I understand what you're saying. But, in the practical business world of Hollywood, that makes things a LOT more difficult to get a wide release.
Unless the picture has A-list talent, or an A-list director and/or a massive special effects budget, it is very difficult to get very many people to see it.
There are some rare exceptions, but generally those are indie films that have done exceptionally well on the film-festival circuit. That success will sometimes be enough for a major studio to buy the film, even though it's a small-budget, no known talent and brand new director feature film. As far as I can tell, this film wasn't screened at a single film festival. That's not a good sign. I'm not optimistic.
By the way, this is why I think what Mel Gibson was able to accomplish with Passion of the Christ was so incredibly remarkable. He did have a larger budget - at least twice what this film has - but he used every penny wisely, and he created a genius, textbook really, grass-roots marketing strategy. I think these guys would have been smart to screen the whole film at CPAC. The fact that they didn't says one of two things - either they don't know what they're doing, or the film isn't that good, sadly.
The whole thing has that “direct to DVD” look to it. Even so, I predict it will sell very well on DVD.
I just realized another reason why the trailer bothered me. The world in the movie looks too damn polished for AS. In AS, the world is the process of falling apart. Its kind of hard to make that case when people are using high speed trains, cell phones, and computers. Maybe things will change in later installments, but you’ve got to find a way of conveying considerable decay and despair to make the premise credible—the trailer didn’t accomplish that.