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Star Trek Into Darkness To Release a Week Early in the United Kingdom

by Susana Polo | 11:42 am, March 7th, 2013


In which Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto lock Benedict Cumberbatch in a cage to prevent him from making sure that the UK gets Star Trek Into Darkness before America does.

“Mwaha,” he responds, “You forgot Alice Eve and Simon Pegg are also British. STID premiered in the UK half an hour ago.”

Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week.

Earlier today Simon Pegg tweeted, and Deadline corroborates, that the UK release date for Star Trek Into Darkness has been bumped up a week from May 17th to May 9th. The question that remains, naturally, is whether this means that the US release date will also be moved up. Survey says…. nope.

As Deadline points out, just a little while ago STID ran a contest connected to their Superbowl Ad, allowing a lucky few American fans to score tickets to an early screening of the movie. That early screening was revealed to be on the 15th of May, which is now six days later than the movie’s UK premiere. Additionally:

There have also been rumblings that the movie would get a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival which runs from May 15-26, but I’ve heard that is not the case. The new release date would seem to support that since movies are rarely screened in Cannes after they’ve premiered big elsewhere.

So rejoice, Britons! You’ll get to know who Benedict Cumberbatch’s character is for really reals a week earlier than everybody else. If only Americans had some kind of machine that could travel through time or space to your Star Trek premiere, but apparently beat us to that too.

(via Deadline.)

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  • Lizzie

    Woot!!! Finally we get a movie ahead of the North Americans!!

  • http://twitter.com/Tonks07 Mandy

    It’s like they are asking for people in the US to bootleg it.

  • Lady Viridis

    As Mandy said– this will insure that piracy of the movie in the US will skyrocket during that first week.

  • http://www.thenerdybird.com/ Jill Pantozzi

    Or they’re asking US viewers to see the film on the date it was originally intended to be released.

  • Canisa

    Hell yeah, it’s about time America knew what it’s like to be on the receiving end of this kind of thing!

  • http://melancholywise.tumblr.com/ Sophie

    This makes me unspeakably delighted, and I’d like to say that it’s because I’m really looking forward to the film and not because I still maintain a petty resentment about getting Brave several months after the US release…but I’d be lying.

  • http://twitter.com/Tonks07 Mandy

    They can ask. But in reality, either the company is going to be on high alert online tracking down anyone who posts d/l links or they are ignoring that movie piracy is a thing that happens or they don’t think one week enough time to make that much of a difference in sales. Which really, I don’t think it is. The same people who would pirate/view a copy of the movie early are the same fans who are going to pay that $8.50 in the theatre to see it better on the big screen. Fans are the ones who d/l those crappy theater quaility bootlegs. Fans are also going to be the ones with their butts in the seats and the ones probably with the DVD eventually on their shelf.

  • Life Lessons

    Oh those brits are so lucky!!!

  • Anonymous

    Lucky?! We had to wait an extra 6 MONTHS for Wreck-It Ralph and Cloud Atlas and nearly every other major release (and Cloud Atlas isn’t even screening Cambridge so I can’t go see it on the big screen anyway)! Getting Iron Man and Star Trek early is like 3 Christmases in a year. (which I am very happy about!)

  • Carrie

    Didn’t the UK get The Avengers earlier than the US too? That’s probably a good indication of whether it affects pirating; both hotly anticipated, big-budget action movie with a similar target audience.

    I have no idea if that was the case with pirating and the Avengers but curious to find out if the space between the releases really does make a difference.

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