Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
MovieDan82
Stand-by Joined: 10/13/06
#1Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 12:05pm
Looks like Dreamworks has pulled everything from ComicCon two days before the presentation. I love the fact that they’re playing stupid. They have NO IDEA what people are talking about… How did this information get out that we were going to preview anything?
Clearly, there is something with the film. Nice try Dreamworks.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/109767.html
Updated On: 7/24/07 at 12:05 PM
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#2re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 12:22pm
Well they are dumb.
Comic-Con was/is a great opportunity. The film could have potentially reached an audience that this (and really only this) musical could tap in to. Plus December is only 5 months away- most likely they will begin promotion next month - but really is one month early hamrmful? no.
May be they are Bs-ing and will make some suprise thing - but thats just me wishing.
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#2re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 12:29pm
No clue if there's something wrong with Sweeney or not, and I have never been to a ComicCon, but from what I've been hearing from friends 'in the biz,' aren't a bunch of other studios pulling their stuff from ComicCon (Fox with everything, and DreamWorks with the Farrelly Bros movie The Heartbreak Kid, are two that I've heard about), because ComicCon now has to show "family-friendly" G rated promos, because of all the people bringing their kids and such?
That comicCon started cracking down this year because of complaints of Oh Noez teh Nekkid! in the Borat clip that was screened there last year? And so studios are pulling their clips from ComicCon, rather than have to submit 'boring' G rated versions of PG-13/R rated movies' clips?
/That's just what I've been hearing.
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#3re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 12:41pm
"And so studios are pulling their clips from ComicCon, rather than have to submit 'boring' G rated versions of PG-13/R rated movies' clips?"
All trailers need to be G-rated too (you knowm when at the movies "this preview has been approved for all audiences," etc)... so, that might not be the only reason for pulling the clips...
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
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#4re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 12:47pmNo, that is not true that all trailers need to be G rated. Have you ever seen trailers at a scary movie. They certainly aren't G!!!
MovieDan82
Stand-by Joined: 10/13/06
#5re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 12:54pmComicCon has never been a family friendly zone. This was the place that screened '300' last year to acclaim.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#6re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:03pm
When you see the GREEN screen that means it's for 'general audiences' so it's an all applicable trailer made for even Rated R films (it plays on every film -- PG, R, etc.). 
If it's a RED screen, that means it's a 'mature audiences' trailer and contains rated R level footage, etc. 
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#7re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:14pm
I have never seen a red screen before - is that a new practice?
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Updated On: 7/24/07 at 01:14 PM
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#8re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:17pm
I see them occasionally, but very rarely.
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual."
-Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
#9re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:19pmIt's common for studios to cancel PLANNED promotions due to marketing reasons, approval issues, film issues, "the waiting game," etc.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#10re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:20pmI don't think they are all that new, just rather unusual to see. Even in rated R movies I don't see many R rated previews.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#11re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:24pmI've NEVER seen a red one before...
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#12re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:26pmThen you should get out more and see some movies made for adults, maybe.
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual."
-Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
LouieLovesTheater
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#13re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:30pm
I've seen "red band" trailers several times in main-stream movie houses but more often than not before art-house screenings.
The Showgirls trailer was one of the first ones I remember being a "red band"
TapTapTapioca
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#14re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:32pm
Then you should get out more and see some movies made for adults, maybe.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wow.
is there a number that I can call about this? I really wanted to go!
I shave me Xanadu every morning!
#15re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:33pmDamn it! I was so looking forward to these clips!
#16re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:34pm
They can show R-rated trailers at R-rated movies.
They can't show trailers that have a stricter rating than the feature film being shown.
Sorry to hear they're pulling this. But as we've already heard, Sweeney will be a bloody film, and I can't imagine them being able to cut a G-rated trailer that had any impact, especially for the Comic-Con crowds.
It was probably a good idea to pull it.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 7/24/07 at 01:34 PM
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#17re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:41pm
Is comic-con's crowd really that young??
Are there not Mystique's from Xmen walking around with their stuff all hanging out?
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#18re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:43pm
The demographic target is largely 13-18 year old males.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#19re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:44pmTry 13-30
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-Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
#20re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:45pm
Actually the 18-25 crowd is the second demographic.
But I agree that 30 is the new 18 these days.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#21re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 1:48pm
i am excited to see what its all about.
As sad as this is - I am taking my Ultra Clutch can and getting photos with Cosplay people as I "spray" their hair. My goal is to find Chewbacca. :)
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#22re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 2:10pm
Here's a piece from the L.A. Times ComicCon Watch page, that explains this probably far better than I was. :) Emphasis mine. Again, not saying that this has anything to do with anything about Sweeney, but just that this is what's been going on with the studios/ComicCon in general...
Organizers of San Diego-based Comic-Con came to Los Angeles and held a meeting with the studios earlier this summer to talk about, among other things, making sure that movie preview materials did not contain anything that would be considered so edgy that it would otherwise be age-rated or seen in an R-rated, red-band trailer.
This is the first year that convention organizers have made it mandatory that studios preview materials for officials before presenting them, said David Glanzer, Comic-Con's marketing honcho. Organizers have had a long-standing rule for reviewing materials, "but we haven't been very diligent about it," he said. Officials hoped to jettison any R-rated material by setting their preview deadline for the studios earlier than usual this year.
edit to include link :)
Updated On: 7/24/07 at 02:10 PM
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#23re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 2:14pm
Doubtful that relates to Sweeney- I cant imagine it being THAT violent. But who knows...
Perhaps Burton made something- they didn't approve and he refused to re-cut the footage.
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Updated On: 7/24/07 at 02:14 PM
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#24re: Dreamworks Pulls 'Sweeney Todd' From ComicCon
Posted: 7/24/07 at 6:51pmOkay, so the question now becomes, when and where will a Sweeney trailer be premiered? It's going to be out in less than six months. It'd be cool to at least have a teaser...
