CinemaCon 2025 Live Blog: Day 4 – Disney Panel Updates

Pixar Shows Off Its Space Adventure, Elio

Telling a tale of intergalactic adventure and friendship, the new footage for Elio shows the title character’s first introduction to space:

The footage begins with him being abducted by aliens. When he gets up to the spaceship, a small floating bot scans Elio. It says it’s a liquid supercomputer and gives Elio a drink, compliments of the communi-verse — a community that combines the greatest minds from the universe. Apparently that drink is something everyone is having. Elio is their new “candidate.”

Elio is taken through their community and is introduced to a few new characters. Then he unlocks another computer that knows all of the answers to the universe, like, “What is the meaning of life? What lies beyond a black hole?” But Elio just wants to know who would win between a gorilla and another animal, which the computer sighs and answers “a gorilla.”

Later, Elio meets Glordon, his friend we see in the trailer. Most of the footage is what we’ve already seen, but with more focus on the friendship between Elio and Glordon, as well as their adventure in space.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps Reveals Brand New Footage

Looking ahead to Marvel’s other 2025 outing, Disney shared this tidbit from Fantastic Four:

The teaser begins with the host of The Ted Gilbert Show talking about the story of the Fantastic Four, with people saying, “Thank you, Fantastic Four.” We have a couple shots from the first teaser.

Then at a family dinner, Sue reveals she is pregnant.

“Are you the protectors of this world? Your planet is now marked for death,” an alien woman says to the Fantastic Four. Then all of the electronics, or at least the lights, in the world go out. A man asks Mister Fantastic, “Are we safe?” He responds, “I don’t know.” We see him try and fail to solve some kind of problem.

After a couple of action shots, it wraps up with Mister Fantastic saying, “We will protect you.” The final shot is of the Silver Surfer, a female version it seemed like.

Marvel’s Thunderbolts* Disrupts CinemaCon

With just about a month to go before its release, Marvel’s Thunderbolts* brings viewers a bit deeper into what’s in store for this anti-hero crew:

It begins with a shot of a city. Red Guardian and Bucky are riding in the front seat of a truck, bonding over the fact that they were messed up by the Soviet Union. In the back, Yelena, Walker, and Ghost are discussing their bodysuits, helmets, etc. Yelena is making fun of Walker for his “hat.” Red Guardian is asking Bucky what the plan is. “The plan?” He asks. Then we see their truck drive right into a building. They all get out and start fighting about a dozen armed guards. Ghost uses her phasing powers that we saw in Ant-Man. Fontaine speaks on a loud speaker and says, “Guys, I left the door unlocked for you. Come up.” They didn’t know they weren’t supposed to fight everyone. Then we see them in the elevator (the shot that’s been in the marketing material).

Fontaine insults Bucky. Apparently he only lasted half a term as congressman. “Junior Varsity Captain America,” Fontaine says of US Agent. Then she calls Red Guardian an “old Santa.” We get a very brief shot of Sentry, and everyone fighting. Later they are all captured together, then we see Yelena jump off a building (Florence Pugh said it was the second tallest building in the world). There’s a lot of action, including Bucky using his arm to block a car that is barreling towards them.

The Roses Reveals Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Colman’s Dark Comedy

The Searchlight Pictures film, starring Cumberbatch and Colman as a couple whose marriage begins to implode, revealed its first trailer:

Cumberbatch and Colman hug and kiss each other while overlooking the ocean. We see them in a loving relationship, but then things start to unravel. It turns out Cumberbatch’s character has lost his job and he didn’t tell Colman. They start to bicker and Cumberbatch says, “Sometimes I do hate you.” Colman lobs some insults at him during a dinner party with their friends. Then they start to really mess with each other, like throwing food at the same dinner party, tossing things into the tub while the other one is bathing, and even one scene of Colman pointing a gun at Cumberbatch. At the end, their therapist says that they don’t have the capacity to actually fix their relationship.

First Ella McCay Trailer Arrives

Per Mansoor, the trailer plays out like this:

McCay (Mackey) meets Woody Harrelson and Jamie Lee Curtis in a bar. She says she doesn’t want to bring up old issues. Harrelson is her dad, and apparently he dated one of McCay’s friends. He wants to apologize and make amends with his children, because he’s now met the “most incredible woman.” Later, we see McCay at her wedding and her husband jokes that he has a bastardized son. At her job, something happens to the governor, and now she’s become the new governor of her home state. We see McCay, her family, and her friends go through life troubles, work troubles, and occasionally have hilarious moments together. There’s a lot of scenes with McCay and Curtis’ character. At the end of the trailer, McCay drinks something and offers it to someone else in the room, who tells her that it was laced with weed. She freaks out and the trailer ends.

Deliver Me From Nowhere Reveals Bruce Springsteen Biopic

In the first trailer for the movie, White steps into the role of Springsteen, and a familiar song is heard:

Bruce is trying to purchase a car and the salesman says, “I know who you are.” He responds, “That makes one of us.” We then see Bruce do mic checks, singing, and trying to find his voice, who he is. Throughout the teaser we see snippets of his childhood, with a voice over talking about his tough past. That he’s a repairman who’s trying to repair a hole himself. “Once he’s done that, he’s going to repair the entire world.” There are a few black and white shots, and then a concert sequence with Bruce singing Born To Run.

Predator: Badlands Makes Its CinemaCon Debut

The first look at the new Predator movie appears to offer a very different kind of movie than Prey:

“I didn’t think you survived,” says Fanning’s character. We see a few dozen people hunting the Predator in one shot. The predator is hunting something that can’t be killed. We see it use a speeder type bike, a sword that looks like it heats up at the end. It’s more otherworldly than Prey was.

First Tron: Ares Footage Debuts

The brief teaser hints at both Leto and Bridges’ roles:

Teaser begins with an overhead shot of a city, with police in pursuit of two red light cycles on the freeway. They open the light and it cuts right through a police cruiser. “I’m looking for something, something I do not understand.” One of the ships from in the previous film is flying over the city (also all in red). A jet tries to take it down, but the light planes intercept and take them down. “Ready? Because there’s no going back,” says Flynn.

Freakier Friday Brings Laughs And Nostalgia

Lohan and Curtis presented a new look at Freakier Friday, which went down like this:

It begins with Curtis and Lohan talking about having her mother flirting with a guy who happens to be Chad Michael Murray. Lohan (as her mother) is wearing a giant red dress and tries to flirt with Murray, but does it very, very awkwardly. Curtis (as her daughter) tries to help Lohan by talking to her via AirPods.

Later in the same sequence, Murray approaches Curtis and asks a tough question: “Is your husband still with us?” Presumably he is into her instead. We see Curtis and Lohan in all kinds of normal situations, like playing tennis, driving, etc. The teaser is played to “Hot To Go” by Chappell Roan.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Closes Out Paramount’s Panel

In the last bit of excitement, Paramount screened this Mission: Impossible footage:

Teaser opens with Hunt on the side of a small-engine plane. We see snippets from previous films – the CIA vault break-in, the Kremlin bombing, and the beginning from the last movie where he gassed the intelligence briefing. Hunt gets arrested by the military and is being used to presumably fight Gabriel.

“Your team has betrayed you. All of your secrets, compromised,” says Gabriel. “Everything you are. Everything you’ve done has come to this,” says Kittridge. Hunt and his team are given an aircraft carrier for his mission. Several of the stunts show him on the side of a plane, jumping into the ocean, underwater, etc. “I need you to trust me one last time.”

Channing Tatum Brings Roofman Footage To CinemaCon

The first footage for Roofman, which tells the incredible true story of a thief who robbed several McDonald’s by sneaking in via the roof and hit in a Toys “R” Us, played out:

The teaser begins by showing the outside of a McDonald’s, with Tatum’s Manchester entering through the roof and breaking into one of the locations. He tells the people working there to get into the freezer, but one of them says he’ll be cold.

We see Jeffrey Manchester at his daughter’s birthday party, feeling like a disappointment. The cops arrive and try to arrest him, but he runs away and is tackled. We next see him in prison for a bit.

We see him going into a Toys “R” Us and trying to hide from everyone. His friend tells him that he needs to lay low for several months. He spends his time roaming the halls, playing with toys, skateboarding through the store, all kinds of things. There’s still a lot of action: cars blowing up, robberies, cops chasing him, etc.

The trailer ends with the same people from the first McDonald’s being interviewed by the news, with that one guy who said he would be cold telling the news that Manchester gave him his jacket, that he was sweet.

The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants Swims Into CinemaCon

It sounds like SpongeBob’s going on his biggest adventure yet, with the trailer teasing a trip to the underworld:

“Once upon a time, long, long ago,” says the captain played by Clancy Brown. “…The only way to lift the curse is to find the world’s most innocent soul,” which is apparently SpongeBob. He awakes up and measures his height. “Today’s the day,” he says, thinking his world is going to change because today he’s a big guy. SpongeBob meets up with Patrick and they celebrate SpongeBob being bigger, taller. Of course, not everyone is convinced he’s a big guy. He thinks he needs to go on a swashbuckling adventure like Mr. Krab to be a true big guy. That’s when they come face-to-face with the Flying Dutchman. “I’m here to offer you an opportunity to prove your worth in the underworld,” says the Flying Dutchman. SpongeBob and Patrick, with Squidward for a few brief moments, go on this journey that takes them space, land, and water.

This Summer’s Smurfs Gets A New Look

Mansoor tells us the Smurfs teaser went like this:

Papa Smurf is DJ’ing a concert with the other Smurfs. Smurfette is dancing. Everyone then looks up where a ship is hovering over their homes. Papa Smurf is abducted by the people in the ship. The other Smurfs, led by Smurfette, try to rescue Papa Smurf, landing them in our world, particularly Paris. They then meet Papa Smurfs brother. “It’s time to show you what a Smurf can do,” says Papa Smurf’s brother. “Never underestimate a Smurf,” says Smurfette. They then confront the evil wizards who took Papa Smurf, dancing with “old moves.” Then Papa Smurf’s brother says, “You don’t see that at CinemaCon.”

The First Footage Of Edgar Wright’s The Running Man

The first look at the latest Stephen King adaptation plays out like this:

Teaser begins with Glen Powell’s character Richards in an alleyway. Josh Brolin recruits him to join The Running Man game show to help save his family, who are struggling. Brolin believes Richards can win. Domingo’s host then provides a voice-over, “The thrill of the hunt sharpens your sensors.” We see Richards and other contestants train in the gym, being shocked by an electro-stick, etc.

“This is America goddamnit, and we don’t put up with no bullsh*t,” Domingo’s host shouts to the camera, with an audience behind him. We see several action shots after that.

“Stop filming me!” Richards yells into the camera after he manages to escape one of the people chasing him. One scene shows the pilot of a plane starting shooting in the cockpit, then it cuts to Richards running through an apartment building, sliding into an elevator. The person chasing him kicks a grenade into the elevator, but Richards manages to survive it.

“I’m still here, you sh*t eaters,” Richards says, again into a camera. We then see another contestant luring a swat-type team into a trap. He uses a water gun to shoot the ground and electrocute the team.