{"id":41095,"date":"2025-10-23T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/?p=41095"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:25:19","slug":"casey-makes-a-mixtape-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"CASEY MAKES A MIXTAPE &#8211; Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the trailer from the upcoming film &#8220;CASEY MAKES A MIXTAPE.&#8221; The film is directed by Blake Calhoun, starring Julian Hilliard (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Doctor Strange, WandaVision), Presley Richardson (Disney&#8217;s Pretty Freekin Scary), Brandon Potter (The Chosen), Brad Leland (The Last of Us), Jennifer Griffin (Angel).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ynl3CjyPX7Y?si=zOCGsFXe9ouaT-U9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A heartfelt ode to adolescence and the music that saves us, CASEY MAKES A MIXTAPE is the latest feature from filmmaker Blake Calhoun, coming to streaming this fall. A time-capsule of Texas in the summer of 1981, the film follows 13-year-old Casey, who\u2019s just one song away from completing the perfect mixtape. But when her mom jets off to Europe with a new boyfriend, Casey is left behind in her grandparents\u2019 small Texas town\u2014a world that feels far away and unfamiliar. Caught between family dysfunction and the growing pains of adolescence, Casey struggles to find her footing. Her only escape: the music that speaks the words she can\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>Evoking the heart and nostalgia of 1980s John Hughes films, this coming-of-age story captures a time before smartphones and the internet\u2014a reminder that even in the loneliest moments, music has the power to connect us, heal us, and bring joy in unexpected places. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-still.jpg\" alt=\"casey-makes-a-mixtape-still\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-still.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-still-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-still-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-still-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-still-660x371.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the trailer from the upcoming film &#8220;CASEY MAKES A MIXTAPE.&#8221; The film is directed by Blake Calhoun, starring Julian Hilliard (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Doctor Strange, WandaVision), Presley Richardson (Disney&#8217;s Pretty Freekin Scary), Brandon Potter (The Chosen), Brad Leland (The Last of Us), Jennifer Griffin (Angel). A heartfelt ode to adolescence and the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/casey-makes-a-mixtape-trailer\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,4396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-trailers","category-movies","category-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41097,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41095\/revisions\/41097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}