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Super Bowl 'Star Trek XI'

By T'Bonz
January 9, 2009 - 6:01 AM

Star Trek XI will join the list of summer movies that will have an ad appearing during this year's Super Bowl.

As reported by Variety, the Super Bowl, airing on February first on NBC, will include an ad for Star Trek XI. Star Trek XI will be released in May.

Other high profile movies will join Star Trek XI in the roster of Super Bowl ads. Confirmed are ads for the following movies in addition to Star Trek XI: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe, Angels and Demons, Monsters vs. Aliens and Land of the Lost. In addition, Pixar's Up and a Wolverine ad will probably be seen in Super Bowl ads.

The cost for a thirty-second ad on the Super Bowl is said to be three million dollars. Movie studios may have received a reduced rate due to the desire of NBC to fill all sixty-seven ad slots. The pricey ads will be seen by millions of viewers. Last year's Super Bowl was seen be ninety-seven million viewers.

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