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I hate the Across The Universe (that's the Evan Rachel Wood-Beatle thing, right?) trailer. Every time it comes on I worry that they think I'm its audience because of what movie ticket I bought.
I think you've got something. I saw Death At A Funeral last night and there were 20 minutes of trailers for movies I'd be pretty much equally likely to avoid and I could only wonder: why those trailers with this movie? Because Running With Scissors was long out of the theatres?
A lot of the time the studio tells us which trailers to program with their movies. Ferinstance Fox might position a 20th Century blockbuster trailer in front of a Fox Searchlight title.
"Do you know the name of that movie about the maid and she's pregnant?"
Any chance she got maid confused with waitress and wanted to see "Waitress"? Although it hasn't been in first run theatres for a while.
When she saw "Nanny Diaries" on the schedule she was sure that was the one.
Just keep in mind that she's the Viewing Audience. You know, the big demographic that movies are made for.
It helps explain Uwe Boll.
A lot of the time the studio tells us which trailers to program with their movies. Ferinstance Fox might position a 20th Century blockbuster trailer in front of a Fox Searchlight title.
Don't the trailers actually come attached to the films sometimes? I learned that at one point and then forgot and re-learned it when I complained about the trailer that was shown before Waitress . It was for that movie about the disturbed little kid who, the trailer implies, kills his family dog and tries to kill his infant sibling. It was incredibly graphic and disturbing and so very inappropriate in my mind considering the type of movie that Waitress is and the fact that its filmmaker was murdered.
Anyway, the movie theatre (independtly owned by a very responsive owner) couldn't do anything about what trailer was shown with the movie because the distributor sends them attached.
Sometimes trailers come attached and sometimes they come in the can. Usually they are shipped direct from the studio with a little note saying, "please program this trailer on "x" film." We almost always play the trailers that are attached but it is possible to remove them and put different ones on. Also, the studio sends out trailer checkers to watch the start of every film and make sure that the trailers that are shown are the ones that were agreed upon by the film buyer and the studio.
So I finally saw 300. It had some cool fight scenes! And then 90 minutes of other stuff.
I like the Across the Universe trailer. It is awesomely trippy. And I have an Evan Rachel Wood problem (in a good way) despite her disturbing personal life choices. I am sad to hear that the movie was thiefed from its director and I hope it does not suck.