Tom Cruise for ‘Digger’ at CinemaCon 2026. Photo Credit: David Jon @davidjonphotography.
Preview:
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.
The upcoming ‘The Cat in the Hat‘ is a new introduction to a beloved character that expands on the things we already know about him. Voiced by the talented Bill Hader, this animated theatrical feature film is an all-new, epic adventure where mischief, magic, and mayhem reign supreme.
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat in the Hat’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Moviefone was in attendance at a virtual press conference celebrating the release of the first teaser trailer for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ featuring actor Bill Hader, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation President Bill Damaschke, and writers/directors Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja, to learn behind-the-scenes details of this new animated feature.
1) ‘The Cat in the Hat’ Is A Completely Original Take On The Character
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation President Bill Damaschke. Photo: Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation President Bill Damaschke explains how ‘The Cat in the Hat’ might feature a beloved character, but it is an original take on him, which is something we have not seen before.
Bill Damaschke: Animation’s always been a cornerstone of Warner Bros. but in this this next chapter called Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, we’re really doubling down on that commitment to original stories as well as really innovative takes on some of our beloved characters and worlds. And for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ to be our first film just seems like the perfect, perfect project because it’s actually all of those things at the same time. It’s a completely original take on a character that I think a lot of people have a connection to, but handled and brought to life by our filmmakers and by the very singular actor who plays the cat. It just comes out in a way that’s bigger, better, more amazing, and more whimsical than you could ever imagine.
2) Bill Hader Says This Is The First Book He Remembers Reading
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Bill Hader attend a press conference event for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ trailer launch. Photo: Warner Bros.
Bill Hader recalls that the first books he remembers reading by himself are Dr. Suess books, and that he then read them to his kids, so he was thrilled to be a part of this story.
Bill Hader: : Like everybody, I remember reading that book as a kid, and then reading it to my kids, and then, I’ve worked with these guys before on different projects, and I’ve known them forever, so the combination of these two and the chance to play such an iconic character? I was like, yes. The biggest thing was I’m a big reader and I think those were the first books I remember reading on my own. It’s a habit I had. I get in bed and read a book, and I started that with those books. I remember collecting them.
3) Bill Hader Might Be Great At Improv, But Improvising Didn’t Always Work With ‘The Cat in the Hat’
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat in the Hat’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Bill Hader is well known for his impressions and improvising skills, but when talking about ‘The Cat in the Hat’ he admits that this was not a movie where improvising worked in the booth.
Bill Hader: They wrote this incredibly funny script and so you didn’t have [to improvise]. Sometimes you do these things and you’re like, oh man I gotta really improvise a lot and try to make it work somehow but this was not like that. The script was lso insanely funny and then on top of that, they were like, yeah, try stuff. So there was some little improvs here and there. It was funny. I would improvise sometimes, and you could just see them go, let’s do another one. Let’s do one as written, because it would go too far off. It’s weird because they have it in their heads and I’m just reacting to the words and so you try a lot of things and but they’re very good at communicating what the scene is and here’s the emotion of it and here’s what we need to try to convey.
4) Expect More Things Than Just Thing 1 and Thing 2
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Bill Hader attend a press conference event for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ trailer launch. Photo: Warner Bros.
Thing 1 and Thing 2 are such an integrel part of the story of ‘The Cat in the Hat’. The fillmmakers did not want to say too much about them, but did confirm they will play a role in the movie and there will be more than you might expect.
Erica Rivinoja: Well, they are not well-behaved, I will say. They are consistent with the Things that you meet in the book. And as you saw in the trailer, we have Thing 1, but we also have Thing 3, and many, many more. There’s many, many that come up. The Cat in the Hat is chaos, and the Things are extra chaos on top of that. And they’re so cute, too. So you get all that chaos from them, but you’re still like, oh, you’re cute.
5) The New Characters All Have A Dr. Suess Asthetic
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Bill Hader attend a press conference event for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ trailer launch. Photo: Warner Bros.
‘The Cat in the Hat’ expands on the world that we all know and love, but these new characters will feel as if they perfectly fit into that world, complete with a Dr. Suess asthetic.
Erica Rivinoja: Our art team was really amazing about using Seuss’s aesthetic and his iconic shape language and character language to really help design those. So they feel, there’s so many new characters in this movie, but they all feel like Seuss.
Alessandro Carloni: Well, that’s the thing is that as we follow Cat at the end of the book and we discover that entertaining children and sad kids on a rainy day is his job, there’s a whole corporation. It was basically an institution to create this. And as we know, there’s Cat in a Hat, and we meet pig in a wig, yak with a pack, ox in a box, owl in a towel, goat in a coat. When you complain about the fact that, oh my god, Cat in a Hat makes such a mess, but you don’t want to get rat with a bat.
6) Even Though It Is Rare, The Voice Cast Recorded In The Studio Together A Few Times
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Bill Hader attend a press conference event for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ trailer launch. Photo: Warner Bros.
In animation, it is not very common for the voice actors to record in the booth together. For ‘The Cat in the Hat’ there were times that they were able to do this, which the filmmakers believe improved perfmances.
Alessandro Carloni: It’s a rare thing, because the thing about animation is that you don’t get to book your actors all at the same time. But we still insisted in wanting to make sure that this Bill and his character had something to play against. So Xochitl Gomez, which plays our Gabby, one of our stars, that she’s such a breath of ffresh air when she comes in the room. But when Xochitl came in, when Quinta Bronson came in, watching these masters bring the scene to life is so exciting.
7) Voicing A Character Is More Exhausting Than You Might Think, Says Bill Hader
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Bill Hader attend a press conference event for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ trailer launch. Photo: Warner Bros.
When talking about his exprience in the booth, Bill Hader says that he felt like he was in good hands with the directors, but there are still challenges when it comes to voicing animation.
Bill Hader: People think you roll out of bed and you get to go and voice a cartoon and animate a movie, and it’s really easy. It’s actually so exhausting afterwards, because you’re essentially just screaming for four hours. And then you’re saying the same lines over and over again, and they just start to lose meaning. They’ve watched me have a full-on existential crisis in the booth. And they’re like, all right, we’re all just going to leave. Just leave me in the booth. They turn the lights off, and I just sit there. No. But that’s the only thing is I just I have to very consciously pace myself because you do just get so tired just screaming.
8) Bill Hader Has Played The Cat in the Hat Before… On SNL
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Bill Hader attend a press conference event for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ trailer launch. Photo: Warner Bros.
‘The Cat in the Hat’ will not be the first time that Bill Hader has played this character. He actually portrayed him on ‘Saturday Night Live’. While he does love the book, and wanted to play him, that was not the reason behind the sketch.
Bill Hader: The ‘SNL’ thing was, they didn’t write that because I love ‘Cat in the Hat’. It was more, I think, the writers were going through an issue in their marriage and decided to use the Cat in the Hat as a way of indirectly commenting to their spouse at home, I think is what was happening.
9) ‘The Cat in the Hat’ Book Is Used As A Jumping Point
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat in the Hat’. Photo: Warner Bros.
The story told in ‘The Cat in the Hat’ is still tied to the book, however it is used as more of a starting point, explains Alessandro Carloni.
Alessandro Carloni: We used the book more of a jumping point for us in the sense that the book became a question for us, which is, is this cat really just out there to have a good time for himself and making a mess, or is there more to it? We look at the book and realize that at the end of the book, the kid seems to be a little more confident with himself. Could it be that the cat is actually the greatest child psychologist? So we basically used the book as our starting point, that’s how our movie starts, and then our movie becomes an expansion on that adventure. We decided to follow the cat at the end of the book to find out where does this guy go and discover, in fact, the truth about him.
10) Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja Embraced The Uniquness Of The Book To Create A Whimsical World
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Bill Hader attend a press conference event for ‘The Cat in the Hat’ trailer launch. Photo: Warner Bros.
Alessandro Carloni explains that in ‘The Cat in the Hat’ one of Dr. Suess’ characters enters the real world and interacts with children, something that is unique to this story. They used that to their advantage while creating this animated film.
Alessandro Carloni: The uniqueness about animation is that much like in live action, we have amazing performers creating the characters with us. But then it becomes about truly anything has to be created from scratch, which means that everything is open for us to imagine what could it look like, what could it imagine. In live action, you get a lot of stuff for free in a way. Like you shoot something, there’s a tree in the background, you get that tree for free because it’s there. You have to build a tree and shape each leaf and build everything in the world, which means that you can do anything you want, which also is daunting about what can you create. And then that’s why we end up creating movies like the one we have just created, which we’re so excited about, where we can actually get to explore fantastical, incredible worlds that we’ve never seen before. The uniqueness thing about this book, that Erica and I took advantage of is that it’s the only Seuss book where a Seussian, magical, whimsical character enters the real world to meet the children. And so we decided to try to embrace that and enhance that so that every time the cat enters from his world into the real world, and then we navigate into fantastical world, we created entirely different looks of picture, entirely different aesthetics, and entirely different animation styles. So our world in our movie is based on many, many different worlds and different aesthetics where we traverse through in our adventure.
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What is the plot of ‘Cat in the Hat’?
The Cat in the Hat (Bill Hader) attempts to cheer up a pair of siblings when they move into a new town.
(L to R) James Gunn, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros.
Preview:
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.
Her new film, ‘The Watchers‘ opens in theaters on June 7th and was written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan, the daughter of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan.
In honor of the new film, Moviefone is counting down the 20 best movies of Dakota Fanning’s career, including her latest.
A scene from 2018’s ‘Ocean’s 8.’ Photo: Warner Bros.
Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York’s annual Met Gala.
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens (Fanning) a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother’s past.
Wilbur (Dominic Scott Kay) the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte (Julia Roberts), a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf. But before she knows it, she’s thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
A newly married couple (Fanning and Theo James) are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
(L to R) Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning in director Steven Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds.’ Photo: Dreamworks/Paramount.
Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife (Miranda Otto) and her new husband drop off his teenage son (Justin Chatwin) and young daughter (Fanning) for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
After the birth of Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
Errol Flynn (Kevin Kline), the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland (Fanning). The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl’s fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother (Susan Sarandon) – which only fed Florence’s need to stay in the spotlight.
Set in postwar America, a man (Ewan McGregor) watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s (Fanning) new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy), the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray (Fanning), the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
When 28-year-old artist Mina (Fanning) finds shelter after getting stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers that are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad (Spencer Breslin) and Sally (Fanning), and their pet fish, are visited by the mischievous Cat in the Hat (Mike Myers). Fun soon turns to mayhem, and the siblings must figure out how to rid themselves of the maniacal Cat.
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant (Chris Evans) vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong’s underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie (Fanning), a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
David Callaway (Robert De Niro) tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife’s suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily (Fanning) on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ‘Charlie’, but it isn’t long before ‘Charlie’ develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter’s growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realization that ‘Charlie’ isn’t just a figment of Emily’s imagination.
Emma (Dakota Fanning) reports to Frank what is happening in Italy in Columbia Pictures ‘The Equalizer 3.’ Photo: Stefano Montesi.
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends’ protector by taking on the mafia.
Sam (Sean Penn), a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy (Fanning) on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam’s limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita (Michelle Pfeiffer) to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.
Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Fanning), two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways — the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon), the band becomes a huge success.
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski (Rafał Zawierucha).
(L to R) Dakota Fanning and Denzel Washington in director Tony Scott’s ‘Man on Fire.’
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy (Washington) reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl (Fanning) in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she’s kidnapped he’s consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Bill Hader on ‘Barry.’ Photograph by Merrick Morton/HBO.
Preview:
Bill Hader is leading the voices in a new ‘Cat in the Hat’ movie.
Quinta Brunson and Matt Berry are almost among the cast.
The movie is due in theaters in March 2026.
Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’ has something of a checkered history in movies. While the 1957 book has been successfully adapted in animated form for TV, the last time it was seen in theaters was the disastrous 2003 live-action version starring Mike Myers as the title character.
That is probably best forgotten, but Warner Bros. Animation and the Seuss Enterprises company are hoping to change the feline’s filmic reputation via a new animated movie, which has Bill Hader leading the cast as the Cat.
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What’s the story of ‘The Cat in the Hat’?
2003’s ‘The Cat in the Hat.’ Photo: Universal Pictures.
Seuss’ tome sees two kids who are left home alone by their mother who are surprised to have The Cat barge into their house. Far from screaming about Stranger Danger, they agree to his playful schemes, only for the family fish to put up a fight and order him to leave.
But The Cat still has plenty of fun, including unleashing two identical “Things” upon the house and chaos ensues –– but once ordered to leave, he returns with a machine to clean the place up.
Is this the first attempt at a new ‘The Cat in the Hat’ movie?
2003’s ‘The Cat in the Hat.’ Photo: Universal Pictures.
This is not the first time an animated movie based on the Cat’s chaos was considered. In 2012, following the financial success of ‘The Lorax’, Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment announced plans to produce a CGI adaptation. Rob Lieber was set to write the script, but it never came to fruition.
Warner Bros. picked up the rights to produce a ‘Cat’ animated adventure, and Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja are writing and directing the movie. Jeff Sneider at The InSneider first reported the news of Hader’s casting.
Here’s what Bill Damaschke, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation said about the new plan:
“We are overjoyed to partner with our friends at Dr. Seuss to take audiences of all ages on an adventure into the beloved world of ‘The Cat in the Hat.’ With this incredible voice cast led by Bill Hader as the fun-loving, agent of chaos himself and our filmmakers Alessandro and Erica at the helm, we look forward to sharing this Seussian cinematic spectacle with audiences everywhere in 2026.”
When will the new ‘The Cat in the Hat’ movie arrive in theaters?
The movie will be released on March 6th, 2026.
Mike Myer’s in 2003’s ‘The Cat in the Hat.’ Photo: Universal Pictures.
