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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)

The next possible option is Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son, the next "epic installment" in the Martin Lawrence Big Momma's House saga. 20th Century Fox is distributing that film. It comes out February 18th.
 
The lack of marketing doesn't bother me at all. These things come in waves now. One moment it seems like nothing, the next we're barraged with things.
 
Thank you! 2 weeks ago you all thought I was nuts because there is no effing marketing evidence for this movie. Production stills or a dang teaser with some prior Stewart and McKellan voice overs can be easily done. I don't know what their hold up is.

I know they wanted things to be relatively secret, but do they honestly think they can not show anything for this movie until the month before as if it were any old romantic comedy routinely rolling off the assembly line?

A tease of something at this point is a hell of a lot better than rumors that begin to cause a detriment. What is their ideology?
 
^ I'd hardly argue that they would wait until a month before release. The fact is that this is going to be a pretty important X-Men film after the critical disaster that "X-Men:Origins Wolverine" was. I'm sure they have their marketing plan in place and will be ready to unleash everything people are expecting. Also I believe I was really the only one who told you to take it easy...you're not nuts...just understandably excited! I've already explained what the hold up is...there is no hold up. I'm sure that Singer and company have told Fox to be patient with this film and not make the same mistakes they did with Origins. I'm excited as the next fan boy but I'm content on seeing posters, trailers, etc when they are ready. If it's this weekend...awesome...if not, meh. I can wait.
 
FOX hardly put any marketing out there for Narnia 3: Voyage of Dawn Treader till a few weeks before release. True it was their 1st Narnia movie but proper marketing was needed to overcome the poorer response on Prince Caspian.

First Class is essentially the 5th film in this series and like Caspian XM:OWolverine had some spotty reception. FOX better not wait. Word of mouth has helped some on Dawn Treader but lets get a good OW like we should for FC, just as VOTDT should've had if marketing had been proper.
 
I just feel there is no need to be worried. We'll get posters, trailers, and pictures in due time. I don't watch TV so I can't comment about Narnia...and quite frankly Narnia is a completely different franchise compared to X-Men. X-Men is like Fox's crown jewel. I remember being bombarded with Origins material several months prior to the film's release. I think there is a concerted effort when to start their marketing strategy. I still wanna know if there will be a novelization. There has been a novelization for all three films, don't think there was for Origins. I know Marvel is planning a crossover between the original X-Men team and the current X-Men squad for release in July. I'm sure they could have an adaption or one shot movie tie-ins as well.
 
I bet there's really no movie. It was all a ruse. We're all going to be in the theater on June 3rd and then Tom Rothman will come out and in 3D take your wallets and then walk off screen.
 
Its not just marketing but building up of "hype". Hype was built up far in advance for Tron:3D and the marketing push was significant, but it didn't seem to help much. In conjunction, Inception didn't get much push as compared to a few summer tentpoles but it came out just fine. So..even though am worried there is not a single iota of marketing, I am still waiting for the right kind of such.
 
^ Hype is another tool of film marketing these days. The goal to generate discussion among fans on various internet forums and facebook then right when they are starting to feel frustrated with a lack of something....BOOM here's a trailer for you.

@JA...if that happens I know for sure you'll riot.
 
Remember years ago when they made that fake trailer 'A Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula' and everyone was expecting a movie to follow? :) That's what this is, but in reverse. I can't take it! I wasn't nuts before, Admiral, but perhaps First Class and The Hobbit have driven me to it ;)

I'm just completely ignoring how things went with Wolverine. The original movie had a viral internet campaign, but you know, the movie participated in that with treats. Do they even have an official website with a blank logo?

I'm just going to hibernate until June.
 
Harry Knowles on the purported leaked trailer description:

I've been talking to Matthew Vaughn about this report, which leaked a few days ago. It is true that Fox is testing various trailers right now, but they haven't locked down the final trailer - at least that has been showen to Vaughn. SO - I'd be a little careful taking any of this particularly to heart. At least for a bit. We'll see soon enough.
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This jives with what I posted a few days ago saying that Matthew Vaughn supposedly cut an unconventional trailer that 20th Century Fox didn't like, so they cut together another one that was more conventional. I guess there are more than just two different trailers floating around?
 
I don't know about the SuperBowl. It'll be weird and unconventional to have the first footage of the film shown turn out to be a 30 second TV spot. I would be more open to the idea had we seen a trailer by now, but we haven't, and that just seems odd. I think we'll probably see a trailer sometime in February, or later, but I'm pretty skeptical to speculate it'll be shown with the SuperBowl.
 
Well then to purely speculate...maybe they're planning two trailers? One full 1:30 theatrical teaser and then a 30 second TV spot. We don't get the Super Bowl commercials anyway in Canada due to stupid CRTC regulations. Also there have been full trailers released on Super Bowl Sunday. I think "The Incredible Hulk" had a full trailer released that day as well. "Iron Man" maybe. A couple other films I remember watching on youtube later that night.
 
Admiral_Young said:
Well then to purely speculate...maybe they're planning two trailers? One full 1:30 theatrical teaser and then a 30 second TV spot. We don't get the Super Bowl commercials anyway in Canada due to stupid CRTC regulations. Also there have been full trailers released on Super Bowl Sunday. I think "The Incredible Hulk" had a full trailer released that day as well. "Iron Man" maybe. A couple other films I remember watching on youtube later that night.
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The first trailer for The Incredible Hulk debuted on March 12, 2008 (source) far after the premiere of the SuperBowl that year (the SuperBowl usually airs in February). Iron Man had a TV spot that debuted during the SuperBowl, but not an actual trailer.

It's not usually custom for two minute trailers to debut during the SuperBowl, mostly because it's really expensive for companies and advertisers, who traditionally pay millions of dollars for airtime during the SuperBowl for a measly 30 second spot. Imagine the cost a full two minutes would incur...!

However, it is possible that the first trailer for X-Men: First Class will debut online before we see it in theaters, which has happened before, but usually studios like to release them online close to a big movie coming out that weekend so they can attach prints to that film as well.
 
Yes Super Bowl adverts are the biggest of the big money wise, but if there is some sort of sponsorship or promotional tie-in, I think it is possible we could see perhaps more than a 30 second spot.

If a pregame show is sponsored by whatever fast food chain is doing a tie in with X-Men material, or if the Half time shows are being entire sponsored by the film, they will have all those 'X-Men presents the stats' or 'play of the game brought to you by X-Men' type of angles. We could end up with perhaps more than one 30 second promo, or something really fancy like a character snip per commercial break. I'm sure if the marketing and money folks really wanted to, they could find all sorts of places to plug in the Super Bowl. I'm sure the same thing will happen when Fox has the MLB this summer. They've done movie sponsorships like that before for baseball.

Dammit, now I have to watch the Super Bowl, even though the stupid Eagles choked again!
 
Well I guess X-men fans don't get to jump for joy like Spider-man and Captain America fans with the Entertainment Weekly photos

-_-

Seriously a shot of Prof X in his chair wouldn't be much. Hell why not just use a set photo someone took of January Jones(in this thread)
 
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