20th Century Fox Kicks Off With Deadpool ‘A Chorus Line’ Number; Stacey Snider Talks Disney-Fox Merger – CinemaCon

20th Century Fox Kicks Off With Deadpool ‘A Chorus Line’ Number; Stacey Snider Talks Disney-Fox Merger – CinemaCon

20th Century Fox always starts their CinemaCon presentations with a musical number, and this year it was A Chorus Line of girls in red bustiers dancing along to that Broadway show’s signature song “One”as Deadpool himself came twirling on stage. This was followed by Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) beaming in via video saying that he can’t be there, and that Fox distribution chief Chris Aronson was running late.

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Deadpool greeted the exhibitors in the room by saying “when do we get this self congratulatory orgy of non-exhibitionists going?” Aronson than wakes up in bed in a The Greatest Showman get-up and says “I’m totally fucked.”

Hugh Jackman joins the duo in the hotel room, and Deadpool tells him “it looks like Comcast really dodged the bullet” which received a number of laughs from the room. More Disney-Fox merger jokes: a costumed Pluto wakes up in the background of the video and makes his way out amidst debris.

“You try staying up and drinking with those pricks,” said Aronson taking the stage, “at least I don’t have to wear spandex.” Aronson has appeared in Vanilla Ice get-up at previous CinemaCons and has always been a gamer in regards to hamming it up during the studio’s sessions here at Las Vegas.

Deadpool 2 hit tracking this morning with analysts projecting a $150M opening for the May 18 release.

Motion Pictures boss Stacey Snider,on the Disney-Fox Merger said “we face a potential merger and its lasting implications on the movie business and I have no more insights than you do.” That said she touted the studio’s finesse with sleepers like The Greatest Showman and the studio’s vision with such non-IP fare. Snider then threw it to a Fox sizzle reel of their greatest hits including Sound of Music, Patton, Empire Strikes Back, Broadcast News, Cleopatra, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Alien, The King and I , etc.