Warner Brothers cutting theater shootout scene from "Gangster Squad"

[HHR]

Warner Bros. regroups on PR for 'TDKR' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

For the first time since 9/11, a national tragedy forced Hollywood into crisis-management decisions that upended long-established plans for a high-profile release.

In the hours after a gunman's rampage at a Colorado movietheater left 12 dead and more than 50 wounded, Warner Bros. canceled international premiere events for "The Dark Knight Rises." TV spots for the pic on its opening weekend disappeared from the airwaves on Friday as news outlets went wall to wall with coverage of the killings in Aurora, Colo.

And the studio moved swiftly Friday to pull from exhibs and online outlets the trailer for "Gangster Squad," a period drama that featured a scene in which agents spray machine-gun fire into a crowded movie theater from behind the screen. Given the eerie association created by the Aurora shootings, Warner Bros. has since decided to remove the scene from the film, which opens Sept. 7, and is putting reshoot plans into motion, a source with knowledge of the situation told Variety. Warner Bros. would not comment.

Apparently it's the CLIMAX of the god damn movie too...........

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Ugh...why is this country so p*ssy

 

[Roid Jones]

It will be on the DVD

 

[Tom]

stupid decision, nikkas die every day b

 

[ineedsleep212]

 

[Super Cheech]

Puss

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I don't blame them for pulling it. The media would have thrown a shytstorm (even though the scene was filmed months ago) and bad press in this regard could have very well fukked up their box office numbers.

It's the media to blame. Not WB.

 

[Tom]

nope, the media/public loves violence and this woulda only brought more people in to see the film

same shyt happened with Gangsta rap in the 90s, they gave it all that attention by trying to censor/ban it but they only make it more popular by giving it free publicity

 

[JayYoung314]

i was actually watching the dark knight rises when that trailer came on showing that scene. that shyt was horrible, i really dont blame em. that shyt fukked with me a little bit.

 

[phillycavsfan]

nope, the media/public loves violence and this woulda only brought more people in to see the film

same shyt happened with Gangsta rap in the 90s, they gave it all that attention by trying to censor/ban it but they only make it more popular by giving it free publicity

People love violence but not when it reminds them of recent tragedy.

I don't like them pulling it but it's completely understandable.

 

[Tom]

People love violence but not when it reminds them of recent tragedy.

I don't like them pulling it but it's completely understandable.

thats a gay way of thinking breh


I can give a shyt of my homie got killed yesterday, I still wouldn't mind seeing a nikka get clapped up in a movie

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Warner Bros. regroups on PR for 'TDKR' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety



Apparently it's the CLIMAX of the god damn movie too...........

i knew they would cut the scene as soon as this shyt went down, i posted that back in the tdkr reaction thread. unless they push back the movie a year or two...hundred.