CinemaCon 2025: Every New Warner Bros. Announcement
CinemaCon 2025 is now in full swing, and it’s now up to to bring the house down. and have started things off with equally stellar presentations, and studios like , , , , and will still to come later in the week. The official convention of — previously known as the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) — CinemaCon has become one of the top news events for eager moviegoers. The annual event sees theater owners, distributors, exhibitors, industry professionals, journalists, and more unite at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to celebrate the communal theatrical experience and discuss what’s coming in the future.
As one of the most talked about studios of the modern age, much is expected of the CinemaCon 2025 Warner Bros. panel. While we have no confirmation on what movies will be shown or teased, moviegoers can at least expect new updates on , , and, of course, . Some more adult fare Warner Bros. is likely to be promoting includes , , and . Press and CinemaCon 2025 attendees might also get updates on Warner Bros’s more far-out projects, such as their slate for 2026 and beyond. This list includes , , and .
CinemaCon is not open to the public, which means no releases of exclusive footage and first-look reveals from the highly anticipated event. But look no further, as we at DiscussingFilm will be listing below every major news update and exclusive footage description from Warner Bros.’ CinemaCon 2025 studio presentation. Stay tuned as we continue to cover this year’s CinemaCon throughout the week, with presentations from Universal Pictures, Amazon MGM Studios, Walt Disney Studios, and Paramount Pictures still to come.
July 11, 2025
James Gunn.
James Gunn.
Superman by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.
James Gunn & Peter Safran.
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Isabela Merced, Nicholas Houston, Nathan Fillion, Skyler Gisondo, Isabela Merced, & Milly Alcock.
One of 2025’s most anticipated films made an appearance at CinemaCon, first with a behind the scenes sizzle reel before James Gunn, Peter Safran and the main cast took the stage to introduce the “summer of Superman” with an exclusive clip. The footage starts similarly to the first trailer, with Superman crashing into the arctic, injured and whistling to summon Krypto, who arrives in a big snowy flurry. Krypto playfully jumps on Superman as he grunts in pain. “Take me home” he commands, holding out his cape. Krypto comedically drags Superman around the tundra as a crystal structure grows in the distance and creates two doors that glow with Superman’s logo — it’s the fortress of solitude.
Automatons greet Superman and pick him up to place him in a healing chamber powered by the sun. He tries to thank the automatons but they stress they do not have sentience. The clip transitions into the main Superman trailer, but ends with Superman leaving the fortress of solitude, almost leaving Krypto behind before his pet whimpers. He allows Krypto to tag along as he playfully charges and bites at Superman’s shoes as the clip ends.
February 27, 2026
Joseph Kosinski.
Ehren Kruger.
Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, Lewis Hamilton, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, & Chad Oman.
Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, & Javier Bardem.
CinemaCon 2025 attendees were surprised with 10 full minutes of footage from Joseph Kosinski’s thrilling new race car flick, F1. The first look clip opens on Brad Pitt’s character, Sonny, a Formula One racer doing pull ups in his trailer before he participates in a race. Just like Kosinski’s previous directorial efforts, the race sequences are beautifully shot and the sound mixing is properly loud and immersive. Just like Top Gun: Maverick, there is a strong sense of authenticity to the sport and its mechanics. After this sequence ends, there is a brief encounter where Sonny interacts with a manager played by Shea Wiggum. But Sonny insists his time behind the wheel is over.
It transitions into Sunny running into Javier Bardem’s character, Ruben, in a laundromat. It turns out Ruben is a past Formula One team member, and after some playful banter, Ruben decides to give an offer to let Sonny come out of retirement and mentor a younger driver for an upcoming Grand Prix. The footage ends with a trailer of the film similar to one released publically, so while we didn’t get to see Sonny’s mentorship of Damson Idris’s character Joshua in the clip, but the film looks like a visual treat and a progression of the spectacle Kosinski usually brings to the big screen.
September 26, 2025. Paul Thomas Anderson.
Paul Thomas Anderson.
Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Sommer & Will Weiske.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Bencio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, & Alana Haim.
Warner Bros. screened a special exclusive clip of One Battle After Another to CinemaCon 2025 attendees. In the footage, we follow Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson, franctically arguing with a rebel named Comrade Josh over the phone, begging for him to reveal a rendezvous point. Meanwhile, Bencio Del Toro’s character searches the apartment they are in, checking the beds and cupboards and cleaning a rifle.
It’s a stressful but mostly comedic scene as Comrade Josh refuses to give intel and teases Bob over the phone. Bob goes on a rant about his addiction to drugs and continuously loses his patience as he banters over the phone. Eventually, Bob breaks his facade and threatens to call in a Greyhawk 10 strike on the revolutionaries before hanging up. The footage aligns with the vintage vibes of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice while also calling back to Leo’s unhinged energy in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. After the clip ends, it cuts to a trailer that is very similar to the one publicly released last week.
May 16, 2025.
Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein.
Guy Busick & Lori Evans Taylor.
Jon Watts, Guy Busick, & Lori Evans Taylor.
Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle, & Toby Emmerich.
Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Rya Kihlstedt, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, & Tony Todd.
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema brought the gore to CinemaCon 2025 with an exclusive clip from Final Destination: Bloodlines. The clip opens on two brothers in a hospital, one tall blonde and one alternative looking brunette with piercings — just like other victims in this franchise, these brothers are cursed and must either try to cheat death or kill someone else to avoid a grizzly fate. After weighing their options and deciding they are above hurting the newborn babies, the older brunette brother devises a plan to exploit the blonde brother’s peanut allergy and revitalize him last minute with an EPI pen.
There is a tense fakeout as the brothers struggle to get a stuck peanut butter cup out from the hospital vending machine, but they end up getting what they need despite breaking the glass and loosening a metal coil. In a rush, they enter an MRI room and accidentally turn it on while the blonde brother eats the peanut butter cup and has his allergic reaction. The brunette brother refuses to give him the EPI pen so that he can use it at the right time, but as the MRI’s magnetic power levels increasingly get higher and higher, the brunette’s phone slams into the MRI’s manual override — and things get violent.
The brunette’s piercings are torn off his body, then the wheelchair behind him pushes him and crushes him into the crevice of the MRI machine. The blonde brother reaches for his EPI pen and manages to jab himself before a nurse opens the door and asks if he’s okay — then the coil from the vending machine pierces his skull. The footage is a perfect mix of camp and genuine horror, showing a large confidence in the revival of the Final Destination franchise.
August 8. 2025.
Zach Cregger.
Zach Cregger.
Zach Cregger, Roy Lee, J. D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules, & Miri Yoon.
Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan, & June Diane Raphael.
CinemaCon 2025 was given an exclusive first look at Zach Cregger’s Weapons. The trailer begins with an eerie tone and shots of children going into school as the narration gives us the backstory of a day where all the children in the classroom of one teacher (Julia Garner) have gone missing. We’re shown sequences of the teacher becoming a town pariah, with Josh Brolin as a father whose child was in her class screaming “why was it only her class?” There’s a bleak sense of dread that only gets worse when Julia sees one of the missing children, only there’s something deeply wrong with them.
The rest of the trailer is far too quick to decipher too much meaning, so we’ll go ahead and try to detail the highlights as best as we can. One shot shows someone vomiting blood, another features a mother attempting to harm themselves, and the most provocative of all is a wild look at a group of children crashing out of their school. The trailer closes on a teenager in the woods encountering an out of focus figure who waves creepily. By all accounts, this seems like a very different, but equally intriguing successor to Barbarian and an incoming horror hit for Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema.
February 27, 2026
Alessandro Carioni & Eric Rivinoja.
Alessandro Carioni & Eric Rivinoja.
: Daniela Mazzucato & Jared Stern.
Main Cast: Bill Hader, Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, Xochitl Gomez, & Paula Pell.
Exclusive Footage Description: After a hilarious introduction from Bill Hader, CinemaCon 2025 attendees got to see an unfinished trailer for Warner Bros. Animation’s The Cat in the Hat. The trailer starts with a neighborhood in absolute peril, with a reporter being bitten by crabs, fires happening, and all manner of utter chaos. Cat in the Hat, played by Bill Hader, looks at the camera and says something to the effect of “nailed it”. This is where the trailer takes a turn when we see The Cat in the Hat works for some sort of “imagination corporation” with other creatures with names like “Bug with a Mug”.
His superior tells him that he needs to do something or he’s going to lose his job. Cat is then assigned to bring whimsy to two children. The children immediately, hilariously, mace the Cat who writhes on the ground almost uncomfortably realistically, shouting “go to the title card!”. The footage ends with the children being introduced not to just Thing 1 and Thing 2, but about 10 other Things with different numbers. The animation is unfinished but has some panache even in its early stages. The humor is very funny, although it’s easy to see criticisms that the film doesn’t have the spirit of Dr. Seuss, a criticism levied at the earlier Mike Meyers attempt.
The Bride!
Release Date: March 6, 2026.
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Screenplay by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein & James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein.
Produced by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, & Emma Tillinger Koskoff.
Main Cast: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Julianne Hough, John Magaro, Annette Bening, & Jake Gyllenhaal.
Exclusive Footage Description: CinemaCon 2025 attendees were treated to a “tiny taste” of The Bride! via its first trailer. The footage opens with a partying woman (Jessie Buckley) falling down a flight of stairs and dying. Psychedelic minimalist, black-and-white imagery transitions into the sight of Buckley strapped to a table, dead, with tubes coming in and out of her. She awakes and is greeted by a smiling monster, played by Christian Bale. Backed by a propulsive and very loud score, we go through a flurry of the Monster and the Bride partying and committing acts of violence à la Bonnie & Clyde.
The feel is very reminiscent of Natural Born Killers, with a purposefully poppy, filthy lens as Frankenstein’s Monster and the Bride are committing all kinds of crimes. A newspaper details their exploits. The music suddenly stops to show Christian Bale’s monster beating down a man in an alley to the Bride’s shock. The rest of the trailer is full of gnarly stylized imagery, such as Jessie Buckley sticking out her tongue, oozing black goo. The footage ends on the most provocative scene, a smiling Jessie Buckley head in a glass jar with a black-and-white filter. The Bride! looks excellent with a whole lot of unique personality, which guarantees it to be a huge topic of discussion.
