A24 has released the official full-length trailer for Primetime, the Lance Oppenheim-directed film starring Robert Pattinson as television host Chris Hansen. The trailer landed on August 6, 2026, on A24's YouTube channel (YouTube), ahead of the film's world premiere in competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (Deadline).

Primetime chronicles the origins of Hansen's To Catch a Predator, the hidden-camera segments that became a cultural flashpoint in mid-2000s American television. According to A24's own synopsis, the film follows Hansen as he sets out to make television history (A24). Pattinson both stars in and produces the picture, continuing his shift toward character-driven work since his turns in The Lighthouse and The Batman.

This is the second look A24 has given audiences. A shorter teaser arrived on May 27, 2026, also through the studio's YouTube channel (YouTube). The full trailer now gives the clearest sense yet of Oppenheim's approach to the material.

The film runs 107 minutes and is a United States production, as listed by the Venice Biennale's official competition page (La Biennale di Venezia). Venice's Venezia 83 competition — the festival's main slate — comprises a maximum of 21 feature-length films, all presented as world premieres (La Biennale di Venezia). The festival runs from 2 to 12 September 2026 on the Lido di Venezia (La Biennale di Venezia).

Oppenheim, best known for his documentaries including Some Kind of Heaven and Spermworld, directs from a script by Ajon Singh. The producer roster is sizable: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger, Pattinson, Brighton McCloskey, Lars Knudsen, and Tyler Campellone all carry producer credits (Deadline). Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger, who previously teamed on Mandy and The Autopsy of Jane Doe, bring their genre-leaning sensibility to what appears to be a tone-heavy period piece.

The cast extends well beyond Pattinson. Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, Bokeem Woodbine, and Matthew Maher all feature, according to Deadline and A24's official film page (Deadline; A24).

After its Venice premiere, Primetime is scheduled to reach theatres on September 25, 2026 — a tight window of roughly two weeks between its festival debut and its commercial release, a corridor that lets a film ride festival buzz straight into a marketing push.

For a film about one of the most talked-about programmes in American broadcast history, landing a Venice competition slot signals that Oppenheim's take aims for something beyond straight biopic territory. What that something is, audiences will find out on the Lido first.