From April 24th to 27th, CinemaCon, the largest and most important gathering of cinema owners, took place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas (yes, that's exactly where Caesar did live). At the industry-internal event, the major studios presented their upcoming film projects with star support. A lot of new material was shown and many trailers premiered. Not all of them have been released to the public yet, but that will surely happen in the next few weeks.
For all of you who might have missed it, here's our news telegram about the studio presentations:
SONY
- Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reported back from the set of BAD BOYS 4
- exclusive footage of INSIDIOUS 5: THE RED DOOR (trailer:
https://youtu.be/ZuQuOnYnr3Q)
- Action comedy THE MACHINE starring Mark Hamill and Martyn Ford - in cinemas May 25th (trailer:
https://youtu.be/AwDKLEaJxMk)
- the video game GRAN TURISMO will be filmed - starring David Harbor and Orlando Bloom (trailer:
https://youtu.be/GVPzGBvPrzw)
- Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON film, co-produced with Apple TV and starring Joaquin Phoenix, will get a theatrical release
- in THE EQUALIZER 3, Denzel Washington takes on the Italian mafia (trailer:
https://youtu.be/19ikl8vy4zs)
- Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon have been confirmed as actors for the GHOSTBUSTERS sequel. There hasn't been any moving footage yet, but a photo suggests they'll be wearing into the famous jumpsuits
- 14 minutes of material were shown to the industry audience from the animated film SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
- KRAVEN THE HUNTER, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Russell Crowe, becomes Sony's first Rated R superhero film
WARNER BROS.
- BEETLEJUICE 2 is in the making
- first look photo of Anya Taylor-Joy in and as FURIOSA
- SUPERMAN LEGACY logo shown
- new FINAL DESTINATION movie confirmed and logo shown
- THE CONJURING 4 - THE LAST RITES has been confirmed and there will be a TV series on Max
- Warner Bros. announced that they will not be releasing "direct to streaming" films in the future anymore due to the great success of EVIL DEAD RISE at the box office. The film grossed more than 10 times its production cost already during its release weekend
- trailer and other material from BARBIE - one of the film's taglines is: "If you Love Barbie, if you hate Barbie, this movie is for you!"
- trailer and other material also about WONKA. The film is a prequel with Timothée Chalamet as a young Willy Wonka battling a chocolate cartel
- trailer and footage of MEG 2: THE TRENCH
- there was also a trailer and additional material for DUNE: PART TWO (trailer:
https://youtu.be/Way9Dexny3w)
- parallel to the event, Vanity Fair released the first photos from DUNE 2 (
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/04/dune-part-two-exclusive-first-look)
- THE NUN 2 was also presented with trailer and footage
- the first trailer for AQUAMAN 2: THE LOST KINGDOM was shown (not publically released yet)
- the panel on THE FLASH with trailer and other material was very well received by the specialist audience
DISNEY
- Disney showed an extended clip of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
- for THE MARVELS there was only the already known trailer
- for THE LITTLE MERMAID there was the well-known trailer and for the first time Melissa McCarthy could be seen performing her iconic song "Poor unfortunate Souls" as the witch Ursula
- 20 minutes of footage from Pixar's ELEMENTAL was shown
- exclusive extended footage was also available for HAUNTED MANSION
- in the 20th Century Section there was the trailer for A HAUNTING IN VENICE, the third Agatha Christie film adaptation by Kenneth Branagh (trailer:
https://youtu.be/oRCKIP5paEU)
- THE CREATOR, directed by Gareth Edwards, is a science-fiction action thriller about a war between humans, robots and artificial intelligence
- NEXT GOAL WINS, a sports comedy by Taika Waititi (trailer:
https://youtu.be/pRH5u5lpArQ)
- INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY extended clip as shown at Star Wars Celebration Europe
- screening of THE BOOGEYMAN
UNIVERSAL
- OPPENHEIMER: new trailer for the launch of Guardians of the Galaxy at cinemas
- M3GAN 2 sequel announced and Jason Blum has franchise plans
- plans for THE BLACK PHONE 2
- THE EXORCIST BELIEVER, directed by David Gordon Green, also has an unreleased trailer
- Dreamworks: trailer for RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN (trailer:
https://youtu.be/iAMKwDsfUeU)
- Jack Black introduced KUNG FU PANDA 4
- SAW X logo introduced
- EXPENDABLES 4 logo introduced
- THE FALL GUY - Ryan Gosling plays a former stuntman in a fun action movie
- Vin Diesel on stage announces "FAST X continues" - part 2 coming to theaters in 2025
PARAMOUNT
- SMILE is getting a sequel
- Seth Rogen introduced TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
- TRANSFORMERS ONE voice cast featured Chris Hemsworth as Optimus Prime, among others
- more animated films: SPONGEBOB movie 4, AVATAR - THE LAST AIRBENDER movie, SMURFS movie, PAW PATROL movie 2
- KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by Martin Scorsese - first trailer
- Bob Marley biopic titled BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE is slated to hit theaters on January 12, 2024
- first footage of the prequel A QUIET PLACE DAY ONE
- 20 minutes of material was shown for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART 1