Posted on 12/17/2012 6:45:46 AM PST by Perdogg
Paramount Pictures made the decision to postpone last Saturday’s premiere and the nationwide opening of Tom Cruise’s new movie, “Jack Reacher” this Friday in the wake of Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting.
The decision was made due to the fact that the movie has a bit of gun violence in many scene’s of the movie, including a violent opening scene.
“Due to the terrible tragedy in Newtown, Conn., and out of honor and respect for the families of the victims whose lives were senselessly taken, we are postponing tomorrow’s Pittsburgh premiere of Jack Reacher,” a Paramount official said in a Dec. 14 statement to the Hollywood Reporter. “Our hearts go out to all those who lost loved ones.”
In the opening sequence of the movie a sniper is shown, “methodically gunning down what looks to be five random targets,” on a riverfront promenade, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The movie star’s Tom Cruise as title character Jack Reacher, a drifter and former Army Military Police officer, working as an investigator for the alleged sniper’s defense attorney, Reacher unravels a case involving a hired killer and a Russian known only as “the zec.”
The movie is based on the 2005 novel written by Lee Child, called “One Shot.”
Paramount has made no decision on when the movie will now actually premiere after its original scheduled December 21st opening has been canceled. The movies December 15th premier at Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works megaplex was also canceled.
Warner Bros. made similar cancellations of international openings of the “The Dark Night Rises” Batman movie after the Aurora, Colorado movie theatre shootings this past summer.
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“The decision was made “ to get publicity baby!!!
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They gave us a Carbon Tax? How about a Violence Tax on Entertainers?
Tom Cruise in theatres again?
Haven’t we suffered enough this year?
“Fudge Packer”...
Love this South Park episode...
I get hell for saying that Craig in not the Fleming Bond, please take up for the next time some one says Bond is not a real person. :-)
"Now a bitter and raging anger began to fill him. This group of men, perhaps more than any other single group, was responsible for the muddy horror, which had choked the people for decades. The free and independent press! The members of that profession had either supinely allowed themselves to be seduced into the betrayal of a nation, or had been voluntarily silenced out of cowardice or expediency. Many of them had been engaged for years in active and deliberate treachery, using the powerful means of communication to further the designs of wicked men. This latter half of the Press had deceived the people with lies and cunning and falsehood and synthetic rages against "the special interests" of the forties and fifties. They had denounced any man of spirit and courage who had dared speak against the foul servants of Communism and Socialism whether that man were Senator or fellow-scribe, private citizen, ambassador, statesman or writer. Scores of them had hysterically upheld any politician who had attacked or evaded the Constitution of the United States of America; they had been the idolaters of Communist Russia and had labored fervently, for hire or through the evil imaginings of their perverted minds to thrust Marxism upon their nation."
There was promo for this exciting new action movie (in between blood dancing over Sandy Hook) on Channel 7 (Australia) Sunrise this morning.
This midget was telling five guys he was going to break their bottoms. I didn't believe it.
Sissies
Wrong verb.
Exactly so.
Yeah Lee Child sold out. Jack Reacher is supposed to a 6’5 behemoth. Cruise stands around 5’7 as do I. It’s almost as bad as when the theater changed Muslim terrorists into Aryan Neo-Nazis in Clancy’s “The Sum of All Fears”.
Violence in ‘entertainment’ goes back to ancient Greece.
GOOD! Tom Cruise as JACK REACHER is WRONG on EVERY level! Just can this film already and do the world a favor!
Grrrr! No one EVER calls me to ask about the movies in MY head...and, SURPRISINGLY (NOT!), Tom Cruise isn’t in a single ONE of them!
Vampire LeStat, Anyone? *CRINGE*
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