EXCLUSIVE: This was truly terrible decision-making by Warner Bros ' both to release a trailer like this and then not to pull it immediately after today's tragedy. I have confirmed that the studio which released The Dark Knight Rises paired it with the official movie trailer for Gangster Squad, an upcoming pic set in 1949 about a ruthless Mafia Godfather who runs Los Angeles. One of the scenes in the trailer that's been playing all morning today shows a gangster with a machine gun shooting up people in a movie theater from behind the big screen. Several moviegoers tipped me to this scene.
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This morning I called on Warner Bros to take this trailer down immediately. The studio's response to me? 'There's a meeting about this and then a decision will be reached.' I just received the call that the trailer is being pulled. But only after I complained. And yet movie moguls wonder why so much of the country hates Hollywood values where money trumps everything, even during the Aurora theater shooting tragedy. Here's the horrible clip which no one at Warner Bros should have allowed to be made, much less released, in the first place:
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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