This chapter discusses how the trailers for 'The Color Purple', a new Mean Girls movie, and Taylor Swift's era's tour movie failed to mention that they were musicals, which seemed like an important selling point. The Mean Girls trailer only revealed its musical aspect during a special theatrical trailer shown during Taylor Swift's concert film.
The studios promoting Mean Girls, Wonka, and The Color Purple are hiding something from you. The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh explains why.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers with original music by Noam Hassenfeld, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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