Common Cancels The Hunt Movie Launch After Mass Shootings
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Common Photos will now not launch its new controversial movie The Hunt as scheduled, following latest lethal mass shootings and criticism in opposition to Hollywood by President Donald Trump.
The R-rated satirical film depicts rich American liberals searching “deplorables”—former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton‘s time period for a lot of of Trump’s supporters—for sport. It stars Hilary Swank, GLOW’s Betty Gilpin and Emma Roberts. Fox Information commentators lately slammed the movie, which was set to be launched in September, and on Friday, Trump ranted on Twitter about “racist” “liberal Hollywood.” Final week, Common Photos pulled adverts for The Hunt following latest mass shootings in Texas, Ohio and California that left 36 folks lifeless.
“Whereas Common Photos has already paused the advertising and marketing marketing campaign for The Hunt, after considerate consideration, the studio has determined to cancel our plans to launch the movie,” the group mentioned in a press release on Saturday. “We stand by our filmmakers and can proceed to distribute movies in partnership with daring and visionary creators, like these related to this satirical social thriller, however we perceive that now just isn’t the correct time to launch the movie.”
“Liberal Hollywood is Racist on the highest degree, and with nice Anger and Hate!” Trump had tweeted. “They prefer to name themselves ‘Elite,’ however they aren’t Elite. In reality, it’s usually the people who they so strongly oppose which might be truly the Elite. The film popping out is made to be able to inflame and trigger chaos. They create their very own violence, after which attempt to blame others. They’re the true Racists, and are very unhealthy for our Nation!”
A Common Photos supply informed the Hollywood Reporter that the choice to cancel the upcoming launch of The Hunt “was a call that the studio got here to with The Hunt filmmaking crew, however finally it was about making the correct resolution, proper now. It was a troublesome name for the corporate, however studio management, led by Donna Langley, all agreed that this movie might wait.”
Deadline reported that whereas there are at the moment no official plans as to what occurs to The Hunt, the movie might nonetheless have a theatrical launch sooner or later, or it might be launched through Common Photos’ father or mother firm Comcast’s upcoming streaming service.
Craig Zobel directed The Hunt, based mostly on a script by Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse.
(Common Photos and E! are a part of the NBCUniversal household.)