{"id":338122,"date":"2026-03-19T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:19:11","slug":"poker-thriller-the-highest-stakes-goes-all-in-with-trailer-and-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338122\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker thriller The Highest Stakes goes all in with trailer and poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/poker-thriller-the-highest-stakes-goes-all-in-with-trailer-poster-and-images\/the-higest-stakes-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1964032 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\" \" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1964032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Higest-Stakes-2-600x414.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"414\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of its digital release this April, Paramount has shared a trailer for director Tony Dean Smith\u2019s upcoming thriller The Highest Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Five strangers gather at a lavish hotel after receiving a mysterious invitation to join a high-stakes poker game, but as the night unfolds, they soon come to realise that the game they are playing isn\u2019t for money, but for their own survival.<\/p>\n<p>The cast includes Seth Green, Kevin Dillon, Charlie Weber, Dylan Walsh, Eloise Lovell Anderson, Chloe Fox and Dan Bucatinsky. Watch the trailer below\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/poker-thriller-the-highest-stakes-goes-all-in-with-trailer-poster-and-images\/the-higest-stakes-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1964028 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\" \" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1964028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Higest-Stakes-1-600x675.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"675\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/poker-thriller-the-highest-stakes-goes-all-in-with-trailer-poster-and-images\/the-higest-stakes-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1964030 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1964030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Higest-Stakes-4-600x338.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/poker-thriller-the-highest-stakes-goes-all-in-with-trailer-poster-and-images\/the-higest-stakes-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1964033 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1964033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Higest-Stakes-6-600x511.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"511\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/poker-thriller-the-highest-stakes-goes-all-in-with-trailer-poster-and-images\/the-higest-stakes-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1964034 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1964034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Higest-Stakes-7-600x530.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"530\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/poker-thriller-the-highest-stakes-goes-all-in-with-trailer-poster-and-images\/the-higest-stakes-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1964035 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1964035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Higest-Stakes-8-600x355.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"355\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five strangers are invited to a luxurious hotel for a high-stakes poker game. What begins as a contest for fortune quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. As tensions rise and secrets surface, the players realize the stakes aren\u2019t just about money\u2014they\u2019re about survival. In a night of escalating peril, trust becomes a weapon, and every choice could seal their fate.<\/p>\n<p>The Highest Stakes arrives on digital on April 14th.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of its digital release this April, Paramount has shared a trailer for director Tony Dean Smith\u2019s upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-338122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}