CinemaCon 2025 live – John Wick prequel, new Hunger Games, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, plus Superman still to come

Warner Bros’ event isn’t until 4:30pm PT (7:30pm ET, 00:30am GMT), so there’s a big pause until the next big flow of news – but we might get some tidbits in between.

Bigwigs from Neon and Universal will be on a panel later, for example. and might drop something juicy. Joseph Kosinksi, director of Top Gun: Maverick and (more pertinently) the upcoming F1 movie, is also on that panel.

The event is wrapping up, with the finale being a first look at Hurry Up Tomorrow, a stylish new thriller starring Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan and The Weeknd.

The Weeknd is then playing a set to round out the show, and it seems like that’s everything Lionsgate has for us.

Paul Feig – director of A Simple Favor and one of my all-time favorite comedies, Spy – has a new movie starring Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney called The Housemaid.

It’s a book adaptation that bills itself as “An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist” in which a housemaid with a dark secret starts living with a family with a twisted matriarch, and the two clash in ways that Seyfried described as “bananas”.

A first-look trailer was shown on-stage, though was light on plot.

Incidentally, the Michael Jackson biopic, Michael was mentioned as still coming, but with no real information – it seems like it’s had a lot of problems in production, so we’ll have to wait to hear more.

Ah, we have the lightest of teasers for Sunrise on the Reaping. Enjoy some mood-setting molten liquid and snake skin.

Finally. FINALLY. The sequel to magician… heist… thriller(??) Now You See Me should always, very obviously, have been called ‘Now You Don’t’. But it was called Now You See Me 2.

Well, the surprise-hit series’ third instalment was just announced as Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, so I can die happy. Or, at least, temporarily sated that this particular missed opportunity is no longer missed.

A trailer was shown that reveals the return of key cast, plus newcomer Dominic Sessa, breakout star of The Holdovers. He has kind of a Jesse Eisenberg energy in that movie, so we’ll see how it translates here.

A couple of quick ones: Luca Guadagnino, maker of 2024’s best movie (don’t @ me) Challengers popped in to confirm what we already knew: he’s making a new adaption of American Psycho.

There was also a trailer for Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, Good Fortune, which stars (him again) Keanu Reeves as an angel who body swaps Ansari with his boss, Seth Rogen, to try to teach a lesson about money not buying happiness. It does not go as planned.

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Leaving Lionsgate for a moment, it certainly sounds like there’ll be plenty of Superman info around this week, with James Gunn promising an extended preview.

People keep asking if he’s back. And we didn’t really have an answer. But yeah, I’m thinking he’s back.

That John Wick animated movie has been announced, with Keanu Reeves and Wick regular director Chad Stahelski both involved. But that’s all the information we really have for now.

Ah, no need for Francis Lawrence to come back – he’s moving straight onto the announcement that The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has been in pre-production for a while already, and is on something of a fast-track to movie reality – it’s coming on September 20th, 2026.

It’s an adaptation of the latest Hunger Games prequel book, which follows Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson in the originals) as a 16-year-old who – and I don’t want to alarm you – has a very bad time in the Hunger Games.

Director Francis Lawrence and all-round legend Mark Hamill are on-stage to discuss The Long Walk, which might sound like ’90s Oscar bait, but is a “brutal” (according to Hamill) Stephen King adaptation about people who must keep walking because if they stop, they’re killed.

Francis Lawrence is also the director of the Hunger Games movies, which is a big Lionsgate franchise, so will he be back for today as we predicted earlier?

That may not be the only John Wick universe movie we hear about today – Indiewire says than animated prequel movie showing John Wick’s ‘impossible task’ mission that originally got him out of the murder business is coming – and it doesn’t appear to be an April Fool, even though it hasn’t been mentioned on stage.

Lionsgate’s event is now underway!

First up is, predictably, Ballerina – the John Wick spinoff starring Ana de Armas. Director Len Wiseman went on stage with de Armas to show off a new trailer that showcases extra footage of an intense kitchen fight scene that is glimpsed in the previous trailers, and has the innovative use of weapons that you’d hope for from a film in this series.

Ana de Armas is also describing the intense training and filming methods used in the movie to get everything looking physically right.

Tom Cruise is known as a champion not just of movies, but of the moviegoing experience. Cruise didn’t make an appearance at CinemaCon today, but a video message was played for attendees where he continued his push to save the theatrical experience for future generations:

“Seeing a movie on the big screens can change lives… the cultural impact of movie theaters can’t be matched… the story of cinema is an iconic one but it’s only just begun.”

Of course, we also want to hear more details about the forthcoming Mission Impossible –the Final Reckoning, which is scheduled for a May 2025 release. Let’s hope news on that release drops before CinemaCon wraps!

Alas, I must already bid you all adieu – but, fear not, dear reader, for I leave you in the very capable hands of Jacob Krol and Al Griffin, who’ll guide you through the rest of the day’s events.

Until tomorrow when I’ll be writing up a whole host of DCU and/or Ballerina news stories, then, farewell!

Well, it sounds like people enjoyed what the saw of Together and The Life of Chuck‘s brand-new trailers!

Where the latter is concerned, it’s been helmed by Mike Flanagan and Stephen King – yes, the horror auteurs themselves! – but it isn’t a scary or gross film. In fact, based on the reactions I’ve already seen online, some attendees have likened it to It’s a Wonderful Life (one of my favorite films, FYI) in terms of its timeless and tear-jerking story. If I wasn’t already excited for its release this June, I certainly am now!

As for Together: well, it’s a romantic body horror movie that stars real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie. Judging by what attendees are saying on social media, it drew visceral reactions from the assembled crowd, who erupted into applause once the trailer had ended. I’m sure our resident horror expert Lucy Buglass will be seated for this on day one!

Alright, so Lionsgate’s presentation is beginning shortly.

Before it does, though, a ‘State of the Industry’ panel is taking place. Indie studio Neon has kicked things off with a sizzle reel of its notable hits over the past 12 months, including the multi-award-winning Anora, as well as acclaimed horror films The Monkey and Longlegs, both of which were helmed by rising filmmaker Osgood Perkins.

Neon also showed some footage for two movies on its forthcoming slate, including Together and the Tom Hiddleston-starring The Life of Chuck. The latter is a film I’m really keen to see, so I’m hoping that a proper teaser is released soon-ish!

In the more immediate future, there are plenty of other exciting new films on the Warner Bros docket.

From the return of beloved horror movie series Final Destination in the form of Final Destination: Bloodlines (May 16) and the Brad Pitt-starring F1 Movie (June 27), to Leonardo DiCaprio’s next film One Battle After Another (September 26) and Mortal Kombat 2 (October 24), there’s a slew of great looking movies to keep tabs on.

Will Warner show us any new footage from any or all of the above? Hopefully! Don’t be surprised if it showcases some movies set to arrive in April, too, including Michael B Jordan and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Ben Affleck’s The Accountant 2.

Amelia just messaged me to say “And now my watch has ended”, which is my cue – hi, hello, I’m Tom Power, TechRadar’s senior entertainment reporter – to take over.

Anyway! As we mentioned earlier, Warner Bros. Pictures’ presentation is coming later today – that’s 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET, to be exact. With numerous DC Universe (DCU) in post-production and/or currently being filmed, we could get a substantial update on some of the most exciting DCU Chapter One movies and TV shows around.

So, what could be revealed at CinemaCon 2025? I’m hoping for a new teaser for James Gunn’s Superman movie. Failing that, I’d take a first look at Milly Alcock’s Supergirl in her full superhero costume for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow or an update on Lanterns, which began filming last month. With so many rumors about the latter’s cast circulating online, an official update to its roster wouldn’t go amiss, please and thank you.

After seeing Colin Farrell’s incredible transformation into the ruthless Oz Cobb for the HBO Original series The Penguin last year, I can’t wait to see what his next role will be.

The Irish actor is taking on a very different type of character for his next film, and it sounds like it will pull on the heart strings. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is an upcoming romantic drama that will see Farrell star alongside Margot Robbie as two strangers on a whimsical journey through their memories.

If this is anything like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, then I’ll be making sure to have tissues at the ready when it releases in theaters in the US on September 19, 2025.

Amelia here to bring your attention to Darren Aaronsky’s new film, Caught Stealing. The Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz-starring flick had a trailer shown during the Sony presentation yesterday that sounds like it was a home run.

The movie is inspired by Charlie Huston’s, who also wrote the script, series of books of the same name and will see Austin play a former baseball player who gets into trouble with the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York.

The other announced-but-sort-of-unknown movie hanging over Warners’ head is Dune Messiah. Originally, director Denis Villeneuve said he wanted a break before tackling the (likely) finale to the story, but seems to have changed his mind and is working straight on it.

So does that mean a 2026 or 2027 release date? Probably! If pre-production is in full swing, I would expect a big update on the galactic atrocities to come.

Warner Bros Discovery is also holding its event today, and I suspect a big announcement will be a name and rough release plan for the sequel to The Batman.

The sequel was originally announced at CinemaCon 2022, believe it or not, and filming still hasn’t started yet. Supposedly, the hope has been to film at the end of 2025 for a 2027 release, but reports said that the script wasn’t finalized as of the start of 2025, so who knows.

Well, maybe all will be revealed soon.

John Wick isn’t Lionsgate’s only money-making crown jewel, though. There’s a new Hunger Games book out in 2025, called Sunrise on the Reaping, and it’s another prequel telling the story of a character from the original set of books.

After the success of A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I have to assume that no time will be wasted getting Sunrise into motion – I doubt we’ll hear much, but perhaps director Francis Lawrence will return to announce he’s starting work.

A star announcement would be fun – the book follows young Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson in the original movie run, so who’s a good young Woody? I would have said Paul Mescal, but it’s set when Haymitch is just 16, and I’m not sure he can pull off quite that much of a youthful turn. It’ll probably be one of the Stranger Things kids – maybe we’ll find out later today.

What can we expect from Lionsgate’s presentation later today? The company has a handful of relevant and hugely successful movie series, and chief among them is the ‘world of John Wick’.

I use that that phrase advisedly, because Ballerina – which is officially called From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, somewhat desperately – is coming on June 7th, so we’re sure to get a big new trailer and an appearance from its star, Ana de Armas.

But I’d put my money on a surprise last-minute Keanu appearance too, and the reveal of John Wick: Chapter 5 in a slightly more formal manner than an executive in an interview going “we’re working on a fifth John Wick film” more or less unprompted.

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Matt here again! The next Avengers movie may not be until next year, but we’ve got an even more impactful cross-movie fighting team-up coming: Karate Kid Legends.

Starring original Karate Kid Ralph Macchio, newer sensei Jackie Chan, and full newcomer Ben Wang as our latest titular Kid, it’s going to mix elements from every era of Karate Kid, taking place three years after the end of Cobra Kai.

A fresh trailer was shown, and Sony promised that it would be available to watch online today, April 1st (it promised this on March 31st, so it’s probably no fool). You can watch the original trailer above, and the movie is rapidly approaching its May 30th release date.

On the anime front, Sony has three new releases coming up. The first is the sequel to the Chainsaw Man anime series. Titled Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc, the movie will open in cinemas in the US on October 29, 2025.

There’s also the upcoming international release of the final Demon Slayer movies, alongside the US release of Scarlet, which Sony acquired the rights for from critically-acclaimed director director Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time; Wolf Children).

Moving onto animation, the director of Sony’s upcoming animated sports comedy GOAT, Tyree Dillihay, was on stage last night talking about the new film. There’s not a lot out there about this at the moment but we do know that cinema goers will get to buy tickets for February 13, 2026 – the same time as NBA’s All-Star weekend in Los Angeles.

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Sticking with all the new horror movies coming soon to theaters, there’s also the new Until Dawn video game adaptation that’s arriving on April 25, 2025. Even though the movie adaptation won’t follow the same story, this one has a lot of people excited.

Next up on the docket is the sixth installment in the horror movie franchise Insidious, which Variety previously reported that co-producers Blumhouse Productions and Screen Gems were set to release the film on August 29, 2025. However, that has since been pushed back until August 21, 2026.

Last but certainly not least is the reboot of the 1990s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer. Sony unveiled some first look images of the sequel that reportedly prompted cheers at CinemaCon when the movie’s original cast Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr flashed up on screen. We’ll be able to see for ourselves when it releases in cinemas on July 18, 2025.

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My personal favorite bit of news from Sony’s lineup has to be that a new trailer for 28 Years Later was shown off.

The video has not yet been published online, but you can watch the first trailer for 28 Years Later above to get an idea of what Danny Boyle and Alex Garland have been working on for the third chapter of this zombie trilogy.

Taking to the stage, Boyle revealed that “Alex Garland and I set out to make three films in this world. Each one stands alone, but they’re all linked together”. The first of these films is 28 Years Later, which is already finished, and the second is wrapping up production.

Nia DaCosta, who wrote the script for the Candyman reboot, is the director for the second film, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The second installment is also set to star British actor Ralph Fiennes, but DaCosta says that while audiences have seen him many roles, we’ve “never seen him like this”.

Amelia tapping back in here to bring you the latest on the new live-action Zelda movie!

There’s no way Sony could make a presentation about its upcoming movies without mentioning its latest project with Nintendo to adapt the Zelda video game franchise. Unfortunately, however, attendees at the event reported that there wasn’t much in the way of news.

It sounds like Nintendo took the wind out of Sony’s sails because the video game publisher had already confirmed that the live-action Zelda movie got a release date of March 26, 2027 during Nintendo Direct.

Plot details and casting are being kept firmly under wraps for the moment, so make sure not to fall for any of those rumors lurking around online this April’s Fools Day!

One of the buzziest news tidbits out of CinemaCon so far is the reveal that the fourth Tom Holland/MCU Spider-Man movie will be called ‘Brand New Day’, and will be released on July 31st 2026 (one week after Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, making it a great seven days for Tom Holland fans).

Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks from the ‘home’ naming convention of the first three movies, probably indicating a new approach to match its new director, Destin Daniel Cretton, who held Shang-Chi for Marvel previously.

Comic fans will instantly recognize the name ‘Brand New Day’, however, and probably won’t have very good feelings about it – but we don’t think the story will have anything major to do with the comic’s story other than a name that evokes a fresh start.

Read more: Spider-Man 4’s official title has been revealed – and it has ties to a controversial time in the Marvel hero’s 80-year-plus comic book history

We also got news that the Spider-Verse conclusion, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, is coming on June 4th, 2027 – or, at least that’s the plan. The movie has already had plenty of trouble hitting its dates, and was originally planned for a 2024 release.

Some of the creative team went on-stage during CinemaCon and presented a teaser with apparently great-looking new animation, but with audio taken from the previous movies.

If – like TechRadar’s Senior Entertainment Reporter, Tom Power – you can’t believe you have to wait so long to find out how Miles Morales’ story ends, then the good news is that some first look images were posted on social media for fans to enjoy (see below).

Read more: Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse finally has a release date, and I can’t believe I have to wait so long to find out how Miles Morales’ story ends

Perhaps the most interesting news of the show came about Sam Mendes’ upcoming suite of movies about The Beatles. For a start, we got a big casting announcement of huge names playing the fab four:

• George Harrison: Joseph Quinn (Fantastic Four, A Quiet Place: Day One)
• John Lennon: Harris Dickinson (Babygirl, Triangle of Sadness)
• Paul McCartney: Paul Mescal (Gladiator II, Aftersun)
• Ringo Starr: Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, The Banshees of Inisherin)

In case you’re not aware, the plan is to make four movies, each centering on a different member of the group. And the really juicy part is that all four movies are slated to come out during April 2028.

I have to say, I’m struggling with this one. That’s quite a cast, and Mendes has made some great stuff, but I feel like people are going to be pretty burnt out by the time they come to Ringo’s movie (and you know it’s going to be poor Ringo last).

Matt Bolton, Managing Editor for Entertainment, stepping in here to say that while we only got a very brief appearance from filmmaker Zach Cregger about his upcoming Resident Evil movie, I’m excited about this one – despite knowing very little about it.

Cregger directed the wonderfully bonkers Barbarian, and has a new movie planned for release during 2025 called Weapons starring Josh Brolin and Julia Garner, among others.

He spent his time on stage talking about how much he loves the video game series, and I’m sure fans of the series are looking forward to seeing what version of that he chooses to tap into.

I gotta say, I’m equally fine if he takes it off into its own direction – I unashamedly love (most) of the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movie series, and that really benefited from finding its own vibe within the (ahem) umbrella of the franchise.

Don’t worry if you’re not at CinemaCon 2025, because we’re here to make sure you don’t miss out any of the biggest new movie announcements from the industry event.

The first big Hollywood studio presentation was from Sony Pictures, with CEO Tom Rothman kicking things off with a welcome speech. According to attendees that walked through the casino hotel doors of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas yesterday (March 31) evening, it sounds like it was a packed lineup of new movies with many directors taking the stage to promote their films.