Why Universal canceling TheHunt was the wrong call — and sets a very, very dangerous precedent
, decided to sound off on the movie — even though he, like the rest of us, hasn’t seen it. Acting like an angry fanboy, the kind that has little information about an upcoming project but just“Liberal Hollywood is Racist at the highest level, and with great Anger and Hate!”. “They like to call themselves ‘Elite,’ but they are not Elite. … The movie coming out is made in order to inflame and cause chaos. They create their own violence, and then try to blame others.
In a sane society, we wouldn’t have a president sounding off on something as minor as an action-horror movie like it was a major catastrophe. And we also wouldn’t have a studio do what Universal did in response, which was surrender. “While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign foron August 10th.
There are reasonable motivations to call a time out. In the wake of other mass shootings and tragedies, the unveiling of films and TV shows has been pushed back — everything from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
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