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UPDATE: That Summit Entertainment meeting discussing the scene is over – and the studio is leaving it in the film. The problem was that the pic opens Friday in 2,500 theaters. What audiences will see when Step Up Revolution screens is a scene apparently where the dancers steal into a party, wearing body vests and gas masks and using gas grenades to threaten the guests. After last night’s press screenings, it was the talk of the media’s conversations on Twitter. Summit did remove Tv ads howcasing the scene, and isn’t rotating a trailer using the scene, either. Here is the studio’s statement:
Summit Entertainment’s STEP UP REVOLUTION is an uplifting film that celebrates the redemptive power of dance. There is a brief scene in the film in which a troop of dancers enter a room wearing gas masks as props and the dancers immediately go into a choreographed routine. Because of last week’s tragic events in Colorado, Summit immediately removed television advertising that briefly showcased that scene from the film. The scene also briefly appeared in a trailer released three months ago that the studio is no longer actively servicing. Having taken these steps, Summit will open this inspirational, nonviolent film in theatres nationwide this weekend as originally edited.
PREVIOUS… EXCLUSIVE 4:00 PM: I’ve learned that a Summit Entertainment meeting is scheduled for 5 PM today to discuss the situation. Problem is, the movie opens this Friday in 2,500 theaters. What audiences will see when Step Up Revolution screens is a scene apparently where the dancers steal into a party, wearing body armor and gas masks and using gas grenades to threaten the guests. After last night’s press screenings, it was the talk of the media’s conversations on Twitter.
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Okay, now I know the world is officially off its rocker. I saw this movie and it’s a soft, tween driven dance romp without even so much as a hint of violence in it. The scene in question is part of a dance sequence – albeit one of the angrier in the film – and tonally it fits with the plot in such a way that discarding it would be impossible. The tragedy of Aurora was unthinkable and horrific, but can we please stop this insane rush to censor all of our films?!? Anyone else hearing me on this? Or am I alone?
The press release states the movie will be released “as originally edited”. So, they have not censored the movie.
Are we really this sensitive?
Why don’t they retroactively excise EVERY shootout scene in EVERY movie released over the past century?
Wait, don’t stop there. While they’re at it, they should remove EVERY violent scene from EVERY movie . . . period.
Hmmm, that will certainly solve everyone’s problem, won’t it?
Just like the entire state of Colorado suddenly arming itself with handguns will help the next time some crazy jerk targets a public place. If everyone in the theatre owned handguns, would they have brought them to the theatre that night? If so, would they have used them and how? And, if yes, how many more innocent people would have been killed in the fray?
It is very sad and unfortunate what happened…but this has to stop.
I totally agree. This is going to far with everyone second-guessing any scene which might have a mask or guns in it. I’m beginning to think people are just milking any Aurora-related angle for extra publicity. Please stop this insanity!
This sort of reminds me of what happened after 9/11 and some people were actually advocating editing out the towers out of movies. And not just upcoming movies (back then) but old movies too. All because the images of them reminded people of what happened.
It’s an over-reaction to try and make everyone feel better.
Summit should do nothing… Warner Bros/Gangster Squad should also do nothing.
Well said.
Agreed.
Pull the picture. If they allow this film with this scene included to be released then they are capitalizing on the shooting just to get everyone to talk about it and cause awareness of the movie. Perhaps they already have since they screened it already and now we’re talking about it. Bad press is still press. Pushing the movie til next month will help its box office anyway and it’s the right thing to do.
PLEASE tell me you are kidding??
Please stop. You’re making no sense.
….Seriously? The movie opens in 2,500 theaters in about 30 hours. I don’t think there’s anything they can do. Right? And come on, it’s a dance movie. If in the movie they did a movie theater flash mob with gas grenades, I might understand their worry, but this is overreacting.
The movie opens in 2,500 theaters in about 30 hours. I don’t think there’s anything they can do.
You do realize that we project movies digitally these days, right?
Are you kidding? Certainly not all of them are digital. STILL. Even with a simple edit there is re-mixing, re-mastering – for all the different formats (picture and sound). The only thing you could do is pull it or play it at this point. It’s not like just putting up a new 5 minute clip on YouTube.
Then again this is Step Up. How many people are there that will even see this movie to be offended? A few teenagers that will probably text through the scene anyway.
What happened in Aurora is horrific and tragic but movies are make believe. Do people not understand this? Removing a scene like this or even talking about it is a gross over reaction. This has to stop. With Gangster Squad I get that’s a bit more sensitive but again, its fictitious. As another poster mentioned, should we remove scene of violence from every film now? Surely people are not this sensitive.
If more law-abiding citizens were permitted to carry concealed weapons, we wouldn’t have to resort to these dance-offs to settle our differences.
This made me laugh. Bravo.
Why should they do anythig? It’s a free country. You can choose not to watch a film if you’re that sensative about it. While we’re at it, how about everyone stop trying to find a scapegoat for the actions of an obviously deranged individual.
Ridiculous! Leave the scene alone, we are capable of separating these things. My Grandfather was killed in a terrible car accident, yet I don’t go apoplectic every time a car crashes in a movie. They should leave “Gangster Squad” alone too, cutting these scenes smacks of censorship far more than leaving them in seems insensitive!
Seriously this is getting ridiculous…
Obviously this can’t be considered “offensive,” but I think the reason why it might make sense to cut the scene is to prevent people from being taken out of the movie. I don’t think it’s about sensitivity so much as distraction.
Hmmm… yes seems like they’re over reacting but I don’t get why a dance movie would have a seen like that in it to begin with? Maybe they should be scared???
How does one “steal” into a party?
Is English not your first language? You don’t know what “to steal in” means?
I hate everyone. This is ridiculous.
We can’t just trust that the audience realizes this movie was filmed a year before the Aurora massacre?
Tell that to the folks that had to edit the Twin Towers out of their movies in 2001.
yea, it was stupid then and it is stupid now. let’s just edit out what happened because a minority of people may, MAY, get offended… or we could leave it as is, leave the product how it was originally made and make it a part of history that we could look back on and remember.
but screw that, we might lose some potential viewers, lets edit that scene out… WB will probably end up spending more on reshoots than they’ll make in offended viewers who wouldn’t have gone to see it but now will cause the murdering and killing takes place in a different place. Though if you’re going to see this in the first place then you’re probably an adult, know it has violence and aren’t a complete freakin’ idiot.
this entire thing is ludicrous. let’s give the shooter more attention and change things because of him!
Warner Bros… what a joke.
Do you really think those events are equivalent in the public mind?
So what would have happened if Gangster Squad and Step Up were released before last Friday??? Would they have been immediately pulled or allowed to run???
Am I the only one that thinks they should ADD in movie scene violence to all movies and add in the twin towers. Instead of taking away scenes in movies — how about taking guns off the street? Instead of blaming the movies — remember all the horrible things committed way before there were R rated movies.
Let’s stand up to stupidity and actually be a free country that understands that editing creative work in fictional movies doesn’t stop the acts in real life from occuring.
People should be offended by real life issues like lack of health care, job security, guns, drugs, and 1 million real problems.
Step Up for real people.
It’s a good thing Inglourious Basterds was released 3 years ago and not this month.
Imagine the uproar over the theater shoot out scene (nazi victims notwithstanding).
I was thinking the same thing
Having seen the movie already I can say that Summit is certainly well within their rights to keep the release as it is. However due to the nature of the scene; a large Gala event, gas grenades flying into the room and a dozen men in gas masks and riot gear vests dancing to music that is heavily predominant with gunshot sound effects, they might want to consider at least pushing the release day back a month or so. It’s not so much about being over sensitive, its more about showing compassion for those who were involved and touched by the tragedy. I completely understand over sympathizing and trying to spoon feed or glad handle the world, but pushing the release would not be about that, it’s simply about should some compassion.
It’s released tomorrow. That would be commercial suicide and all that would happen is the little righteous people that wanted this cut even though they wouldn’t have gone to see it will sit and home, smirking.
As many people here have said already, this is just ridiculous. I have no idea why this, or even Gangster Squad, is considered “offensive”. We shouldn’t have to edit out scenes that are even remotely related to the Colorado shootings. Yes, the shootings were a terrible tragedy but things like this are so absurd. I fail to see how this is “offensive” and I’m glad they’re keeping the scene in the film.
What’s offensive is when others decide for me what I will find offensive or not. I’m the best judge of that, not them.
If somebody’s offended by the scene then they shouldn’t see the movie, end of story.