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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/08/sneak-peek-exclusive-arrival-amy-adams-jeremy-renner/88308602/

Well damn, I had fun with this. I even liked it. Weakest movie of the DCEU? Sure. It's a bigger mess in terms of narrative, structure and editing than BvS theatrical, but the fun of it all - eg the camaraderie between the Skwad, (Smith and Robbie especially are as expected fantastic) - it still makes this craziness work, and unlike BvS TC I can see audiences forgiving the messiness because of that fun factor. Now that 140m domestic OW figure makes a bit more sense and I don't think we'll get a big second week drop and I guess A- CinemaScore. May repeat myself in these but anyway the good: Smith and Robbie, I actually liked the mob boss gangster approach to Joker here so props to Leto for making it work, Courtney was funny and Diablo was cool as well. Katana though, I wish we could see more especially back story instead of being a couple dialogue throwaways, same for Slipknot (for obvious reasons). The interactions, the chemistry, the humour, you spend a great time with them all that you forget/cab excuseas an audience member the bad stuff. Also MVP: Viola. Bloody. Davis. Female F.U. with badassery cranked up to 11, absolutely fantastic. So the bad stuff: first act oh my dear god that was, while at first enjoyable, but I didn't really like the way it was put together. (I see you Trailer Park - that all is definitely from their cut). Thankfully it's all evened out once the mission begins, making the rest of the film like an extemded third act is certainly an interesting choice, although it did not make sense story and plot wise. It's during the rest of the film - where you get more of Price's great score and less of all the pop stuff (looking at you again Trailer Park) that we see what Ayer was originally trying to make. This messy conflict of visions is there when you look closely but again, thanks to the characters it just works. Also - biggest wasted potential is Enchantress: not to mention Cara hamming it up, I think a very interesting Mr Robot/Fight Club-esque dynamic of Moone v Enchantress could've been explored (and I liked the pairing of her and Flagg on paper) but no she's Gozer 2.0 in this which is serviceable and alright given what we get in most other CBMs.... Lastly - all the complaints on how "problematic" it is - um they're bad guys? And Harley tried to pull a knife on Bats underwater so, there. And also lastly - one too much Batman, just one cameo in the film would've been enough, but Wayne at the end was AWESOMENESS So yeah, it's a hot mess but at least it's a good , even great B movie fun time. Can we get Ayer's cut pls 6.5/10

Joel Edgerton in talks http://deadline.com/2016/08/joel-edgerton-jennifer-lawrence-red-sparrow-francis-lawrence-1201798078/

fuck! I need a drink.

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Was about to suggest that, cheers

What was due to come today was a short 15s "IN 3 DAYS" thing. Seems they're likely having it on Wednesday with TOMORROW....

They could show it with SS in the UK etc as the trailer process works differently. Sony can send it to international theatres when they want to. And from what I was told, they did say a 15s teaser was supposed to be out today. Anyway....it should still be online Thurs, but just not showing in theatres in the US with SS.

Well idk....would've been on that PDF if it was going there.

Odd news - the trailer's not with Suicide Squad in the US http://digitalcinema.bydeluxe.com/site/dlxportal/docs/TrailMix_by_Deluxe-_WK_32_US.pdf

It's not really an issue tbh. The one they had on the page yesterday might actually be used in some capacity (in the trailer itself maybe?) I think. Between the fact they have this logo up on IMDB and now on the official (US, keep in mind) FB, that seems to be the official US logo for the posters. I've seen other language versions of the one from CinemaCon so I believe that one will be the official international logo for posters.

Another new logo on the FB page

3rd actually haha. Seems there will be two logos - the sleek one from CinemaCon for the international marketing, and the one on that Facebook for the U.S.. Which also makes me think we may get two trailers (international and domestic) on Thursday.

Seems like the official Facebook is up with another new logo (I guess for the domestic marketing, while the international will use the really sci-fi one we got at CinemaCon) https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPassengersMovie/

Well by teaser it does mean a 15-sec 'trailer for a trailer' that we get before every trailer release anyway, not a teaser trailer, so....

Yup

Yeah, as @A District 3 Engineer said, we will see Monday. But given it is after all out next week, Suicide Squad is a safe assumption. Well with Sony it's a toss up between 6am PT and 9am PT, so could be either of those. And whatever time they release the announcement clip Monday, they should release the trailer at that time Thurs.

Don't think it's worth changing the title for one of those "trailer for a trailer" things. What matters is the trailer itself.

Believe it's worth changing the title now