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Teen Wolf News 042617

MTV Mostly Silent on Teen Wolf
While MTV still won’t say when they’ll begin airing new episodes of Teen Wolf, we expect it will be sometime in the next two months. That’s a tight window and one might expect the network would be busy promoting the “final 10 episodes” already. Instead, MTV and the various Teen Wolf social accounts are mostly silent.

They’ve shown up on Instagram about three times this month. Their twitter account is active once or twice a week, but their Tumblr last saw an update in February (not that Tumblr is still a thing really), and the official Teen Wolf MTV website still lists Arden Cho as a member of the cast. FYI Cho’s last episode aired on March 8, 2016, and she announced she was off the show on April 11, 2016. It’s been more than a year and they still haven’t updated the “cast” portion of the website. To be fair, promotions schedules for the show have varied from season to season, but there was once a method to the way Teen Wolf Official would release their promo’s and trailers. During the first few seasons - when debuts came every June - they would produce elaborate teasers revealing the theme of the upcoming episodes. Those usually dropped in April or May followed by a steady ramp up of releases until the debut. The pattern changed in Season 4 when they held the “Can’t Go Back” teaser until May and didn’t release a full trailer until two weeks before the debut. Since then, there’s no discernable pattern to Teen Wolf promotions.


 * For a June 29 debut, the network released the first Season 5 promo on April 12.


 * For a January 5 debut, the network released the first Season 5b promo on October 9.


 * For a November 15 debut, the network released the first Season 6 promo on October 8.

As of this writing, MTV is still just saying “summer” for the debut. They have a major event broadcast coming up in a couple of weeks (MTV Movie and TV Awards on May 7) which will likely be their highest profile platform for promoting the show. It would make sense for them to push a trailer out on that broadcast but their marketing strategy for Teen Wolf hasn’t actually made sense in a while.

American Assassin Brings the Buzz
The release last week of the American Assassin trailer and the serious badassery presented by Teen Wolf’s Dylan O’Brien in said trailer created quite a bit of buzz. Fan conversations on social media made AA the second most talked about movie of the week. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy sequel topped the list according to ComScore’s web-crawling robots. Note that ComScore’s “Most Talked About” includes buzz and the release date of the movie. When you compare American Assassin to films slated for release around the same time, the amount of chatter is even more impressive.

ComScore’s rankings actually don’t translate into direct box office success, but studios can use the data to see if their promotions efforts are working to at least get people talking about their upcoming projects.

Source: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-american-assassin-social-media-buzz-1202394233/

Death Cure Delay
Maze Runner fans are facing yet another delay for the third installment of the movie series starring Teen Wolf’s Dylan O’Brien. Twentieth Century Fox pushed the release date for Maze Runner: The Death Cure back another month. The film will now hit theaters on February 9, 2018. Initially, TDC was to bow in February of this year but filming was delayed by an on-set accident.

The delay this time seems to be part of the arcane equations studios use to determine when best to release their product. There’s not much in the way of announced competition on the previous January release date so they don’t seem to be running from anything. Most likely, TDC is taking up the slack left by the new Predator reboot getting pushed back to summer. That alien hunter movie was initially in TDC’s new February 9 release window.

Kinda Official Teen Wolf Timeline
Be sure to check out Teen Wolf Wikia’s new as-close-as-we-can-come-to-Official Timeline for the show. Site Administrator Dry63 toiled for weeks putting this together with the best information we have from the show itself. There is no guesswork in the article. The Teen Wolf Wikia Timeline is based solely on the information presented on screen through dialog. There are no “well if this happened, then this MUST HAVE happened” logic leaps that we’ve seen on other sites. We also pretty much ignore props as time clues since they, more often than not, break continuity.

LINK: Teen Wolf Timeline
While we’ve enjoyed watching the show for close to six years now, only two and a half years passed in Beacon Hills. Instead of trying to place those specific years on a calendar, the timeline simply presents Year One, Year Two, and Year Three. There are some pre-Year One dates we know, like the WWII stuff and Alexander Argent’s suicide, but Teen Wolf time mostly exists only in relation to itself. Events prior to Year One are placed in context as they were on the show “6 years ago” or “8 years ago.”

<p class="MsoNormal">That being said, there are no perfect Wikia articles. If you see something on the new timeline that could be clarified or needs fixing, speak up.

Tyler Hoechlin Wraps Supergirl
<p class="MsoNormal">It looked like Tyler Hoechlin was having fun fighting aliens and goofing with his co-stars during last week’s Supergirl shoot.

<p class="MsoNormal">You can see Hoechlin’s man of steel during the Supergirl Season 2 finale on Monday, May 8.

Set Visit Winner Video
<p class="MsoNormal">Remember back in the winter when MTV offered folks a chance to visit the set and watch as Teen Wolf filmed some final episodes? Yeah. That happened and the winner visited the set. <p class="MsoNormal">According to executive producer Jeff Davis, “Teen Wolf raised $318,000 through Omaze for After-School All-Stars,” with that auction and trip giveaway.