The 15 Best Things We Saw at CinemaCon 2025

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After 4 days and 7 monolithic presentations from each the large Hollywood studios, CinemaCon is successful the books. The Las Vegas-based manufacture lawsuit highlights the latest and top coming to theaters and the studios don’t clasp backmost with tons of news, caller footage, and more.

The full happening is overwhelming. You spell from Universal showing How to Train Your Dragon successful full successful the morning, to a fewer hours later, a multi-hour lawsuit with caller footage from Jurassic World Rebirth, Wicked: For Good, and Megan 2.0. Later that evening, MGM takes the stage, teasing Masters of the Universe, James Bond, and more.

Then you aftermath up the adjacent greeting and it’s Paramount with Mission: Impossible and SpongeBob SquarePants, followed by Disney showing footage from Elio, Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four, and more.

Best of all? None of that is connected this list. All of those movies impressed but the existent joyousness of CinemaCon is successful find and surprise. Learning astir caller movies that weren’t connected your radar—and getting much excited astir ones that already are. That’s what you’re astir to read.

Plus, if you privation to spot immoderate of this successful person, each the studios person teamed up to bring a curated, 70-minute programme of footage from CinemaCon to theaters crossed the state connected April 22 and 24. Find retired much astir that here and cheque retired our picks below.

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir’s highly entertaining publication is yet coming to the large surface from filmmakers Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and prima Ryan Gosling. The emotional, rousing footage looked similar it could beryllium the champion sci-fi movie of 2026. Read much here.

Final Destination Bloodlines

We were already excited for this 1 but the incredibly disgusting, innovative termination that we saw astatine CinemaCon truly raises the stakes. Read much here.

The Running Man

Anytime Edgar Wright makes a movie, we are excited. He’s much than earned that. But aft seeing what he’s doing with this big-budget sci-fi Stephen King adaptation starring Glen Powell? We are fundamentally frothing astatine the rima to spot it. Read much here.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

This 1 was astir wholly disconnected our radar until we saw the trailer. Now it’s 1 of our astir highly anticipated films of the year. Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie prima arsenic strangers who find themselves connected a fantastical escapade unneurotic arsenic the GPS units connected their cars pb them done magical doors that participate into memories from their pasts. It looks perfectly unthinkable and opens September 19.

The Long Walk

Hunger Games manager Francis Lawrence directs this Stephen King adaptation (a batch of that going around) astir a radical of boys who person to support walking until lone 1 is left. Mark Hamill is the atrocious feline and the young formed includes Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer, and Ben Wang. It looks intense, violent, and thought-provoking. It opens September 12.

Predator: Badlands

We knew Prey manager Dan Trachtenberg was making different Predator movie, but until CinemaCon, we didn’t cognize what it was about. Now we bash and it’s epic. The movie flips the franchise, making the Predator the leader arsenic helium struggles to past connected a satellite filled with adjacent bigger, badder monsters. Elle Fanning plays a quality who helps him along. Read much here.

The Bride!

What if you took Sid and Nancy, Natural Born Killers, and Bonnie and Clyde, threw them successful a blender, and poured them implicit Universal Monster movies of the past? Well, you’d possibly travel adjacent to The Bride!, Maggie Gylenhaal’s wholly unsocial instrumentality connected the Bride of Frankenstein communicative starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. Read much here.

Weapons

For months, enigma has surrounded the 2nd movie from Barbarian manager Zack Cregger, but that changed astatine CinemaCon. We learned that the movie is astir a teacher who goes to schoolhouse 1 time to find her full people is absent. And not conscionable location sick. The kids each ran into the woods overnight and ne'er came back. The incidental sets disconnected what promises to beryllium a chaotic communicative and we can’t wait. Read much here.

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

I’ll admit, the information that the 3rd movie successful this franchise yet embraced this awesome rubric does springiness it a small borderline here, but the footage featuring characters caller and aged looked similar it was a level up from the fun, magic-filled heist worldly we emotion from the archetypal 2 movies. Read much here.

Nobody 2

The archetypal Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk was truthful bully that it was adjacent a deed during a pandemic. Now, the sequel is present and the CinemaCon footage showed the quality connected a household vacation. That temper of his starts immoderate problems, though, and helium gets wrapped up with a large transgression syndicate. We deliberation it’s going to beryllium incredibly fun. It opens August 15.

Concept creation of the Ash people from Avatar: Fire and Ash – Fox

Avatar: Fire and Ash

I’m doing my champion not to enactment ace evident things connected this list, but erstwhile James Cameron shows the archetypal footage ever from the sequel to 2 of the highest-grossing films ever, you wage attention. Especially erstwhile the footage looks truthful incredible, heartfelt, and action-packed. Read much here.

Mercy

Chris Pratt is simply a instrumentality enforcement serviceman who helps make an AI that acts arsenic judge, jury, and executioner. Then, 1 day, that AI arrests him for sidesplitting his wife, which helium didn’t do. He has 90 minutes to instrumentality the 98% likelihood that helium killed his woman down to 92%, each portion being locked into a chair. It’s a big, amusive swing, but we liked the footage a lot. It opens January 23, 2026.

Ballerina

We were already beauteous stoked astir this John Wick spinoff starring Ana de Armas but the CinemaCon footage, which featured an extended, hilarious, brutal enactment country successful a restaurant, made america adjacent much excited. Plates smash and arms break. It opens June 6.

Him

You’ve seen sports dramas. You’ve seen sports comedies. You’ve adjacent seen the occasional sports sci-fi movie. But person you ever seen a sports fearfulness movie? That’s what Him is. Him stars Tyriq Withers arsenic a promising assemblage shot subordinate who gets injured and trains for a comeback with his idol, played by Marlon Wayans. But grooming turns to panic arsenic the young antheral learns the nonrecreational is into each mode of brainsick cult stuff. The footage was chaotic and it opens September 19.

Black Phone 2

The stars, director, and writer are each backmost for this sequel to the deed 2021 fearfulness film. In that movie, children who died astatine the hands of an evil antheral called the Grabber helped termination him from beyond the grave. In the archetypal footage from the sequel, it seems the tables person turned. We can’t accidental for definite but the footage seemed to tease that the Grabber uses the achromatic telephone to instrumentality from the dormant and terrorize the survivors from the archetypal movie. We anticipation it’s adjacent amended than the original. It opens successful October.

And that’s not all…

Those whitethorn person been our favorites but we besides saw awesome footage from Masters of the Universe, Tron: Ares, Thunderbolts, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Wicked: For Good, Jurassic World Rebirth, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Freakier Friday, and How to Train Your Dragon, conscionable to sanction a few. It was a large event.

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