I spent Saturday night’s 20th Century Fox panel assuming that I’d heard wrong: of course they’d immediately release high-res trailers through official channels after the end of the panel. They’d have to be insane not to. The star of Deadpool won’t shut up about how fan attention is what made the movie possible. Specifically, the fan attention galvanized by the leak of an explosive proof-of-concept reel never intended to see the light of day. Why on earth would Fox and Warner Bros. leave themselves open to the possibility (no, let’s be clear: the reality) that the conversation on their movies would be dominated by blurry, off-center, fuzzy sounding cellphone footage?
Comic-Con makes everyone a pirate: The ‘problem’ of leaked trailers
