Comment Define "Our" (Score 1) 206
The movie goer is not the consumer of a movie trailer. It's the movie producers that pay for them, and to whom they are designed to appeal. And the use of high budget content in the trailer allows producers to squeeze more value out of that content. If your shelling out Millions for a Blockbuster, it's cheaper and easier to use prime movie content for the trailer. Movie goers dislike it and you'd think that should be enough to stop the practice, but it's not the movie producers that make the trailer. That's a subcontractor. In the subcontractor is just doing Simple cost-benefit analysis. How cheap can I bid on a project that will make the biggest splash. Because of that, they're not going to film additional content. They're going to use the content that exists and the best of it to boot. Because the producer will only buy the cheapest trailer that makes the biggest splash.