Universal Pictures Halts Marketing of Movie After Mass Shootings

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Universal Pictures is pausing its ad campaign for a violent movie called 'The Hunt' in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton

Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures is postponing marketing of a coming thriller about Americans hunting fellow Americans out of concern the violent film’s ad campaign is too reminiscent of mass shootings in the past week.

Even without the recent tragedies, the movie, called “The Hunt,” was sure to court controversy. It depicts a divided nation where heavily-armed elites hunt down and kill others for sport.

 

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You wonder why young ppl kill? Movies like this condition young minds that there's no value to human life. Bann violent movies!

They should have done this with the “new” Ghostbusters. That movie was a crime against humanity

Since when does watching a movie cause someone to go out and kill people! Get real.

Pull this movie now

Why would you make a movie with this storyline in the first place

The movie should NEVER EVEN be shown! It is dangerous. WSJ

How about you just kill the movie instead.

I have to mute the TV and walk away every time I see these commercials! How is this entertainment?

Really. I thought movies have no impact on our culture. It’s all art.🤔

good - don't show it at all, please. UniversalPics

Perhaps Hollywood should refrain from making these movies at all TinseltownHypocrisy

Americans, this is what Hollywood thinks of us. This is what they want to do to us. But they scream about hate and violence from the right. They scream about GunControlNow but they do a movie like this. DemocratsAreCausingHate thehuntmovie

straight to trashcan (skip video)

Why was this picture made? I’ll answer. To inspire more libtard inpired incidents like the Congressional Shooting Massacre of 2017. This is an Antifa training film.

Of course UniversalPics is still going to sell the movie. Just not pay for ads. And with free PR now from , a trash film that would’ve been ignored will now make big bucks.

Same thing happened to Equilibrium.

Dumb pandering nonsense. Stop supporting the bullshit theory that it's 'violent' entertainment's fault that white supremacy has infected half of this country. If anything needs to be suspended, it's the fucking commander in chief's presidency & fox news' programming.

This movie has been pitched, written, cast, filmed, edited and prepped for marketing in the time of over 1000 mass shootings but maybe now isn't the best time to advertise This? You decided to make this, might as well keep up the indifference now

Good idea. Looks stupid anyway.

It sounds like a terrible movie anyway. Good riddance.

Movie is about Democrats hunting Trump voters. Classy.

You mean its bad ripoff of The Hunger Games?

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