If there’s a continuing motif among studios presentations at CinemaCon this year, it’s comedians working the exhibition crowd.
Lionsgate closed out CinemaCon with Sebastian Maniscalco preforming eight minutes of stand-up to huge roars in Caesars Colosseum.
He’s here to promote the movie inspired by his life, About My Father. Yesterday, Universal had Billy Eichner, Jo Koy Steve Carell.“A little tidbit,” said Maniscalco ribbing Lionsgate distribution boss David Spitz after he introduced the studio’s session today, “He was a little nervous backstage that the teleprompter would go dark and he’d be lost up here.”His set covered everything from his Jewish in-laws, Italians approach to food, the line and price at the casino pool, how Hamilton never changed his life, and more.“I’m watching you milling around the casino, I gotta give it up to you, who decided that the lanyards would be this big?” taking a swipe at CinemaCon badges, “What are you keeping in there?
Your tax returns?”He mentioned how Vegas use to be a place where people get dressed up. “Looks like a slumber party out there,” says Maniscalco.On paper straws: “Couple of turtles die in the ocean and I have to get a brain aneurysm drinking out of a straw made out of dry wall.”On exhibitors: “I didn’t expect a lot of Jewish people went into theater ownership.”And his wife: “Love my wife, she’s slow, she doesn’t move.
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