New Ruling Declares Studios Potentially Liable For ‘Deceptive’ Movie Trailers

We’re ending 2022 with a bunch of industry-rocking news, like James Gunn and Peter Safran’s total restructure of Warner Bros.’ DC universe.

But one bit of news that isn’t as splashy as Henry Cavill getting the boot as Superman could have wider implications for the industry on the whole.

That’s a recent decision by a federal judge that could make studios liable for misleading movie trailers.The drama started when two Ana de Armas fans, Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza, decided to watch a movie called “Yesterday,” about an Average Joe musician who wakes up in a world where The Beatles never existed as a band, but has all the knowledge of their world-changing musical library.

The movie didn’t have a huge impact on audiences or critics, but its legacy may become tied to a meteoric shift in how films are advertised in the future.You see, Ana

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