Latest AMERICAN ULTRA Trailer Check out the new AMERICAN ULTRA trailer! The film, directed by Nima Nourizadeh (Project X), stars Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Walton Goggins, Connie Britton, John Leguizamo, and Bill Pullman. AMERICAN ULTRA will be released in theaters on August 21. A stoner and his girlfriend’s sleepy, small-town existence is disrupted when his past comes back to haunt him in the form of a government operation set to wipe him out.