Paramount CinemaCon Brings Laughs; Seth Rogen On Distrib Boss Chris Aronson ‘TMNT’ Stunt: “First Time I’ve Seen An Executive Emerging From A Sewer!”
deadline.comRefresh for updates…The final morning of CinemaCon 2023 began with Paramount, the studio that brought coast-to-coast moviegoers back with their $718.7M record breaking Tom Cruise sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.
And in standard fashion, domestic distribution chief, Chris Aronson, hammed it up with a grand entrance. Aronson who has made a big splash on previous CinemaCon stages clad as Vanilla Ice (during 20th Century) and in a Jackass go-kart.
This time, he ascended from a stage floor door tricked out as a sewer cap, holding a pizza with a Teenage Mutant Turtle mask around his eyes.
Aronson emerged following a big hip hop breakdance crew. “It’s the first time I’ve seen an executive emerging from a sewer here at CinemaCon!” joked Seth Rogen when he came on stage to present Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem (due out Aug 4). “There is something very appropriate about seeing studio executives rise from the sewers,”added the TMNT producer and scribe.
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