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A trailer (also known as a preview or coming attraction) is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, the result of creative and technical work.

The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a feature film screening.

That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, but the name has stuck.

Trailers are now shown before the film begins.

In the performing arts industry, a casting (or casting call) is a pre-production process for selecting a certain type of actor, singer or dancer for a particular role or part in a script involving a dramatic production meant for an audience.

Science fiction film (or sci-fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition.

In many cases, tropes derived from written science fiction may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science fiction is traditionally held.

A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters.

The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract and open to interpretation.

In a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play "characters", but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role.

Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect.

The causal events of a plot can be thought of as a series of sentences linked by "and so".

Plots can vary from simple structures such as in a traditional ballad to complex interwoven structures sometimes referred to as an imbroglio.

The term plot can serve as a verb and refer to a character planning future actions in the story.