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Refresh for latest…: As it crossed the $1B international box office milestone this past weekend, Warner Bros again owned the frame with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and its third session haul of $33.7M from 71 markets. That was good for a 47% drop from the previous weekend and lifts the overseas cume…

It has only been one month since the 96th Academy Awards ended, but this week it looks like the race for the 97th has (un)officially begun. Say what??? Even though Emmy season is in full force (Deadline’s two-day Contenders Television live and liv…

Director Barry Jenkins appeared at his first CinemaCon on Thursday to show off a trailer from Mufasa: The Lion King.   How did an arthouse director and Moonlight Oscar winner take on a four-quadrant movie? He wondered about that himself for a minute, he said, but he told the crowd that he’s seen the…

Disney truly saved the best for last at CinemaCon — and that’s Dwayne Johnson. You can’t call it a CinemaCon without the action star, who is a regular here. Before he stepped onstage, a group of Hawaiian dancers and percussionists performed. They were shortly joined by the man who voices the film’s…

Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy wanted to show spoiler-free footage at CinemaCon on Thursday, and perhaps it is, but, boy was it hysterical. In the nine minutes shown of the Marvel tentpole, Ryan Reynolds is adjusting to normal life, content to aim for the middle, because you never miss. He…

Fanboys will have to wait until San Diego Comic Con to see footage from Marvel Studios’ 2025 release Captain America: Brave New World, but exhibitors do not. On Thursday during Disney’s closing CinemaCon session, the studio showed off the new Anthony Mackie movie that picks up after the events of the 2021…

In keeping with CinemaCon tradition, Disney this afternoon treated attendees to the first 35 minutes of its latest Pixar movie; this year being Inside Out 2. The sequel to the 2015 pic brings viewers back into the mind of the now-teenage Riley (Kensington Tallman) as her emotions try to keep up with…

“I'm going to swim the English Channel,” Daisy Ridley’s Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle tells her father in the first trailer from Disney’s movie Young Woman in the Sea. “I wasn’t asking!” she tells him. “Now, please pass the bread.” “The thing that you love the most terrifies me,” says Trudy’s mom…

The trailer for Paramount’s Smile 2 came as a surprise Thursday morning during the studio’s session at CinemaCon. Alhough not introduced, when the images first hit the screen, it was easy to assume Paramount was distributing a Lady Gaga concert movie (it truly felt that way). But as it continued, it…

What do you do when your conglom might be a target for a takeover? Don’t sweat it and laugh. As Skydance remains in talks with Paramount Global‘s majority shareholder National Amusements to take control of the studio, Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins made light of sales talks before exhibitors…

CinemaCon on Thursday morning got a first look at the extended trailer for and a 3D scene from Paramount's animated Transformers One. The origins story movie is due for release on September 13. From Paramount Animation and Hasbro in association with New Republic Pictures, it's directed by Josh…

Refresh for More…Paramount ended their CinemaCon 2024 on an epic note, that being Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. The logo was unveiled and title made official today at the Las Vegas studio exhibitor confab. Raised stakes here: Rhinos, man-eating monkeys, battling boats in the Colosseum and a very…