In preparation for the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, the band, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment and Trafalgar Releasing, shares the official trailer for the 2025 theatrical event, “Meet-Up At The Movies.” Ahead of screenings on August 14 at select cinemas and IMAX, a preview of the eponymous concert movie, The Grateful Dead Movie, has been shared.

The clip, which streaming on the Grateful Dead’s YouTube channel presents an iconic amalgamation of animations and band footage, drawing on the strength of the 1970s lineup, which featured Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, and Mickey Hart, fresh off their ’70s-era hiatus, at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in October 1974.

Set to “U.S. Blues,” the trailer lists the new features, including a bonus live performance of sister songs “China Cat Sunflower” > “I Know You Rider.” As the clip continues, the music shifts to “Truckin’,” and a reminder is blasted: In select theaters and IMAX worldwide, August 14. 

Grateful Dead archivist and the band’s legacy manager David Lemieux commented via press release, “It was the greatest screening I’ve ever experienced of a film I’ve seen hundreds of times.”

“The Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies has always been a time-honored tradition for Trafalgar Releasing and the Dead Head community,” said Kymberli Frueh, SVP of Programming and Content Acquisitions at Trafalgar Releasing. “This year’s event is especially transportive as we celebrate the Grateful Dead’s 60^th anniversary by bringing The Grateful Dead Movie back to cinemas and to IMAX screens for the first time ever. We hope fans join us to relive the magic, the music, and the spirit of the Dead like never before.”

The forthcoming theatrical arrival will mark the first time Jerry Garcia’s co-directed film has returned to the big screen in eight years. Tickets for “Meet-Up At The Movies” are now available at MeetUpAtTheMovies.com. 

Watch the trailer below.