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In the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. 20th Century Fox is “cancelling the red carpet press event and the after party for the Parental Guidance premiere scheduled today in downtown Los Angeles”. But the screening that was essentially for the movie’s cast and crew will take place as scheduled. “The hearts of all involved with this film go out to the victims, their families, their community, and our entire nation in mourning”, Fox said in a statement. In Parental Guidance, a comedy, Billy Crystal and Bette Midler play grandparents who agree on short notice to look after the children of their business-travelling daughter played by Marisa Tomei.
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What does the school shooting have anything to do with this movie?
This is really getting stupid. What does some Billy Crystal/Bette Midler movie have to do with a school shooting? A studio will downplay this movie while pushing Django Unchained where people are slaughtered left and right on the same day (Christmas Day)????
I know. This is getting beyond ridiculous. I’m getting tired of hearing from celebrities how their “hearts” go out to the victims, as well as their “prayers” (no one in Hollywood worships anything, or anyone, other than themselves). It’s getting tiresome having these celebrities make sure we all know they’ve been twittering their thoughts about this tragedy, as if somehow we need to know how their lives, their movie premieres, their red-carpet events, have been impacted by this shooting. One has nothing to do with the other.
Thank you. The hypocrisy of this is revolting. Thanks for pointing this out.
A comedy about families is bad? Why? How? However, a movie featuring men with guns blowing people away……..oh wait, that’s most of their movies. Nevermind. Hypocrites.
Hey dim bulb, there are exactly two out of the top ten movies this weekend that have anything to do with guns- Red Dawn and Skyfall. Hardly ‘most of their movies”….
Thank God, audiences or cast members or whomever will be spared by what looks like possibly on par or even worse than the Baba Streisand atrocity. I’m really not sure who’s had more “work” done, Billy or Bette!
Does no one who posts here realize that a perhaps people invited to the premiere of a film about parents, grandparents and children might not be in such a festive mood in light of the events that took place just yesterday? Maybe some people from Fox thought it might be awkward to have a big party and celebration when the families in Connecticut (and by extension, families across the country) are feeling loss?
No one is pulling the trailer. No one is recutting the film. No one is pushing the release date. Someone is just saying maybe not everyone feels like celebrating right now.
This is idiotic it’s so stupid how is Parental Guidance a negative title are they implying that the parents of the kids who were killed failed to guide them? That’s what their logic seems to be with this dumb decision. Do they think people will be upset that this movie is called Parental Guidance instead of Parental Mourning? This is a pathetic cowardly craven decision on the part of Fox marketing. They are ludicrous.
The correct move I think. The funerals have yet to begin. What celebrity, in the shadow of this horror show, would want to be seen partying on a red carpet? Looks funny, I’ll be seeing it, sensitive and well done this decision.
They’re just cutting their losses. The trailer looks like it ought to be premiering on ABC Family.
They should be postponed, not cancelled. A lot of people work on movies and we should not have our lives dictated by a one insane guy.
I want fox to set up the premiere again.