Lionsgate has released the official trailer for The Gates, the upcoming thriller starring James Van Der Beek in his final movie appearance after his death on February 11. The R-rated film is scheduled to arrive in U.S. theaters on March 13, 2026.
“The film follows three college students — Derek, Kevin, and Tyon on a road trip gone wrong, as the three young men take an ill-advised shortcut through a remote gated community, where they find themselves trapped behind the walls after witnessing a murder,” reads the official synopsis. “Over the course of the night, they find themselves blamed, hunted, and fractured by their own differing belief systems, while the perpetrator — James Van Der Beek, at his most charming and terrifying — emerges as the cunning patriarch that holds the entire community under his influence.”
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