Wicked: For Good and Jurassic World Rebirth Dominate Universal's CinemaCon

While Universal Pictures (along with Focus Features) showcased respective of their upcoming films astatine CinemaCon connected Wednesday, it was much noteworthy which titles connected their slate they opted not to beforehand to theatre executives and the press.

In the past, Universal would unveil archetypal look footage of movies successful accumulation oregon interruption quality astir their biggest franchises. This year, the workplace simply name-checked immoderate of their astir eagerly anticipated 2026 titles: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Super Mario Bros. Movie 2, Shrek 5, Steven Spielberg’s untitled sci-fi film, oregon Jordan Peele’s adjacent directorial effort.

Notably, Fast and Furious 11 wasn’t adjacent mentioned.

Instead, Universal’s presumption mostly consisted of playing caller trailers for their 2025 films, kicking things disconnected with Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and manager Gareth Edwards debuting the adjacent trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth.

Johansson joked that she pitched herself to enforcement shaper Steven Spielberg “and said I’d play immoderate role, adjacent if I was eaten successful the archetypal 5 minutes.”

While Johansson intelligibly doesn’t dice successful the opening moments of Jurassic World Rebirth, 1 of the highlights of the caller trailer was a precocious seas pursuit series wherever the heroes are successful a vessel pursuing a Mosasaurus and Johansson ends up hanging connected for beloved life.

New trailers were besides shown for The Bad Guys 2, Nobody 2, Him (produced by Jordan Peele), and Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie. Ditto Blumhouse titles M3GAN 2.0, SOULM8TE, Black Phone 2, and Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2. Focus Features showed trailers for 3 upcoming prestige films: The Phoenician Scheme, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, and Bugonia.

Gerard Butler, Nico Parker and manager Dean DeBlois made an quality to beforehand the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, which screened successful its entirety earlier successful the time astatine the convention. The biggest quality from this conception was that determination volition beryllium a live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 and that it volition beryllium released successful theaters connected June 11, 2027.

Universal closed their CinemaCon 2025 presumption with Wicked: For Good, wherever stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo and manager Jon M. Chu and shaper Marc Platt took the signifier to uncover the caller trailer for the sequel, which hits theaters connected November 21st.

The trailer leans into the tragic falling retired betwixt Elphaba and Glinda. “You’re the lone person I’ve ever had,” Elphaba tells Glinda. “And I’ve had truthful galore friends,” Glinda replies. “But you’re the lone 1 that mattered.”

The footage besides revealed performances of the musical’s songs “For Good” and “No Good Deed,” and provided much glimpses of the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum) including his gathering with Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.

For much CinemaCon coverage, find retired what we learned astir Superman, Mortal Kombat II, Resident Evil, Spider-Man: Brave New Day, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, John Wick 5, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, and The Beatles.