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1:40PM – Just from that footage alone, The Running Man just jumped up my list of most anticipated movies. And yet before I can even process that, Paramount pivots to another intriguing project: The first theatrical animated Avatar: The Last Airbender movie, which has officially been titled The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender.
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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.
1:28PM – First 2025 movie to get the spotlight is Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, with Wright onstage alongside Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin. Speaking about the timeliness of the story, Wright says, “[In the story] the media and the world have gone out of control. It’s worth mentioning that Stephen King’s original book was set in 2025.”
1:26PM – Paramount CEO Brian Robbins teases some of the 2026 movies the studio has in the works, including the highly-anticipated Children of Blood and Bone adaptation. On that topic, Robbins says, “[This film] is a labor of love.” He also mentions Scream 7, which he sums up as “Sidney Prescott is back with old suspects and fresh new victims.”
1:18PM – Paramount’s president of domestic distribution, Chris Aronson, jokes that “on the heels of Sony releasing four Beatles movies, they’re gonna release four Paw Patrol films for each character.” Mansoor emphasizes, “Again, a joke,” lest people get a bit too excited about the idea of more Paw Patrol. I suspect my six-year-old cousin will be disappointed.
1:09PM – Things get off to an action-packed start as stuntpeople riding motorbikes take to the stage and aisles to hype up the audience, with the Mission: Impossible theme playing all the while. It’s certain we’ll be seeing more of that franchise during this presentation.
1:02PM, Rachel LaBonte – It’s showtime! The last day of CinemaCon is upon us and things are about to get underway with the Paramount panel. Our reporter Mansoor Mithaiwala is seated and ready to fill us in on all the exciting news.
ScreenRant is coming to you live from CinemaCon! This annual convention for the movie theater industry is a key event for Hollywood – it’s become the place for any studio releasing movies in cinemas to present their upcoming slate, and is often where posters, trailers, and footage for hotly anticipated titles are revealed for the first time.
This year’s edition, held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, from Monday, March 31 to Thursday, April 3, could be especially big. After the one-two punch of the pandemic and 2023’s Hollywood strikes sparked the “survive ’til 2025” mantra, theater owners need to see the film industry deliver some big hits. And the major studios will be eager to prove their 2025 slates have what it takes to revive a box office that has struggled so far this year.
Today is Day 4 of CinemaCon, the event’s last, and expect it to end with a bang. Paramount will be presenting its upcoming films from 10-11:30am local time (1-2:30pm ET), and it wouldn’t be the first time that theatrical experience advocate Tom Cruise showed up to get cinema owners excited about the next Mission: Impossible. Later, Disney will become the final studio to show off their wares, with that presentation scheduled from 2:30-4:30pm local time (5:30-7:30pm ET). Watch this space for the first reactions from that, as well as SR‘s other live coverage from the ground!