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CinemaCon is back! The “largest and most important gathering for the worldwide motion picture theater industry” returns for 2025 and Hollywood’s biggest studios will share updates on their upcoming theatrical slate. Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Amazon MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, and Walt Disney Studios will reveal trailers, first looks, release dates, casting announcements, and more. Check back all week as we dig into the three biggest moments for each studio at CinemaCon 2025.
And if you want to experience CinemaCon on the big screen, you can actually get a sneak peek at all the trailers, never-before-seen footage, and behind-the-scenes content from the event at the Sneak Peek Showcase happening on April 22 and 24. Get your tickets here.
Director James Cameron is hard at work in post-production on the latest chapter in the Avatar saga, Fire and Ash, but that didn’t stop him from sending a video message to CinemaCon with star Zoe Saldana, showcasing some first glances at the upcoming film. The audience was treated to multiple scenes in 3D that illustrated how visually groundbreaking the whole franchise has been, but the biggest reveals were the scenes featuring two new tribes: the Ash people and the Wind traders. The former are the main antagonists of the film in addition to the invading humans, and the latter are a nomadic and peaceful tribe. Avatar: Fire and Ash releases on December 19, 2025.
Just a few days after we found out four hot, in-demand stars will be portraying rock icons The Beatles, we also caught our first glimpse of another hot, in-demand star portraying rock icon Bruce Springsteen. The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, who takes on the role of The Boss, and co-star Jeremy Strong were on hand to present Deliver Me from Nowhere, written and directed by Scott Cooper. The film tells the story of a pivotal moment in Springsteen’s life, culminating in the raw, personal 1982 album Nebraska, and White absolutely wowed the audience in the teaser, which ended with a brief but electric performance of “Born to Run.” Deliver Me from Nowhere is set to release in 2025, thought it hasn’t received a specific date yet.
Of course, no Disney panel at any convention would be complete without some juicy Marvel morsels, and CinemaCon was no different. The cast of the upcoming film Thunderbolts* took the stage and shared a new clip from the film, depicting the ragtag bunch as they crash Avengers Tower, now owned by Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina — that film opens on May 2, 2025. Then the audience received a special message from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige on the set of Avengers: Doomsday, who revealed that production would begin on that film in the coming days and introduced a special look at The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The footage gave us our first glimpse of Julia Garner as Silver Surfer, bringing the message that Galactus is on his way to destroy Earth. Can the Fantastic Four save their planet? We’ll find out when the film opens on July 25, 2025.
Director Edgar Wright and stars Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin all appeared on stage for Paramount’s presentation of The Running Man, a new adaptation of the Stephen King story that Wright said he loved as a kid, but felt had never been told in the way the book intended. Powell said that the film “doesn’t just have touches or flavors of things audiences love; this one is a full meal,” after which he proclaimed “I’ve never worked hard in my life.” The quartet presented the first trailer for the film, which featured Wright’s trademark sense of humor and the action ratcheted up to 10, ending with a fun scene where Michael Cera’s character helps Glen dispatch some enemies by shooting them with water while they’re standing on an electrified floor. The Running Man will open in theaters on November 7, 2025.
Channing Tatum came on stage to present some footage from his upcoming film Roofman, directed by Derek Cianfrance. Based on true events, the film stars Tatum as former Army Reserve Office Jeffrey Manchester, who made a name for himself by stealing from McDonald’s locations and hiding out in the walls of a Toys R Us store. The incredible supporting cast includes LaKeith Stanfield, Peter Dinklage, Juno Temple, and Kirsten Dunst as the woman Tatum’s character falls in love with at the Toys R Us. The film, which looked funny and full of heart, is currently in post-production and scheduled to be released on October 3, 2025.
Ethan Hunt himself took the stage to a huge response from the crowd, and before the presentation went any further, Tom Cruise asked the audience to join him in a moment of silence for his good friend Val Kilmer, who just passed earlier this week. “Think about all the wonderful times we had with him,” Cruise said. After that, Cruise praised the work of Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie and then introduced a new trailer for The Final Reckoning. Similar to what we’ve seen in the first couple of teasers, the new one hints at this film being a culmination of the entire franchise, but we also got new footage of the underwater submarine sequence, some of the new cast members, and of course, Tom Cruise hanging from the side of that yellow plane. You know, just doing Tom Cruise things. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opens in theaters on May 23, 2025.
