tsig
Posts: 339 Joined: Aug. 2006
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Quote (Kristine @ Feb. 27 2008,15:50) | Quote (tsig @ Feb. 27 2008,14:18) | Quote (Kristine @ Feb. 27 2008,12:34) | Quote (Paul Flocken @ Feb. 27 2008,08:56) | When marketers want to publicize movies they want the public to go see, don't they usually, well, invite critics? When I hear that a movie was not screened it always means they have a dud on their hands and they dont want people to know it. I wonder how many non-disclosure agreements Lucas forced people to sign before watching the original StarWars? |
In my professional experience, they are so eager for reviewers that they 1) Will let in anyone who says they’re a reviewer from such-n-such rag/paper (although I have never actually tried this, of course - I have ethics) 2) Give out free tickets to the public 3) Throw t-shirts at the crowd 4) Distribute press packets
Actually, non-disclosure agreements do have precedent – such as the secret audience preview of Gone with the Wind. However, I think that was verbal, simply to not reveal the plot, etc. |
It was the ending. |
*Brightens* Okay, smarty-pants! It was not the ending – after all, everyone knew that (and really, the last line in the film is rather like an ID “prediction,” no?). It was the “will they-won’t they” say that other line.
Yes, that famous line, which could also express the audience’s attitude toward Expelled when it finally opens, the possibility of which hovers like a vulture over Stein’s anguish over losing his money, doesn’t it? :D |
edited for common sence
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