IFC has released a second official trailer for Idiots and set the Macon Blair comedy to open in U.S. theaters on August 28, 2026. The film, which runs 98 minutes, is now moving toward release after first surfacing at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival under a different title.
That is why the trailer matters now: it gives the movie a date, a frame and a fresh push after its festival debut. In the film, Dave Franco and O'Shea Jackson Jr. play two unqualified bozos hired to transport a rich teen named Sheridan to rehab, with Mason Thames in the role of Sheridan. Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun and Peter Dinklage also star.
Blair directed the film, wrote the screenplay and shares story credit with Alex Orr, and the project was formerly known as The Sh&theads and later The Shtheads before settling on Idiots. The change fits a movie that has been described as a stoner comedy and as a raucous and wildly entertaining descent into madness, a label that sits neatly beside its deliberately crude setup.
The contrast is part of the hook. On one side is a title built from blunt insult comedy; on the other is the kind of praise usually reserved for festival crowd-pleasers with sharper edges than their premise suggests. That leaves Peter Dinklage and the rest of the cast heading into a rollout that will test whether the joke lands as hard outside Sundance as it did there.
For readers tracking the film’s next step, the answer is simple: Idiots now has a locked theatrical date, and the next major moment will come when it reaches U.S. cinemas on Aug. 28, 2026. If the trailer is any guide, the movie is not trying to soften its absurdity before that date arrives.
