What is a junket?

What is a junket?

A press junket is usually a weekend set up by the studio where journalists are flown in, usually to New York or Los Angeles but occasionally somewhere kind of exotic that fits the movie, and they see the movie and they do round table interviews with the cast and sometimes the director. Then sometimes they get some quick one-on-one time. A lot of TV outlets do a press junket because it is quick and they only need five minute interviews anyway. You'll find TV is sort of the priority for the press junket, so if you're a journalist, and you don't work in TV, you'll probably want to avoid the press junket. You feel like you're kind of getting canned answers and you're not getting the actors in a different element as they're surrounded by the crew and the publicists and they're being micromanaged. But the press junket really a one stop shopping for a lot of journalists to get their outlet coverage of this big event movie.