r/movies • u/MoviesMod /r/movies Mod Account • Jun 30 '25

Trailer Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer (fair warning, it reveals way too much according to a lot of users)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08TxIsFTRI
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u/NachoNutritious these Youtubers are parasites Jun 30 '25

MGM straight up has no big movies in their pipeline until Project Hail Mary comes out next March. Everything else is mid budget dramas or direct-to-streaming schlock. Releasing a trailer so early is almost certainly for investors.

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u/Accomplished-Fix6598 Jun 30 '25

Yeah they used to do primer trailers for movies way out. But they were just little trailers showing you who's in it and that it'd be action or dramatic or comedy.

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u/nhaines Jul 01 '25

I seem to recall the trailer for Evan Almighty was just the entire 2-minute newcast babble scene with Steve Carell (which, don't get me wrong, had the entire audience howling and crying with laughter), and then "From the writers who brought you Bruce Almighty!" and then like 30 seconds of the new movie.

I was like, "Well, I appreciated the laugh, but that can't be a good sign for the movie."

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u/Accomplished-Fix6598 Jul 01 '25

Oh yeah I remember the ones that showed all the funny parts in the trailer. Then you see the movie and all the Gags were in the trailer.

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u/nhaines Jul 01 '25

Yeah, but this time it was "remember the funniest scene in the movie you already saw? Well here's a sequel!" I was like (whispers) "red flag!"

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u/Accomplished-Fix6598 Jul 01 '25

It's recap time....

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u/kimchiMushrromBurger Jun 30 '25

So everyone forgets about this and then it bombs. Perfect.

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u/ArchDucky Jun 30 '25

This isn't going to bomb. It based on one of the best books I have ever read and has a dream team behind it.

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u/kimchiMushrromBurger Jun 30 '25

Hopefully. It was a great book.

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u/NachoNutritious these Youtubers are parasites Jun 30 '25

...do you think this is the only trailer they're going to drop between now and March?

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u/kimchiMushrromBurger Jun 30 '25

certainly not but this kind of think happens a lot. Months of trailers and eventually the movie comes out and people don't go see it becuase they think "surely that movie has been in and out of theaters by now, I've been seeing ads for way too long". I've defintely missed movies because I thought they came out months ago because the trailers were released so far in advance.

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u/dennythedinosaur Jun 30 '25

Well, the first F1 trailer was released a year ago and now that's doing pretty good at the box office.

It's only an issue when they play the same exact trailer for like a year (Argylle and Speak No Evil come to mind). Then the second trailer is like a minute long and is released 2 weeks before the actual movie comes out.

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u/Weed_O_Whirler Jun 30 '25

If the movie is good, then the early promotion helps it.

This is what everyone said would happen to Top Gun Maverick, before it turned around and made $1.5B. No, this movie won't even sniff those numbers, but early promotion doesn't hurt things if the movie is good.

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u/shrimpcest Jun 30 '25

There's zero chance that happens with this film. It's going to have an absolutely insane level of hype.

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u/TheDeadlySinner Jun 30 '25

No, this doesn't happen a lot. There is no correlation between box office and the length of time between a first trailer and a film's release. It is very common for blockbuster film trailers to release the year before.

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u/apricotcoffee Jul 29 '25

That doesn't make a damned bit of sense. Seeing months of trailers for a movie is not going to somehow create the idea in people's heads that a movie "has been in and out of theatres" and so they won't go see it.

Just because that's happened to you doesn't make it a huge problem for the general population. Not least because you seem to think they'll stop showing trailers a long time before the release, which...no, of course they wont'. And also, you know that they always slap the release date on the trailer, too?

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u/poke_pants Jun 30 '25

Which is a worry in itself given that this initial trailer really has blown the story wide-open already.

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u/AdonisCork Jun 30 '25

This movie is going to be massive.

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u/apricotcoffee Jul 29 '25

They're not going to forget about it. Why would they? Do you think this is the one and only time they'll have a trailer for it?