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UPDATED with full trailer: Neon has released the firts full trailer for Spencer, its Princess Diana biopic starring Kristen Stewart. Watch it above and the teaser from last month below. PREVIOUSLY, August 26: Early-risers at Neon's CinemaCon presentation this week got a first look at the trailer and an extended clip…

Update: Warner Bros. has revealed this morning what we first saw at CinemaCon, the trailer for The Matrix Resurrections. Why the more-than-two week delay? Because the studio’s James Wan movie Malignant is opening this weekend in cinemas (and on HBO Max). In recent years, Warners has typically debuted a fresh trailer…

With a strong $1.9 million box office on Thursday night for Candyman, things are looking pretty sweet today for Colman Domingo.  The Fear the Walking Dead vet joins us for our Hero Nation podcast to discuss the new horror movie executive produced by Jordan Peele, the issues it raises and the places the Nia…

Heading into Lionsgate’s CinemaCon presentation Thursday afternoon, the studio’s Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake was trying to figure out what he wanted to say to the room of exhibitors. He regaled those at the Caesars Palace Colosseum with a story about how he met up with Cineworld and Regal boss Mooky…

On Thursday at CinemaCon, Lionsgate said that it is opening the Erwin Brothers-directed American Underdog on Christmas Day. The pic was previously set to open on December 10, with the release timed to the climax of the NFL season. “This movie perfectly aligns with the emotions of the holiday season: The power of…

Anyone who skipped CinemaCon this year out of fear of the pandemic in Las Vegas missed a spitfire of a luncheon chat Thursday afternoon. Not only was Patty Jenkins smashing the theatrical day-and-date model, and wagging a finger at exhibition over the decline in the moviegoing experience, but also Paramount Domestic…

Tom Cruise didn’t appear in person at CinemaCon; rather he flashed up on the big screen at Caesars’ Colosseum Theatre this morning, with Hayley Atwell, from the set of Mission: Impossible 8.  After showing off BTS footage of Cruise’s next big stunt from Mission: Impossible 7, Paramount rolled the first 13 minutes of…

Tom Cruise has bungee jumped into corporate silos, climbed cliffs in Australia with his bare hands and clung to planes as they’re taking off in previous Mission: Impossible movies. But his next big stunt in Mission: Impossible 7 is motorcycle jumping off a cliff in Norway. “This is far and away the most dangerous…

A little more than two years since it debuted the first trailer for the first Downton Abbey movie at CinemaCon 2019, the sequel to the Focus Features hit big-screen transfer also got a Las Vegas unveiling during Universal's slate presentation Wednesday. Downton Abbey 2, whose official title is now Downton Abbey: A New…

Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady galloping after dinosaurs in a snowy mountain landscape, Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing being chased by them on European rooftops, and the legacy trio of Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern returning. These are some of the images from the BTS reel Universal presented for Jurassic Worl…

Out of all the studios giving presentations during CinemaCon this week, Universal showed great respect to exhibition workers by including them as presenters in its theatrical release reel. Before rolling a clip on each film set for release before March 2022, talent from the project would reflect on their favorite…

Universal did drop something fresh during its presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Wednesday: the first look at Michael Bay’s action movie Ambulance.  In the pic, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Garret Dillahunt, two robbers steal an ambulance after their heist goes awry. Mateen…