So, recently I learnt that most movie trailers are outsourced to "trailer houses". These are specialised post-production facilities that put together clips to market a movie. Note that the aim is to promote a movie, so sometimes the trailers we see for most films are rather same-y.
Or if there's no consultation with the director, the trailer might accidentally give away the plot, or, in the case of Edgar Wright's The World's End, when Netflix hosted the movie, the automatic trailer gave away the plot twist.
These days, indie entertainment companies like Neon and A24 are inventive with their trailers, opting for intrigue over information overload. (Usually, it's part of the marketing strategy to launch a teaser, then the trailer for the film. A trailer of a trailer, if you will.)
Anyhoo, back to this week's trailers!
So glad that this film is finally seeing the light of day. If you are in the dark, Coyote Vs Acme was slated for a 2023 release but Warner Bros Discovery (that owns HBO, DC Comics, and the Looney Tunes IP) decided to shelve the completed film as a tax write-up (that's apparently a thing in America, go figure).
The company had already axed the releases of two films—Batgirl and Scoob!—(also for the same tax reason, although there were reports that it's primarily fuelled by negative reactions from test screenings for Batgirl) so public backlash was still fresh.
Eventually, the film was sold to Ketchup Entertainment and now we are on the cusp for a release at long last. The premise of the live-animated film has Coyote suing ACME for its faulty products and stars Will Forte, Lara Condor and John Cena.
Looks promising? Many scenes of body horror, and I hope they go nuts with it, especially when it's set in the same universe as Matt Reeves' broody Batman. Does Batman need to make an appearance? We don't think he needs to. If we are able to get a great gangster film out of The Penguin, we should be able to get a great horror film out of Clayface.
Queer love and the horrible supernatural entity that surrounds it. It looks like a spiritual successor to It Follows, and we think it's gonna slap given its distribution acquisition by Neon for an undisclosed seven-figure deal.
A woman crawling to safety in the midst of people being attacked by... something; this is enough for me to fork over my filthy lucre for the premiere. After a third stand-alone Evil Dead instalment, we don't know if Ash Williams (played by Bruce Campbell, who starred in the original Evil Dead films) will make an appearance (Campbell recently revealed that he has cancer that is "'treatable', not 'curable'").
We get a fuller picture of Hugh Jackman's role as the titular Robin Hood. It's a confessional of sorts, dispelling the lionisation of the outlaw. We know of Robin Hood's eventual fate (it's in the title, duh), but will he be absolved of it, that is the question?
