There’s no such factor as Netflix and Chill at CinemaCon. The 2025 version of the film trade’s premiere commerce present and conference wrapped up on Thursday after per week the place the key film studios courted theatrical exhibitors with elaborate shows full of huge stars and big-screen films.

The occasion was additionally full of huge guarantees, as one studio government after one other emphasised the significance of film theaters at the same time as social media and streaming are preserving audiences at residence. The size of the theatrical-to-streaming window was one of many huge discussions on the bottom, together with methods to make moviegoing extra reasonably priced and the transformation of film theaters into locations that provide greater than simply films. Assume pickleball courts and foyer bars.

That stated, the flicks themselves are nonetheless the primary attraction at CinemaCon. Every of the seven main studio shows performed to packed homes of theater homeowners and cinema buffs wanting to catch sightings of Tom Cruise and Sydney Sweeney, and see trailers, posters, and pictures earlier than anybody else.

Because this is the Summer of Superman, ADWEEK graded every of the shows on a scale of 1-5 Superman symbols. How do you say “extra popcorn” in Kryptonian?


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Sony Pictures

Sony used its stage time to shine a highlight on the administrators behind its upcoming films, from veterans like Darren Aronofsky and Sam Mendes to such rising favorites as Nia DaCosta and Zach Cregger. However a couple of film stars did present up each within the room and just about, together with Spider-Man: Model New Day’s Tom Holland, Karate Child: Legends’ Ralph Macchio, and the quartet of actors enjoying the Fab 4 in a four-part Beatles biopic. Bringing out the large names behind these IP-driven initiatives was clearly designed to reassure exhibitors about a number of the studio’s larger inventive swings.

Greatest Trailer: Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing has huge Boondock Saints power, and never simply due to the late ‘90s setting. Anchored by Austin Butler and boasting a giant solid of ace scene-stealers—together with Liev Schreiber and Carol Kane—the Brooklyn heist film possesses a jittery power and zippy humor that we haven’t usually seen from the director behind intensely dramatic fare like Requiem for a Dream and The Whale.  

Worst Trailer: Talking of the ‘90s, Sony’s try to resurrect the I Know What You Did Final Summer season horror franchise feels trapped previously. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. contribute compulsory cameos, however neither appear all that thrilled to as soon as once more be stalked by a hook-handed Gorton’s fisherman reject.