Dwayne Johnson Teases ‘Black Adam’ and Does Crowd Work at CinemaCon
thewrap.comDwayne “The Rock” Johnson made a surprise appearance at CinemaCon during Warner Bros.’s presentation on Tuesday night, working the crowd and wooing some of the exhibition heavyweights like AMC’s Adam Aron and Cinemark’s Sean Gamble, all as he hyped up “Black Adam” and “DC League of Super Pets,” each with new trailers.
At first, it looked like The Rock would be phoning it in with a taped appearance, but it turned out he was sitting in front of a backdrop of a Hawaii horizon and instead walked through the crowd and then out on stage.
Johnson truly played the part of the biggest movie star in the world and made his pitch about how his Seven Bucks Production is working to bring people back to theaters with both of his DC films.
He even told a story about his mom visiting Cinemark locations hoping to speak with the manager and asking to bring home the promotional stand-ups from some of Johnson’s movies. “I got the call from Bob Iger…Your mom is stealing the signs,” he told the crowd to laughs.
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