The 15 Most Anticipated Movies Out of CinemaCon and Our Trip to the Sphere!

The Big Picture

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Sean and Amanda are joined by Puck’s Matt Belloni to recap their trip to the annual Hollywood Studio and theatrical exhibitor trade show CinemaCon! First, they break down their trip to Las Vegas and review their experience seeing ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the Sphere (1:12). Then, they discuss the general state of movies in 2026 and share all of their main takeaways from CinemaCon (18:14). To close out the show, they each share their five most anticipated movies coming out of the event (54:21). Have a question for our 900th episode mailbag? Email us at bigpicmailbag@gmail.com or call us at 323-488-3241 and leave a message! Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Matt Belloni Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennessy. I'm Amanda Dobbins. And this is the Big Picture at Conversation
0:19.4	Show about Cinemacon. Today on the show, we are discussing our visit to Las Vegas this week at the annual Hollywood
0:24.8	studio and theatrical exhibitor trade show, CinemaCon.
0:28.3	They showed us their big movies coming later this year and beyond, and we are breaking
0:31.6	them all down today with the one and only Matt Bellany from the town podcast.
0:36.6	Programming reminder, next week, we will have our
0:38.5	900th episode of the Big Picture and we are doing a mega mailbag. So send your questions in now.
0:44.0	Big Pickmailbag at gmail.com. What is that, Amanda? Big pick mailbag at gmail.com.
0:50.4	Or call us at 323488.3241. That's right. We're taking your voicemails to play on this episode.
0:59.0	323-488-3-2-4-1. Send us questions about movies, this show, Amanda's hair, anything is on the table.
1:08.5	We'll get into CinemaCon right after this.
1:13.4	Okay, Matt, welcome back.
1:15.6	Thank you. I'm honored to be invited back.
1:18.7	We were just in Vegas together for 72 hours.
1:22.0	We not only survived, but I feel like we thrived this year.
1:23.3	We had a lovely trip.
1:24.7	We forgot to take a photograph.
1:26.0	So this is our official.
1:49.6	And maybe Craig Horlebeck, producer Craig can come in later. And, you know, but here it is. Big selfie. Yes, please. Hello, Vegas. Is this your Netflix debut? No, I've been in several little, not little, but I've been in documentaries before. I'm in the Murdoch one that's on right now. Yeah, sure. So I pop up every now and then. But this is certainly the longest I've ever been on a Netflix show. Okay. So we'll see if they de-platform it or the algorithm will not be kind to this episode. Let's just say that. So you conquered Apple TV in
1:56.2	2025, Netflix in 26. Hulu next year, maybe? Maybe. I've been on Hulu too.
2:18.2	Okay. Wow. Yeah. I've been on a couple documentaries. But this is not, like, they're not ordering the shows for me. I happen to be in the documentary that then gets bought by Hulu. Okay. Okay. So Vegas, you know, we did the usual. We stayed at Caesar's Palace where Sinicana's typically held. Last year, we all... Fun fact, I did not stay at Cedars.
2:19.9	Oh, wow.
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