Trailer Impact: Toy Story 4 Tops Recall at 33.5%; Spider-Man: Far From Home Tops Interest in a Cinema View at 64.1%

June’s Disney animated sequel and July’s superhero sequel lead our two main metrics this week, in our weekly Thursday feature Trailer Impact.

A full list of trailers we’re currently tracking is at the bottom of the article.

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Top Three Trailers with Highest Recall Score Among Moviegoing Audiences

Moviegoers tell us the trailers they most recall seeing at their most recent visit to a cinema.

Toy Story 4 / Disney / Friday, June 21

  • 33.5% of moviegoers saw and recalled the trailer this week.
  • That’s down from a 38.9% peak last week.
  • The trailer spends a second week at #1 on the recall metric.
  • It also spends a fourth week in the top three.
  • Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return in the classic animated franchise dating back to 1999, about action figures who can come to life.

The Secret Life of Pets 2 / Universal / this Friday, June 7

  • 29.1% of moviegoers saw and recalled the trailer this week.
  • That’s a new peak, beating its prior 26.0% peak last week.
  • The trailer rises to the top three on the recall metric for the first time, at #2.
  • It previously ranked as high as #4 last week.
  • 33.5% of moviegoers saw and recalled the trailer this week.
  • Patton Oswalt, Harrison Ford, and Tiffany Haddish voice talking pets in the sequel to the hit 2016 comedy, which earned $368M.

Men In Black: International / Sony / Friday, June 14

  • 26.2% of moviegoers saw and recalled the trailer this week.
  • That’s up from 20.9% last week, but down slightly from a 26.8% peak.
  • The trailer returns for its second week in the top three on the recall metric, at #3.
  • It previously ranked #2, four weeks ago.
  • Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson star in this reboot of the sci-fi action trilogy.

Top Three Trailers with Highest Cinema Interest Among Moviegoing Audiences

Moviegoers tell us the wide release titles they’re most likely to see at a cinema, based on trailers recently played at theaters.

Spider-Man: Far From Home / Sony / Friday, July 5

  • 64.1% of respondents who saw the trailer this week said they intend to see it in theaters.
  • That’s a new peak, beating its prior 63.6% peak from two weeks ago.
  • The trailer spends a fifth week at #1 on the ‘interest in a cinema view’ metric.
  • It spends a 19th week — all but one of its tracking weeks — in the top three.
  • Tom Holland returns as the iconic superhero in a Europe-set story, along with a new character Mysterio played by Jake Gyllenhaal.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker / Disney / Friday, December 20

  • 63.7% of respondents who saw the trailer this week said they intend to see it in theaters.
  • That’s a new peak, beating its prior 59.7% peak last week, during its first week of tracking.
  • The trailer rises to #2 on the ‘interest in a cinema view’ metric on its second week of tracking, after debuting last week at #3.
  • The biggest series in movie history intends to end its main storyline with what promises to be the franchise’s final installment.

Toy Story 4 / Disney / Friday, June 21

  • 63.2% of respondents who saw the trailer this week said they intend to see it in theaters.
  • That’s down just the slightest bit — only 0.1% — from its 63.3% peak last week.
  • The trailer drops to #3, after ranking #2 during its first five weeks of tracking.
  • The trailer spends a sixth week in the top three, all of its tracking weeks, on the ‘interest in a cinema view’ metric.

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15 films were tracked this week, listed in order of release date:

  1. Dark Phoenix
  2. The Secret Life of Pets 2
  3. Late Night
  4. Shaft
  5. Men In Black: International
  6. Toy Story 4
  7. Child’s Play
  8. Annabelle Comes Home
  9. Spider-Man: Far From Home
  10. The Lion King
  11. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  12. Dora and the Lost City of Gold
  13. Hobbs & Shaw
  14. It: Chapter 2
  15. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker