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New Court Case Opens The Door For Lawsuits Over “Deceptive Trailers”

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For as far back as I’m aware of, Hollywood has always had a problem with putting things in their movie trailers that don’t show up in the finished product. But that could change — MAYBE — if a new court ruling holds any legal weight.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson ruled on Tuesday that two fans of actress Ana de Armos, who rented the movie Yesterday on the false promise she was in the Beatles-centric film, were intentionally misled by Universal Studios due to their trailer. Armos appears in it, but she was ultimately cut out of the final film due to test audiences not liking her character. Universal has been ordered to refund Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza the $3.99 each they paid to rent Yesterday — just kidding, the actual amount they want is $5 million. “At least,” they say.

No one expected this case to result in a win. There is actually a valid, understandable reason why most trailers have scenes that aren’t in the movies they advertise. It’s because those trailers are sent out before the final cut of a film has been made. In most cases they aren’t TRYING to trick the public, it’s just what happens.

But then there are the cases when a studio deliberately WANTS to hide something. Avengers: Infinity War doctored its group shots to include the Hulk, in order to hide the plot point that Bruce Banner couldn’t transform. If this case holds up in the appeal process, no studio would dare try something like that again.

But being awarded $5 million from a $3.99 rental is so outrageous, we have serious doubts any other sane judge will let this stand. We’ll see.

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Wrecking Ball

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#1 Dec 22, 2022

if that is the case we will be stock with those movie trailers that spoils everything and have anazing trailers like Barbie recently had.

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#2 Dec 22, 2022

The only distinction will be that a disclaimer stating "The final film may not include all scenes shown" will be added to the front of all future trailers. This, I believe, is standard practice for video game trailers until their launch trailers, which are typically made with the game's gold (finished release) version. I can see movie studios doing the same thing by simply including a disclaimer at the beginning of their trailers, which would solve all of those issues.

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Melancholy Hill

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#3 Dec 22, 2022

All this lawsuit because some fans are simping on an actress. They need to get a life. That movie had been years ago and Ana De Armas is getting lead roles now

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#4 Dec 22, 2022

Following the creation of the trailers, the final cut of the film is created. What is the production company supposed to do, send someone into the editing suite with the editor (or editors) and tell them that certain scenes cannot be removed because they were used in a trailer several months ago? This situation could have been avoided only in one of two ways: either a trailer was given the ability to influence the final cut, or trailers were not used at all. which is undeniably important to consider.

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#5 Dec 22, 2022

Several trailers are built before the final cut of the film is completed. This law would require the inclusion of all scenes shown in the film's previews in the final cut.

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#6 Dec 22, 2022

On the other hand, I enjoy deceptive trailers because they keep us from seeing crucial plot details. When a movie's trailer shows too much of the actual film, I'm less likely to watch it.

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#7 Dec 23, 2022

MCU dont even need to make deceptive trailers because of all the fake trailers widespread on Youtube.

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#8 Dec 23, 2022

As a result, movie studios will be compelled to release movie trailers ahead of the times the films will be released in theaters. This is to ensure that no changes are made to the film after the trailer is released. The person who filed the lawsuit against Ana De Armas had to be her biggest simp and Ana De Armas stan.

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#9 Dec 23, 2022

Studios have been adding extra scenes to trailers for years, even when those scenes do not appear in the final product. This is considered misleading advertising. I'm curious about the long-term consequences of this decision. The only explanation for why they've been doing it for so long is that no one has ever confronted them about it in court. The time has long passed for multibillion-dollar corporations to start delivering the content they have promised.

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