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Ads Pulled for Gory Universal Thriller 'The Hunt' In Wake of Mass Shootings (Exclusive)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829
(https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829)
The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.
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Given the fraught political climate ? particularly in the wake of the attack in El Paso, which was motivated by anti-immigrant bigotry ? studio sources say Universal is evaluating its plans in what one called "a fluid situation." A high-level insider says top executives want to stand by Blum, one of the studio's most prolific and successful producers, as well as filmmaker Craig Zobel, and see the project as a satire addressing an issue of great social importance. But this person says plans could change "if people think we're being exploitative rather than opinionated."
These fuckers really want a civil war.
"Elite liberals" [ROFL2]
The ones who can't work a 9-5, payoff their student loans, or the ones who can't change a flat tire?
To even propose this as a satire in this climate is beyond reckless.
DavieD55
08-07-2019, 04:37
They've got to pretend to be responsible now.
SouthPaw
08-07-2019, 12:41
Can you imagine if rolls reversed? MAGA hat wearing people running around with guns hunting AnQueffa's?
Shades of Bushwick and The Last Supper
The film is dead and won't be released.
I liked the Tweet I saw from Charlie Daniels 2 days ago;
"If "The Hunt" is too violent to release after El Paso and Dayton wouldn't it be too violent to release anytime?"
Great-Kazoo
08-12-2019, 07:44
Media blitz says studio pulled the movie and ads. We saw a promo on tv for the movie, on the 10th.
wctriumph
08-12-2019, 07:49
Who would actually pay money to go see this movie? I can't see anyone with more than 1/2 a brain would go and see it. At this point it will probably go straight to video, look for it at the Redbox by the end of the summer.
Some Vegan Bernie loving Prius driving liberal arts educated anti-gunner hunting down Trump supporting red meat eating Buck skinning Veteran country boy....what a wet dream these douchebags came up with.
‘The Hunt’ Theatrical Release Pulled By Universal Following Mass Shootings & Donald Trump Slam Against Hollywood (https://deadline.com/2019/08/the-hunt-release-pulled-mass-shootings-donald-trump-hollywood-1202665785/)
Updated with statement by Hilary Swank: Universal will not be releasing Blumhouse’s The Hunt on September 27 as planned. Deadline hears that a collective decision was made by Universal leadership, led by Donna Langley, with The Hunt filmmaking team. For this particular film, it’s better to wait.
The news of Universal canceling The Hunt comes in the wake of the studio putting the brakes on the pic’s marketing campaign in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, TX, Dayton, OH and Girloy, CA.
The studio released the following statement this morning: “While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for The Hunt, after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film. We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.”
No official plans as to what happens to The Hunt now. It could come back for a theatrical release at a latter date, or it could go to streaming once NBCUniversal parent Comcast launches its service.
Hillary Swank didn't mind getting the paycheck to make it, but now she found a conscience. Typical Hollywood.
In the wake of Universal’s decision to pull the theatrical release of The Hunt, two-time best actress Oscar winner and the pic’s star Hilary Swank said in a statement out of the Locarno Film Festival, “I fully support the decision by Universal and the filmmakers regarding The Hunt. It is a choice that I also personally felt was necessary. I can’t comprehend the violence happening in our county right now. We should all focus on healing, and above all else, kindness, sensitivity and humanity.”
Who would actually pay money to go see this movie? I can't see anyone with more than 1/2 a brain would go and see it. At this point it will probably go straight to video, look for it at the Redbox by the end of the summer.
Blumhouse is a production company that specializes in low- medium-budget horror and suspense movies. The typical demographic for their stuff are high school and college kids who are into stuff like reading Fangoria, etc.
The film is dead and won't be released.
I liked the Tweet I saw from Charlie Daniels 2 days ago;
"If "The Hunt" is too violent to release after El Paso and Dayton wouldn't it be too violent to release anytime?"
It'll get quietly dumped onto Amazon or Netflix in about 6 months, with maybe some word of mouth marketing among horror enthusiast outlets.
Aloha_Shooter
08-12-2019, 10:37
LOL, I wouldn't give a damn if they released it or not. Who would watch a Mary Sue fantasy like this? Being stalked by liberal elitists? Please, that's like the small town cops hunting John Rambo in "First Blood" -- not that I'm any John Rambo but most of these liberal elitists wouldn't even make small town cops. They're just holding it back because they are trying to hide their hypocrisy ... will probably release it quietly via streaming service so Pajama Boy can pretend he's a bad-ass.
They already made that movie. It was called Bushwick.
ChickNorris
08-12-2019, 11:32
Pajama boy? Is that a tweaker thing?
I would just watch
......for red October instead.
The revolution, not the submarine.
Aloha_Shooter
08-12-2019, 11:56
Pajama boy? Is that a tweaker thing?
Pajama Boy was an Obama attempt to get people to like and approve of ObamaCare ...
https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/472a54e/2147483647/resize/1160x/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs3-origin-images.politico.com%2F2013%2F12%2F18%2F131218_lowr y_pajamaboy.jpg
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/opinion-rich-lowry-obamacare-affordable-care-act-pajama-boy-an-insufferable-man-child-101304
https://dailycaller.com/2013/12/27/obamacares-pajama-boy-i-am-a-liberal-f/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/05/obamas-pajama-boy-menagerie/
Which of course led to merciless spoofing ...
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/66/30/68/663068900313fd069ce4e56511d261c4.jpg
http://americandigest.org/sidelines/obamacare_pajamas_boy_as_che_12-22-13-3.jpg
https://flyoverculturedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/pajama-boy-the-american-male.png
ChickNorris
08-12-2019, 12:01
Eeesh.
How'd I miss that?
Nevermind. I'm glad I had.
It was a stupid film made by the people who profit from violence and talk down to us about owning guns for our/family safety, also now an industry heavily financed by China. Eff 'em. I hope it cost them millions and stings the actresses involved.
Every single Lib/Con knows the score on political based violence. This is why we don't see the projection of violence/crime into the suburbs/exburbs and you find the worst intentions confined to blue cities. The walls on Hollyweird's echo chamber are so thick they think they can kick things up and be immune.
If it plays out like any other film take on "The Most Dangerous Game" my guess is the hunted protagonists would end up flipping the script and getting the drop on the hunters.
But yeah, up until that point, it's likely to be all lefty projection fantasy, kind of like that church shootout scene in Kingsman 2.
If it plays out like any other film take on "The Most Dangerous Game" my guess is the hunted protagonists would end up flipping the script and getting the drop on the hunters.
But yeah, up until that point, it's likely to be all lefty projection fantasy, kind of like that church shootout scene in Kingsman 2.
That's exactly how the long trailer leads me to think it ends. If that feels good to certain people, it wouldn't to others.
I see two possible messages that are literal/satire...
Urban Libs are immoral monsters and literally want murder to hunt fly-over people. This is going to destroy what reliability we have left and create cover for people who actually think this way (they do exist).
Conservatives are quite capable of turning the tables even with the odds stacked against us and will show no mercy. Well, I guess we better accelerate the disarmament, decapitalization, and demoralization of fly-over country. Kill them before they come for us!
Little did people know the Hunger Games was the same story, they just weren't obvious in the political identification and was much safer during the Obama years (what does that tell us?). An urban oligargy/elites who had centralized everything, living well above the rest in a two-class society, forced poverty on the districts, and held the games for sport because they perceived their utopia as too perfect. They controlled culture, entertainment, and wrote the law. Gun control too for the districts too, but not the capitol's troops.
"Oh, but it's just entertainment."
Hey, if merely holding a black rifle can cause a murder spree and invalidates 2A, as these people regularly say, then I think we're past respecting the 1A rights of the filmmakers.
Reminds me of
Surviving the Game (1994)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0111323/
Another in this general theme is the book and movie Battle Royale.
DavieD55
08-13-2019, 09:23
THE LEFT?S AMERICA-HATING MURDER PORNOGRAPHER
Posted by Matt Bracken (https://www.americanpartisan.org/author/matt_bracken/)
| Aug 12, 2019
For the past few days, since reading and watching news about the film The Hunt, (now apparently canceled or delayed), I?ve been planning to write a piece focusing on the screenplay?s kill list of ?deplorable? American conservatives. My initial primary resource was the official movie trailer itself. Now, in a two minute movie trailer, nothing is included by chance, not even one frame. Halfway through, a bulletin board is shown with photos of the deplorables who have been kidnapped for the hunt depicted in the movie. You will note that along with an evil rhino hunter and a tiki-torch-marching neo-Nazi are a lady with a long gun in front of an American flag, some politicians on the steps of Congress, and a ?Range? (Trump?) campaign worker, among others.
In the movie trailer for The Hunt, the only ?kill? that is shown appears to be that of the presumably evil rhino hunter, whose graphic murder by arrow is depicted in close-up.
The original thrust of my piece was that this theme constitutes depersonalizing enemy citizens for a later genocide, to be conducted by an adequately enraged population of properly brainwashed drones. I was going to examine past genocides in Turkey, Russia, Germany, China, Cambodia and Rwanda that were in every case preceded by cruel soulless regimes (and their media and entertaimnemt lackies) systematically degrading and dehumanizing the groups to be targeted for eradication. The ?deplorable? conservatives being kidnapped and set up to be hunted and murdered in The Hunt seemed to fit within that pattern, as we see the Left in 2019 branding all conservatives, and most of all white conservative heterosexual Christians, as inherently evil racists who need to be eradicated. Eradicated is the key word here.
Full Article: American Partisan/Mathew Bracken (https://www.americanpartisan.org/2019/08/the-lefts-america-hating-murder-pornographer/)
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not all worked up about this. While there is an element of truth to this, there's also a huge amount of exaggeration and manipulation on the right to blow it out of proportion. For instance, the protagonist... e.g. "good guy" is one of the claimed hunted "deplorables" who appears to be killing "the other guys"and emerges the victor. I haven't seen Bloomberg, Clinton, or Trump hunting people in the trailer, so I'm not sure who the liberal "elites" are, other than just plot devices and star-trek red shirts.
Is everyone a f'n snowflake now?
ETA:
I mean literally, it appears to be little different than a plethora of movies already out there. Should we be offended if Terminator or Alien kills a bunch of rednecks before they kill it?
People have already covered a lot of the movies this is like. The plot device generally only works if you know.. a gun totin' ass kicking woman/man is the protaganist. A liberal elite-Chihuahua in a shopping bag - it's not believable if suddenly she magically starts kicking ass. It would be more political if they depicted all the hunters as conservatives, and all the victims as innocent educated blacks whom have never touched a weapon in their lives. THEN maybe there would be standing to be offended.
Stop being snowflakes if ya' all want to bitch about them.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not all worked up about this. While there is an element of truth to this, there's also a huge amount of exaggeration and manipulation on the right to blow it out of proportion. For instance, the protagonist... e.g. "good guy" is one of the claimed hunted "deplorables" who appears to be killing "the other guys"and emerges the victor. I haven't seen Bloomberg, Clinton, or Trump hunting people in the trailer, so I'm not sure who the liberal "elites" are, other than just plot devices and star-trek red shirts.
Is everyone a f'n snowflake now?
ETA:
I mean literally, it appears to be little different than a plethora of movies already out there. Should we be offended if Terminator or Alien kills a bunch of rednecks before they kill it?
People have already covered a lot of the movies this is like. The plot device generally only works if you know.. a gun totin' ass kicking woman/man is the protaganist. A liberal elite-Chihuahua in a shopping bag - it's not believable if suddenly she magically starts kicking ass. It would be more political if they depicted all the hunters as conservatives, and all the victims as innocent educated blacks whom have never touched a weapon in their lives. THEN maybe there would be standing to be offended.
Stop being snowflakes if ya' all want to bitch about them.
Nothing I have seen posted here is about being a snowflake. There is a primary difference between all the other movies listed here and this one...this is the only one that was set up under the premise of one political party hunting another. Were the tables turned and it be conservatives hunting liberals there would have been protests in the streets and news anchors talking about toxic masculinity and gun violence. Since it is liberals with guns there has been effectively no mention of this in the news.
DenverGP
08-13-2019, 11:57
Stop being snowflakes if ya' all want to bitch about them.
I don't think most here are being snowflakes as much as pointing out the left's hypocrisy. They want to ban guns, claim conservatives would like to kill all libs, etc, and then their people push crap like this movie.
OldFogey
08-13-2019, 12:11
I just wonder how much they lost on it? Production costs have already been paid as have salaries. Looks like there won't be much on the back end, so what's the write-off?
The budget for the movie was $18 million according to this source:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829
I wonder if the companies ever buy some sort of social impact insurance where if a social event occurs that effectively nullifies marketability of the film, such as a mass shooting, the company can write it off as an insurance loss.
Nah. Hollywood has vast amounts of F-You money.
Besides, Hollywood accounting ends up with every movie being a financial loss anyway.
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