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"I know what yer thinkin'...did I fire 6 Quantum Torpedoes, or only 5..."


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I would pay $$$$ to see him in a Star Trek!!!
 
Hell, I'd even go for...

(...I am SO sorry, but I gotta...)

A Fistful of Dollars!

< cue "whistle" >
 
At this point I hope there are no more trailers. Just some music and text ads. Push the mystery...or not. Doesn't really matter. The movie will make gobs of money and 95%+ of posters here will be going to see it, even if there's no other trailer.
With only one Beastie Boys teaser from four months ago, seven months from release, to show for it?

We're not more than one level from not even knowing there's an upcoming film, a far cry from the build-up to Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness.

Little too optimistic there.

Although, I would much prefer no trailer and lots of surprises than getting a spoiler-filled trailer that ends up hurting the film (see: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice)
 
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I don't think all is well with the movie. It could be that criticism that followed the trailer has left them a little stung and these current re-shoots, whilst not at all uncommon, are as a result of the general vibe that the fans weren't happy with what they saw. Not sure we're quite at Fantastic Four levels of panic yet but they may be trying to add something a little more cerebral to things.
 
Nope---nothing is amiss. They are following the same basic time table for a trailer as they did for STiD. Look for the trailer the first week of May. That is all. And the reshoots were for one scene.......happens a lot.
 
I'm neither "this movie is going to be shit!" nor "this movie is going to be perfect and you need to stop worrying!". It's just that, there's literally no buzz coming from any specific audience, even Fantastic Four had more buzz three months from release. It may not have been very positive, but at least people were talking about it. And look how that film turned out.

It's a little worrying, TBH. We're three months from release, and at this point, Into Darkness had a teaser, a trailer and a TV spot, and they were all reasonably well-received, at least from casual audiences. We have one bland teaser that everyone forgot about after a week. I'm not ready to write the film off yet though, I hope it turns out well.
 
Nope---nothing is amiss. They are following the same basic time table for a trailer as they did for STiD. Look for the trailer the first week of May. That is all. And the reshoots were for one scene.......happens a lot.
That's just wrong.

STID was released 3 years, 2 months, 13 days before Beyond's scheduled release. At that point in time, STID had a teaser, a trailer and was 6 days from a new TV spot.

I've done my research :p
 
In fact, the full trailer for the second Abrams movie wasn't released until March 9, 2013 — for a film set to premiere in just 69 days. By that calendar alone, Paramount has another month to figure out exactly when it's time to do the release.


But if you're going to circle a weekend, here it is: May 6. Why? "Captain America: Civil War."

http://1701news.com/node/1124/dude-wheres-our-star-trek-beyond-trailer.html
That was the second full trailer.

The first official trailer was released on December 17, 12 days after the first official teaser, and was almost a minute longer.

But yeah, I'm expecting it to release around late-April/early-May with Civil War. I'll be happy in that case, but if they leave it any later, sheesh...
 
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That was the second full trailer.

The first official trailer was released on December 17, 12 days after the first official teaser, and was almost a minute longer.

But yeah, I'm expecting it to release around late-April/early-May with Civil War. I'll be happy in that case, but if they leave it any later, sheesh...

Like I said:
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/star-trek-beyond.270580/page-147#post-11529395

We expect an April to May trailer for a July 22nd movie. STID had a Dec/March(international)/April trailers for a May 16th release. It'll likely be a Dec/April-May/June trailer schedule for a July movie! It's not that far off.

Marketing
As part of a contest Abrams designed after the release of Super 8 (2011), the prize for answering a series of questions would be walk-on roles for two people in Into Darkness.[78] He debuted three frames of the film on Conan on October 4, 2012, showing what he described as Spock "in a volcano, in this crazy suit".[79] The official poster for the film was released two months later on December 3, 2012, showing a mysterious figure (thought to be Benedict Cumberbatch's villain) standing on a pile of burning rubble looking over what appears to be a damaged London;[80][81] he is standing in a hole in the shape of the Starfleet insignia, blown out of the side of a building.[82]

About nine minutes of the opening sequence was shown before IMAX presentations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which was released in the United States on December 14, 2012.[83] Alice Eve, Cumberbatch, and Burk unveiled the IMAX prologue in London, England on December 14. A two-minute teaser was released in iTunes Movie Trailers on December 17. The teaser marked the beginning of a viral marketing campaign, with a hidden link directing fans to a movie-related website. A 30-second teaser premiered February 3, 2013 during the stadium blackout of Super Bowl XLVII.[84] The same day, Paramount released apps for Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone which enabled users to unlock tickets for showtimes two days before the film's release date.[85][86]

An international trailer was released on March 21, 2013, with an embedded URL revealing an online-only international poster. On April 8, Paramount released the final international one-sheet featuring solely Benedict Cumberbatch's character.[87] On March 24, 2013, at 9:30 pm a swarm of 30 mini-quadrotors equipped with LED lights drew the Star Trek logo over London.[88] This choreography marked the beginning of the Paramount UK marketing campaign for Star Trek Into Darkness. It was coordinated with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Earth Hour event and was performed and developed by Ars Electronica Futurelab from Linz (Austria) in cooperation with Ascending Technologies from Munich (Germany).[89]

On April 12, 2013, iTunes Movie Trailers revealed the final domestic one-sheet featuring the USS Enterprise, and announced that the final US domestic trailer would be released on April 16. In the days leading up to the trailer release, character posters featuring Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and Harrison were released on iTunes.[90] Paramount attempted to broaden the film's appeal to international audiences, an area where Star Trek and other science-fiction films had generally performed poorly.[91] Into Darkness was dedicated to post-9/11 veterans.[92] J.J. Abrams is connected with The Mission Continues, and a section of the film's website is dedicated to that organization.
 
...It could be that criticism that followed the trailer has left them a little stung...
It's tempting to think that way; that they have confessed their sins and want to submit to the fans and earn redemption in our eyes. But I suspect that's mere wishful thinking. There's no redeeming the cynical suits in Hollywood and history will never, ever be a lesson to them.

That said, there's another point of view. I was talking with an acquaintance recently who did not know me as a Trekkie. We were talking about some movies and he brought up the Star Trek Beyond trailer. He's the type of alpha guy who thought the trailer was brilliant and will definitely go to the movie because of that trailer. The suits made their sale. We're going anyway. So who are the smart ones?

Personally, I like the choice of Pegg as writer. My expectation and hope is that Star Trek Beyond is on the more humorous end of the Star Trek scale as measured from Balance of Terror to Trouble With Tribbles. Anti-STID, if you will; something that doesn't take itself too seriously. I liked the trailer scene with Spock beaming out to leave McCoy alone.
 
Although it was what I like......the placement of THAT teaser in front of The Force Awakens.......was brilliant. It will attract NEW fans. They know we will come. They want those alpha guys like your friend.
 
Non-Trekkies are "alpha guys"? What? :lol:

I have a friend who's never watched any Star Trek and he didn't care much for that trailer. My other friends have either not even seen it nor know of its existence.

To each his own really.
 
I don't think all is well with the movie. It could be that criticism that followed the trailer has left them a little stung and these current re-shoots, whilst not at all uncommon, are as a result of the general vibe that the fans weren't happy with what they saw. Not sure we're quite at Fantastic Four levels of panic yet but they may be trying to add something a little more cerebral to things.
We've been over this many times. Both Lin and Pegg say the trailer is not an indication of the tone of the movie. And reshoots are normal.

We're not more than one level from not even knowing there's an upcoming film, a far cry from the build-up to Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness.
But we know the basic plot. We know the "feature players". Only thing we don't know is the ending.
 
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