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Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
2025 · Film · documentary · 71 min
Marvel's First Family has arrived! Join the cast, crew, and fans live from the blue carpet at the World Premiere of Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
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I've gotten fooled by these fake-movie trailers before, ones made by AI and ones made of "fan edits" using the actors from other scenes. It's definitely annoying, especially when you're anticipating a film and excited to see the new trailer, it's weirdly bad or off and then you realize it's a fake trailer!
> Screen Culture had created 23 versions of a trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps by March, some of which outranked the official trailer in YouTube search results. More recent examples include HBO’s new Harry Potter series and Netflix’s Wednesday.
Also this is interesting:
> Our deep dive into fake trailers revealed that instead of protecting copyright on these videos, a handful of Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony, secretly asked YouTube to ensure that the ad revenue from the AI-heavy videos flowed in their direction.
https://deadline.com/2025/03/youtube-ad-revenue-fake-movie-trailer-screen-culture-1236354143/
Having seen all 3 summer blockbusters (Jurassic World: Rebirth, Superman, and Fantastic Four: First Steps) after years without moviegoing, I think Covid has a lot more to do with the changes in movies than AI.
By any measure, movies were pretty bad before Covid. Then, people stopped going entirely. I think this caused the studios to rethink what they have to sell.
We're getting storylines that wouldn't be in previous versions of these films, like dogs and pregnant women. Pacing is also changing and storied franchises are being mercilessly rebooted with their entire canon tossed or disrupted because it doesn't appeal today.
We're also seeing more large format feature films (IMAX and XD) where these used to be reserved for documentaries or special events. I watched all of the mentioned films in large formats and paid extra to do so.
Rather than AI, I think these changes represent the response of people at the studio to changes that customers want to see at the movies, lest they stay home and watch standard fare on streaming.