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Of course the fans in Las Vegas lost their minds over the new "Avengers: Doomsday" trailer. But the biggest surprise that had people talking after Disney's presentation was a riveting sequence from 20th Century's "Whalefall"

A sampling of the decades-old franchises coming back to theaters in the next year whose stars made age jokes at CinemaCon: Fockers, Practical Magic, Jackass, Spaceballs, Toy Story, Ice Age

Since "Avengers: Doomsday" won't be playing in Imax, which is giving all its screens on Dec. 18 to "Dune: Part III," Disney is trying to market all the PLF screens as "Infinity Vision." Interesting to see if theaters decide to use this branding for their many different PLFs

Has the Era of the Mega-Layoff Arrived? From Snap to Block to Amazon, a new template for “right sizing” the workforce is spreading through C-suites, and other companies are taking note.

“Most companies, if not all, could cut 30% to 50% of their workforce at any time and see no material difference in performance" (!!!) www.wsj.com/business/has...

Paramount movie chief says the studio has "the next chapter of 'Top Gun: Maverick' now officially in development with a script underway"

Also Ellison: "Every film will receive a full theatrical release with a minimum 45 day window starting today... Additionally, we will go to SVOD in 90 days." (Meaning 45 days of VOD and digital sales before going to Paramount+, an additional delay that's important to theaters)

David Ellison at CinemaCon to a room full of theater operators: "I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word: once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios."

Of course, it also portrayed the lot as being very busy, even though Paramount (like most studios) hardly shoots any movies in Los Angeles

Paramount opens its CinemaCon presentation with an expensive and impressive video directed by Jon Chu, featuring Chalemet, Will Smith, ant lots more stars, ending with Tom Cruise sitting on top of the studio's water tower

"Spaceballs" sequel's official title: "Spaceballs: The New One"

"Spaceballs: The Cinemacon Presentation"

The Trojan horse scene from "The Odyssey" and the opening battle sequence from "Dune: Part 3" vying for the most memorable footage shown at CinemaCon so far

Universal's marks the third major studio CinemaCon presentation in a row featuring Jack Black (Sony for Jumanji 3, Warner Bros. for Minecraft 2, and now Super Mario Galaxy)

And the winner for the weirdest new movie theater food option:

Every year at CinemaCon I search the hallways for the weirdest poster for a movie I've never heard of. This year's winner:

Warner Bros. just dated a bunch of movies at Cinema Con:

Jason Momoa says he had "15 days? 18 days?" of shooting as Lobo in "Supergirl," which is not a lot on a big movie.

Warner Bros. shows a montage of its movies being released in 2027 at CinemaCon, including a little footage and some filmmakers/stars talking. "Man of Tomorrow," "Minecraft 2," etc. But... absolutely no mention of "The Batman Part II"

The film is called "Ti Amo!" (yes, with an !)

Warner Bros. announces at Cinema Con its new indie division is called "Warner Bros. Clockwork" and its first release will be Sean Baker's next movie, in 2027

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Cinema United head Michael O'Leary on why his movie theaters trade group opposes the Paramount-Warner deal: Further concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of
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Josh D'Amaro sent an email today to Disney employees (aka cast members) announcing the layoffs that @JBFlint and I reported on last week. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Based on the tiny bit I just saw, Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Reckoning" is going to be really, really, really something

"Beyond the Spider-Verse" preview in 4:3 aspect ratio wowed the theater at Sony's Cinema Con presentation

Sony announces at CinemaCon it's making an R-rated animated movie based on the video game Bloodborne

Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman at CinemaCon calls on exhibitors to enforce longer windows, cut down the ad-packed pre-shows, and reduce ticket prices.

News alert from CinemaCon for my fellow journalists: Danny Boyle presents the first footage for his new movie "Ink" starring Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London in 1969 running tabloid The Sun. Jack O'Connell as his editor.

"Hoppers" is well ahead of Pixar flops "Elio" and "Lightyear." But "Elemental" is the Platonic mid Pixar film, commercially speaking.