You can sue movie companies now if they put clips in trailers that don’t show up in movies. Court in California is allowing a lawsuit to continue where false advertising has been claimed. There’s a trailer for the movie “Yesterday” that shows a character who was actually cut from the film. Universal Studios tried to argue artistic expression. The court disagreed calling trailers commercial speech advertising.
I agree. Artistic expression would be one of those fake fan trailers that pop up on YouTube all the time. Movie trailers are meant to entice people into showing up for what they think the movie will be like. You can’t run a commercial for a pepperoni and pineapple pizza and then after people buy it, tell them that the pepperoni had to be cut. A car commercial can’t talk about features and then tell you they were dropped after you buy the car. Why should a movie trailer show things that you won’t find are missing until you’re sitting in the theater?
Especially in a film like this one where a pretty well-known actress was featured in the trailer in a specific plot point of the story, but then gets completely removed from the movie.
Hey, come enjoy the Wagyu steak with a glass of wine for a romantic dinner. And by Wagyu, we mean hamburger. And you have to come alone. We know it wasn’t what you were expecting, but……….. artistic expression! Enjoy the wine that’s actually Kool-Aid.