates a pair of hit men played by Max Irons (Jeremy’s son) and Dexter Fletcher. The cast also features Mike Myers, in his first live-action movie role since his 2009 cameo as a World War II general in “Inglourious Basterds,” and Simon Pegg, from the “Star Trek” and “Mission: Impossible” film franchises.

Robbie wears numerous disguises in the teaser, among them as a stripper (at a club called the Rabbit Hole — Lewis Carroll homage alert!) and a nurse. But her character’s true identity seems closer to Harley Quinn, the nihilistic supervillain she played in “Suicide Squad.”

“I have an unquenchable blood lust for darkness,” she says.

Clearly, this noirish feature debut by the writer-director Vaughn Stein is not to be confused with Steven Spielberg’s sentimental 2004 airport drama, “The Terminal.” The new mystery reaches theaters on May 11.