Paramount Screens Super 8 Footage in NYC, ShoWest/CinemaCon

by Anne Thompson
March 24, 2011 1:55 AM
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Rumors have been rampant that Paramount was going to screen a film at next week's CinemaCon (ShoWest is no more) exhibitor convention in Las Vegas. Well, the studio screened the first 20 minutes of J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg's Super 8 to positive response to assorted media in New York Wednesday, and will show the same footage to theater owners, along with a 2011 sizzle reel.

Paramount CEO Brad Grey introduced first-looks of Footloose and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol at the Walter Reade Theatre as well as familiar Super Bowl footage from Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Here's some descriptive reaction from HitFix, Cinema Blend and Matt Patches.

More: Directors, Genres, Studios, Marketing, Exhibition, Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, Sci-fi, Paramount/Vantage/Insurge/CBS

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Brian | March 24, 2011 3:16 AMReply

That headline had my hopes up--that we were all going to see a revival of the Super 8 film format. I still have a Super 8 camera and a Regular 8mm one and two 16mm cameras. Only to have my hopes dashed with the second sentence. How cruel...

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