Sony touches down at CinemaCon 2025 with updates for Past the Spider-Verse, Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, and extra!
The primary day of CinemaCon 2025 is drawing to an in depth. Nonetheless, earlier than attendees collect for the primary of many after-hours events and make questionable life selections, Sony is able to wow crowds with an thrilling have a look at what they’ve received cooking! The studio is already teasing a brand new Karate Child: Legends trailer for tomorrow, however who may have guessed that stars from the movie would crane-kick viewers members within the face with a novel have a look at the upcoming film? It was me. I guessed. However I digress.
Sony isn’t stopping at Karate Child: Legends; the studio additionally introduced new seems and updates for a number of upcoming initiatives, together with Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence sequel, Unhealthy Boys 5, and an early have a look at Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse.
Very similar to Sony’s Karate Child: Legends presentation, the studio was able to carry out the massive weapons by inviting Darren Aronofsky to the stage to hype his newest psychological drama, Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler, Matt Smith, Vincent D’Onofrio, Zoë Kravitz, and Liev Schreiber. Caught Stealing focuses on a burned-out ex-baseball participant, Hank Thompson (Butler), who unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a harmful battle for survival amidst the Nineteen Nineties New York Metropolis felony underbelly.
Through the Sony panel, Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse co-writer Phil Lord mentioned the delay within the third and remaining movie within the trilogy can be definitely worth the wait. He mentioned they may not rush the manufacturing, and the movie options new animation types we’ve by no means seen earlier than. Lord says Past picks up the place Throughout the Spider-Verse left off and includes a huge finale to the trilogy. The threequel is the primary Sony animated film formatted for big screens. A teaser was proven, largely displaying footage from the earlier movies. Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse swings into theaters on June 4, 2027!
Subsequent, Sony introduced Pi and Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky to the stage. The Whale filmmaker joked that tonight can be his first at CinemaCon as a result of that is the primary time he’s made a movie like Caught Stealing. He says the film is only enjoyable, the polar reverse of his cerebral and emotionally devastating options. Aronofsky says the guide Caught Stealing is predicated on takes place in New York within the late ’90s. His movie retains the setting, which Aronofsky says is peak humanity when probably the most important menace was Y2K, and he hustled to make his first film.
Aronofsky introduced a Caught Stealing trailer to the present, that includes Austin Butler as a bartender whose greatest buddy, a punk rocker performed by Matt Smith with a mohawk, is in bother. The trailer options motion, chases, and fights. The footage is wildly totally different from something Aronofsky’s finished earlier than. Our editor-in-chief, Chris Bumbray, who’s at CinemaCon, thinks Caught Stealing seems nice, enjoyable, and like a late ’90s motion flick.
One other film on the desk is Kogonada’s A Huge Daring Stunning Journey, which might be launched in theaters on September 19. Sony introduced a teaser to the panel. Colin Farrell performs a person who embarks on a journey by time and house whereas falling in love after selecting up Margot Robbie. The duo see youthful variations of themselves and reckon with the errors and points they’ve overcome.
One other animated characteristic coming from Sony is Goat, a movie about somewhat goat who needs to group up together with his idol and earn their place on this planet {of professional} sports activities. Stephen Curry produces Goat, with animation akin to Sony’s Spider-Verse motion pictures.
Including to the night, Sony supplied a particular presentation for Karate Child: Legends. The celebration began with an ensemble of Kendo drummers, Japanese flag dancers, and martial artists executing katas. Subsequent, Ralph Macchio and Ben Wang launched the movie, saying the brand new movie bridges the hole between the Jackie Chan movie (The Karate Child) and The Karate Child (1984). Subsequent, the duo confirmed the group some clips.
The primary clip exhibits Ben Wang’s character, Li Fong, assembly Chan’s character, Mr. Han, who assaults Fong to check his abilities. Chan recruits Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso within the second scene to assist practice Li Fong. The Invoice Conde theme performs as Mr. Han enters Miaygi Do. Mr. Han was an previous good friend of Mr. Miyagi’s. LaRusso agrees to journey to New York to coach the brand new pupil as a result of Han feels the identical method about him that Miyagi feels about Daniel.
The newest trailer goes dwell on-line tomorrow. It shares similarities to the unique Karate Child movie, concurrently making it really feel like a reboot and sequel.
Different initiatives teased at Sony’s panel embrace a 3rd movie in Jake Kasdan’s Jumanji franchise. The threequel rolls the cube in theaters in December 2026. In the meantime, Neil Blomkamp’s Starship Troopers film continues creating, with plans for it to be totally different from Paul Verhoeven’s authentic science-fiction satire.
