Tom Cruise for ‘Digger’ at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
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Warner Bros. has made its big presentation to the 2026 CinemaCon crowd.
Among the movies touted were ‘Supergirl’ and ‘Dune: Part III’
The likes of Tom Cruise and James Gunn showed up to lobby exhibitors.
After a hugely successful 2026 in terms of both box office and awards, Warner Bros. arrives at CinemaCon with a bigger story looming over its head –– the future. With the Paramount merger inching closer, there will of course be questions about the new regime’s plans, even as the likes of David Ellison maintain that the studio’s output will be boosted.
Host Patton Oswalt at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
With Patton Oswalt as the host (who joked that he wanted to join the DC Universe), this is what was presented…
Before any of the big announcements, we got word from Warner Bros. film bosses Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy that the studio is launching a new label called Warner Clockwork, whose first production is ‘Anora’ director Sean Baker‘s next project, ‘Te Amo!’.
A sizzle reel celebrating last year’s accomplishments was followed by an even more exciting one for 2027, including some big casting news dropped for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’…
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(L to R) Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu for ‘Digger’ at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu kick off the 2026 portion of the show with their collaboration, ‘Digger’. Cruise heaped praise on his director, with the filmmaker explaining that he got the idea for the new movie nine years ago and started discussing it with the actor seven years ago. Cruise, according to him was the only choice.
The movie tells of most powerful man in the world as he embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.
(L to R) Ewan McGregor as Greg Platt, Christian Convery as Brian Platt, Maisy Stella as Audrey Platt and Anne Hathaway as Denise Platt in in ‘The End of Oak Street’, a Warner Bros. Pictures Release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.
It features the Platt family, who band together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor lead the cast, but the presentation was mostly an extended trailer.
The New Line segment was kicked off with the next ‘Evil Dead’ movie, this one directed by Sébastien Vanicek, but again it was largely limited to some early footage, which featured some familiar ideas, including the Book of the Dead.
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat in the Hat’. Photo: Warner Bros.
The audience were all supplied with Thing wigs, trumpeting the arrival of a trailer for the new animated take on the Dr. Seuss classic. This one features Bill Hader as the voice of the cat.
Next up was DC Studios, with producer and co-CEO Peter Safran on stage to introduce it (director and co-chief James Gunn is a little busy, as production on the ‘Superman’ follow-up ‘Man of Tomorrow’ starts next week.
The first project to cover was ‘Clayface’, about the Batman antagonist, which Safran described as more focused on character than genre. He showed off the first footage from the movie.
(L to R) Jason Momoa, director Craig Gillespie, Milly Alcock, and producer Peter Safran for ‘Supergirl’ at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
While we have to wait until October for ‘Clayface’, the next DC Studios film out of the gate is ‘Supergirl’, starring Milly Alcock as Superman’s wilder cousin. She, director Craig Gillespie and co-star Jason Momoa (playing outer space vigilante Lobo) took the stage to talk up the film –– Momoa on a motorcycle! A new scene from the movie was screened.
(L to R) Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock for ‘Practical Magic 2’ at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock showed up to tout the witchy sequel, mentioning their shared appreciation for director Susanne Bier and how the production rebuilt the original movie’s house. What can we expect? “Midnight margaritas, jumping off the roof, and also have our past catching up with us,” according to Kidman. “We have our destinies, and the family. I think it’s going to be really, really fun.”
After some talk about how the characters are inspiring, the first teaser trailer was shown.
Timothée Chalamet for ‘Dune: Part Three’ at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
The big finish was, somewhat naturally, the new ‘Dune’, with director Denis Villeneuve taking the stage accompanied by Fremen warriors. Villeneuve said he made the movie “1,000%” for the fans, and the audience was treated to the first seven minutes of the movie.
Accompanied by the likes of Zendaya, Momoa and notorious opera-disliker Timothée Chalamet, Villeneuve showed off a battle scene that promises some suitably epic action.
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And that’s all, folks!
(L to R) Tom Cruise and Jason Momoa at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
Moviefone has compiled a list of the most anticipated movies opening in theaters and/or streaming in 2026, which not only includes major studio releases but also smaller independent films that you won’t want to miss.
Daisy Ridley in ‘We Bury the Dead’. Photo: Vertical.
After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. Ava (Daisy Ridley) searches for her missing husband, but what she finds is far more terrifying.
In a race against time, an ailing woman (Lucy Liu) discovers her teenage son’s (Lawrence Shou) violent obsessions and must go to great lengths to protect him, and possibly others, in this portrait of a Chinese American family. Inspired by true events.
Imogen Poots in ‘The Chronology of Water’. Photo: The Forge .
Directed by Kristen Stewart, growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman (Imogen Posts) finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer.
(L to R) Gerard Butler as John Garrity, Morena Baccarin as Allison Garrity, and Roman Griffin Davis as Nathan Garrity in ‘Greenland 2: Migration’. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate.
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family (Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roman Griffin Davis) must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
Johnny Sequoyah as “Lucy” in ‘Primate’ from Paramount Pictures.
Home from college, Lucy (Johnny Sequpyah) reunites with family including pet chimp Ben. Ben contracts rabies during a pool party and turns aggressive. Lucy and friends barricade in pool, devising ways to survive the vicious chimp.
(L to R) Dacre Montgomery as Richard ‘Dick’ Hall and Bill Skarsgård as Tony Kiritsis in ‘Dead Man’s Wire’. Photo: Row K Entertainment
Set in 1977 and based on a true story, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), a former real estate developer puts a dead man’s switch on himself and the mortgage banker (Dacre Montgomery) who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.
Lizzy Greene as “Renee” in the Action Thriller film, ‘The Internship’. Photo courtesy of Paramount Global Content Distribution.
A ruthless, highly trained assassin, raised from childhood in a top-secret CIA program known only as The Internship, is ready to dismantle the institution that stole her youth. Assembling her fellow interns, she leads a bloody uprising – forcing the CIA to unleash equally lethal force to stop them.
Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship – with consequences that could change the world as they know it – and Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape.
After a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a derelict stash house, trust frays as everything — and everyone — is called into question.
A scene from ‘Sheepdog’. Photo: Allen Media Group Motion Pictures.
A decorated combat Veteran is court ordered into treatment when an ex-convict shows up on his doorstep and reveals that he must put himself back together again.
In the near future, a detective (Chris Pratt) stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge (Rebecca Ferguson) he once championed, before it determines his fate.
(L to R) Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner in ‘Atropia’. Photo: Vertical.
When an aspiring actress (Alia Shawkat) in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier (Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
Aspiring small-town musician Chito (Jay Dee) is determined to make it big. When a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral, he seizes the opportunity and pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music… and ultimately gets caught in a game more dangerous than anticipated.
Brendan Gleeson in ‘H Is for Hawk’. Photo: Roadside Attractions.
After losing her beloved father (Brendan Gleeson), Helen (Claire Foy) finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.
(L to R)Jason Biggs as “Kevin” and Meaghan Rath as “Suzie” in the Comedy, Thriller, Action and Crime film, ‘Untitled Home Invasion Romance’. Photo courtesy of Republic Pictures (a Paramount Pictures label).
Kevin Stanwell (Jason Biggs) is an actor famous for being the mascot for erectile dysfunction ads. With his marriage on the rocks, he attempts to salvage the relationship with his wife Suzie (Meaghan Rath) by planning a trip for them to the Adirondacks. Kevin recruits his friend Ernie (Arturo Castro) to stage a home invasion to make Kevin look like a hero, but when the plan goes awry, the couple find themselves caught up in a murder investigation.
Two estranged half-brothers, Jonny (Jason Momoa) and James (Dave Bautista), are forced to reunite after their father’s mysterious death. As they set out to uncover the truth, buried secrets resurface and loyalties are tested, unveiling a conspiracy that can tear their family apart. Together, they are ready to wreck anything that gets in their way.
A rising pop sensation (Charli xcx) navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Madelaine Petsch as “Maya,” in the horror film ‘The Strangers – Chapter 3’, a Lionsgate release. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate.
Tethered by a frightening conclusion, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) and the Strangers are locked on an unavoidable, unforgiving collision course — a showdown that proves they’re far from strangers now.
Dafne Keen as “Chrys Willet” in the horror film, ‘Whistle’, an IFC and Shudder release. Photo courtesy of IFC and Shudder.
A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down. As the body count rises, the friends investigate the origins of the deadly artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.
Olivia Colman as Hannah in a scene from Sophie Hyde’s ‘Jimpa’.
Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde), to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim (John Lithgow) — lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances’ desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.
(L to R) Kevin James and Kim Coates in ‘Solo Mio’. Photo: Courtesy of Angel Studios.
After Matt’s (Kevin James) dreams of a picturesque Italian wedding are shattered when his fiancée leaves him at the altar, he embarks on his planned honeymoon across Italy alone, immersing himself in the country’s vibrant culture, food, and beauty, meeting Gia along the way.
The story follows Will (Caleb McLaughlin), a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will’s new teammates aren’t thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but Will is determined to revolutionize the sport and prove once and for all that “smalls can ball!”
When an elusive thief (Chris Hemsworth) whose high-stakes heists unfold along the iconic 101 freeway in Los Angeles eyes the score of a lifetime, with hopes of this being his final job, his path collides with a disillusioned insurance broker (Halle Berry) who is facing her own crossroads, forcing the two to collaborate. Determined to crack the case, a relentless detective (Mark Ruffalo) closes in on the operation, raising the stakes even higher.
(L to R) Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Actor, Producer Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw in ‘Wuthering Heights’, a Warner Bros. Pictures Release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie).
Jason Isaacs in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’. Courtesy of Cat People.
Diana’s (Grace Glowicki) husband (Jason Isaacs) is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why… As her memories begin to creep back in so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.
Milo Ventimiglia as Tim in ‘I Can Only Imagine 2’. Photo: Jake Giles Netter.
After the breakout success of the song “I Can Only Imagine,” MercyMe’s Bart Millard (J. Michael Finley) is living the dream—sold-out arenas, a devoted fan base, and a thriving career. But behind the spotlight, Bart’s past threatens the family he’s built, especially the fragile bond with his son, Sam (Sammy Dell). When hopeful newcomer Tim Timmons (Milo Ventinmiglia) joins the band for their biggest tour yet, he unknowingly brings a renewed gratitude to Bart’s life through their unlikely friendship. Bart soon discovers that Tim carries hardships—and secrets—of his own, forcing him to face his past and repair his relationships with Sam and his wife, Shannon (Sophie Skelton), before fame costs him what matters most.
Neve Campbell stars in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s ‘Scream 7.’
When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter (Isabel May) becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.
Elvis Presley in ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’. Photo: Neon.
From director Baz Luhrmann mix of a documentary and concert film made using unused footage from ‘Elvis: That’s the Way It Is‘, the film of Elvis’ legendary 1970 Summer Festival in Las Vegas and Elvis’s road concert film from two years later, Elvis on Tour, that were found during the production of 2022’s ‘Elvis‘.
Scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals. Animal lover Mabel (Piper Curda) seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined.
A lonely Frankenstein (Christian Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Jessie Buckley) is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
Nate’s (Nate Bargatze) supermom wife, Katie (Mandy Moore), lands a deal on ‘Shark Tank‘. Subsequently, the lifelong breadwinner of the family becomes a stay-at-home dad and quickly realizes he’s in way over his head.
When Diem’s (Zoe Kosovic) custodial grandparents adamantly refuse Kenna’s (Maika Monroe) attempts to see her, she discovers unexpected compassion, and then something truer and deeper, with former NFL player and local bar owner Ledger (Tyriq Withers). As their secret romance develops, so do the dangers for both of them, leading Kenna toward heartbreak and, ultimately, the hope for a second chance.
A still from the action, sci-fi and adventure film, ‘Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead’, a Blue Harbor Entertainment release. Photo courtesy of Blue Harbor Entertainment.
300 years after the Big Flood, the legend of an outlawed Storm Rider inspires two rebellious islanders to find out the truth about the origin of their world.
Ryan Gosling in ‘Project Hail Mary’. Photo: Amazon MGM Studios.
Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a school-teacher-turned-astronaut, wakes up from a coma, alone, on a space station with no memory of who he is or his mission. His memory returns in bursts and he pieces together that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to reverse the impact of a space event that had already hurled our planet into the early stages of an Ice Age. As details of the mission unravel, Grace must call on all of his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he might not have to do it alone…
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
(L to R) Anna (Halle Bailey) and Michael (Regé-Jean Page) in ‘You, Me & Tuscany’, directed by Kat Coiro. Photo: Giulia Parmigiani/Universal Pictures.
Free-spirited Italian chef (Halle Bailey) and reserved British lawyer (Regé-Jean Page) embark on a whirlwind romance during a destination wedding in coastal Italy.
Oil tycoon Merriell Sunday Sr. and renowned adventurer Hollis Bannister have disappeared without a trace. Their last known location is northern Alaska. Ellie Bannister and Merriell Sunday Jr., set out to search for their missing fathers and the truth behind what made them vanish. As the rescue team heads deeper into the heart of this frozen landscape, danger mounts. Something has taken notice of their trespassing expedition…and that prehistoric something is now stalking them…hunting them.
Bob Odenkirk in ‘Normal’. Photo: Magnolia Pictures.
In the aftermath of a bank robbery, interim sheriff Ulysses (Bob Odenkirk) uncovers a criminal conspiracy at the heart of his small-town Minnesota community.
Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in ‘Michael’. Photo Credit: Glen Wilson.
The story of Michael Jackson’s (Jaafar Jackson) life beyond the music, tracing his journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world.
Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.
Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing. She faces off against Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt), her one-time assistant, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group, with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.
A scene from ‘Animal Farm’. Photo: Courtesy of Angel Studios.
A satirical allegory of revolution and power that traces how a movement for equality is systematically corrupted. As the pigs consolidate control, truth is erased, dissent is crushed and the farm descends into a ruthless dictatorship.
(Right) Karl Urban as Johnny Cage in ‘Mortal Kombat 2’. Photo: Warner Bros.
The fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.
The film follows George Hardy (Hugh Jackman), a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand, never suspecting that not only can they understand but they argue for hours afterwards about whodunnit. When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it. The local cop Tim Derry (Nicholas Braun), on the other hand, has never solved a serious crime in his life, so the sheep conclude they will have to solve it themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn’t as simple as it appears in books.
After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and his young apprentice Grogu.
Nicholas Galitzine in 2026’s ‘Masters of the Universe’. Photo: Nicholas Galitzine’s Instagram Account / Amazon MGM Studios.
Almost two decades after crashing down to Earth, Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) is whisked back across space to defend his home planet of Eternia against the evil forces of Skeletor (Jared Leto). But to defeat such a powerful villain, Prince Adam will first need to uncover the mysteries of his past and become He-Man: the most powerful man in the Universe.
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz (Tim Allen), Woody (Tom Hanks), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and the rest of the gang’s jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
While celebrating her 21st birthday, Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock) travels across the galaxy with her dog Krypto, during which she meets the young Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley) and goes on a “murderous quest for revenge”.
William Franklyn-Miller in ‘Young Washington’. Photo: Courtesy of Angel Studios.
Against the frontier of colonial America, the untold origin story of a 22-year-old George Washington (William Franklyn-Miller) unfolds—long before the Revolution, long before the Constitution—when a single mistake nearly cost him everything. After triggering the start of the French and Indian War, Washington must reckon with personal failure, devastating loss, and the weight of responsibility. What emerges from the ashes isn’t just a military leader—but a man forged by humility, courage, and conviction.
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui (Dwayne Johnson) reaches the island of an impetuous Chieftain, his willful daughter (Catherine Laga‘aia) answers the Ocean’s call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
Matt Damon is Odysseus in ‘The Odyssey’, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Photo: Universal Pictures.
Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War, chronicling his encounters with mythical beings such as the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and the witch-goddess Circe.
Destin Daniel Cretton (director, ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’) at CinemaCon 2025 for Sony Pictures at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on March 31, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Stewart Cook/Sony Pictures via Getty Images.
The fourth installment in the Spider-Man franchise and part of Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Lily James in ‘Cliffhanger’. Photo: Rocket Science.
During a weekend trip with a billionaire’s son, seasoned mountaineer Ray Cooper (Pierce Brosnan) and his daughter Sydney (Nell Tiger Free) are targeted by a gang of kidnappers. Ray’s other daughter Naomi (Lily James), still haunted by a past climbing accident, witnesses the attack and escapes. To save her family, she must confront her fears and fight for survival.
A Hollywood horror tale centering on a B-movie actor (Tom Rhys Harries) who injects himself with a substance to keep himself relevant, only to find out that he can reshape his face and form, becoming a walking piece of clay.
Zach Cregger (director, ‘Resident Evil’) at CinemaCon 2025 for Sony Pictures at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on March 31, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Stewart Cook/Sony Pictures via Getty Images.
Described as a reboot that won’t retell a story from the game series, but will return to the franchise’s suspense/horror roots and be more faithful to the spirit of the early games. The film will attempt to capture “the moment that comes in every ‘Resident Evil’ game where you find yourself standing in the mouth of a dark passageway with one shot left in the gun, and you know something horrible is waiting for you in that darkness – that awful moment where you have to will yourself forward.” The film will “follow one central protagonist from point A to point B, as they descend deeper into hell.”
(L to R) Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in ‘Practical Magic’. Photo: Warner Bros.
A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing for each other.
Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.
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Jason Momoa in ‘Street Fighter’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
In 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat in the Hat’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Doing what he does best, the Cat (Bill Hader) spreads joy to kids in his hilarious, signature, and singularly irreverent way, transporting them and audiences on a fantastical journey through a world they’ve never seen before. Our hero takes on his toughest assignment yet for the I.I.I.I. (Institute for the Institution of Imagination and Inspiration, LLC) to cheer up Gabby (Xochitl Gomez) and Sebastian (Tiago Martinez), a pair of siblings struggling to move to a new town. Known for taking things too far, this could be this agent of chaos’ last chance to prove himself…or lose his magical hat!
(L to R) Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird and Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’. Photo Credit: Murray Close.
Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games for the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lewis Tan about his work on ‘Safe House’, his first reaction to the screenplay, working with the cast, shooting the action sequences and collaborating on set with director Jamie Marshall.
Lewis Tan in ‘Safe House’. Photo: Vertical.
Tan also discussed his work on the upcoming ‘Mortal Kombat II’, Karl Urban joining the cast as Johnny Cage, and if we will see Shatterstar return to the MCU anytime soon.
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews.
Moviefone: To begin with, can you talk about your first reaction to the screenplay and its action-packed twist on the genre?
Lewis Tan: Me and my team were looking for something smart and grounded. The action work that I’ve been doing previously has been a little more fantasy based with ‘Mortal Kombat’ and ‘Shadow and Bone’, and ‘Wu Assassins’, and this type of stuff. We were looking for something smart, grounded, but still had a very visceral and a powerful storyline that we could make into a great action thriller. Leon Langford wrote a great script. When I first read it, it felt to me like a little bit of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ in a way where it’s about these Secret Service agents that witness a terrorist attack in Downtown LA, and they get stuck inside of a safe house. Once they arrive at this safe house, they realize that one of them could be part of this terrorist organization or a rat. So, they’re trying to figure out who’s the rat while they’re being attacked by terrorists. So, it puts a little bit of a spin on that ‘Reservoir Dog’s pressure. It’s not just the police are coming, it’s like every few minutes there’s something that’s happening, and it just keeps elevating. So, Leon Langford wrote this great script, and I was like, “Oh man, this is exactly what we were looking for.” So, I was very excited. That doesn’t happen often either.
MF: You mentioned ‘Reservoir Dogs’, but the movie also gives off a ‘Die Hard’ vibe. Was that movie an influence on this project?
LT: Well, ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ came to mind, and ‘Die Hard’ came to mind. Things like ‘The Raid’, obviously this isn’t really a martial art action movie, but there’s a lot of action in it. But it’s like this boiling pressure pot constantly, but the pressure is derived by the drama too, and the relationships that these people have in the room, which I’ve never done anything like that before, and I’ve been really looking forward to doing it. Then when I found out who was cast alongside of us, everybody that’s in the cast are just killers. So, it was cool.
(L to R) Ethan Embry, Holt McCallany and Lucien Laviscount in ‘Safe House’. Photo: Vertical.
MF: In the movie, the characters don’t know each other and must learn to trust each other and work together in this heightened circumstance to achieve a common goal, which is not unlike a new cast and crew coming together to make a movie. What was it like working with the cast and getting to know them while the characters are getting to know each other?
LT: I see where you’re going with that. The movie set dynamic can be a little bit tricky because there’s a lot of politics involved, there’s a lot of egos involved, and yes, it does relate to these characters in some way. When you’re on a movie set, at least in my opinion, you try to create a family where you can create something, a piece of art, and you put the ego aside, and you put all these things aside, and you try to create a piece of art together. That’s the way I like to look at it, because I think that’s the way that great art gets made. These characters just don’t trust each other. They don’t trust each other, and they’re all from different parts of the government. They are forced to work together because of violent and life-threatening situations that are surrounding them at every given moment, but they don’t trust each other at all. This cast I trusted very well, Hannah John-Kamen I knew from before, fantastic actor. Lucien Laviscount, I met, but it was interesting because we shot this movie in LA, and it’s very rare to shoot a movie out here in Los Angeles. Who would’ve thought that that would be something that I would say, but it is. We were all just excited because no one’s shot in LA for a long time. So, it was one of those things where it’s like, “Okay, this is exciting. We get to shoot here in the streets of Downtown LA. We’re blowing up cars and doing all this crazy stuff.” We had a very limited time, very limited budget, and we all wanted to make it great. So, as soon as I met and Holt (McCallany) and Ethan Embry and all these guys that are now off doing great things, we were all like, “Okay, guys, we got three weeks. Let’s make this a banger.”
MF: Can you talk about preparing for the action sequences and how involved are you with the fight choreography?
LT: So, Jamie Marshall is no stranger to action. He’s worked on a lot of great movies like ‘Den of Thieves’, and Arnold Chun, the action choreographer/stunt coordinator, is a very close friend of mine. I worked with Arnold on ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’, when I was doing stunts when I was 18 years old. So, we go way back. He’s super talented, and my approach when it comes to that is I like to work with really great talented people, and then those people mixed with my background in action, we collaborate, and we find a nice middle ground. That’s usually how it works, unless what they present is incredible and doesn’t need to be touched. But it’s nice to put a little bit of the character’s flair on it. So, there was some collaboration. We didn’t have a lot of rehearsal time. We had maybe a few days, which I’m used to at this point, but obviously, you wish for more. My character is a Secret Service agent. He comes from a military background. It’s not martial arts, it’s more realistic fighting and guns, and using whatever you can around you, smart, survival skills that a real agent would use. We had advisors there from SAS and from the police and people that were there to make sure that we were making it look authentic. I did my best to do that.
(L to R) Hannah John-Kamen and Lucien Laviscount in ‘Safe House’. Photo: Vertical.
MF: Do you think that the action says as much about the character as the story does?
LT: That’s a great question. Yeah, 1000%. It was the great Stella Adler that said, “Acting is everything else in between the words.” I agree with that because the words are only one part of it. It’s everything you say in between. It’s the energy that you’re giving off. When it comes to action, nothing speaks louder than action, right? Action speaks louder than words and that’s true. It’s like you can see how people respond and how they think and how their emotions are based on the things that they’re doing. So, that’s why it must be crucial, and it must be definitive and truthful within the character. In this case, it’s more like smart thinking and they’re in a situation where they’re dealing with the unknown and they’re trying to survive, and they’re using all the skills that they must survive. So, we put a little flair on it, you know what I mean?
MF: What was it like collaborating with director Jamie Marshall on set?
LT: Oh, Jamie Marshall is just a legend. He’s very calm and articulate. He’s very patient. He was under a lot of pressure, with a short amount of time, a lot to do, a lot of action, a lot of dialogue, a lot of everything. He was just very calm and collaborative leader of the set. He’s just got a great demeanor about him. He loves movies, and he’s very willing to sit there and discuss things. But we did three intensive days of preparation with the script. So normally, when you get onto a set, people talk, and then two hours go by of people trying to decide whether they’re going to do what the script says that day. But if you do it previously, then you don’t have to have those discussions on set, and things can be much quicker. So, that’s what we did. Jamie was like, “Listen, guys, now’s the time to say anything you need to say before we get to the set. Then we need to go, we need to run and gun because we got a limited time here.”
Lewis Tan in ‘Mortal Kombat’. Photo: Warner Bros.
MF: What can you tell us about ‘Mortal Kombat II’, which is scheduled to be released next year?
LT: Well, the reception we had at New York Comic-Con was incredible. Everybody went crazy over some of the footage that they saw. I believe there was a fight scene that they showed between Johnny Cage and Baraka. The fans are just the best fans in the world. All I can say is this, it was a learning process on the first movie. It’s a big IP. There’s 100 characters, it’s a lot to get right. The producer, Todd Garner, is smart. He listens to the fans, and he listens to what people are saying online. Also, he brought in Ed Boon (creator of the game) to really collaborate with us on the second movie. So, the second movie just feels so much bigger. We have the tournament, they let the fight team really run wild with this, which I was really hoping for, and they deliver. So, the film is beyond what I thought it was going to be. When I first saw it, I left the theater like, “Oh God, that is way better than I thought.” There’s a reason why they just greenlit a third one. That’s all I’m going to say.
MF: What was it like working with Karl Urban and can you talk about his take on Johnny Cage?
LT: Karl’s a gentleman, and a funny guy. He took it very seriously. He worked hard too; he knows the type of pressure that it is to play a character like that in a franchise like this that everybody loves. He’s obviously a seasoned legend, but he did a really great job. He did a different type of Johnny Cage than most people were expecting. He took a big swing on it, and it really paid off. He kills it in the movie. People are going to love this. It’s funny because my character in the first movie was the one that was like, “What is Mortal Kombat?” Now, Johnny Cage is put in that position of “What is this? And then what’s going on? How come he’s shooting flames out of his hands?” But as the film goes on, he sinks into that Johnny Cage superstar, and it comes out slowly. So, it’s a great performance and a good character arc, and it’s got a lot more places to go after this as well.
(Right) Karl Urban as Johnny Cage in ‘Mortal Kombat 2’. Photo: Warner Bros.
MF: Finally, when do you think we will see Shatterstar return to the MCU and is there any other Marvel character that you would like to see him team up with?
LT: I hope so, man. I think Shatterstar is such an interesting character, and if we made a movie about Mojoworld where it had this ‘Mad Max’ meets ‘Blade Runner’ type of vibe, that is very relevant to now, because Mojoworld is all about entertainment. They’ve got to the point in their world where they live stream these death matches, and it’s like watching Channel 9 at 1:00 p.m. in the middle of the day, some soap opera or something. So, I just think that if we’re not careful, we might be heading in that direction. But also, I think it’d be a hilarious and a fun film. So, yeah, man, I’m here. I’m ready to do it. But if not, there’s some other areas into the Marvel world that I could be venturing into. So, we’ll see. That’s all I can say. The Shatterstar character, it’s not been fully fleshed out yet. It’s just been cool cameos and funny scenes, but it hasn’t really been fleshed out, per se. So, I’d like to see it give its proper due diligence.
‘Safe House’ opens in theaters, on digital and On-Demand beginning October 31st .
What is the plot of ‘Safe House’?
Six federal agents in hiding after a Los Angeles terror attack grow suspicious of each other as they realize the perpetrator could be among them.
Moviefone has compiled a list of the most anticipated movies opening in theaters and/or streaming in September and October of 2025, which not only includes major studio releases but also smaller independent films that you won’t want to miss.
Paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
(L to R) Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona and Dakota Johnson in ‘Splitsville’. Photo: Neon.
When his wife Ashley (Adria Arjona) asks for a divorce, Carey (Kyle Marvin) runs to his friends (Dakota Johnson and Michael Angelo Covino) for support, only to learn that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
Michael Strassner in Jay Duplass’s ‘The Baltomrons’. Courtesy of Jon Bregel. An Independent Film Company Release.
After cracking a tooth on Christmas Eve, newly sober Cliff (Michael Strassner) embarks on an unexpected May/December adventure through Baltimore with Didi (Liz Larsen), his emergency dentist.
(L to R) Ruby Cruz, Zoey Deutch, and Jonah Hauer-King in ‘The Threesome’. Photo: Vertical.
Connor (Jonah Hauer-King) is a kind and unassuming young man, who, along with his long-time crush Olivia (Zoey Deutch), engages in a threesome with a sweet, alluring stranger named Jenny (Ruby Cruz). This encounter sparks a relationship between Connor and Olivia, leading them to plan a life together. However, their romance faces challenges when Jenny reappears, thrusting all three into a difficult journey toward true accountability and adulthood.
(L to R) Orlando Bloom as “Boxer” and John Turturro as “Boz” in the Psychological Thriller film, ‘The Cut’. Photo courtesy of Republic Pictures (a Paramount Pictures label).
A retired boxer (Orlando Bloom) intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer (John Turturro), he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
When Mary (Michelle Dockery) finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
(L to R) Joshua Odjick as Parker, Jordan Gonzalez as Harkness, David Jonsson as McVries, Cooper Hoffman as Garraty, and Charlie Plummer as Barkovitch in ‘The Long Walk’. Photo Credit: Murray Close/Lionsgate.
Every year, fifty teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as “The Long Walk.” Among this year’s chosen crop is “Maine’s Own,” Ray Garraty (Cooper Hoffman). He knows the rules: that warnings are issued if you fall under speed, stumble, sit down. That after three warnings- you get your ticket. And what happens then serves as a chilling reminder that there can be only one winner in the Walk. The one that survives.
Dev Patel appears in ‘Rabbit Trap’ by Bryn Chainey, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Photo: Andreas Johannessen.
When a musician (Rosy McEwen) and her husband (Dev Patel) move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.
(L to R) Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest in ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’. Photo: Bleecker Street.
Now estranged, Spinal Tap (Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest) are forced to reunite for one final concert, hoping it will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll.
Rebekah Kennedy as “Abigail” in the horror film, ‘Traumatika’, a Saban Films release. Photo courtesy of Saban Films.
A young boy’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present… and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.
(L to R) Jeremy Ray Taylor as “Julian” and Josh Duhamel as “Tommy Ward” in the action comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution release. Photo courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman (Josh Duhamel) is forced to babysit the son (Jeremy Ray Taylor) of his new crime boss (Rick Hoffman) and show him how to become a man.
Omari Hardwick in ‘Xeno’. Photo: Blue Fox Entertainment.
When a fearless teenage girl (Lulu Wilson) stumbles upon a mysterious alien crash-landed in the desert near her home, she discovers that it’s not the kind of extraterrestrial she expected—it’s powerful, unpredictable, and on the run. As government agents (Omari Hardwick) close in, she must protect her new otherworldly friend while uncovering a secret that could change the fate of both their worlds.
Madelaine Petsch as Maya in ‘The Strangers — Chapter 2’. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate.
On the final day of their cross country road trip, a couple’s vehicle breaks down, forcing them to take refuge in a remote Airbnb. As night falls, three masked strangers terrorize them until dawn. The film stars Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath.
Emma Thompson in ‘Dead of Winter’. Photo: Vertical.
A widowed fisherwoman (Emma Thompson), traveling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl’s only hope.
(L to R) Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Stanfield in ‘Play Dirty’. Photo: Prime Video.
Expert thief Parker (Mark Wahlberg) gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world’s richest man.
Maddie Hasson in Bleecker Street and LD’s ‘Bone Lake’. Credit: Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment.
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
(L to R) Guy Pearce and DeWanda Wise star in ‘KIlling Faith’. Photo: Film Bridge International.
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician (Guy Pearce) reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave (DeWanda Wise) and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town’s Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches mysteriously dies.
A highly sophisticated Program called Ares (Jared Leto) is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.
(L to R) Daniel Bernhardt and Patton Oswalt in ‘Deathstalker’. Photo: Shout! Studios.
The warrior Deathstalker (Daniel Bernhardt) is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and unite the three powers of creation – a chalice, an amulet, and a sword – lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious purposes. After obtaining the sword, Deathstalker joins with other travelers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. The false king holds the true princess in captivity, and plots to have Deathstalker killed, and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess.
(L to R) Mark Coles Smith as “Leo,” Maximillian Johnson as “Stan,” Joel Nankervis as “Will,” and Lee Tiger Halley as “Teddy” in the thriller film ‘Beast of War’. Photo courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment.
When their boat is sunk while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a young troop of Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking life raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
‘Pets on a Train’ opens in theaters on October 17th. Photo: Viva Pictures.
When a train unexpectedly starts up, taking only pets with it, the animals discover that Hans, a badger with a grudge is behind it all. While the crash seems inevitable, the animals can count on Falcon, a roguish Raccoon who will do anything to save them.
(L to R) Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller in ‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost’. Photo: Apple TV+.
Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents—comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara—exploring their impact on popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life, and art often blurred.
(L to R) Keanu Reeves as Gabriel, Seth Rogen as Jeff, and Aziz Ansari as Ari in ‘Good Fortune’. Photo Credit: Eddy Chen.
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Aziz Ansari) and a wealthy capitalist (Seth Rogen).
Four years after escaping The Grabber (Ethan Hawke), Finney Blake (Mason Thames) is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
Tessa Thompson stars as “Hedda Gabler” in ‘Hedda’. Photo: Amazon MGM Studios.
Hedda Gabler (Tessa Thompson) finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company (Emma Stone), convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
(L to R) Margaret Qualley and Ethan Hawke in ‘Blue Moon’. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics.
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.
‘Last Days’ opens exclusively in US theaters on October 24th. Photo: Tanasak “Top” Boonlam.
Determined to fulfill his life’s mission, 26-year-old John Allen Chau (Sky Yang) embarks on a dangerous adventure across the globe to convert the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island to Christianity, while a detective from the Andaman Islands races to stop him before he does harm to himself or the tribe.
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere.’ Photo: 20th Century Studios.
Bruce Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White), a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past
(L to R) James Gunn, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
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Warner Bros. showed off its upcoming slate at CinemaCon.
Movies such as ‘Superman’ and ‘F1’ were promoted.
The likes of Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Gunn and Jerry Bruckheimer were present.
Taking the third spot at CinemaCon this year, Warner Bros. is in the middle of some issues, including the fact that their latest slate, betting big on largely indie directors handed giant budgets has yet to truly pay off –– witness ‘Mickey 17’s less-than-stellar box office.
But the studio will be trying to drum up enthusiasm for its upcoming slate, which still features some heavy hitters, including the latest take on ‘Superman’ (the company will be hoping that DC Studios boss James Gunn’s sprawling new superhero universe will fly out of the gate) and Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ (part of the directors-given-big-budgets experiment).
With the ‘Superman’ music playing even as the presentation starts, it’s not hard to spot what the studios’ big focus is likely to be.
David Corenswet at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
As with Disney’s bulging portfolio of labels, Warner Bros. has the likes of WB Animation, New Line, DC Studios and the main Warners movie studio under its umbrella. We heard about projects from all of them today.
Jeff Goldstein, president of global distribution at the studio, took the stage to kick things off with a sizzle reel of the movies the studio has not written off for tax reasons.
That was followed by current WB film bosses Mike De Luca and Pamela Abdy, who arrived on stage to start the hype in person.
(Left) Michael B. Jordan in ‘Sinners’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Introduced by director Ryan Coogler (who also wrote the script) via a video, the new movie features Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Coogler called it his most personal movie yet. Which makes us wonder how many supernatural creatures he’s battled in his life.
‘Sinners’ will be haunting theaters on April 18th.
(L to R) Teyana Taylor, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Regina Hall at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
A key tentpole in the film team’s tactic of giving respected filmmakers big budget, this is the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead, playing a member of a group of ex-revolutionaries that reunites to rescue his daughter.
DiCaprio walked on stage alongside co-stars Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor to talk up the movie, which DiCaprio described as “incredibly epic.”
And according to him, it was an “honor” working with “master filmmaker” PTA, with whom he’s wanted to collaborate for 20 years.
The stars introduced an extended trailer for the new movie, full of more of the wacky action to be found within.
‘One Battle After Another’ storms onto screens on September 26th and seems likely to be making an awards play.
(L to R) Director Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s latest directorial job is a new, slightly skewed take on ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’ as the doctor’s creation asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change.
Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley (the latter plays the title character) strode on stage to discuss the movie, which was shot in IMAX.
The director admitted that after ‘The Last Daughter’ she was looking for something popular and big, but also radical and she wasn’t sure what until she was at a party and saw someone with a bride tattoo.
Here’s what she said about the movie:
“I’m really interested in monsters. We all have something a little monstrous in us, which is why I think we love monsters.”
(L to R) Director Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
Buckley, meanwhile, said she felt like the script, written by Gyllenhaal, had an electrical current running through it. And that Frankenstein’s monster’s (Christian Bale) relationship with the Bride is the punkest ever.
This take on the creature is a movie lover. We find him in a theater watching movies and his best friend is a Hollywood actor. Gyllenhaal, likewise, though she admitted she had seen exactly two IMAX movies before making one.
An extended trailer played for the movie to wrap up this portion.
‘The Bride!’ is lumbering towards theaters on March 6th, 2026.
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Following a sizzle reel of New Line’s future offerings, we dived headlong into that section of the presentation as Richard Brener, president and CCO of the studio arm took the stage.
‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ opens in theaters on May 16th.
After a catchup on the legacy of the franchise, a clip was shown from the latest in series, which sees a college student, plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, returning home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.
Naturally the scene, which sees two men get pulled into, and horribly killed by, an MRI machine is full of the
Director Zach Cregger at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
Writer/director Zach Cregger (who was already in Las Vegas because he’s also working on the new ‘Resident Evil’ movie for Sony) was brought out to tout his new horror pic.
He described ‘Weapons’ as “twisty and turny” and had a teaser to show that may never be made public.
In it, kids wake up at 2:17am and wreak havoc on a small town. The footage is narrated by a five-year old’s voice. Mobs of parents are losing their minds in a school meeting. Josh Brolin’s character demands and yells for answers.
Julia Garner, a concerned parent is distressed and wake up with night sweats over the stress. She walks into a classroom in the middle of the night to find spooky kids at desk.
But there are blood curdling images; blood exploding from a head, a red-haired kid popping up in the forest while a teenager worries he’s in the wrong place…
The movie will be out on August 8th.
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And we shifted to the main studio’s portion of the presentation with a biggie…
While it’s an Apple production, Warners has the distribution rights and will be hoping for big things from the Brad Pitt-starring movie, which finds him as a Formula One who driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team with a younger driver.
It’s full of racing action (including Pitt, who drove cars himself at 185 miles an hour at actual race tracks) and Bruckheimer (no stranger to hype) said he believes it’ll be the cinematic event of the summer.
10 minutes of the movie were screened, and it races into theaters on June 27th.
The major title to get a boost was this Seussian comedy, with Bill Hader taking the stage and showing his “audition reel” –– actually his ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit playing the Cat.
Hader claimed his daughter wanted Ryan Gosling to voice the cat instead of him!
But the actual screening was a work-in-progress trailer for the movie, which features the Things.
‘The Cat in the Hat’ will be in theaters on February 27th, 2026.
(L to R) James Gunn, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, and David Corenswet at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
A behind-the-scenes featurette on ‘Superman’ featured writer/director (and DC Studios co-chief) James Gunn making the movie and talking it up.
Gunn and Safran arrived on stage to fill the crowd in on their plans for this year and beyond, with Safran declaring 2025 “the summer of ‘Superman.’ ”
Stars David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult (AKA Suprman, Lois Lane and Lex Luthor) joined the DC bosses on stage to promote the movie, with Corenswet and Brosnahan telling the assembled crowd it was their first CinemaCon.
Gunn, meanwhile, said he was offered the chance to direct a Superman movie in 2018, but chose an “easier path” –– ‘The Suicide Squad.’ However, the concept stuck with him.
So, how will he adapt a well-used story for a modern audience?
“It just hit me. It has all the fantastic moments we haven’t seen before in this universe.”
James Gunn at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
Corenswet, for his part remembered his screen test with Nick, who stepped out of a shadows like something from a comic book page and it was terrifying. He also recalled his very long screen test with Rachel.
Hoult shared that seeing David flying onto the set made him feel he was witnessing the magic of cinema in first person and he had this little grin on his face. He turned around and everyone else did as well. But he still found time for some Luthorian posturing: “as an icon, it’s nice to finally play an icon.”
And despite the pressure, Corenswet revealed that it’s a great honor to play a role that so exists in the public consciousness that even if you’ve never read a comic, you know who these symbols and characters are.
Rachel Brosnahan at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
For Brosnahan, it was like theater:
“I feel these stories endure because there is someone for everyone. We get to stand on the shoulders of giants and find our way into their heads through a great script.”
A big element of this Supes is his faithful –– though not always obedient –– hound Krypto, which Gunn based on his own dog, Ozu.
The actors also discussed Gunn’s big vision for DC –– and how unique he is, loving every aspect of the process.
Gunn explained that the movie is about people and human connections.
(L to R) Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
And for a fun part of the presentation, the actors were asked which character they would play other than their own. Corenswet chose Batman, Rachel wanted to be Lex and Hoult, candidly,
“I’ve interviewed for Superman and Batman and I didn’t get either, so I think I was meant to play Lex!”
The team then introduced a sneaky new look at the movie, in a funny scene where Krypto rescues our hero. That was followed by First look at Fortress of Solitude, Superman’s robots and then an extended trailer with a few new shots including Lois interviewing Superman.
‘Superman’ heads faster than a speeding bullet to screens on July 11th.
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And with that, the Warner Bros. panel was wrapped. Seemed surprising not to have more from DC Studios, but perhaps next year?
(L to R) Nicholas Hoult, Peter Safran, Rachel Brosnahan, James Gunn, and David Corenswet at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
SAG-AFTRA members walk the line in Northhampton on 9/21. Photo courtesy of SAG.
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The latest talks between the striking actors’ union and the studio representatives have ended without much progress.
The actors are seeking a similar new deal to what the writers recently secured, albeit with their own extra points.
Studio representative body the AMPTP claims that the gap between the parties is “too great” right now.
Just when it looked like there was hope for an end to the actors’ strike following the resolution of the writers’ industrial action (the new contract for writers was officially ratified by 99% of the WGA membership on Monday), some cold water was thrown by news yesterday that performers’ union SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that represents studios were “too far apart” on talks for their own deal.
The actors have now been officially on strike since July 14th, essentially bringing Hollywood production in the States and elsewhere in the world to a standstill with the impact felt in shut down movies, delayed release dates and a shaken-up TV schedule, networks filling fall slots with reality shows and series that had already been in production.
And, as has been the case throughout the strike, the two sides are waging a war of words to present their side of negotiations.
SAG-AFTRA members Nia Vardalos and Octavia Spencer walk the line at Disney Studios in Burbank, CA on 9/20. Photo courtesy of SAG.
Here’s what SAG-AFTRA’s leadership told members in its latest release:
“We have negotiated with them in good faith, despite the fact that last week they presented an offer that was, shockingly, worth less than they proposed before the strike began. These companies refuse to protect performers from being replaced by AI, they refuse to increase your wages to keep up with inflation, and they refuse to share a tiny portion of the immense revenue YOUR work generates for them. The companies are using the same failed strategy they tried to inflict on the WGA –– putting out misleading information in an attempt to fool our members into abandoning our solidarity and putting pressure on our negotiators. But, just like the writers, our members are smarter than that and will not be fooled.”
The actors’ union has been pushing for various new deal points, including protection against the use of AI to replace some performers and an 11% increase in minimum payments (by comparison, both the Directors Guild and the writers secured 5).
AMPTP put out its own statement on the talks
WGA + SAG-AFTRA members walk the line at Paramount on Sept. 20. Photo courtesy of SAG-AFTRA.
The alliance offered its usual publicity blast to explain its side of the matter:
“SAG-AFTRA’s current offer included what it characterized as a viewership bonus that, by itself, would cost more than $800 million per year – which would create an untenable economic burden. SAG-AFTRA presented few, if any, moves on the numerous remaining open items. After meaningful conversations, it is clear that the gap between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA is too great, and conversations are no longer moving us in a productive direction.”
We would expect this back-and-forth to continue for some time, with little forward movement (and it feels like the studios are once more the main sticking point). So, if you were hoping that your favorite show or that movie you were anticipating would be back on the schedule soon, we’d say patience is a virtue.
