If you missed CinemaCon this week (and we at Pop Culture Junkie sadly had to skip it) then you (and we) missed a lot.

Luckily, it’s not hard to catch up on all the cool movie trailers and exclusive news revealed this week. Heck you’re already doing it by reading this article about three new trailers for sequels or remakes of that were revealed at the movie-lovers convention this week.

First, and perhaps foremost, the trailer for M3GAN 2.0 dropped. It’s set two years after M3GAN 1.0 went rogue, started a glam murder spree, and tried to kill Gemma, only to be destroyed – or so we assumed. Now M3GAN’s creator Gemma (Allison Williams) has become an advocate for government oversight of AI (fitting) and the killer robot’s former owner, Cady (Violet McGraw) is a teen chafing at life with an overprotective aunt.

As for M3GAN, she’s still around, but her consciousness has been installed in a less murderous, pill-shaped animatronic device. The trailer begins with M3GAN narrating, “I admit there were some bugs in my programming. It’s hardly fair to blame me for that.”

M3GAN 2.0., post-makeover. Image courtesy Universal Pictures.

But it’s not M3GAN that Gemma and Cady (and the rest of us) need to worry about; Gemma’s tech was stolen and used to create an even more murdery droid, and soon the OG M3G is called into service -and given a glow-up – so she can stop her.

Gerard Johnstone returns to direct, and Brian Jordan Alvarez and Jen Van Epps also reprise their roles from the original. Also starring are Timm Sharp, Aristotle Athari, and Jemaine Clement.

M3GAN 2.0 dances into theaters on June 27th.

Not a sequel, but The Naked Gun is a continuation of the Naked Gun franchise that starred Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley and, believe it or not, OJ Simpson in four films that spanned 1982 – 1994.

Liam Neeson (really!) shows off his comedy chops in the trailer, where he plays Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Nielsen. We see cops staking out a bank with a robbery in progress. The police are stunned to see a little girl enter the bank, but once inside, ‘she’ reveals herself to be Neeson in disguise.

“What do you want, little one?” a gunman asks before the reveal, and once he pulls the mask off, Neeson quips, “Your ass.”

Liam Neeson shows off his gams, and more, in The Naked Gun.
Image courtesy Paramount Pictures.

Paramount’s social media staff make the “particular set of skills” joke so we don’t have to, but that’s as much as they divulge of the plot. Additional footage only seen at CinemaCon included scenes of Drebin interrogating a suspect played by Busta Rhymes and hinted at a romantic relationship with a character played by Pamela Anderson.

Akiva Schaffer directs and co-wrote the script with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Liza Koshy, Cody Rhodes, Eddie Yu, and Danny Houston round out the cast.

The Naked Gun fires into theaters on August 1st.

Lastly, Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Rupert Friend are the latest actors to take an ill-advised trip to Dinosaur Island in Jurassic World Rebirth.

The fourth film in the Jurassic World series follows a team of scientists and others whose main objective is to acquire genetic samples from three of the largest dinosaurs in the sea, on land and in the air. It takes place five years after Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and in this timeline, the planet has become inhospitable for dinosaurs, and though the three largest dinos on land, in the air, and under water have something that humans need to save themselves.

Enter Zora Bennett (Johansson) who leads a team to the remotest parts of the world – and to the original Jurassic Park research facility – to track down the thunder-lizards to get their DNA, or whatever, after which (deadly) hijinks ensue.

Jonathan Bailey and Scarlett Johansson see a real dinosaur (!) in Jurassic World Rebirth. Image courtesy Universal Pictures.

Johansson told the crowd at CinemaCon that “we wanted to put the scares back in Jurassic,” adding, “Ii’s been a lifelong dream to be in a Jurassic movie. Each time they were making a new one, I reached out and said I was available.”

Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain and Ed Skrein also star in the film, directed by Gareth Edwards and written by original Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp.

Jurassic World Rebirth roars into theaters on July 2nd.

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