First CELL Trailer Watch the first CELL trailer! The film, directed by Tod Williams (Paranormal Activity 2, The Door in the Floor), stars John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Stacy Keach. CELL will be released in theaters on July 8. When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.