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I have just spent a week at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I saw no sunlight from Monday at around noon to Thursday, but I did see some movies — or at least part of them. It was, of course CinemaCon week, or as I like to call it, “the unofficial start to Oscar…

Focus Features' Sundance-premiering Polite Society opens on 927 screens, the feature debut of writer/director Nida Manzoor, creator of We Are Lady Parts, the Peacock comedy about the eponymous British punk rock band. This comedic mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold…

CinemaCon 2023 officially drew to a close this evening in Las Vegas, with NATO handing out its Big Screen Achievement Awards to such recipients as Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Zendaya, Chris Meledandri and Melissa McCarthy. The evening’s sentiment continued the running theme of the four-day conference…

The latest Hunger Games, set decades before the original, is grittier and “more authentic” in some ways but doesn't waver from existential questions, as relevant now as they were when the first films came out, said the director and producer of Ballads of Songbirds And Snakes. "Are we worthy of…

Mooky Greidinger, chief executive of Regal parent Cineworld, which is in the process of emerging from bankruptcy, made an appearance on the CinemaCon stage today saluting Regal employees and giving a shout-out to Lionsgate and The Hunger Games. Related Story Lionsgate Motion Picture Vice…

Lionsgate dropped the trailer for its prequel film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes at CinemaCon today. It’s a first look at tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) and Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), with Peter Dinklage as the vindictive Casca Highbottom, Dean of the Academy, creator of…

Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese entreated exhibitors to show independent film — real indies, not ones with an indie “label slapped on,” since that’s the best insurance the industry has going foward. It’s what will beguile and attract new filmmakers to cinemas and “ultimately, one or two might just…

The wait just got a little shorter for audiences to see Tom Cruise back in action as Ethan Hunt with Paramount/Skydance’s highly-anticipated Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One now set for domestic release on July 12 rather than July 14. That puts it in step with the start of international…

John Krasinski took the stage at CinemaCon on Thursday morning to unveil the first-ever look at A Quiet Place: Day One. The franchise spinoff directed by Michael Sarnoski stars Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou and Denis O'Hare. Release is set for March 8, 2024. Said…

After unveiling a first look at A Quiet Place: Day One here at CinemaCon on Thursday, John Krasinski teed up a peek at his original family comedy/drama IF. He also announced voice cast including Matt Damon, Jon Stewart, Emily Blunt, Maya Rudolph, Sam Rockwell, Sebastian Maniscalco, Christopher Meloni…

Martin Scorsese was front and center at Paramount’s CinemaCon session Thursday to show off the teaser for his Killers of the Flower Moon. Caesars Palace Colosseum Theatre gave him a huge cheer. “I designed to project this on a big screen. This is a big screen movie and that’s what we made,” said…

UPDATED: The final morning of CinemaConbegan with Paramount, the studio that brought coast-to-coast moviegoers back with their $718.7 million, record-breaking Tom Cruise sequel Top Gun: Maverick. And in standard fashion, domestic distribution chief Chris Aronson hammed it up with a grand…