Fish (Salmon) Sausage
Posted on 06/30/2016 10:29:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The recent showing of a trailer for an R-rated dark comedy to moviegoers awaiting the start of the children's film "Finding Dory" caused enough of a ruckus for the theater company to issue an apology.
Moviegoers at the Brenden Concord 14 received a surprise earlier this month with the preview of "Sausage Party," an R-rated animated film centered around the adventures of some cartoon characters who are food items in a grocery store who soon realize their fate is to be eaten.
The "Sausage Party" preview carried dark themes, and Brenden Theatre officials acknowledged it was inappropriate for younger audiences of "Finding Dory," which is rated PG.
The mistake occurred at a showing earlier this month at the Concord theater on Willow Pass Road, though movie officials did not give an exact date.
Walter Eichinger, Brenden's vice president of operations said it was a mistake that was caught quickly.
"Playing that trailer was a one-time honest mistake by a theater manager moving screens around in effort to accommodate several large last-minute groups wanting to see 'Dory,'" Eichinger said in a written statement. "The wrong movie was started by mistake."
In the statement, Eichinger insisted the same thing won't happen again.
"It was caught soon, but not until the trailer played," he said. "We regret it, apologize for it, and we are not happy that it happened. We fully realize this trailer is not appropriate for 'Dory' and we would never schedule something like that. "The trailer for 'Sausage Party' is not and never has been scheduled with 'Dory."
"Finding Dory," the sequel to "Finding Nemo," that tells the tale about a fish finding its way home, debuted across the United States and Canada on June 17 and pulled in a record $136.2 million during its first weekend. "Sausage Party" is scheduled to be released into theatres Aug. 12.
Check who was running the booth that night! The crime usually has something to do with erased tape recordings or spliced film!
Mrs. Columbo *SMIRK*
I hate when a party turns out to be a sausage fest.
“Sausage Party” is one sick movie.
The movie is very imaginative, but it’s also profoundly morbid. Let’s just say, if you like very graphic, very creepy comic series such as “Adult Swim”, you may like this. I would not take any children under 10 to see it though. Might produce nightmares.
My very first thought is this movie might make some people not want to eat food AT ALL, because they’ve seen food anthromorphised, given human features and characteristics.
Well, “Finding Dory” includes inappopriate sexual themes anyway (”transgender” character), so anyone comfortable showing that to their kids should be plenty comfortable with their kids watching “Sausage Party”.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but how can a fish be transgender?
Wasn’t that the one with George C Scott’s wife?
A fish can’t but a anthropomorphized cartoon fish apparently can.
Thank goodness it wasn’t “Hide the Sausage Party”.
Snowflake alert!
No! Kate Mulligan. Star Trek Alum, Captain Janeway!
I only have Free Government TV out here in the sticks, but, my propaganda is in High Definition, so I’ve got that going for me... ;)
I’ve seen them all. My Mom was a HUGE fan and if I wanted to watch TV with her, Columbo was my choice. Of course, she’d wake me up at 3am to watch horror films, too. ‘Splains a LOT, don’t it? LOL!
There are at least six episodes dealing with film and/or tape recorders. It must’ve been very cutting edge at the time!
there’s no transgender character. Thats a myth.
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