Post-credits scene? The End of Oak Street follows Supergirl’s lead
Anne Hathaway’s The End of Oak Street puts the post-credits dilemma to bed — in step with Supergirl.
Here's a relief for anyone tired of waiting through endless credits for some half-baked sequel tease: The End of Oak Street, the new sci-fi thriller with Anne Hathaway, is keeping things simple. No post-credits fluff, no sudden mid-credits dinosaur cameo – the film tells its whole story in a tight 99 minutes, then lets you go home. Frankly, it's a breath of fresh air.
The End of Oak Street skips post-credits scenes entirely – once the credits start, you're free to head for the exit.
This one’s hitting cinemas and IMAX across North America on 14 August 2026, with international showings firing up from 12 August. Warner Bros. have evidently chipped in about $80 million to bring this thing to life.
Dinosaurs on the Doorstep
The set-up is properly mad: Hathaway and Ewan McGregor play Denise and Greg Platt, just your average suburban couple until a mysterious cosmic anomaly yanks their sleepy street out of reality and drops it — along with their kids, Audrey and Brian (played by Maisy Stella and Christian Convery) — into a Jurassic nightmare. Now they're dodging prehistoric monsters and trying to stick together. Honestly, it sounds a bit like someone mashed up The 'Burbs and Jurassic Park at three in the morning, in the best possible way.
The film’s written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (yes, the bloke behind It Follows), who also co-produces. J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella are on producing duties via Bad Robot, which should perk up anyone mourning the death of the big original blockbuster.
Mitchell actually cooked up the concept in a pretty everyday moment. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, he remembered:
‘And I was struck by the image of, like, "It'd be really interesting if there was a dinosaur right there."'
Nothing like the idea of a T. rex roaming your street to get those creative juices going. The contrast of the mundane and the monstrous ended up being the film's hook.
How It Came Together
Production began back on 22 March 2024, split between London and Atlanta, and was all done by 4 June 2024. The working title for ages was Flowervale Street, but Warner Bros. finally announced the proper name this March.
Oh, and if you're into scores, Michael Giacchino handles the music. The album runs 68 minutes and gives you 27 separate tracks to get through — might be one for the background while you're clearing up after a dinosaur invasion.
The End of Oak Street opens 14 August 2026 in North America, two days after the international rollout.
If you care about early reactions, critics seem reasonably impressed: the film’s currently sitting at an 83% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 99 reviews, and a Metacritic rating of 67. It debuts alongside Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie and The Brink of War — so, bit of a dinosaur theme on opening weekend, for reasons that almost certainly weren’t planned.