Warner Brothers Pulls Canadian Previews

A number of readers let us know that Reuters and others are reporting that Warner Brothers is canceling movie previews in Canadian theaters, starting with Oceans Thirteen. A Warner VP said, "Within the first week of a film's release, you can almost be certain that somewhere out there a Canadian copy will show up." Recently, the International Intellectual Property Association placed Canada on its Priority Watch List, along with the likes of Argentina, China, Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela. This community knows, thanks to Michael Geist, that the claim is mostly ficiton.

Comments

Re:Lucky Canadians

[DJCacophony]

Also, they still have http://www.apple.com/trailers/

Why?

[Hemogoblin]

Who will this move actually affect? Are these the previews that Canadian reviewers would have seen? Or are these the "previews" ie commercials at the beginning of other movies? Or something else entirely?

As a Canadian, I don't really care either way. Of course, I never go see movies as soon as they come out anyway.

copying previews? huh?

[radarsat1]

Can someone explain why its a problem for movie previews to be copied?
I don't understand..

Or are they somehow "punishing" us for making pirated copies of full features by pulling the previews?
How is this a punishment..?

Oh, wait... okay now that I've read the article: "Previews" here is referring to advance showings of the full-length film, NOT to "trailers"... Je comprends.

Re:Self-fulfilling prophecy

[Otter]

Prediction: by August, there'll be a press release noting that revenues for Ocean's Thirteen and Harry Potter were low...

Have you seen the Harry Potter trailer?!? More likely, Michael Geist and "this community" will be running around in Gryffindor robes complaining that the DVD won't be out soon enough.