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Back in the 2010’s, San Diego ComicCon was the go-to destination for big movie announcements. Whether it was casting reveals or new trailers, that was where all the hype for big movies and shows gathered, and it helped facilitate that decade’s nerd-culture boom for DC, Marvel, Star Wars, and their mega-IP peers.

But now, most of the ComicCon news lands with crickets. All the big movie news comes from CinemaCon, where all sorts of prestige projects get announced, whether highly anticipated sequels or awards bait. People are now hyped for The Odyssey, Dune 3, Digger, and all sorts of movies that are expected to play for awards, while nobody cares about Marvel news coming out of there.

CinemaCon is such a big deal now that a prestige TV show set an episode there! ComicCon could never dream of this! It’s a world where movie culture is now determined by people who watch movies, and not just hyper-obsessed fanboys who care about a company’s bottom line. And we have the Vegas con to thank for that!