Suicide Squad and Tarzan star Margot Robbie leads the Aussie charge at CinemaCon in Las Vegas

AUSSIE star Margot Robbie has two huge movies coming up in Suicide Squad and Tarzan and Jane — and she promises they are both kick-ass female parts.

MARGOT Robbie clapped and jumped gleefully in Las Vegas on Tuesday after seeing herself as comic book bad girl Harley Quinn on a big screen for the first time.

And she assured everyone in attendance that her Jane — of Tarzan and Jane fame — would be “no damsel in distress”.

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The white-hot rising star was just one of a boatload of Aussies who took the stage at Warner Bros’ presentation at CinemaCon, to show off their upcoming 2016 movies to US cinema chains.

Aussie star Margot Robbie arrives at CinemaCon 2016, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Usually, stars presenting a glimpse of their movies here leave the stage as soon as their spiel is delivered. But Robbie and her Suicide Squad co-stars — including Jared Leto (The Joker), Will Smith (Deadshot), fellow Aussie Jai Courtney (Boomerang) and Cara Delevingne (Enchantress) — huddled close together on the stage corner beneath the big screen to watch as footage from the anarchic DC Comics adventure rolled.

Margot Robbie plays Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, the story of a group of Gotham’s most despicable villains.

Robbie’s excitement at what she saw was capped with a high-five to co-star Jay Hernandez.

“This one is really special,” Smith had said prior. “This group of people — we’ve bonded, we’ve become friends. And we feel we’ve created something really special.”

Christoph Waltz, Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie and Samuel L. Jackson arrive at CinemaCon 2016.

Director David Ayer said Suicide Squad — the story of a group of Gotham’s most despicable villains, united by the US government to pull off a no-hope mission — would be “like spending a couple of hours with the coolest kids in school”.

The film opens in Australia on August 4.

Margot Robbie hangs out with co-star Jared Leto at CinemaCon 2016.

Robbie was back on stage a few titles later for her other big blockbuster season release, The Legend of Tarzan (July 7).

She clutched the arm of co-star Alexander Skarsgard and said it was a “special privilege” to team with the Swede to “reimagine the legendary characters of Tarzan and Jane”.

“Let me assure you,” Robbie added, “this Jane is no damsel in distress.”

Other Aussies to take the stage in Las Vegas were Teresa Palmer, who said her upcoming horror movie Lights Out (July 21) plays on the fact “we all remember what it’s like to be afraid of the dark,” and director James Wan, whose terrifying sequel The Conjuring 2 (June 16) got a huge reaction from the audience.

And Russell Crowe stepped up to plug his ’70s-set crime caper The Nice Guys (May 26). He threw his absent co -star Ryan Gosling under the bus a couple of times (“Ryan would have loved to be here today … that’s bullshit”) before praising Gosling’s comic prowess.

Crowe said Gosling made him “corpse” (break into laughter) more on The Nice Guys than he had previously in 40-something years of making movies: “This kid is channelling Gene Wilder in this movie or something.”

Warner Bros of course kicked off the presentation with their answer to the all-conquering Marvel superhero machine: the DC Universe.

Talking about where they’ll take superhero slate in the wake of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara promised “at least 10 more movies over the next five years” and that these titles would be “filmmaker driven” — making a point to mention the studio would work with Ben Affleck “on a stand-alone Batman” and James Wan on Aquaman.

Affleck himself then took the stage with Amy Adams to introduce a video touting the expansiveness of the DC Universe. In the video, Gal Gadot gave a taste of the stand-alone Wonder Woman: “We’re gonna see her coming of age … What’s her mission? … The whole thing.”

Affleck wasn’t the only Batman to fly in: LEGO Batman, aka Will Arnett’s voice, brought the house down with a surprise appearance.

The LEGO Batman Movie may not be out until 2017, but Arnett showed new footage (introducing Michael Cera as the voice of a very enthusiastic Robin) and promised the “definitive” take on the superhero.

The movie’s starting point, he said, was “Batman back at the Batcave — what is his day to day? Sure, his parents were murdered in front of him as a child, but why is he so bummed out?”

Co-director Chris Miller, meanwhile, said it would have “the same irreverent tone as (last year’s smash hit) The LEGO Movie”.

Another animated title on display was Storks (September 22). “It’s fun to say, and it’s fun to watch,” said voice star Andy Samberg. The colourful film imagines a world where storks have swapped delivering babies for delivering packages for an Amazon-like company.

Bradley Cooper and writer-director Todd Phillips returned to the scene of their The Hangover comedy crimes to plug their new fact-is-stranger-than-fiction effort War Dogs (August 18).

Starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, it’s the story of two Florida stoners who won a huge US government contract to sell arms to the Afghan army.

Cooper makes a cameo in the film and produced it via his new production company with Phillips.

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke brought a touch of romance to the presentation, showing off Me Before You (June 23), based on the best-selling novel.

Though Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was stuck on the Baywatch set in Georgia, Kevin Hart showed up to plug the odd couple’s new action comedy Central Intelligence (June 30). Johnson’s absence gave Hart the confidence to claim he “could take Dwayne — he’s lettin’ himself go”.

The presentation came to a magical close with our long-awaited re-entry to J.K. Rowling’s world of wizardry, in the shape of the Harry Potter prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Set in 1920s New York, it stars Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, a troublesome but favourite pupil of Dumbledore.

Redmayne and Colin Farrell both gushed about Rowling, who for the first time has scripted the film.

“Entering J.K. Rowling’s imagination — that was extraordinary for us,” said Redmayne.

Fantastic Beasts will be the crescendo to Warner Bros’ big year of films, releasing on November 17 — the slot dominated for years by Harry Potter.