COLD COPY (2024) Movie Trailer: Tracee Ellis Ross & Bel Powley push the Boundaries of Journalistic Integrity in Thriller Film

Cold Copy Trailer

Roxine Helberg‘s Cold Copy (2024) movie trailer has been released by Vertical Entertainment. The Cold Copy trailer stars Tracee Ellis Ross, Bel Powley, Jacob Tremblay, James Tupper, Nesta Cooper, and Ekaterina Baker.

Crew

Roxine Helberg wrote the screenplay for Cold Copy. “Produced by Daniel Bekerman, Roxine Helberg, Justin Lothrop, Brent Stiefel, and Amanda Verhagen.”

Plot Synopsis

Cold Copy (2024)’s plot synopsis: “Cold Copy tells the story of two driven women pushing the boundaries of journalistic integrity in order to deliver a compelling, and ultimately scandalous, exposé.

Eager to impress the the cutthroat news reporter Diane Heger (Tracee Ellis Ross), ambitious young journalism student Mia Scott (Bel Powley) desperately competes for her attention.

With increasing pressure from Diane to outperform her peers, Mia finds a new angle for her latest story about an unsuspecting subject: precocious teen Igor Nowak (Jacbo Tremblay).”

Review

FilmBook writer David McDonald screened Cold Copy at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and had this to say about the film:

In fact, with all due credit to a very fine cast, most of the real fire lay in the interactions between her and Bel Powley, and by extension, Ms. Powley and Jacob Tremblay, and lend considerable depth to otherwise familiar characters. All in all, Cold Copy is both satisfying and gratifying.

Read here the full Cold Copy Movie Review.

On Movie Trailers

“A trailer (also known as a preview or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema. It is a product of creative and technical work…Trailers consist of a series of selected shots from the film being advertised.

Since the purpose of [this advertisement] is to attract an audience to the film, these excerpts are usually drawn from the most exciting, funny, or otherwise noteworthy parts of the film but in abbreviated form and usually without producing spoilers.

For this purpose the scenes are not necessarily in the order in which they appear in the film. [This type of ad] has to achieve that in less than 2 minutes and 30 seconds, the maximum length allowed by the MPA. Each studio or distributor is allowed to exceed this time limit once a year, if they feel it is necessary for a particular film.

In the United States there are dozens of companies, many of which are in Los Angeles and New York City, that specialize in the creation of film trailers. The trailer may be created at agencies (such as The Cimarron Group, MOJO, The Ant Farm, Ben Cain, Aspect Ratio, Flyer Entertainment, Trailer Park, Buddha Jones) while the film itself is being cut together at the studio.

Since the edited film does not exist at this point, the trailer editors work from rushes or dailies. Thus, the trailer may contain footage that is not in the final movie, or the trailer editor and the film editor may use different takes of a particular shot. Another common technique is including music on the trailer which does not appear on the movie’s soundtrack.

This is nearly always a requirement, as trailers and teasers are created long before the composer has even been hired for the film score—sometimes as much as a year ahead of the movie’s release date—while composers are usually the last creative people to work on the film

Trailers tell the story of a film in a highly condensed fashion to have maximum appeal. In the decades since film marketing has become a large industry, trailers have become highly polished pieces of advertising, able to present even poor movies in an attractive light.

The key ambition in trailer-making is to impart an intriguing story that gets film audiences emotionally involved.

Most trailers have a three-act structure similar to a feature-length film. They start with a beginning (act 1) that lays out the premise of the story. The middle (act 2) drives the story further and usually ends with a dramatic climax.

Act 3 usually features a strong piece of “signature music” (either a recognizable song or a powerful, sweeping orchestral piece). This last act often consists of a visual montage of powerful and emotional moments of the film and may also contain a cast run if there are noteworthy stars that could help sell the movie.”

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Cold Copy (2024) Trailer