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settled in for a CinemaCon presentation that was supposed to be an hour and a half but ended up being an hour [shoutout to the theater employee I ran into in the elevator who said when this was pointed out that we could "watch the last 30-minutes on HBO Max."] Also, thank you to those[...]

Matrix fans are glued to the coverage coming from CinemaCon right now, and our own Kaitlyn Booth is there and reporting back that the full title for the fourth installment of the franchise has been revealed The Matrix Resurrections will be the official title, and with that, the first trailer was shown as well The[...]

CinemaCon is the convention for theater owners and the last time they had an event was in March of 2019 The tone of that convention was very "we don't need to worry about VOD, streaming isn't a problem, it'll be fine," as we went into the release of Avengers: Endgame being one of the biggest[...]

The State of the Industry, MGM, and UA presentation at CinemaCon got off to a kind of a rough start The lights went dark, and the music cut out…and nothing happened And then nothing continued to happen because pitch blackness and silence are exactly the right metaphor for the theater industry these days[...]

CinemaCon is the convention for theater owners and the last time they had an event was in March of 2019 The tone of that convention was very "we don't need to worry about VOD, streaming isn't a problem, it'll be fine," as we went into the release of Avengers: Endgame being one of the biggest[...]

CinemaCon 2021 kicked off today with a presentation from Sony Pictures For those of you who joined me for my live blog, thank you very much We'll be liveblogging all of the presentations this week, so be sure to watch this space for more fun For the Sony presentation, we had an inkling that there[...]

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is being watched as I type this by our very own Kaitlyn Booth at CinemaCon, but before she had to log off her live blog to watch the film (and make us all jealous at the same time) she told us that Jason Reitman, who was on stage with father and director of[...]

CinemaCon is the convention for theater owners and the last time they had an event was in March of 2019 The tone of that convention was very "we don't need to worry about VOD, streaming isn't a problem, it'll be fine," as we went into the release of Avengers: Endgame being one of the biggest[...]

CinemaCon is the convention for theater owners and the last time they had an event was in March of 2019 The tone of that convention was very "we don't need to worry about VOD, streaming isn't a problem, it'll be fine," as we went into the release of Avengers: Endgame being one of the biggest[...]

CinemaCon is this week, and our very own Kaitlyn Booth is there covering the event Some early looks at some new posters and artwork are on display Among them are new key art posters for the Kurt Warner biopic American Underdog starring Zachary Levi as the Super Bowl-winning quarterback The man has actually lived a[...]

CinemaCon is this week, and our very own Kaitlyn Booth is there covering the event Some early looks at some new posters and artwork are on display, and among them are new posters for Sing 2 These character posters spotlight seven characters from the film, voiced by the likes of Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon[...]

Take a vacation with the Addams in a new standee for the animated MGM/United Artists sequel The Addams Family 2 from CinemaCon

CinemaCon, the annual Hollywood convention where movie theater owners and studios get together and talk about the state of the industry and show off new footage and trailers for upcoming big films, has been canceled The show was to take place from March 30th-April 2nd in Las Vegas, where it originates from every year This[...]

This morning, Paramount Pictures finally released a trailer for their upcoming Gemini Man film from visionary director Ang Lee, which stars Will Smith. First debuted during CinemaCon 2019, the film features Smith playing BOTH versions of his character- a 50 something version and a young 23 year old version. You can see the first trailer below: https://youtu.be/AbyJignbSj0Video can't be loaded[...]

We mean, with such talent as Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Lakeith Stanfield, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, and Christopher Plummer (just to name a new) how could this NOT be awesome? Just this past week during CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Curtis spoke to Fandango a bit about the film,[...]

There are two movies coming out this year where the cast is one of the most impressive things we've seen in a long time, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood and Rian Johnson's Knives Out – a film that the director revealed at CinemaCon during the Lionsgate presentation had been in the makings[...]

The more we hear/see about the upcoming 6th installment in the Cyberdyne Systems saga, the more excited we get. Terminator: Dark Fate was included in today's Paramount Pictures presentation during CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and when director Tim Miller took the stage, he got a little emotional. "To say working on this movie was a labor of love[...]

The Paramount Pictures presentation is happening right now during CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and a brand new trailer for their upcoming live-action film Dora And The Lost City Of Gold, based on Nickelodeon's popular Dora the Explorer cartoon was just released. "Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora[...]

During CinemaCon (which is taking place RIGHT NOW in Las Vegas), STX Films finally released the first trailer for Dave Bautista's upcoming "family-oriented" spy film, My Spy. "MY SPY", Chloe Coleman and Dave Bautista The trailer features the Blade Runner: 2049 star as a "socially inept and bull-headed CIA agent" JJ, who is not in the best place with the[...]

Davies said she was excited to talk about working with Schwarzenegger and Hamilton at CinemaCon since she isn't able to really say anything about the movie Reyes praised the diversity of the movie and Luna thanked the "pride of lionesses" that he got to work with. There was no indication when footage is going to be[...]

Unlike the other presentations that we have seen in CinemaCon the Pixar section was not a clip or a trailer Instead, they walked out and told us that we were going to see the first seventeen minutes of the movie So, instead of describing a sizable chunk of the movie which would be a spoiler[...]

These Disney live-action remakes are very hit or miss right now. The Cinderella and The Jungle Book remakes were both very well done but Beauty and the

Disney had a presentation at CinemaCon and they more or less kicked things off with a new clip from the upcoming movie. It starts off with Carol Danvers declaring that she is going to kill Thanos Rhodey points out that they usually work as a team and Steve acknowledges that space is more her thing but[...]

In the latter half of the Universal Pictures presentation we got some new footage from Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

CinemaCon is happening as we speak in Las Vegas, and during the Universal Pictures presentation, the crowd was treated to the first full-length trailer for the upcoming Focus Features Downton Abbey film. While trailers from the event usually aren't released, or at the very least aren't publicly released until well after the event, a simple perusal of[...]

Just how far are they taking it? To the point that Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard, who will star in the Jason Riteman-directed film, had no idea what he was even auditioning for. Finn WolfhardPhoto by DFree / Shutterstock.com During a chat with MTVNews during CinemaCon (happening this week in Las Vegas), Wolfhard revealed that the pages he read for[...]

Bautista didn't mix words- we knew exactly where he stood on the matter- constantly defending his friend and campaigning for Gunn's full reinstatement. The Drax actor just spoke with Variety on the red carpet for STX Films during CinemaCon in Las Vegas about the experience, even speaking about his contractual obligations about doing Guardians of the[...]

CinemaCon is in full swing in Las Vegas, and one of my favorite things about this week is seeing all of the new merch coming to theater concession counters this summer for all the big blockbusters The explosion of theater-specific merch like popcorn tins, collector cups, and more speaks to the collector in me They[...]

CinemaCon is happening this week in Las Vegas, and during the STX Films red carpet, Henry Golding had a pretty big tease for fans of Crazy Rich Asians. Actor Henry GoldingPhoto by Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com According to Erik Davis of Fandango, Golding commented that work is happening right now on the script for a sequel to the groundbreaking[...]

CinemaCon is taking place from Las Vegas this week, and even in advance there is already fresh looks at not just this years biggest films, but merch from them as well In this case, new premium popcorn buckets, cups, and cup toppers that will be available at refreshment counter this summer and fall These are[...]