It’s not uncommon for the main UK press shows of a new film to take place after the official embargo on reviews has lifted, which means only outlets who get into junket screenings can release their reviews when said embargo is up. If you’ve ever wondered why some outlets can get their reviews out earlier than others, this is one of the reasons. Mostly, extra screenings are arranged, and often, these are in advance of the official UK press shows. And studios are pretty much in line on the policy that if you want to do a junket interview, you have to watch the film in question first. There are instances where the junket takes place and the film hasn’t been completed at that point, but it may be the only time that all the talent involved in the picture can get together.
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Sometimes, too, a film – even a big film – may rely on a series of phone interviews, for either logistical or expense reasons.ĭo I get to see the film early if I attend a press junket? Not every big blockbuster release has a press day in every country, and the expense of a junket for lower budget productions oftentimes means individual interviews are the affordable way forward. What outlets tend to soak up though are television, radio, print and online interviews, and podcast interviews too. Likewise, if you want to get on Graham Norton’s sofa – probably the very top of the UK junket tree – then you have to go to his show to do that. Likewise, for high profile outlets – such as the Kermode & Mayo Film Review programme on Radio Five Alive – a studio visit may be organised. Star talent in particular may be whisked up to Salford to visit the BBC at Media City.
This allows for filmmakers to do as many interviews as possible, with as many people, in a day or two.ĭoes every outlet have to attend the junket? But the vast majority of the time, it’s a London hotel, where a bunch of rooms are booked out. A LEGO film junket at the UK’s LEGO Land, for instance. Occasionally, if there’s a tie-in to something particular, the junket may move to somewhere that ties in. And it’s primarily posh hotels in London. Before the team behind the film head off to another city in another country to do it all again. Rather than lots of different interviews with lots of different people in lots of different places, everything is done over a day – or a few days – at one location.
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Likewise, Tom Hanks’ co-stars and the creative team behind Tom Hanks’ latest movie are also at said hotel in different rooms. The thinking is that, rather than taking Tom Hanks round to everybody’s house, that everybody goes to Tom Hanks as he sits in a nice hotel room. It’s designed at heart to get as many interviews done with those involved with the film in as short a space of time as possible. But for those on the outside trying to break in, I did think this might be useful. Note that this isn’t an exhaustive guide, and different people have different perspectives. I thought, and let me know if you want more pieces like this, that this may thus be useful. And last week, a couple of people got in touch with questions about junkets. To pull back the curtain a little on the film world, and demonstrate that, just with everything, it’s a bunch of human beings behind it all. One of the things I’m very keen to use Film Stories for is to make things reachable. Those promotional days where people are brought together generally in some posh hotel, whilst those involved in a film tend to answer similar questions time after time, from interviewers keen to get some quality material for the outlet they represent. One of the great mysteries of the film world – at least from the outside looking in – is the press junket.
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