Warner Bros. is releasing a teaser trailer forBirds of Preythis weekend, they just won’t be releasing it online. It’s been confirmed that the sneak peek for this latest DC Films release will be exclusively playing ahead of screenings ofIT Chapter Twoin theaters starting this weekend. However, in a bit of an unconventional strategy, the studio will not be making the trailer available online at that time, or anytime after the fact. The question of why is up for debate but either way, DC fans will have to head to a theater if they want to see the teaser in proper fashion.
A new report was able to confirm theBirds of Preyfootage won’t be officially released online by Warner Bros. That said, versions of the trailer leaked online after it played in front ofscreenings of the Spider-Man: Far From Home extended cutlast weekend. The studio was quick to pull the links down, but it’s possiblelow-quality versions of the video can still be foundthrough backchannels on the web.
Still, given the number of people that will flock to theaters to seeIT Chapter Two, quite a few eyeballs are going to absorb what this footage has to offer. You can still see the trailer in HD on a number of Twitter embeds.
Warning:spoilersfor the teaser in the following paragraph. The teaser is brief, clocking in at roughly 40-seconds. It features some ofPennywise’s signature red balloonsbefore cutting to Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, who looks remarkably different than she did when we last saw her inSuicide Squad. There are several action shots of Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), as well as a couple of shots of Ewan McGregor’s Black Mask, notably absent of his signature mask. It provides very little sense of story, instead opting to offer a sense of aesthetic and tone.
Interestingly, Warner Bros. did something very similar with another high-profile released recently. The teaser for Christopher Nolan’shighly mysterious new movie Tenetwas attached to Universal’sHobbs & Shaw. Similarly, that footage hasn’t made its way online, at least not officially, and the studio doesn’t intend to change that. It would seem this is a strategy intended to help get people into a theater. In any event, it seems there’s a pattern developing and, if the studio feels this is working for them, we’re likely going to see this happen more frequently in the future.
Birds of Prey(And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is directed by Cathy Yan. It’s going to be the lowest-budgeted DECU movie to date, costing around $75 million to produce and will see Harley and her new friends taking the action to Gotham City to stop Black Mask. As for when we’ll see an actual teaser trailer make its way online? That remains to be seen, but hopefully sooner rather than later.Birds of Preyis set to hit theaters on July 06, 2025. This news comes to us viaVariety.
