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Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Trailer Sets New Record: 289M Views In 24 Hours (variety.com)

Marvel's last Avengers movie ended with a cliff-hanger -- leading hundreds of millions of fans to watch the trailer for the franchise's next film, Variety reports: The "Avengers: Endgame" trailer was viewed 289 million times in its first 24 hours, after it was released around 5 a.m. PT Friday, according to Marvel Studios. That blasted past the previous record of 230 million views, set a little over a year ago by the studio's "Avengers: Infinity War." Behind that was Disney's "The Lion King" teaser, which racked up 224.6 million views.... The trailer also set a record for Twitter conversation for a movie trailer in the first 24 hours -- with 549,000 mentions -- soaring past previous record holder "Avengers: Infinity War" (389,000) and "Black Panther" (349,000).
Mashable also reports on some clever tie-in marketing for another Marvel-related film: Typing "AvengersEndgame.com" into your address bar will take you to the official Fox Movies web portal for Once Upon a Deadpool, the family-friendly Deadpool 2 re-cut that uses the same "reading stories to a sick kid in bed" framing device as The Princess Bride (right down to Fred Savage!).

There's still some question as to whether or not this is an intentional marketing ploy, however. It's definitely something you could see coming out of the Deadpool playbook.

64 comments

  1. Hard pass. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Big bang faggot show one liners, except everybody is CGI. Cartoons for Ken Dolls. Marvel movies suck more dick than Johnny Galecki in a stalled elevator.

  2. One of my views doesn't count. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I got distracted and had to re-play it. So, that number of views is just a bit inflated.

  3. In the fine tradition of Disney by bobstreo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Next trailer will be:

    Direct to Streaming on Disney only (since direct to video doesn't exist anymore)

    Marvel Avenger Babies

    Spiderman, this time for sure.

    Iron Man the animated series

    Thor High School Days (yes it's a musical)

    1. Re:In the fine tradition of Disney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There have been SEVERAL Iron Man animated series...
      Including at least two anime series.
      The best was "iron man adventures" - of when he was younger

    2. Re:In the fine tradition of Disney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lion King 2: Pumba Takes it in the Ass

    3. Re:In the fine tradition of Disney by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Three out of four of those already exist.

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    4. Re:In the fine tradition of Disney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanos On Ice!!!

    5. Re:In the fine tradition of Disney by necro81 · · Score: 1

      Thor High School Days

      Hell, if they can get the same team that produced Clone High (wiki, youtube, imdb), I'd be all over that.

  4. What is the best use of your time? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0

    People play games instead of learning about life.

    1. Re:What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well-adjusted people maintain a balance of both. Focusing exclusively on one over another is unhealthy. Even Einstein enjoyed lounging on the beach.

    2. Re:What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Learning what about life? Life has no point.

    3. Re: What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, when your friends are gone, what else is there to do?

    4. Re:What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The pointlessness of life is what makes our freedom authentic.

      The freedom to choose one's own purpose is the only freedom that really matters; and in order to have that freedom there must not already be a purpose there to discover.

    5. Re: What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks Nietsche

    6. Re: What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Meet new people, and become friends with them?

    7. Re:What is the best use of your time? by godrik · · Score: 1

      All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!

    8. Re: What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But I love mashed potatoes. That is not work, is it? Can work be play?

    9. Re:What is the best use of your time? by rtb61 · · Score: 2

      I wonder how much you have to pay Google for those numbers ;). The 10 million dollar edit, change a number and you are done. We all know Google is wildly cooking the books to make American main stream media news, look way more popular than it is in reality. Numbers go up and numbers go down, million dollar edits for cents at a time. Not that I don't trust, Google, yeah well, I don't not one little bit, so those numbers are as meaningless as the time it takes to edit them.

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    10. Re:What is the best use of your time? by Mike+Frett · · Score: 2

      For me personally, I have stopped watching movies and playing games. I came to the conclusion it was a waste of time that was better spent learning something new. Again, for me personally.

    11. Re:What is the best use of your time? by Idimmu+Xul · · Score: 1

      is their a Udemy on learning to have fun?

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    12. Re: What is the best use of your time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Die in a fire, you pedophile faggot. And Einstein was a shit racist who hated Asian people.

  5. Churning out crap, one Übermensch movie at a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's like the Nazi regime in its "best" times, when they (my ancestors) came up with the concept of the Übermensch, as the epitome of racism and eugenics.

    Of course the Americans didn't want to be "left behind", and invented their own Übermensch (or super human, in English) propaganda. (While for the Soviets, everyone had to be "equal" of course, so they focused on the "glory" of "the worker", etc.)

    From that came the super man, the super woman, and so on to this day and this "Avengers" movie.

    It's still the same fucked-up war-glorifying Übermensch propaganda. And it's still just as creepy and horrifying as back then. Only much much more shiny and casual and "normal", due to us being used to it.
    The mindset it breeds in the heads of people, is still the same too.

    And what's its point, apart from that, anyway? Games to go with the "bread", to give people one more a way to keep ignoring the churning profit fist in their figurative anus?

    Can we maybe, have movies about good and useful and nice things, for a change?
    Movies that actually give us insights in our lives and the world, and showing us ways to improve it?
    Not us-VS-them hate-mongering, mass-murder and blind nationalist "glory"?

    Or is this just the regime that's at its last gasp, this century?

  6. Avengersendgame.com Not Disney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The redirect isnâ(TM)t a Marketing stunt. If the author wouldâ(TM)ve read other sources the owner of the site said he bought it after Infinity War and wants two premier tickets to Endgame to handover the domain.

  7. Cliffhanger? by SqueakyMouse · · Score: 1

    How is it a cliffhanger? Thanos achieved his goal. The End.

    1. Re:Cliffhanger? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The cliffhanger is whether Cap will buzz Ant-Man into the compound or keep of the facade that he and the Black Widow are trapped in there until Tony Stark gets back to open it up.

    2. Re:Cliffhanger? by nehumanuscrede · · Score: 1

      Gain control of that glove of his. . . . . specifically the Time Stone and you can roll back the clock before the snap.

      I figure that's how they're going to undo all of this.

    3. Re: Cliffhanger? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They go back to resurrect rod Sterling, I picked a hell of a day to quit sniffing pootytang

    4. Re: Cliffhanger? by sg_oneill · · Score: 1

      Yeah they are *definately* bringing at least some of those characters back. You don't just walk away from a franchise like GOTG or Black Panther. I mean it would be ballsy as hell if they did, but old grey air rich dudes like money and money likes safe

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  8. Re: I'm gonna set a record for face sitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Would you elaborate further? I have a number of questions

  9. End Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Finally, the end of the whoosh and the zoom and the bang and the boom and the lack of interesting story.
    Good riddance.

  10. Marketing becomes more pervasive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All that this means is that marketing is becoming more pervasive.
    They throw this shit in your face as hard as they can.
    No doubt, soon it will be illegal to have adblock installed.
    Later on the ads will be broadcast into your brain via your mandatory chip.

    1. Re:Marketing becomes more pervasive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No problem, just add your domain to this master list and I'll make sure it's not blocked. Make sure you add 0.0.0.0 to the start of your entry.

    2. Re:Marketing becomes more pervasive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      careful, you might summon him with that kind of talk

  11. Tired of Superhero movies by Jarwulf · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just the same bland formulaic action and explosions over and over again. Iron Man 1 was cool I guess and Dark Knight took things in different directions but its mostly the same story after that just with a different setting and character or 10xing the characters and villains and explosions. You guys go ahead and cream your pants over the latest recirculated swill and give poor deserving Disney another 20 bucks to fund the next transgender Spiderman. I'll find a random indie game that has 10x more creativity in its pinky finger.

    1. Re: Tired of Superhero movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Explosions! More explosions!

    2. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sound like an adult. Plot fatigue happens to us all, eventually.

      There are only 12 stories, with a collection of twists. That's it. After a while, you have literally seen them all, and you start to notice.

      It has always been this way. This isn't some new trend in the industry. None of us noticed it when we were kids, we all notice it eventually.

      Your video games....same deal. The plot fatigue is sometimes obscured a bit by being in the action. But you will notice it there too, eventually. (For games that have plots, that is).

    3. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by Petrini · · Score: 2

      If you can't have fun at an Avengers movie, you're trying not to.

    4. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The fact that Jarwulf has seen them all is evidence to the contrary, he's hardly an adult. Even relatively dumb US children are bored with Marvel shitmovies. It's 90% a 3rd world cartoon fetish thing. Dragon Ball Z faggots.

      Yeah maybe he deserves a medal of freedom for not being one, sure kid.

    5. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then go watch something else, faggot.

    6. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by Jarwulf · · Score: 1

      I'm not going out of my way to bash it. People are sucking it off right here, one of the most mainstream movie franchises in current release, 'News for Nerds' indeed.

    7. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You go girl. Indies forever.

      Edgy

    8. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hate to break it to you edgelord, but Superhero stories aren't going anywhere.

      They've been around for as long as humans have told stories. All the Greek/Roman Gods and demi-Gods... all superheroes. The only change today is that FX have gotten so good that we can put literally anything on a cinema screen and make it look real.

      Anyway, you enjoy your indie flicks. Don't forget to tell everyone that you hate blockbuster movies at least 10 times a day. Gotta keep up that cred.

      Come back and let us know when you've figured out that there are only a few basic types of stories - and you're really just shuffling the characters around.

      Even your darling indie films will start to look formulaic to you.

    9. Re:Tired of Superhero movies by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Just the same bland formulaic action and explosions over and over again.

      Ooh oooh oooh. I can play this game too. I'm tired of superhero movies because it's just a bunch of pictures played in rapid succession on a television with sound in the background.

      There. I'm an even less nuanced movie viewer than you!

  12. One burning question by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

    They said he got rid of 50% of all living things.

    Well, what the hell did penguins do to deserve that Thanos? I mean they eat a lot of fish but still.

    Basically, I don't think he really thought it through. They could have stopped him simply by showing him a picture of penguins.

    My prediction for the movie is Thanos has Snapper's Remorse and unwinds everything.

    Although, on second thought it is a great point to do another Spiderman reboot, maybe that was the whole point.

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    1. Re:One burning question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't know if penguins were the best example to offer up. They're kinda rapey.

    2. Re: One burning question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Zach summed it up pretty well here - http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/525/

    3. Re: One burning question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Well, what the hell did penguins do to deserve that Thanos?
      > I mean they eat a lot of fish but still.

      As far as I remeber the original comic, nothing. Death (the entity), however, was really pissed because there were more living beings than the sum of all the dead past ones. Death took that as an insult and sent Thanos, who loves Death dearly and readily accepted the mission, to kill half of the universe as good measure. On the movie I think they tried to reference Death on the japanese gate scene, but all the balance talk didn't help the least. It was never really about balance, but about an insulted entity and someone that dearly loves her.

    4. Re: One burning question by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      I think he was just bitter and wanted everyone to feel the same pain he felt when his family died.

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    5. Re: One burning question by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

      Thanks - I tried to read a summary of the whole Thanos deal, but I seem to have missed the whole Death angle. I am woefully underfed in the whole Marvel universe so I only know the movies, I know you miss a lot of depth that way...

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    6. Re: One burning question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I love it. Other scenarios to consider are conjoined twins and living organ donors.

    7. Re: One burning question by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      Basically, I don't think he really thought it through.

      This is why, as a kid, I preferred sci-fi novels to comic books: writers should always be at least 20% smarter than their characters.

  13. Re:I'm gonna set a record for face sitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    shut up apk

  14. THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES NAZI FAGGOT PROPAGANDIST KEN DOLL

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  15. Re:Churning out crap, one Übermensch movie at by phantomfive · · Score: 1

    It brings to movies a technique that was common in comic books long ago: Increase suspense and drama by killing main characters off.

    It works really well because the general movie-viewing audience hasn't seen the technique before, doesn't realize that important characters will be revived, and also doesn't realize how convoluted and un-wieldy the plot will eventually become.

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  16. 289000001 by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

    because of you, slashdot

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  17. or superheroe movie or not your taste by aepervius · · Score: 1

    I never liked avenger or DC comic or whatever. I always preferred self contained stories, or at most a few books I can buy once they are all published with a start and end in the serie/book you bought. That's why I never liked all those US comic, defined by the monster of the week, and no consequence (yeah yeah superman dies, but then he is reborn or taken from another universe. Whatever he is now alive. Consequence zero), barely a long time story. As such the superheroe films NEVER attracted me to begin with, because they come pretty much with the same baggage as the comic. And when I watched a few of them , I found out quickly that without the baggage of having liked those in my childhood, they are actually *very poor* films, lower in entertainment value than the average. And most of the entertainment comes from the cgi. I can then watch machinima youtube.

    So yes, you can simply have no fun in an avenger movie. It all depends on your history with the franchise and your taste. I had far more fun in the poorly copied ghost in the shell movie - and yet that one was really a stinker compared to the GIST book or anime.

    Now that I am finished ranting, let me check those movie date for avenger X+1 : I can then make a movie marathon for something else , anything else.

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  18. Not sure what the fuss is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We all know exactly whats going to happen.

    Gen 1 will die or retire, to make way for marvels next 50 movies made like sausages.

    And good guys win.

    *shrug*

  19. Spiderman and Sony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Spiderman, this time for sure.

    I was under the impression that Sony (?) had to make a Spiderman movie every "x" years or they lose the rights to the franchise. Is this correct?

    1. Re:Spiderman and Sony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes. Same reason we have several FF and X-Men duds. Selling the rights helped Marvel in the short term, but has hurt them long-term.

  20. Re: Capeshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This. There ought to be a law. Free time should be tightly regulated and people told what to enjoy. Like in Europe.

  21. Domain squatted? by KitFox · · Score: 1

    It's tough to tell what is real and what is fake these days, but there is a claim that after somebody accidentally revealed the movie name, a squatter bought the domain that is pointing to Deadpool. Apparently that squatter is demanding premier tickets. https://cosmicbook.news/avengers-end-game-website-claims

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