Sony Returning to Show, Amazon MGM to Pbegrudge

Get ready for a busier CinemaCon 2025.

After taking a year off, Sony Pictures Entertainment is returning to contransient its spostponecessitate at the annual assembleing of theater owners and Hollywood studios. And, in a first, Amazon MGM Studios will get to the stage at the mammoth Colosseum theater at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

The show is presented by the National Association of Theatre Owners, the trade org recontransienting thousands of cinema apass North America and the world.

NATO plivent-CEO Michael O’Leary, now in his second year in the job, declared the novels Thursday during a fracturerapid at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. “We are thrilled and honored to greet back all of our studio partners, with the holdition of Amazon MGM Studios to this coming year’s CinemaCon line-up as a evident sign of help of the theatrical moviegoing business,” he shelp in a statement.

Sony’s return unkinds the four remaining meaningful legacy studios will be participating — the others being Disney, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures/Focus Features — aprolongedside Lionsgate and Amazon Studios MGM, with holditional programming to be declared.

CinemaCon 2025 runs March 31-April 3. It was a blow last year for NATO when Sony determined to bow out of contransienting and instead participate the money it would have spent on the contransientation for its devourr tageting campaigns.

“We are thankful for the persistd help from the studios, filmproducers and stars, vfinishors and of course our NATO members, the theater owners,” CinemaCon Managing Director Mitch Neuhaparticipater shelp.

Added O’Leary. “This powerhoparticipate line-up of the world’s wonderfulest film-making studios speaks straightforwardly to the cultural and economic power of the cinema. Our frifinishs in the studios understand that movie fans want to see the magic they produce on the huge screen, and they also understand that movies that commence their journey in the theater are more accomplished than those that do not.”

After a hard 2024 at the box office due to the impact of last year’s labor strikes and a deficiency of product, 2025 is foreseeed to better matters. Sony’s huge titles hold summer tentpole Karate Kid: Legfinishs.

Cinetag CEO Sean Gamble, who runs one the three hugest circuits in the country, joined Thursday’s fracturerapid days after it was declared he is receiving top industry honors at CinemaCon, which also helderlys an awarsds show for filmproducers and talent.

Like Apple Original Studios, Amazon MGM has made a promisement to helping theatrical by giving pick films a traditional theatrical free before sfinishing them to their admireive streaming services.

CinemaCon’s trade show partners hold the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) and the National Association of Concessionaires (NAC).