Websites

When film companies bring out a new film they use a website to promote the film. This is a cheap and effective method in getting an extra audience and to appease fans.


These are a few of the upcoming films with websites:
- Fantastic Beasts and where to find them
- Assassins Creed
- Rouge One (Star Wars)
- Justice League
- The Lego Batman Movie


All these films have huge followings, many of them being children's films. This could possibly be to entertain the children rather than have the boring information about the film that many of them will skip/ignore.
Many film companies cater to developed nations with access to the internet, it acts as further publicity for them. Also giving them some kind of reference to the film itself, e.g. for a murder mystery, there could be clues on the website for the fans to follow, acts as further expansion of the films fan base.

Examples:

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
On this website there is a trailer, videos, gallery, maps where you can explore the sets, information about the beasts, a countdown to the opening date, a place to book tickets, shop and links to social media pages. They have tried to make the site as magical as possible to compliment the film of wizardry.

Justice League
This website opens with all the main characters' logos, informing the audience of them. It also contains comic con footage, first look, release date, and links to social media. This website doesn't contain a lot of information possibly because the release date is in 2017.