The second full day of CinemaCon just ended in Vegas with a presentation from Focus Features celebrating their success in 2023 and what is to come in 2024 including Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jeff Nichols, Bill Skarsgård, Robert Eggers, Edward Berger, and more.

A new look at the Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, was shown first as the film is set to release next month on the 17th exclusively in theaters. The film stars Marisa Abela, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville, and more as they are directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. The footage shown was mostly the same footage shown in other trailers already and seems to follow the rise and fall of Winehouse through the lens of tabloids.

Up next was a look at Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, which will release in theaters June 21st. I was lucky enough to see the film at AFI last year and have held my review for the summer release, but the new trailer is a perfect look at the swooning movie stars in Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy in this violent tale of a biker gang. Nichols was the perfect filmmaker to bring the photo book to life. The Bikeriders is the perfect film for the summer as you feel comfortable amongst all these famous faces despite a brutal story unfolding on screen. Butler’s entrance in the film is a legendary moment in film history. The Focus Features film has iconic imagery that demands to be seen on a big screen.

One of the most thrilling looks of the entire day at CinemaCon was in Edward Berger’s Conclave. The thrilling religious tale is full of dread and ominous as the all star cast searches for a new pope after the current pope dies. Conclave is not a horror film but the terror fills the screen with the looming score blaring over it. Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini round out this incredible cast for Berger’s follow up to the massive Oscar hit, All Quiet on the Western Front. Conclave will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 1st and then expand on November 8th.

Focus Features ended their presentation with a first look at the highly, highly anticipated Nosferatu, which is written and directed by Robert Eggers. The teaser showcased the breathtaking cinematography, a bone chilling score, and a glimpse of Bill Skarsgård as the iconic Count Orlok. Before showing the teaser, Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski said the film “definitely ain’t your father’s ‘Nosferatu,’ and Eggers will definitely bring new meaning to the phrase ‘Christmas feast.’” He wasn’t wrong as the footage was visceral, haunting, and full of hallucinatory imagery. Glimpses of Skarsgård lurking and his towering presence over the film until you finally see the iconic Count Orlok silhouette in the shadows. Lily-Rose Depp chants, ‘he is coming,’ in an unnerving voiceover as brutal imagery fills the screen from streets filled with rats, a man eating the head off a pigeon, and rooms filled to the ceiling with flames. Nosferatu is a lifelong dream of Eggers to reimagine for the screen and it was shot on film and will release on December 25th exclusively in theaters.