Way back when (around the 1950s), movies would have one trailer, and that was it. Today a movie from a major studio has at least three trailers. They give away increasing amounts of the plot. "The Good Dinosaur" is a fine example; it wasn't until the third trailer that it was revealed that the dinosaurs will talk, and that the main dinosaur is a juvenile rather than an adult. Trailers used to feature excerpts from the movie; today they may be mini-stories that aren't in the movie at all, such as Pixar's first trailers for "The Incredibles" and "Monsters University".
Come to think of it, is that the difference between a teaser trailer and a regular trailer? A teaser contains only scenes that won't appear in the movie?
Way back when (around the 1950s), movies would have one trailer, and that was it. Today a movie from a major studio has at least three trailers. They give away increasing amounts of the plot. "The Good Dinosaur" is a fine example; it wasn't until the third trailer that it was revealed that the dinosaurs will talk, and that the main dinosaur is a juvenile rather than an adult. Trailers used to feature excerpts from the movie; today they may be mini-stories that aren't in the movie at all, such as Pixar's first trailers for "The Incredibles" and "Monsters University".
Come to think of it, is that the difference between a teaser trailer and a regular trailer? A teaser contains only scenes that won't appear in the movie?
Fred Patten