But the momentary suspense was enough to get bloggers musing online about how much weight Mr. Bloomberg's endorsement carries, and whether an Obama-Bloomberg presidential ticket would ever be viable.
But that film will be just another footnote, after people see Hitchcock, which features Anthony Hopkins in what could, in a less crowded year, be an Oscar-nominated performance, playing the master of suspense as he tries to get Psycho off the ground.
Cautiously, he embraced the idea that interactivity could enable a newly pliant idea of cinematic narrative — "one that is opposed to most popular movies, which are built on suspense, which make you want to get to the resolution, and focus you on one track, one ending".
"But I wanted to get that moment of suspense, when you know something is going to happen and there's nothing you can do to stop it.
"So we created a whole concept of visiting each other's mobile profiles, standing in line and trick-or-treating, creating suspense about what you're actually going to get.
As James Poniewozik at TIME points out, television adds suspense between episodes and seasons in order to get viewers to tune back in.
"I'm talking two blocks, a line of people waiting to get into... ...... he said, pausing for suspense.
There is a ho hum wedding to get through and a honeymoon and then the suspense starts.
Barney Google went from being a gag-a-day strip to one in which both humor and suspense kept readers coming back each day, as Google desperately tried to get his horse to win a race.
Technical matters aside, the language police would have Goldberg up on charges if she tried to get away with that kind of writing in a real suspense novel.
