ANNABELLE: CREATION Teaser Trailer Don’t miss the first ANNABELLE: CREATION teaser trailer! The film, directed by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out), stars Miranda Otto, Stephanie Sigman, Lulu Wilson, and Anthony LaPaglia. ANNABELLE: CREATION will be released in theaters on August 11. Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.