Watch the leaked Comic-Con trailers for X-Men: Apocalypse and Suicide Squad
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It's getting harder and harder to keep a movie under wraps. As expected, San Diego Comic-Con featured the premiere of several highly anticipated trailers. (Like this one for Batman v. Superman.)
But every year, there are also a few movie trailers that are screened, exclusively, for the Comic-Con crowd, well in advance of their public release dates.
Of course, it only takes a single fan with a well-placed camera phone for those trailers to reach the rest of the world. Take this trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse, the latest in Bryan Singer's sprawling superhero franchise:
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Or this trailer for Suicide Squad, which offers (among many other things) the first glimpse of Jared Leto as The Joker:
Admittedly, the experience isn't quite as engaging as watching on a big screen alongside thousands of other die-hard fans — but if you didn't make it to Comic-Con this year, it's the best you're going to get.
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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.
