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Cinema United and the Cinema Foundation made a big deal out of the Sneak Peek Preview in the leadup days to CinemaCon. I've seen a couple of Facebook posts about it, and the comments I've seen are mostly negative, in that the trailers shown are all available online anyway and that promised trailers like "Wicked For Good" were not shown.
Our executive director from Rocky Mountain NATO and her husband went to it last night and said it was not good. Cheesy, was the word they used a lot.
From looking at the "program" listing provided by the Foundation, it looks like they just put together an edited version of the same product reels that were shown at CInemaCon -- in the same order, even - and added a cheesy narrator. Of course they certainly weren't going to show the "first 10 minutes" of anything, like they do at CinemaCon. And they left out the two most anticipated movies of the upcoming winter: Wicked For Good and Avatar: Fire and Ice. So what was left? Mostly trailers for the summer movies that are already available online. According to what I've seen, there was only about 10 minutes of "previously unseen" footage.
Note to the studios: If you get any negative blowback on this (and it looks like you are), please consider that this is the same kind of reaction we get when we play a new-ish movie that's already out on home video. This is how home video ruins the value of your product!
Our executive director from Rocky Mountain NATO and her husband went to it last night and said it was not good. Cheesy, was the word they used a lot.
From looking at the "program" listing provided by the Foundation, it looks like they just put together an edited version of the same product reels that were shown at CInemaCon -- in the same order, even - and added a cheesy narrator. Of course they certainly weren't going to show the "first 10 minutes" of anything, like they do at CinemaCon. And they left out the two most anticipated movies of the upcoming winter: Wicked For Good and Avatar: Fire and Ice. So what was left? Mostly trailers for the summer movies that are already available online. According to what I've seen, there was only about 10 minutes of "previously unseen" footage.
Note to the studios: If you get any negative blowback on this (and it looks like you are), please consider that this is the same kind of reaction we get when we play a new-ish movie that's already out on home video. This is how home video ruins the value of your product!
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