Avengers reassemble and Top Gun flies back - Hollywood studios preview their new movies

Some of the most hotly anticipated new films of the next couple of years are previewed at CinemaCon. Some of the most hotly anticipated new films of the next couple of years are previewed at CinemaCon.

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Some of the most hotly anticipated new films of the next couple of years are previewed at CinemaCon.

Some of the most hotly anticipated films of the next couple of years have been previewed at the annual gathering of the cinema industry, CinemaCon, in Las Vegas this week.

The event gives fans and cinema owners a glimpse of the biggest movies coming down the tracks, with footage and trailers screened there - often before they’re posted online.

A-list stars and directors were on hand to give peeks at what to expect.

From the Avengers to Ariana Grande to an AI Val Kilmer, here are some of the main films and what we learned.

Disney showcased the first proper trailer for the long-awaited next Avengers film, Avengers: Doomsday, as the conference closed on Thursday.

The clip gave the first look at Robert Downey Jr - who played Iron Man in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame - as the new masked villain, Doctor Doom.

The latest film, out on 18 December, brings together a host of Marvel characters old and new.

The trailer showed a fight between Gambit and Shang-Chi, played by Channing Tatum and Simu Liu respectively, and Patrick Stewart reprising his role as X-Men’s Professor Xavier. “Something’s coming, something we may not be able to deter,” he warns.

Chris Evans returns as Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, appearing before Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth, as the Norse god’s Mjolnir hammer flies into the former’s hands.

On stage, Evans told the CinemaCon crowd: “I said I would only come back if there was a real reason. And in Doomsday, there is a very real reason that these heroes need Steve Rogers.”

Tom Cruise is returning for Top Gun 3, Paramount announced.

The follow-up to 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick is “officially in development with a script well under way”, Paramount’s Josh Greenstein told the convention.

The last film earned $1.5bn at the global box office, giving cinemas a much-needed boost as punters began to return after Covid.

Cruise was at CinemaCon earlier in the week to preview a very different film, Digger, in which he plays a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess.

Fresh from her Oscar-nominated turn in Wicked, Grande is flexing her comedy muscles in Focker In-Law.

The singer will appear alongside Ben Stiller and Robert de Niro in the latest instalment of the franchise that began with 2000’s Meet The Parents.

Where Stiller’s character once struggled to impress his girlfriend’s father, the latest take will move to the next generation as Grande plays the love interest of Stiller’s son. The first trailer was re