CinemaCon, the annual gathering of cinema owners, studios and industry insiders, has begun in Las Vegas with announcements, exclusive footage and star-studded presentations.
The event runs until Thursday and offers a glimpse into Hollywood’s coming blockbuster releases. Here are some of the highlights so far.
The Beatles biopics
Director Sam Mendes took to the stage at CinemaCon 2025 to reveal the cast for his coming biopic project that focuses on each member of The Beatles. He announced all four films are set for release in April 2028. He also revealed the cast with Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. Each movie will focus on one band member.
The project has the support of McCartney, Starr and the families of Lennon and Harrison. It marks the first time they, and rights holders Apple, have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film. “We’re not just making one film about the Beatles – we’re making four,” Mendes said. “Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply.”
Beyond the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has been given a release date of June 4, 2027, four years after its predecessor, Across the Spider-Verse, shattered franchise records. The announcement came with the first clip of the animated film. In it, Miles Morales declares that “everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go”. Hinting at another high-stakes, multiversal adventure, he adds “I'm gonna do my own thing”.
The first Spider-Verse film, Into the Spider-Verse (2018), was praised for its animation and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, while Across the Spider-Verse (2023) grossed more than $682 million. Shameik Moore (Miles Morales) and Hailee Steinfeld (Spider-Gwen) are to reprise their roles.
Spider-Man 4
Tom Holland is to return as Spider-Man for a fourth instalment of the popular superhero franchise. It was revealed the title of the film will be Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Production is to begin this summer and the film is expected to be in cinemas on July 31, 2026.
The movie's predecessor, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), became the seventh highest-grossing film of all time with a $1.95 billion box office haul. It ended in a cliffhanger when Peter Parker (Holland), having accidentally broken open the multiverse, decided to erase his identity from the world.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
First-look footage reveals that Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr are reprising their roles as Julie James and Ray Bronson in a reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer, directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.
The film, which will be in cinemas on July 18, revolves around a group of five friends who covered up a deadly car accident a year earlier, only to find themselves hunted by a vengeful killer. As they’re stalked one by one by the slasher, the friends discover that this has happened before, so they turn to two survivors of the 1997 Southport Massacre for help.
