Avengers reassemble and Top Gun flies back - Hollywood studios preview their new movies

Avengers reassemble and Top Gun flies back - Hollywood studios preview their new movies12 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSteven McIntosh, Paul GlynnandIan Youngs,Culture reportersGetty ImagesRobert Downey Jr was unmasked as the villain Doctor DoomSome of the most hotly anticipated films of the next couple of years have been previewed at the annual gathering of the cinema industry, CinemaCon, in Las Vegas this week.The event gives fans and cinema owners a glimpse of the biggest movies coming down the tracks, with footage and trailers screened there - often before they're posted online.A-list stars and directors were on hand to give peeks at what to expect.From the Avengers to Ariana Grande to an AI Val Kilmer, here are some of the main films and what we learned.Doomsday is nighGetty ImagesDirector Joe Russo got in between Robert Downey Jr (left) and Chris EvansDisney showcased the first proper trailer for the long-awaited next Avengers film, Avengers: Doomsday, as the conference closed on Thursday.The clip gave the first look at Robert Downey Jr - who played Iron Man in 2019's Avengers: Endgame - as the new masked villain, Doctor Doom.The latest film, out on 18 December, brings together a host of Marvel characters old and new.The trailer showed a fight between Gambit and Shang-Chi, played by Channing Tatum and Simu Liu respectively, and Patrick Stewart reprising his role as X-Men's Professor Xavier. "Something's coming, something we may not be able to deter," he warns.Chris Evans returns as Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, appearing before Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth, as the Norse god's Mjolnir hammer flies into the former's hands.On stage, Evans told the CinemaCon crowd: "I said I would only come back if there was a real reason. And in Doomsday, there is a very real reason that these heroes need Steve Rogers."Tom Cruise back in the Top Gun hot seatGetty ImagesTom Cruise is returning for Top Gun 3...