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CinemaCon is the annual convention for theater owners put on by NATO [not that NATO], the National Association of Theater Owners Over the years, it has become a larger and larger convention for people and the press to attend due to the studio presentations and screenings that take place every year Sometimes, studios bombard attendees[...]

The electric chaos of Las Vegas is a fitting setting for CinemaCon, an annual gathering of theater owners and the industry's most influential players as the studios roll out an onslaught of film announcements, presentations, and pomp that tends to leave even the most jaded cinephile hopeful each year, and 2023 was no exception Sony[...]

The trailer and new poster debuted as part of the Lionsgate presentation at CinemaCon You can see them down below. A New Hunger Games Is A Big Bet For Lionsgate "Experience the story of The Hunger Games — 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem[...]

We knew that TMNT: Mutant Mayhem was going to have a presence at CinemaCon quite literally the moment that you walked into Caesar's Palace This movie is still a little ways away, but Paramount is banking quite a bit on it doing well The first teaser looked like it had a decent reception, but the footage[...]

The movie industry has descended on Las Vegas for another CinemaCon this week The annual event brings theater owners and studios to look toward the rest of this year and beyond on the big screen Seeing the event evolve in a pre and post-pandemic world has been interesting In 2019, no one at the event[...]

The Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon kicked off the last day of the convention for theater owners, and they closed their show with a new look at Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One The film appeared at the last two CinemaCon's and was almost the COVID canary in the coal mine It was the[...]

Josh Cooley will direct from a screenplay by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Credit: Paramount Pictures Transformers Fans Wishing This Is As Cool As The First 10 Minutes Of Bumblebee "Since taking its first step in 2011, CinemaCon has evolved and grown to become the largest and most important gathering for the worldwide motion picture theater industry[...]

Announced on stage at the Paramount presentation at CinemaCon, everyone's favorite blue people will grace the big screen again on Valentine's Day, 2025 Not only that, mega-star Rihanna will star as Smurfette, and also produce Pam Brady wrote the script, and Chris Miller will direct Three previous films set in the Smurf universe combined to[...]

The movie industry has descended on Las Vegas for another CinemaCon this week The annual event brings theater owners and studios to look toward the rest of this year and beyond on the big screen Seeing the event evolve in a pre and post-pandemic world has been interesting In 2019, no one at the event[...]

As we found out yesterday during their CinemaCon presentation, Chris Pine is starring in the film, along with Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) Set in the fictional world of Rosas, the film tells the origin story behind Disney's iconic "wishing star" and follows a 17-year-old girl named Asha (Ariana DeBose) who makes a wish so[...]

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is going to take over CinemaCon during the Paramount presentation today, but they won't have all the fun The new trailer for the film has been released this moring, and even though we got nine character posters yesterday, we have one more new one to look at today Starring Anthony[...]

Instead, they decided to turn up at CinemaCon and show everyone else how to put on a presentation They didn't waste a lot of time and kicked things off with a filmmaker that has been extremely loyal to the theatrical experience; Christopher Nolan This is the first movie that he has done with Universal, and[...]

The Exorcist is getting a bunch of new sequels from David Gordon Green starting this year, and on stage at CinemaCon just now during the Universal presentation, it was confirmed that the full title for the film is The Exorcist: Believer Footage was shown as well Starring in the new film are Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton,[...]

The movie industry has descended on Las Vegas for another CinemaCon this week The annual event brings theater owners and studios to look toward the rest of this year and beyond on the big screen Seeing the event evolve in a pre and post-pandemic world has been interesting In 2019, no one at the event[...]

The trailer and poster for Taika Waititi's soccer dramedy Next Goal Wins has been released. It hits theaters on November 17th.

The Walt Disney Studios slate at CinemaCon was brisk, to say the least The truth is, this presentation was always going to be a little chaotic because there was only so much time to present so much before they had to start the screening for The Boogeyman. However, regarding what they showed everyone here, it seemed[...]

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is going to take over CinemaCon during the Paramount presentation tomorrow, but they won't have all the fun The new trailer for the film will be released tomorrow, and ahead of all that fun, we have new character posters to look at today Starring Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, the film is directed[...]

The movie industry has descended on Las Vegas for another CinemaCon this week The annual event brings theater owners and studios to look toward the rest of this year and beyond on the big screen Seeing the event evolve in a pre and post-pandemic world has been interesting In 2019, no one at the event[...]

It's day two of CinemaCon, and it's a day where all eyes are on Warner Bros This morning, they dragged attendees from their beds for a very early and very long panel that started with the State of the Industry and led into the presentation The State of the Industry is always interesting in that[...]

The Flash is screening for an audience for the first time today at CinemaCon, and though we don;t get to see that, we have a new poster and trailer to gawk at instead The Flash ensemble also includes Ezra Miller, rising star Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon (Bullet Train, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Ron Livingston (Loudermilk, The[...]

The movie industry has descended on Las Vegas for another CinemaCon this week The annual event brings theater owners and studios to look toward the rest of this year and beyond on the big screen Seeing the event evolve in a pre and post-pandemic world has been interesting In 2019, no one at the event[...]

While it was a little late to start, Sony Pictures did eventually kick off their CinemaCon 2023 presentation The studio likes to be the first one out of the gate, and usually, that comes with a lot of new stuff As they said in the panel, the studio is releasing twenty-three movies this year alone[...]

The movie industry has descended on Las Vegas for another CinemaCon this week The annual event brings theater owners and studios to look toward the rest of this year and beyond on the big screen Seeing the event evolve in a pre and post-pandemic world has been interesting In 2019, no one at the event[...]

Enter CinemaCon 2023, as all sorts of posters, banners, and standees are on display at the show The Beast Wars characters entering the movie universe is a day most of us never dreamed could happen, but here we are Below you can see all of the Transformers goodness that people at the show get to[...]

It sounds like they have a lot of confidence in it, so much so that they will screen it at CinemaCon 2023 in April, almost two months before its scheduled release date, according to Variety. © 2023 Warner Bros Entertainment Inc All Rights Reserved Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures/™ & © DC Comics (L-R)[...]

The Disney presentation at CinemaCon didn't just come out with extended footage from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but they also showed the first half-hour of Lightyear Those of us that took place in the press day for the movie earlier in the year got to see most of that footage already, but at CinemaCon,[...]

Last August, the movie theater industry descended on a very, very warm Las Vegas four months later than the usual time that CinemaCon usually happens A convention hosted by the National Association for Thearter Owners, this con allows for studios to show off what movies they are going to be bringing to the big screen this[...]

Last August, the movie theater industry descended on a very, very warm Las Vegas four months later than the usual time that CinemaCon usually happens A convention hosted by the National Association for Thearter Owners, this con allows for studios to show off what movies they are going to be bringing to the big screen this[...]

That makes it harder for us to recap for all of you, but we hope that this and the liveblog helped get as much of the information across as possible. CinemaCon 2022 Focus Features presentation, photo by Kaitlyn Booth. And we're back for part two of this Universal and Focus Features massive recap Unlike last year[...]

The CinemaCon presentation for Universal was a long haul that went on for two and a half hours and seemed almost never-ending That likely has something to do with the way that the studio has decided to set everything up They bring up theater workers to present with talent and while that is very cute[...]