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Crunchyroll was a major presence at CinemaCon this year, raising awareness of their growing slate of anime feature films spun off from fan favourite anime series, all heading for theatrical release in 2024 The titles include the already-announced espionage comedy SPY x FAMILY CODE: White, volleyball action anime HAIYKU!! The Dumpster Battle, soccer (or football[...]

Crunchyroll, the ultimate home for anime worldwide, announced today at CinemaCon that it has acquired the North American and select international theatrical rights in EMEA and Latin America for the highly anticipated soccer anime film BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI- Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will bring the sports thriller to theaters in North[...]

CinemaCon is upon us once again Every year, NATO [not that NATO], the National Association of Theater Owners gather in Las Vegas to look ahead to the rest of the year Ever since the pandemic, the vibes of CinemaCon have shifted considerably and, in many ways, it still feels like the industry is recovering and[...]

Our own Kaitlyn Booth is boots on the ground at CinemaCon right now, and there are ads for the promotion on the elevators at the show Coke are challenging fans to "Assemble The Marvel Universe" all summer long, and as someone who loves these promotional things with soft drinks, I think I am in Catch[...]

Boy Kills World and The Fall Guy posters are peppering CinemaCon 2024 The two action films are hoping to leave the con with more buzz than they are going in with Our own Kaitlyn Booth is boots on the ground there, and we have four character posters from Boy Kills World and one The Fall[...]

CinemaCon 2024 starts today, and part of the fun in the early going is always getting a sneak peek at all of the new posters, standees, and more coming to theaters for display in their lobbies Our own Kaitlyn Booth is on the ground yet again for the show, and we have some more first[...]

CinemaCon 2024 is this week, and one of the hallmarks coming out of the con every year are a couple of breakout horror films Theater owners are probably not so happy with the genre so far in 2024, as a slew of horror offerings have been disappointing at the box office The next group of[...]

Twisters is looking to make an impression on theater owners at CinemaCon 2024 The sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, the film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, and Maura Tierney The film is directed by Lee Isaac Chung and is produced by Frank Marshall. On display at the con,[...]

Gladiator II made its debut at CinemaCon…sort of Well, the logo did, and the confirmation that the title is going to be Gladiator II which is kind of a letdown There were so many options they could have taken, but they went with the easy one It's not that surprising, even if it is a little[...]

CinemaCon 2024 is kicking off this week, and part of that first few hours is a few reveals every year, and this year is no different Our own Kaitlyn Booth is on the scene, and we have a look at the teaser poster for a new horror film from the team behind Terrifier 2 and[...]

Disney is shaking things up a bit this year at CinemaCon They have decided to close out the convention on Thursday So, no one will be ducking out early like they usually do on Lionsgate In terms of their presence on the show floor, they are showing up in moderation, but they are also only[...]

So many questions remain for this film, and while IF is the star of the show on the CinemaCon show floor, A Quiet Place: Day One is probably on the podium as well. There are usually a couple of really good standees at this convention, and this year, the most visually appealing one might be A Quiet[...]

There is usually a movie that is absolutely everywhere at CinemaCon, and this year, it seems that the film that drew that straw is John Krasinski's IF When you think about it, it isn't that surprising We have been talking about how May is packed with some big competition that this film will have to[...]

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[...]