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It is Friday, April 17th. Craig and I are just back from CinemaCon, the big movie theater convention at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

We again braved the smoky air and rascal scooters

and went to pretty much all the big presentations and parties.

Thanks to everyone who said hello as I was trying to avoid the studio PR people,

asking what I really thought of their trailers, or while I was

stuffing my face with Nobu Sushi at the Universal Party, I did make sure to ask Chris Nolan

the important questions of that party, like whether he's seen those videos of himself walking

through the crowded city walk to get to the IMAX movie theater. Spoiler alert, he has

seen them. I heard several people at CinemaCon this year note that it was the most enthusiastic and well-attended convention of the post-COVID era.

I think I agree with that.

It's probably because the box office is up more than 20% this year.

But it's also because there's a sense of hope that if Amazon can keep releasing movies like Project Hail Mary

and the traditional studios all return to meaningful theatrical windows, which is pretty much happening these days,

more and more at least, theaters actually have a chance at survival.

Having said that, there were some great stuff in these presentations, a lot of kind of whatever

footage, some horror scares we've seen a thousand times, and some true WTF, what the hell

moments. So now it's time to rank the presentations. For that, I have enlisted my fellow

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