By George & Josh Bate
Superman soared as Warner Bros. showcased their slate of upcoming films during their CinemaCon presentation this year. Billed “The Big Picture,” Warner Bros. previewed a variety of films ranging from auteur-driven pieces to big-budget blockbusters to everything in between.
Below you’ll find a comprehensive overview of Warner Bros.’ presentation at CinemaCon 2025….
Warner Bros. began their presentation with a reel of their upcoming releases. Splicing together footage from many of their upcoming releases highlighted the diversity in what Warner Bros. has in store. Some of the films showcased in this initial view included Sinners, F1, Superman, A Minecraft Movie, Wuthering Heights, and Weapons.
A Minecraft Movie
The first Warner Bros. movie that was discussed is a film that hits theaters this week – A Minecraft Movie. Warner Bros. hierarchy praised the unique humor of director Jared Hess, known for his work on Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.
Read our review for A Minecraft Movie here and see why we found it to be the biggest cinematic surprise of 2025 so far.
A Minecraft Movie is now in theaters.
Sinners
After A Minecraft Movie, Warner Bros. has Sinners, a vampire horror film from Ryan Coogler, hitting theaters April 18.
Ryan Coogler was not in attendance at CinemaCon, but he did film a video that was presented to the crowd. In the video, Coogler described Sinners as his “most personal film to date.” He elaborated, “It’s my personal love letter to cinema and the moviegoing experience.”
Coogler spoke of the incorporation of blues music into Sinners as a key element, something that promotional material so far has not overtly addressed.
Sinners hits theaters on April 18, 2025.
One Battle After Another
From one renowned director to another, Ryan Coogler then passed the torch to Paul Thomas Anderson. Although Anderson was not in attendance, his upcoming film One Battle After Another certainly left an impact at CinemaCon.
In Anderson’s absence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor were all in attendance to speak of their work on One Battle After Another.
“I’ve been wanting to work with Paul [Thomas Anderson] for almost 20 years now,” DiCaprio said. “I think with this film he’s tapped into something politically and culturally brimming beneath our psyche….It is an incredibly epic movie with scope and scale.”
Regina Hall also spoke glowingly of the film, saying that it “has a lot of everything. It’s funny, humorous, and also heartfelt.”
Teyana Taylor then spoke of her character in One Battle After Another, who she described as an unpleasant and controversial figure. Taylor described that her character plays an integral role in kicking off the plot of Anderson’s next film.
Although a first trailer of the film recently debuted to the public, Warner Bros. offered the CinemaCon crowd an exclusive preview of the film in the form of a full scene and a new trailer.
The scene takes place in a grimy apartment with Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro present. A distressed DiCaprio, whose character’s name is Bob Ferguson, is sitting on a chair when he makes a phone call to an individual named Comrade Josh. Bob is seemingly a revolutionary who has difficulty recalling a date that serves as the key to speaking to higher ups in Comrade Josh’s organization. Bob’s daughter has seemingly been kidnapped and he needs to speak to fellow revolutionaries to secure her safety. Bob explains that he is an alcoholic and drug “lover” and that his misuse of substances have hindered his cognitive functioning. As the conversation goes on and Comrade Josh refuses to pass Bob on without him saying the correct date, Bob gets increasingly frustrated. DiCaprio certainly gives off Rick Dalton vibes in the scene, portraying Bob with a certain dopiness, intoxication, and anger.
As the scene concluded, a new trailer for One Battle After Another screened to the crowd. The trailer keeps much of the film’s plot under wraps, although there is certainly a lot going on. Sean Penn sporting an odd blonde haircut and a military uniform is taken hostage. Regina Hall grills DiCaprio’s character. A pregnant woman shoots an automatic weapon. And there’s a few explosions thrown in there too.
One Day After Another hits theaters on September 26, 2025.
The Bride!
Next up for Warner Bros. was The Bride! Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein is her follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lost Daughter, which released on Netflix four years ago.
“After The Lost Daughter, I was looking for something pop and big,” Gyllenhaal explained. “And I wanted it to be something radical and big.”
Gyllenhaal recounted that she saw a man with a Bride of Frankenstein tattoo at a party, which inspired her to revisit the horror classic and eventually decide her to put her own spin on it.
Jessie Buckley plays the titular bride and described reading the script as “like being plugged into an electrical current,” an apt description given how the Bride of Frankenstein comes to be in the original film.
Gyllenhaal and Buckley both noted that the bride speaks very little in the original film, but that this is not the case in their version. “In the original version, [the Bride of Frankenstein] doesn’t say anything, but she has a lot to say in this one,” Buckley detailed.
Buckley compared The Bride! to a punk love story in the vein of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie & Clyde and David Lynch’s Wild At Heart.
Buckley’s comment certainly rang true as a trailer for The Bride! screened exclusively to the CinemaCon crowd. The footage shows a violent death for Buckley’s character as she is thrown down stairs and breaks her neck and leg. Buckley’s character is then resurrected by Christian Bale, who is a cross between a tattooed punk and Boris Karloff’s monster. Bale’s character is seen mercilessly beating a man to death in an alley, while Buckley questions what she was like prior to dying. The trailer had a real punk feel to it, which contrasts the 1930s Chicago setting. The trailer concludes with a black and white shot of Buckley’s head in a glass jar staring at the audience. Buckley says the word, “Monstruous” in an English accent as the trailer cuts to black. And, to cap it all off, the tag line for the film is “Here Comes the Motherfucking Bride.”
The Bride! hits theaters on March 6, 2026.
Mortal Kombat II
A reel of upcoming New Line Cinemas releases showed first footage of Mortal Kombat II. Much of the footage showcases Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage, who says the phrase “Showtime!” and kicks a lot of ass. Another iconic element of the classic video game was evoked in the footage as Scorpion screams, “Get over here!” before doing his infamous spear attack.
Mortal Kombat II hits theaters on October 24, 2025.
Final Destination Bloodlines
A harrowing and hilarious scene from Final Destination Bloodlines was presented exclusively to the CinemaCon crowd.
The scene features Richard Harmon and Owen Patrick Joyner as brothers Erik and Bobby respectively. The duo are desperate to find a way to cheat death and have made their way to a hospital with a crazy plan – they intend to kill themselves and then be resuscitated back to life.
At first, Erik and Bobby try to kill Bobby by having him eat peanuts, given that he has a massive peanut allergy. After comically refusing unsalted peanuts in favor of peanut butter cups, the brothers argue when the vending machine fails to spit out their selected item. Erik insists on shaking the machine, while Bobby urges against it. This is a Final Destination movie, which means, of course, we get a feeling of what’s going to happen next….
But just in time, the vending machine falls back into place. The brothers then make their way into a dark room where Erik plans on feeding Bobby the peanut butter cup, killing him, and then sending him over to ER staff for resuscitation. Ominously humming in the background of the dark room is an MRI machine that has been accidentally turned on when Erik knocking a switch on the way in.
Bobby then eats the peanut butter cup, which soon after triggers an allergic reaction. While this happens, the MRI machine in the background continues to turn on with a higher and higher level of magnetism (we don’t know the technical details of an MRI machine, so excuse the laymen’s description).
One by one, Erik’s piercings begin to fly off of his body and toward the MRI machine. First his nose and ear piercings, then his nipple piercings, and then a piercing…on his penis. Erik howls in pain, but that’s not the worst of it. Erik is standing in between a metal wheelchair and the MRI machine. With the magnetism higher, the wheelchair propels toward the MRI machine and Erik finds himself squeezing in the middle of the two. The metal pieces of the wheelchair begin to pierce his skin and eventually make his body fold like a sandwich into the MRI machine.
As Erik dies, Bobby is able to get his EpiPen and save himself from death (for the time being). After a nurse comes by and opens the door, a metal spring from the vending machine earlier flies toward the MRI machine and impales Bobby in the forehead, bringing the gruesome and morbidly hilarious scene to a close.
Final Destination Bloodlines hits theaters on May 16, 2025.
Weapons
Our most anticipated movie of Warner Bros.’ CinemaCon presentation definitely lived up to expectations.
After wowing the entire movie industry with the 2022 horror hit Barbarian, director/writer Zach Cregger returns with a new film – Weapons.
Starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, and Alden Ehrenreich, Weapons was described as “a very twist, turny movie” by director Cregger. “It unravels and reinvents itself as it goes.”
A first trailer for Weapons was screened exclusively to the CinemaCon crowd. The trailer begins with a teacher (played by Julia Garner), who one day shows up to school and her entire class of children are missing. The town’s citizens, including one of the kid’s father played by Josh Brolin, frantically search for the kids and begin to blame the teacher. After this, the trailer flashes a series of frightening images, including a creepy clown-like woman, a classroom of haunted children, and something that resembles a zombie. The trailer was phenomenal, to say the least.
Weapons hits theaters on August 8, 2025.
F1
Director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer arrived to the CinemaCon stage to discuss their upcoming film F1.
The film stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a retired Formula One driver who now races in other disciplines. Javier Bardem, Damson Idris, and Kerry Condon co-star.
Bruckheimer predicted that F1 will be the cinematic hit of the summer, while Kosinski revealed that Brad Pitt drove cars at 180mph to film the movie.
The first 10 minutes of F1 were shown exclusively to the CinemaCon crowd. The film begins with a 24 hour Daytona race that Brad Pitt’s character Sonny masterfully tackles. The race is intense, loud, and exactly what you’d expect from a film helmed by the director who made Top Gun: Maverick. After the race, Pitt is approached by a billionaire and old friend played by Javier Bardem, who wants Sonny to be the lead racer of his team.
During the Paramount presentation at CinemaCon later in the week, Tom Cruise spoke of his enthusiasm for F1 and stated that he can’t wait to catch it in theaters this summer.
F1 hits theaters June 27, 2025.
Dynamic Duo
As part of Warner Bros. Animation’s portion of the presentation, the new DC Studios collaboration Dynamic Duo was discussed. The animated film follows the friendship of Jason Todd and Dick Grayson, two characters who take up the Robin mantle.
The film will use puppetry and practical effects. The brief footage shown at CinemaCon looked incredibly unique and unlike anything we’ve seen from a DC project before.
Dynamic Duo hits theaters on June 30, 2028.
The Cat in the Hat
Over 20 years since the truly terrifying and unreservedly hilarious live-action film starring Mike Myers, The Cat in the Hat returns to theaters in animated form. The new Cat in the Hat was described as “a doorway to our Seussiverse,” a term that generated more than a few chuckles among the crowd.
Bill Hader, who voices the Cat, came on stage to discuss the new film. A 2014 sketch from SNL in which Hader portrayed the Dr. Seuss character was jokingly played to the crowd as Hader’s audition tape to play the titular character.
Hader humourously explained his prepration for the role of Cat. “I roll out of bed. I get in the car. I drive to Warner Brothers. I haggle with the guy at the gate…And then I just do the magic, guys.”
A work-in-progress trailer for the film was shown to the CinemaCon crowd. The film felt very much like a Despicable Me film and seems to add substantially to the story of the Dr. Seuss classic.
The Cat in the Hat hits theaters on February 27, 2026.
Superman
Last but certainly not least was Superman. The biggest upcoming film in Warner Bros.’ slate took up a massive portion of their CinemaCon presentation, indicative of just how much stock the company places in this revival of the man of the steel.
A behind the scenes reel of Superman was shown to the CinemaCon crowd. Tons of cool on-set footage was shown, including David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult joking around with one another while in costume. The reel also included our best look yet at Isabela Merched as Hawkgirl.
James Gunn, Peter Safran, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult all then came on stage to discuss Superman.
Gunn explained that he was offered to direct Superman and Suicide Squad in 2018 but chose to make Suicide Squad as it was easier and more in his wheelhouse at the time.
Corenswet and Brosnahan reminiced about their audition process and what it was like to eventually film the selected scene together for the final movie (which seemingly involves Corenswet eating plenty of pancakes).
Hoult detailed his first reaction to seeing Corenswet in the Superman suit on set. “I got a little warmth in my tummy and a stupid grin on my face…This was magic.”
Corenswet, meanwhile, spoke about what it has been like to take on the role of a character so deeply ingrained in our culture. “It is a great honor to take on a role that exists so clearly in the public consciousness.”
James Gunn told a hilarious story about his real life dog inspired him to include Krypto the Superdog in Superman.
Rachel Brosnahan spoke to a “handful of journalists” and did “flight training” to prepare for her role of Lois Lane.
In response to Peter Safran’s question about which other DC character they would look like to play, Corenswet said Batman and Brosnahan said Lex Luthor. Hoult then made a funny remark about auditioning for both Batman and Superman but failing to get both parts.
Words like hope, love, and kindness keep coming up at the Superman part of the Warner Bros CinemaCon presentation. James Gunn’s movies have always had real heart, and it seems like Superman will be no exception. “This is a movie that celebrates kindness and human love,” Gunn described.
A scene from Superman and a new trailer were presented to the crowd at CinemaCon and were later released to the public. The footage can be seen below.
The scene initially shows Superman crash land into the snow. Superman is bloodied, bruised, and can barely move. He manages to squeeze out a whistle and, soon after, his trusted dog Krypto arrives. Overjoyed to Superman and unaware of the pain he is in, Krypto jumps on Superman’s hurt body and accidentally hits his leg.
Eventually, Superman manages to convey to the unruly Krypto that he needs to get home. Krypto takes Superman’s cape and takes him to the Fortress of Solitude, which emerges from beneath the snow and ice.
A door with a big ‘S’ on it is at the entrance of the Fortress of Solitude. Krypto and Superman enter, and the latter is taken into the care of Superman robots. The robots then take care of Superman by exposing him to extraordinary sunlight.
After the scene finished, a new trailer for Superman screened to the CinemaCon crowd. The trailer uses a slower version of John Williams’ iconic Superman theme, which, after all these years, still gave us goosebumps.
Superman hits theaters on July 11, 2025.