UPDATE: Paramount's panel has concluded. You can catch up on all the updates from the event below!
On the final day of CinemaCon 2025, Paramount Pictures has plenty of news in store to get fans pumped for the studio's continuing theatrical run.
Hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, CinemaCon is the biggest gathering in the USA for movie theater vendors and studio executives as they promote the advancement of theaters. The major studios line up to hold exclusive presentations for journalists and vendor employees promoting what should be their biggest upcoming hit films.
Next up on the list for presentations is Paramount Pictures, whose only theatrical release of 2025, as of writing, has been Novocaine (starring The Boys' Jack Quaid). However, the rest of the year still has plenty to be excited about.
Every Update from Paramount Pictures' CinemaCon 2025 Panel
Ahead will be every major update from Paramount Pictures' CinemaCon 2025 panel, which will take place from 10 a.m. PT to 11:30 a.m. PT.
To kick off the presentation, Paramount took inspiration from the Mission: Impossible franchise with a massive stunt featuring four bikes driving through the audience. Ramps were also set up on stage for the neon bikes to jump off of as smoke machines ran to start the show with a bang before a hype reel played.
Running Man Speeds Onto CinemaCon Stage
After mentioning a group of 2026 movies, including Child of Blood and Bone, the Untitled Tray Parker/Matt Stone/Kendrick Lamar movie, Scream 7, and Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Paramount opened its discussion on this year's movies with The Running Man.
Director Edgar Wright came to the stage to tease what's coming from his movie, calling it "one of those movies that gives someone to cheer for." He also touched on the original Stephen King book taking place in 2025, saying the team "needed a real-life star to capture that energy."
Wright was later joined by Top Gun: Maverick star Glen Powell, who teased to fans that they were "in for a real cinematic treat." He described the new movie as "nothing short of extraordinary."
"I can’t imagine anyone besides him playing the hero of this story," Wright said to Powell on his casting for the leading role of Ben Richards. The two were later joined on stage by Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man's Colman Domingo and Avengers: Endgame's Josh Brolin.
Powell praised Wright for assembling "the best of the best to bring his vision to life." Brolin would then go on to call his character, Dan Killian, "a wonderfully maniacal character."
Production on the movie is now officially complete, as Wright told the crowd, "we literally finished shooting a week ago."
With the cast on stage, fans got a first look at the film, which has some brutal and stylish action, with the whole movie feeling like Edgar Wright got his hands on an alternate Hunger Games. While there tons of fast, frantic action, after surviving a close encounter, Powell yells to the cameras, "I'm still here, you s**teaters.”
Multiple Updates from Paramount Animation
Paramount Animation Head Ramsey Ann Naito took the stage for Paramount's upcoming animated film, discussing what's on the way in 2026 and beyond.
This started with Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie, which will star Jennifer Hudson and McKenna Grace, before moving on to The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender (the film's official title) and a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
Also coming this summer is a brand-new Smurfs movie, said to be showing fans the team "like [they've] never seen them before."
Papa Smurf is set to be taken by a group of mysterious wizards before Smurfette has to save him. Additionally, they learn of a family secret that they are supposedly destined to save the world.
After a video message from Rihanna, a new trailer for the film came on screen.
Papa Smurf tells his family to find his brother Ken (played by Ron Swanson) before being kidnapped and taken by a magical portal in the sky. The story also will be journeying into the real world, on top of animation.
Next up, Tom Kenny, the longtime voice of Spongebob Squarepants, came on stage to promote The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. He proceeded to describe it as "their biggest theatrical adventure ever." Spongebob is set to go to an oceanic abyss, said to be somewhere no sponge has ever gone before.
Kenny was then joined on stage by Mark Hamill, who will play the Flying Dutchman. The Star Wars icon even noted that he was previously in a Spongebob episode from Season 5, joking that he did such a great job that he got called back 18 years later.
He went on to tell the audience that if he does his job correctly, "every child in America will hate [his] guts." The film shows Spongebob trying desperately to be the big man on site, proving his bravery by following the Flying Dutchman into the underworld.
New footage started off with Clancy Brown in live action as he gave some intriguing background information on the Flying Dutchman.
The Naked Gun Takes CinemaCon 2025 Spotlight
The upcoming remake of The Naked Gun, directed by Akiva Shaffer and starring Liam Neeson, was next in line for the presentation.
Complete with a saxophone performance and a round of comedic narration, presenter Chris Harrison came on stage with narration mimicking his inner thoughts.
Nelson's character is said to be the son of the original film's leading man, Leslie Nielsen's Frank Debrin.
Fans then got to see a first trailer for The Naked Gun, which can be seen below:
These stars discussed some of the action seen in the first trailer, along with some of what fans can expect to see in this 2025 remake, which is due for release on August 1.
Roofman Cast Join Paramount's Presentation
The presentation moved on to Derek Cianfrance's Roofman, which will be in theaters on October 3. Deadpool & Wolverine standout Channing Tatum took the stage to help tease fans on what's coming from his new outing.
Tatum described the movie as a true story about "an unusually polite thief" who robbed a massive number of McDonald's restaurants before things got even crazier.
Currently, the film is in production, but Tatum treated the fans to some footage from the early stages of filming.
After Tatum's Jeffrey Manchester gets arrested, he breaks out and decides to hide out in a Toys R'Us until the coast is clear. Co-star LaKeith Stanfield (The Haunted Mansion) tells him, "You're not good at being a criminal."
Two of the employees at said Toys R'Us are characters played by Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) and Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man).
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Shines in Presentation
Industry legend Tom Cruise joined the CinemaCon party to help promote Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning as the theme music from the movie played behind him.
Before introducing director/producer Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise took a moment to honor his former Top Gun co-star Val Kilmer, who passed away at 65 years old on April 1. He called Kilmer "a dear friend" as he looked back on their time working together before holding a moment of silence for his fallen friend.
Cruise proceeded to credit McQuarrie as the uncredited hero of 2011's Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, a movie many regard as the best of the entire series, before McQuarrie came on stage.
McQuarrie also accepted a Director of the Year award from CinemaCon, giving an acceptance speech before turning his attention to Cruise. He admitted that he was ready to leave the business completely before Cruise changed his mind, saying, "I'm here today because of your vision and trust."
In a new trailer for Mission: Impossible 8, Cruise could be seen hanging off the edge of a red plane, pulling one of the usual wild stunts he enjoys taking on in his movies.
Henry Czerny's Eugene Kittridge is heard saying, "If we want to bring the world back to the brink, we have to deal with him…Everything you were, everything you’re doing has come to this."
Fans also see another look at The Entity, the AI program from Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, as it looks like Ethan Hunt plugs into it while wearing a massive gas-like mask. Cruise can be seen jumping off the plane and an aircraft carrier while other footage shows nuclear missiles launching,
The trailer ends with a look at the submarine seen at the very end of the last film before fans are told, "This movie is going to blow the doors off your theaters."
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning will blast into theaters on May 23, the same day as Disney's Lilo & Stitch.
That new look at Tom Cruise's next movie helped conclude Paramount's panel.
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