I have just spent a week at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I saw no sunlight from Monday around noon to Thursday. But I did see some movies, or at least part of them.
It was of course CinemaCon week, or as I like to call it, ‘the unofficial start to Oscar season’. Many pundits might rather give the upcoming Cannes Film Festival with that kind of distinction, but in recent times this smoke-filled exhibitors extravaganza looks to be the starting gun, if you go by what the studios are dropping footage of between all the popcorn movies entertainment theatre owners really care about.
Last year CinemaCon was the first stop as it turned out for four of the ten eventual Best Picture Oscar nominees. Warner Bros in their presentation made a big deal about Elvis.
They showed footage and trotted out director Baz Luhrmann and star Austin Butler for an extensive on-stage interview that ran over 30 minutes.
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