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GLEN POWELL, JOSH BROLIN, COLMAN DOMINGO,
AND FILMMAKER EDGAR WRIGHT HEADLINE
POWERHOUSE CONVERSATION AT CINEMACON®
POWELL ALSO TO BE HONORED AS CINEMACON’S STAR OF THE YEAR
The Director/Co-Writer and Cast of Paramount Pictures’s
Highly Anticipated Film, The Running Man,
Come Together for Annual Creative Community
Luncheon Panel, Moderated by Jacqueline Coley
Luncheon to be Held in the Afternoon
on Thursday, April 3,
in Caesars Palace’s Octavius Ballroom
That Evening, the 2025 Big Screen Achievement Awards
Will Cap Weeklong Celebration of Theatrical Exhibition
LAS VEGAS, NV (March 12, 2025) – Award-winning filmmaker Edgar Wright and the cast of his upcoming Paramount Pictures action-thriller The Running Man, Golden Globe® nominee Glen Powell, Academy Award® nominee Josh Brolin and two-time Academy Award® nominee Colman Domingo will headline CinemaCon’s annual Creative Community Luncheon to be held in the afternoon on Thursday, April 3, in Las Vegas. Later that evening, Powell will be honored as Star of the Year at the Big Screen Achievement Awards Celebration.
The annual luncheon, which is traditionally held on the final day of CinemaCon and will be moderated by Rotten Tomatoes Editor Jacqueline Coley, is an exciting and entertaining opportunity for the global exhibition industry to hear directly from the extraordinary and innovative creators and actors behind some of the biggest movies made for the big screen, the world’s premier entertainment option. Past participants at the annual CinemaCon luncheon have included Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Elizabeth Banks, Jerry Bruckheimer, Patty Jenkins and Jon M. Chu.
“The excitement for The Running Man among the exhibition community is extremely high, and the luncheon presents an opportunity to hear thoughts and insights about the film and our industry from this incredible group of talented individuals,” said Michael O’Leary, President and CEO of the The National Association of Theatre Owners. “I want to thank the good folks at Paramount Pictures and, of course, The Running Man team, with a special shout-out to Glen on his much deserved award. Everyone’s generosity and collaboration is sure to make this luncheon a must-see event.”
Paramount Pictures’s action-thriller The Running Man opens exclusively in theatres, Dolby Cinema, and IMAX on November 7.
(photo by Brian Bowen Smith, courtesy of Netflix)
Glen Powell leads the cast of The Running Man after recently starring in, co-writing and producing the Netflix comedy Hit Man, which garnered him a Golden Globe® nomination for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy” and a Critics Choice Awards nomination for “Best Comedy.” He will next be seen in Hulu’s highly anticipated comedy series Chad Powers, that Powell co-created, co-produced and will star in. Powell’s recent releases include the box office hits Twisters, the romantic comedy Anyone but You and the Oscar®-nominated blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick. He also recently wrapped production on the A24 and Studio Canal film Huntington. His previous credits include Hidden Figures, Devotion, and Apollo 10 ½.
Academy Award® nominee Josh Brolin will next be seen starring in Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, and Rian Johnson’s next Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man. Most recently he reprised his role as Gurney Halleck in Dune: Part Two and as Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, and in 2024 released his memoir From Under the Truck. Brolin is best known for The Goonies, W., No Country for Old Men, and his Academy Award® nominated performance in Milk.
Colman Domingo is an award-winning actor, producer, and playwright whose work spans film, television, and theater. He recently starred in and produced the Academy Award® nominated Sing Sing, earning Domingo nominations for the Academy Award®, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, AACTA, Golden Globe, and Critics Choice, as well as the Gotham Award for Best Performance for his role as John "Divine G." Whitfield. His other notable film roles include Rustin, If Beale Street Could Talk, Lincoln, The Butler, Selma, Candyman, and @zola. On television, Domingo won a Primetime Emmy for his role in Euphoria and will star in the upcoming Netflix series The Four Seasons. In addition to The Running Man, next he will appear in Michael (2025) as Joe Jackson and an untitled Steven Spielberg film set for 2026.
Award winning filmmaker Edgar Wright is the director and co-writer behind cinematic trifecta Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End (a.k.a. The Cornetto Trilogy) starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. His box office and Academy Award® nominated/BAFTA winning hit Baby Driver, critic/fan favorite Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, BAFTA Award nominated psychological thriller Last Night in Soho, and groundbreaking documentary The Sparks Brothers has cemented him as a true visionary behind the lens with the theatrical experience in mind.
CinemaCon® is the world’s premier showcase of theatrical exhibition, hosted by the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) and held from March 31-April 3 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The annual “Industry Insights from the Creative Community” luncheon is sponsored by Fathom Entertainment, Mobile Moviegoing and BeforeTheMovie.
The Big Screen Achievement Awards, hosted by official presenting sponsor The Coca-Cola Company, take place at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, and are the finale to the world’s premiere showcase of theatrical exhibition, CinemaCon. Returning to host the awards this year will be Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier.
CinemaCon attracts upwards of 6,000 motion picture professionals from all facets of the industry -- from exhibition and distribution, to the equipment and concession areas -- all on hand to celebrate the moviegoing experience and the cinema industry. CinemaCon works with the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) and National Association of Concessionaires (NAC) as its trade show partners. The Coca-Cola Company –- one of the industry’s most highly regarded and respected partners in the world of the movies -– is its official presenting sponsor.
The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) is the largest exhibition trade organization in the world, representing more than 32,000 movie screens in all 50 states, and more than 30,000 screens in 88 countries worldwide. NATO’s membership includes the largest cinema chains in the world as well as hundreds of independent theatre owners.
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Everest director Baltasar Kormakur and stars Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Emily Watson, John Hawkes, and Jake Gyllenhaal reunited far from the film's Himalayan setting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, August 28, 2015 to discuss the film with the international press. While this setting was far more amenable, to put it mildly, than either what the film's real life subjects endured or what they themselves experienced during the film's production, the vivid memories of the experience and passionate thoughts about the real life 1996 tragedy that inspired the film came out strongly in their comments.
Why Everest?
"I think the story is very real and it's hard to come by. It also has a huge scope, the humanity. It's not about a storm hitting people on a mountain; it's a lot of things that happen before that. And it's also about getting down a mountain, not getting up a mountain. It was a no-brainer to me." --Baltasar Kormakatur
"For me, by the time I jumped on board, there was already a lot of people attached, all of these actors that I very much look up to and respect. So to have the opportunity to work with them, that was the story itself. It's an incredibly compelling story, and to try to tell that story and to be a part of that was just a huge honor for me." --Michael Kelly
"I knew the story. I knew the book. I had a massive reaction to the book, and then I had also, before I had met Balt [Kormakatur], had a director come over to my office to sell a film to me that said, 'We're going to do a film, and it isn't going to be any of that Hollywood bullshit. It's going to be real.' And I thought, 'Who is this kook?' And then Baltasar came into the meeting after that, and I thought, 'Oh, I need to work with this guy,' because there was none of that. It was him; it was real; it was 100% organic. And I thought he was perfect to direct something as powerful as this and as sensitive as this. I needed to work with him, and it turned out well." --Josh Brolin
"I was always haunted by the fact that this man was on top of the world couldn't get home to his pregnant wife. That really haunted me. He was sitting up there; his wife was pregnant; and he couldn't get home. And then the more you dive into it, the richer, more complicated [it got]. It was like a detective story with what happened. Jon Krakauer wrote this extraordinary book about it, and then you follow this extraordinary trail. It was just a massive journey of people dying and wanting to live, just wanting to live in extraordinarily inhospitable places, and understanding what it is to want to live [like that]. " --Jason Clarke
"I had a strange and bizarre connection to the story. I wasn't connected myself to the story, but this event happened on the very day my first film [Breaking the Waves] premiered in Cannes. And I was having the most intense moment and bizarre moment of my life. It's a little bit disappearing my own backside, to be honest, just for the hype of it all, to have a movie in Cannes. And I just remember reading in the paper this story, just hearing about this guy was on the mountain, and he couldn't get down, and he was dying, and he called his wife. And as I'm hearing the story unfold, I'm being transported away from my own sense of importance for a few minutes to this unbelievable event. And when I read the script, and I met Balt, I felt a connection to it. But it also really fascinated me that someone like this who's a bystander--I thought that was an interesting thing to do, to be a bystander when somebody else's incredibly intense emotional story and being helpless to serve it." --Emily Watson
"I'd gotten the script in January of 2013 and sat down with Balt a month later. And for me, it was Balt. I just had a feeling that this would be the guy to make this movie and somebody I would really enjoy getting to know and work with, and so it all turned out to be true." --John Hawkes
"I love the book. I was aware of the situation when it happened in reality, but I think to me what was so moving was the idea of the inevitable in the movie, which felt like reality to me in a massive entertaining movie where Mother Nature wins. In the end, the inevitable happens that hese characters are ultimately, particularly with Rob and Scott, not necessarily afraid of. They ventured into the idea of life and death and walked the precipice of that all the time, and I liked that idea. I liked a movie that I felt was dealing with something that was very honest. I think also a tangent of that is the experience was like that too. Like Josh said, Balt promised us that we were going to be in the elements, that we would make a movie where we would legitimately be cold and legitimately be scared. And I think that's fun for someone like me. I speak for almost all of us, I think, when I say that's what we're looking for. We get to learn something about our lives as well as do the work that we love." --Jake Gyllenhaal
Transporting cinema audiences to Everest... and with the people
"One of things we wanted to do was to make 99.99% of the human race able to, if they want, see and feel Everest because most of them will never go or shouldn't go. We wanted to create a visceral feeling. Part of me telling this story is part of me experiencing the story. I can't experience what it is like to be on top of Everest. But you want to get as close to it as you possibly can. And that's the way I chose to make the film, to not make it easy on ourselves--try to find it, and find it in the elements. I was really pleased when I was watching the movie, not only seeing the mountain, but seeing the acting in IMAX. This kind of acting was not about making a big character that has a big arc but being there as real as possible. It actually plays brilliantly for me on a big screen because everything is true, and the little moments become huge."
--Baltasar Kormakatur
The Final Word
"I'm a true believer that in the elements, that's where you find it. You can prep all you want at home, and that's great. But the reality of it is going to happen in the moment. And if you can maintain the sponaneity and the reality of it, and find it there and trust the moment--to be able to do that, and you have to have great actors and have great people with you, so they actually can deliver in that moment. And that's when the magic happens for me. It's not in the rehearsal room." --Baltasar Kormakatur
Everest opens exclusively on IMAX 3D and large format screens nationwide today, Friday, September 18, expanding into general, all-format (Real D, digital 3D, and 2D) nationwide cinema release next Friday, September 25, from Universal Pictures.
It may have been a long near-decade since the spring 2005 release of director Robert Rodriguez's revolutionary screen adaptation (or, more accurately, translation) of three storylines of Frank Miller's landmark neo-noir comic series Sin City, but seeing Rodriguez, Miller, and returning star Jessica Alba reunite for the press junket for the long-awaited follow-up, A Dame to Kill For, it's clear their familial camaraderie and creative rapport has only strengthened during the protracted layover. That palpable all-around chemistry also extended to cast newcomers Josh Brolin, Eva Green, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as can be seen as the six took part in a spirited panel press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, August 2 (not August 3, as indicated in the video below).
