Super Bowl out. The Kansas City Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb. 9, and Hollywood will once again use the football championship to hype its upcoming releases.
In the past, the Super Bowl has hosted first looks of everything from “Independence Day” to “The Avengers,” with a “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” or “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” mixed in for good measure.
This year, Paramount will likely air spots for “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” which is supposed to mark Tom Cruise’s last hurrah playing a daredevil IMF agent, as well as trailers for “Smurfs” and the Jack Quaid thriller “Novocaine.” Universal is expected to offer up a trailer for “Jurassic World Rebirth,” which revives the series and introduces a new set of heroes/dino food with Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey on board to star.
The studio will also promote Blumhouse’s “M3gan 2.0” and the live-action remake of the DreamWorks animation hit “How to Train Your Dragon.” However, viewers hoping for another glimpse of Oz are out of luck.
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