Sony’s Bad Boys add star power to CinemaCon presentation

Sony’s CinemaCon presentation kicked off Monday night in Las Vegas with a little help from Mike Lowrey and Marcus Bennett.

The protagonists of the franchise Bad Boys , interpreted respectively by Will Smith and Martin Lawrence they added some star power to the festivities, even if it was from a distance via a recorded message from the set.

“Hey, CinemaCon!” Smith said after he and Lawrence they came out of a Porsche black against the backdrop of a row of production trailers. “The bad boys back in the building. We are on the set and we are sorry It’s so bad not being able to be there with you.”

Smith went on to say that they just started film when his co-star briefly interrupted him and asked him to correct the intro by saying that they’re actually not sorry they couldn’t be inside the Colosseum tonight. “We had to be here, Will,” Lawrence pointed out, to which Smith He said that he had seen stars like Tom Hanks do these kinds of presentations and that always you are asked to apologize. “Make that the people It feels good,” he joked. But, he answered Lawrence“This is a sophisticated crowd, tell them the truth.”

With that, Smith cleared up his story. “We’re glad we’re not there, because we’re here and they pay us to be here, so we’re glad we’re here and not there.”

Bad is coming Boys 4 . Back in the saddle. We’re excited,” Smith concluded, adding that they are in their fourth week of filming. He then introduced the president of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, Josh Greenstein, whom he called “the bad boy” of Sony Pictures Entertainment. “That’s a bit embarrassing,” Greenstein said before turning serious. “We are very happy that the Bad Boys Get back in action.”

As previously reported, Smith and Lawrence team up once again for Columbia Pictures in Bad Boys 4, in an installment that reunites them with the filmmaking duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who directed them for the last time in Bad Boys for Life of 2020, a hit that earned $426 million in its global box office haul.

Although the untitled movie is far from finished (it was filmed in Atlanta and doesn’t have a release date yet), Sony teased it as part of the studio’s early slate, which Greenstein says is packed with “23 movies this year alone.” calendar year”. .”

It finds Smith and Lawrence reprising their roles as Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, respectively, and starring alongside Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núnez, and Eric Dane. El Arbi and Fallah are directing from a script written by Chris Bremner. Smith, Jerry Bruckheimer, Doug Belgrad and Chad Oman are producing with a list of executive producers that includes Lawrence, James Lassiter, Mike Stenson, Barry Waldman and Jon Mone.

Lawrence spoke about the movie a few days ago in an interview during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. “He has the opportunity to be the best of all and everyone is doing their thing,” he told Entertainment Tonight . “We recovered a lot of the equipment from the last one. Big Willie is doing his thing as usual and very focused and, yes, he has a chance to be the biggest one”.

He will surely have a lot of eyes on him too, it marks El Arbi and Fallah’s first feature film after their film Batgirl was shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery. Meanwhile, Smith also continues to reel from the controversy in the wake of last year’s Oscar slapstick.