CinemaCon Report Cards for Disney, Paramount, Universal, and Amazon MGM, Which Nailed Its Vegas Debut

Happy Tuesday, folks!

I’m wrapping up my CinemaCon coverage tonight with report cards for Amazon MGM, Disney, Paramount, and Universal, along with a final ranking of each trailer and studio presentation.

If there was a big winner at CinemaCon this year, it wasn’t any one studio or person — it was the horror genre.

Black Phone 2. Final Destination: Bloodlines. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Him. I Know What You Did Last Summer. The Long Walk. M3GAN 2.0. Soulm8te. Weapons.

Plus, Keeper and Together from Neon, Bring Her Back from A24, and, depending on how you look at it, The Toxic Avenger from Cineverse.

The genre crowd is getting downright spoiled this year, and I haven’t even mentioned female-driven thrillers like The Housemaid and Verity, which come with the kinds of passionate fanbases that recently propelled It Ends With Us to a global gross of $350 million.

After this issue, I should be all caught up on my observations from CinemaCon, and I can get back to writing about the current newscycle. Stay tuned on that front, and thank you to the invaluable Jamie Williams for backing me up in Vegas last week.

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