Star Wars Episode 7 and Disney buy Lucas Film

[TordelBack]

Old school thinking that "people will want to see it in the cinema" possibly.

Hopefully, but what about people in the other 31 states, and, well, the rest of the world?  I'm just pondering the aim of such a selective release, beyond assuming money changing hands. 

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Old school thinking that "people will want to see it in the cinema" possibly.

Hopefully, but what about people in the other 31 states, and, well, the rest of the world?  I'm just pondering the aim of such a selective release, beyond assuming money changing hands.

Isn't it linked to Hero Number 6? This will boost its audience. Disney May have hit on a way to get cinemas pay to show ads.

[Rog69]

I am hoping that the trailer will be released online as soon as the weekend showings are done with, I guess they won't announce a general release of the trailer until then as that cinema chain has probably paid Disney a ton of cash for the exclusive.

It will leak out of course and its an annoyance that the first most fans will see of it (because we cant help ourselves  ) will be a crappy shaky cam version shot vertically on an Iphone at 45 degrees to the screen.

[JOE SOAP]

I am hoping that the trailer will be released online as soon as the weekend showings are done with, I guess they won't announce a general release of the trailer until then as that cinema chain has probably paid Disney a ton of cash for the exclusive.

It will leak out of course and its an annoyance that the first most fans will see of it (because we cant help ourselves  ) will be a crappy shaky cam version shot vertically on an Iphone at 45 degrees to the screen.

They were never going to allow that be the first impression - for 99% of the world - of their $4 billion investment.

[DrRocka]

It's here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwVRYEQG_I&sns=fb

I genuinely feel like I'm ten years old, in the Odeon in Warrington with my Dad and Grandad watching that.
Can't wait.

[DrRocka]

Sorry, just read that it's a fake. My inner ten year old is massively confused. If that's a fake, then it's the movie I want to see. And it's a bloody good one. That MUST be the genuine article... mustn't it? Seems legit to me.

[radiator]

An obvious fake.

Don't know how anyone could be fooled by that.

[DrRocka]

They fooled me! Hell, I've done a gig and had four pints tonight, but still, I'm pretty stoked to see the real thing now!

[amines2058]

Definitely fake, there was not enough lens flare!! 

[Richmond Clements]

Not just in the cinema! http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/star-wars-trailer-itunes-friday-1201365691/#

[Link Prime]

It's here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwVRYEQG_I&sns=fb

A clever fake, although I will admit a minor geek-gasm occurred regardless of that knowledge.
Makes me realise just how much I want this to be good.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Definitely fake, there was not enough lens flare!! 

[von Boom]

 

[Rog69]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1yoRL77kQs 

[I, Cosh]

...Nothing is likely to match the thrill of dial-up downloading a postage-stamp sized indecipherable bootleg* of the fabulous Episode 1 teaser trailer at about this time of year in 1998, and then going to several awful films in the forlorn hope of seeing it on the big screen...

Stop me if you've heard this story before. Sixteen years ago - Christ almighty! - a fresh faced young Cosh made the decision to avoid at all costs any footage of the most exciting cinema event in history before the film was released. This quest involved some fairly silly behaviour but was more successful than the Likely Lads.

For a long time I ascribed my positive view of the film to this deliberate avoidance of foreknowledge. Today I still like it, but I can't decide which of us was the most mental.

It will leak out of course and its an annoyance that the first most fans will see of it (because we cant help ourselves  ) will be a crappy shaky cam version shot vertically on an Iphone at 45 degrees to the screen.

You need tighter boots.