{"id":50010,"date":"2026-04-14T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50010"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:15:08","slug":"cinemacon-day-1-angel-sony-pictures-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50010","title":{"rendered":"CinemaCon Day 1: Angel, Sony Pictures Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"


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CinemaCon<\/a> is underway in Las Vegas<\/a>, and in a first for the convention, three independent distributors shared the stage to give their own mini presentations about their theatrical slates for the upcoming year and beyond. CinemaCon invited Angel Studios<\/a>, Studiocanal<\/a>, and Sony Pictures Classics<\/a> to the Colosseum at Caesar\u2019s Palace.<\/p>\n

In these Daily Dispatches from CinemaCon<\/strong>, we\u2019re sharing the highlights of what we saw, what was announced, what we didn\u2019t, and what was the overall vibe. <\/p>\n

The BEST Thing We Saw<\/h2>\n

\u201cEverybody Wants to F*** Me,\u201d a production from Margot Robbie\u2019s LuckyChap that stars Taron Egerton, is a genre-bending dark comedy thriller set in the world of modern dating. Production recently wrapped and it\u2019s coming to theaters in 2027. We saw a brief teaser of the film<\/a>, in which Egerton has \u201cmastered the disguise of being the perfect man\u201d and gets a lot of people starring at him, but we soon find out he\u2019s actually being stalked by women like they\u2019re possessed by Aunt Gladys in \u201cWeapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Danny Boyle was also on hand with \u201cInk,\u201d a true story about the launch of the British tabloid \u201cThe Sun\u201d that stars Jack O\u2019Connell, Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch, and Claire Foy. Boyle joked that his announcement of \u201c28 Years Later\u201d was drowned out by the Beatles movie news last year, so he was glad to be back in this afternoon slot. Boyle said about the film that if you want to know how modern media started, look to 1969, and a tense, stylishly shot scene featuring a discussion of the \u201c5 W\u2019s\u201d of journalism. <\/p>\n

Angel Studios\u2019 big showcase was \u201cYoung Washington,\u201d which is opening Independence Day and is a Revolutionary War film that serves as an origin story for George Washington. The film is directed by Jon Erwin and stars William Franklyn-Miller as the young Washington, as well as Ben Kingsley, Mary-Louise Parker, Andy Serkis, and Kelsey Grammer. <\/p>\n

Sony Pictures Classics also got a laugh when it screened the teaser for \u201cHa-Chan, Shake Your Booty,\u201d<\/a> which was a big hit at Sundance and proved to be an uplifting, quirky, and colorful trailer that the distributor intends to be its big holiday release for the year.<\/p>\n

The BIG News in the Room<\/h2>\n

\u201cPaddington 4\u201d is in the works, as well as an animated \u201cPaddington\u201d feature, however no writers or other filmmakers were announced. Studiocanal also announced remakes in development of John Carpenter\u2019s \u201cEscape From New York,\u201d the horror film \u201cThe Howling,\u201d and it is in development on new family film takes on beloved book series \u201cPippi Longstocking\u201d and \u201cMr. Men.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIce Cream Man\u201d from Eli Roth also got some serious love, which showed a brief teaser of a little girl covered in blood holding an ice cream cone, as did \u201cShaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom,\u201d which had a good gag of the sheep hiding in a shower from the monster and we hear the \u201cPsycho\u201d theme as created by one of the sheep flossing his teeth. <\/p>\n

\u201cFonda,\u201d Justine Triet\u2019s follow-up to \u201cAnatomy of a Fall,\u201d will also release in 2027 and is about to start production, Studiocanal announced. The film stars Mia Goth, Allison Janney, Odessa\u00a0A\u2019Zion,\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Scott.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What We EXPECTED to See but Didn\u2019t<\/h2>\n

A title for Tom McCarthy\u2019s next movie, though Sony Pictures Classics did give us a brief first look at the film and closed out its presentation with a brief mention of the film that stars Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Evan Peters, Tatiana Maslany, Amy Ryan, John Turturro, and Jason Clarke. The film is about a conference in Florida set in 1980 about experts who gather to discuss climate change, all based on the book \u201cLosing Earth.\u201d <\/p>\n

What We LEARNED<\/h2>\n

Angel, the faith-adjacent studio, is getting more into genre films, with titles like \u201cRunner\u201d starring Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, which is an action movie about a man trying to deliver a kidney to a little girl who needs a transplant, only to be faced up against the cartel. That film opens September 11, 2026. There\u2019s also the political, Cold War drama \u201cThe Brink of War\u201d starring Jeff Daniels as Ronald Reagan about the Reykjavik Summit with Gorbachev that co-stars Jared Harris, J.K. Simmons, and Hope Davis and that opens August 14, 2026. Angel also announced a remake of a 1947 John Wayne Western, \u201cAngel and the Badman,\u201d which will star Tommy Lee Jones, Zachary Levi, and Neal McDonough and is directed by Julio Quintana. It opens October 2026. There\u2019s also \u201cDrummer Boy,\u201d which is described as a Christmas musical following two brothers on opposite sides of the American Revolutionary War, which opens November 6, 2026. <\/p>\n

The studio reminded the CinemaCon crowd that it is among the Top 10 distributors per year at the box office and that the movies do well \u201cnot because of who distributed it, but because audiences chose it,\u201d saying that it has 2 million Angel Guild members and has sold 3 million Pay-It-Forward tickets<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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