Comment Not out of the orrdinary (Score 1) 275
There's really nothing unusual about this. It is common practice for unfinished prints to be screened for test audiences. Out here in Los Angeles you can see up to a half dozen movies a year for free, as long as you don't mind that the movies will be unfiished prints lacking final visual effects, musical scores, ADR, and final editing.
Its a trip watching these things, with their rough editing and poor continuity. All of that stuff is added later, in response to the questionaires that the audience fills out after the movie.
I saw an old Gene Hackman movie, The Package, that way. They ask you all sorts of questions about the movie and your impressions of it, and modify bits of it according to the audience's answers. Its well worth your time to see one of these screenings. Just be sure to go and see the movie when it is officially released, just to see what they changed.
I suspect that this is nothing more than a typical early screening, and really doesn't have anything to say about whether the studio thinks they have a hit or not. Wait until a few weeks after its release to find out the answer to that question.
Its a trip watching these things, with their rough editing and poor continuity. All of that stuff is added later, in response to the questionaires that the audience fills out after the movie.
I saw an old Gene Hackman movie, The Package, that way. They ask you all sorts of questions about the movie and your impressions of it, and modify bits of it according to the audience's answers. Its well worth your time to see one of these screenings. Just be sure to go and see the movie when it is officially released, just to see what they changed.
I suspect that this is nothing more than a typical early screening, and really doesn't have anything to say about whether the studio thinks they have a hit or not. Wait until a few weeks after its release to find out the answer to that question.
