'Joker,' 'Knives Out' and three more 2019 movies we're excited to see after CinemaCon

There are plenty of films that Hollywood studios want the crowds at CinemaCon to like. They're often the titles positioned toward the end of the flashy annual presentations movie companies put on for theater owners. The films whose questionable quality studios hope to distract from by trotting out charming stars such as Dwayne Johnson and John Cena. The ones you hear a lot of hype about onstage but don't actually see a lot of preview footage from at Caesars Palace's Colosseum.

After four days in Las Vegas, we've heard the hard sells for dozens of films that Warner Bros., Universal, Disney (and its newly acquired Fox assets), Paramount, Lionsgate and STX plan to release in 2019. (Sony was the only major studio that didn't present.) But now that