{"id":41700,"date":"2026-03-09T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/?p=41700"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:42:41","slug":"official-trailer-released-for-the-gates-opening-march-13-from-lionsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/official-trailer-released-for-the-gates-opening-march-13-from-lionsgate\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Trailer Released for The Gates, Opening March 13 from Lionsgate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lionsgate has released the <strong>official trailer<\/strong> for <em>The Gates<\/em>, director <strong>John Burr\u2019s<\/strong> new thriller following three college friends whose road trip takes a deadly turn. The film arrives <strong>in theaters March 13, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Gates (2026) Official Trailer - Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, James Van Der Beek\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rooCFaczeXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The story follows <strong>Derek, Kevin, and Tyon<\/strong> (Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, and Keith Powers), three college students who take an ill\u2011advised shortcut through a remote gated community. After witnessing a murder, they find themselves <strong>trapped behind the walls<\/strong>, blamed for the crime, and hunted through the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As fear fractures their trust in one another, the real threat emerges: <strong>James Van Der Beek<\/strong>, playing a charismatic but terrifying patriarch who controls the community and manipulates its residents with chilling precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cast<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mason Gooding<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Algee Smith<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Keith Powers<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James Van Der Beek<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> John Burr<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Produced by:<\/strong> Nancy Leopardi, Ross Kohn, Gary Glushon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Presented by:<\/strong> Lionsgate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Production:<\/strong> Indy Entertainment &amp; Core 4 Films, in association with Rebellium Films<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TheGates_KA_2000x3000_proxy_md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TheGates_KA_2000x3000_proxy_md.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41701\" style=\"width:831px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TheGates_KA_2000x3000_proxy_md.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TheGates_KA_2000x3000_proxy_md-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionsgate has released the official trailer for The Gates, director John Burr\u2019s new thriller following three college friends whose road trip takes a deadly turn. The film arrives in theaters March 13, 2026. The story follows Derek, Kevin, and Tyon (Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, and Keith Powers), three college students who take an ill\u2011advised shortcut\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/official-trailer-released-for-the-gates-opening-march-13-from-lionsgate\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,4396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41700","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\/41700","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=41700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41702,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700\/revisions\/41702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}