If you've noticed a lot of movie news pouring out over the last few days, that's all thanks to CinemaCon, a four-day festival held in Las Vegas dedicated to movie studios showing theaters why they should be excited for their upcoming stuff. Stars show up. New information is released. The director of "Starsky & Hutch" and "The Hangover: Part II" talks about the glory and importance of the big screen experience. 

So even though we're only halfway through – with Disney, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate and more still to present – we've already learned a ton. Like how there's going to be a new Batman movie directed by new Batman himself Ben Affleck. And how there's going to be a "Men in Black"/"21 Jump Street" crossover film called "MIB 23." And that the new footage for "Passengers" – a new sci-fi romance with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt I've retitled "Ka-Ching!" – and "Story of Your Life" looks great. And that there's going to be a friggin' Emoji movie. Indeed, a movie about emojis. What hell hath "The LEGO Movie" wrought. 

Yet even with all of that, somehow the biggest movie news this week so far came not from Las Vegas but from "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Last night, the late night show premiered the first look at Marvel's highly anticipated "Doctor Strange," which answers the time-long question: What would it look like if a bald Tilda Swinton punched a man's soul of out his body?

It would look like that. And it would look pretty awesome – along with everything else.

Over the last few years, it's the little risky Marvel movies that have been more interesting and enjoyable than the big franchise movers. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" was really good, but it was the deeply charming and buoyant "Guardians of the Galaxy" that won people over. Last year, while "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ground all of its universe-expanding gears, the little weightless "Ant-Man" was busy being more fun.

This year, "Doctor Strange," starring master of penguin pronunciation Benedict Cumberbatch as the Sorcerer Supreme, is that bonus Marvel oddball – in case the crazy kaleidoscope visuals and darker visual look didn't give that away. Here's to hoping it keeps the tradition alive of packing the kind of surprises the regular Marvel movies typically can't now (but while we're at it, here's to hoping "Captain America: Civil War" is good too).

This preview is a good start. The visuals are captivating, the story sounds uniquely intriguing and the cast – including Tilda, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mads Mikkelsen as the villain, because obviously Mads Mikkelsen is the villain.

We'll find out of this first look foretells a movie of real magic or just some sideshow tomfoolery later this year when "Doctor Strange" hits theaters on Nov. 4. Just in time for Not Halloween!