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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.
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.
I got distracted and had to re-play it. So, that number of views is just a bit inflated.
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)
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.
How is it a cliffhanger? Thanos achieved his goal. The End.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
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.
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.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
because of you, slashdot
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
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.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
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.
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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visit randi.org
is their a Udemy on learning to have fun?
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
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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