It's become a grand tradition here at ComingSoon.net for us to go to Las Vegas for the annual exhibitors convention formerly called ShoWest and now called CinemaCon. For the third year in a row, Caesar's Palace is the home for CinemaCon and as in past years, hundreds of exhibitors and theater owners will gather to find out what the studios have to offer their audiences over the next few months.

As usual, we've gotten there a bit early to check out the posters on display, some of which you can see below and others you can check out in our 2013 CinemaCon Gallery.

Not much to say about this weekend except that we're reaching the dregs of the spring movie season where studios dump some last minute movies they usually don't expect to fare too well before the summer comes along. Of course, one of the movies is the fifth installment of a comedy franchise that did very well with an April release and the other movie is a baseball film so maybe they'll both beat the odds.

This week's offerings are the spoof comedy Scary Movie 5 (Dimension Films) and the historical baseball drama 42 (Warner Bros.), co-starring Harrison Ford, and this week's CHOSEN ONE is Ken Loach's new comedy The Angels' Share (Sundance Selects).

Focus Features has informed us that The Place Beyond the Pines director Derek Cianfrance will be participating in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Wednesday, April 10th at 1:30pm Eastern. While I personally have interviewed Derek twice before, this will be a great chance to ask any burning questions you might have about his latest film, a crime-drama triptych set in Schenectady, New York starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne, Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen. You can also ask about his previous films or his upcoming HBO show "Muscle" or his obsession with Mike Patton (who did the score for "Pines") as well.

For those that read all the way to the bottom of last week's column, I pulled a bit of an early April Fool's joke because "Box Office Preview" is indeed over, but "The Weekend Warrior" is back! Of course, anyone who has been reading this weekly column regularly will probably have already noticed I've been slowly transforming this column back into what I used to do with the Weekend Warrior in terms of longer write-ups for the new movies in wide release.

So you may be wondering: Why change the title back? Well, I'm glad you wondered. Any of those of you who have been reading this constantly evolving column and blog may have noticed that this week's column celebrates a lofty milestone as it was on April 1, 2003 that the Weekend Warrior first appeared on ComingSoon.net and this week's column marks our 10 year anniversary! It's a pretty significant milestone and to make a long story short: This being my 10th year with ComingSoon.net I decided to bring back the original "Weekend Warrior" title, that's all. So I apologize if anyone was freaking out after last week's announcement but what do you expect for a column that marks its anniversary on April Fool's Day? :)

And we start off our tenth year with only two movies in wide release, one a remake and one a rerelease, so the Weekend Warrior gets to celebrate his anniversary by taking things a little easier. Hurray! They're both strong releases although they'll also both be taking on the March Madness college basketball semi-finals and championship on Friday and Sunday respectively.

Last time we did one of these Long Distance Box Offices, we looked at some of the big blockbusters of the summer and this probably won't be our last Long Distance Box Office about summer movies, but we wanted to take a closer look at one particular weekend this summer that will probably be discussed a lot over the next couple weeks and probably for the rest of the summer, and that's Memorial Day weekend.

Every year, at least one or two big movies have opened big over the holiday weekend and there have only been a couple Memorial Day weekends in recent memory where nothing opened that big.

This year that just won't be the case because we have two big sequels to movies that each opened over $80 million as well as a new family animated adventure hoping to follow other Memorial Day animated hits. The big feud for the top spot will come between two primarily male-driven sequels, Fast and Furious 6 and The Hangover Part III. This may sound familiar to those who remember when The Hangover Part II took on Kung Fu Panda 2 two years back and absolutely trounced it. Things might be a little bit different this time since The Hangover Part III is taking on a PG-13 movie that's going to be just as or even more appealing to guys of all ages.

Hoping that none of the regular readers of this blog realized we missed an entire monthly preview, we're back with a look at the movies coming out in April, a month which seems somewhat slower than March with only seven wide releases over the four weeks leading up to the summer movie season.

Things kick into high gear pretty quickly with the release of the long-awaited remake of Evil Dead (Tristar / Sony Pictures / FilmDistrict - April 4) with original creators Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell producing a new take on the horror classic of a group of kids who go to a cabin in the woods and end up facing a demonic identity. Also, Tom Cruise makes a rare April appearance starring in the sci-fi action thriller Oblivion (Universal - April 19) from TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, based on a little seen graphic novel about seemingly the last man on earth.

The long month of March comes to a close with a few decent-sized hits under its belt as well as a few outright failures, but Easter weekend sees a mixed bag with G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Paramount) , a big budget action sequel a long time in the making; The Host (Open Road Entertainment), another attempt at a young adult adaptation—this one from the queen of the genre Stephenie Meier; as well as Tyler Perry's Temptation (Lionsgate), a new movie from Tyler Perry that branches out from his usual cross-dressing comedies.

With Oz the Great and Powerful still running rampant over the box office, three new movies open this weekend, hoping to take advantage of the number of schools on spring break to do better business than other movies released over the past few months. There's a good chance that at least one of them will best "Oz" but there may even be two big weekend hits.

Opening wide release this weekend are the animated The Croods (DreamWorks Animation/20th Century Fox), the action-thriller Olympus Has Fallen (FilmDistrict), starring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart, the romantic-comedy Admission (Focus Features), starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, as well as Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers (A24).

Last night, the IFC Center in New York City hosted the first screening in the new season of The Modern School of Film's "Film: Masters" series, showing Martin Scorsese's 1991 gangster classic Goodfellas followed by a conversation with chef, author, world traveller and TV personality Anthony Bourdain.

It's been some time since I've seen Goodfellas from beginning to end, probably ten years or more, but I did see it when it first played in theaters and probably four or five times since then, but as a fan of Bourdain's Travel Channel shows "No Reservations" and "The Layover" and his various books, it seemed like it could be a fun night.

The 20th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin is coming to an end, which makes this as good a time as any to look back at this year's festival and see how it fared compared to other festivals.

For us, the festival really acted like catch-up from the Sundance Film Festival, which we skipped this year, so lots of the movies we saw from Jeff Nicholl's Mud to Shane Carruth's Upstream Color to David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche and Richard Linklater's Before Midnight were movies that had already been seen and raved about from other film festivals.

Still, there were plenty of high profile world premieres of movies looking for distribution including Bryan Poyser's The Bounceback, Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies, Eric Heisserer's Hours, Daniel Mazer's I Give It a Year and lots more.