7.20.2012

AURORA MOVIE THEATER MASSACRE WITH 12 DEAD, 71 INJURED. A DARK DAY FOR AMERICA AND THE SEVENTH ART....




Massacre suspect James Holmes apprehended by Aurora police.
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts spoke with Tanner Coon, a young man who was inside the Colorado movie theater where suspected shooter James Holmes opened fire on audience members who had come to watch a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises.
Tanner, who recalls sitting in the fourth row from the top, says he didn’t see the shooter enter. The attack began, he shared, with a canister releasing smoke into the theater. Initially, he had thought it was a smoke bomb an audience member had brought along as a prank. Similarly, he had thought the initial gunshots were fireworks. Once he realized what was happening, Tanner and his friends hit the floor, trying to remain hidden as dozens of gunshots rang out above them. He described the shooting as being “sporadic” and “horrific.”

After the Aurora tragedy  journalist and deadline. com founder, editor-in-chief
Nikki Finke writes that she complained and 
WARNERS pulled out "loose" GANGSTER SQUAD  trailer from movie theaters

(...)This morning I called on Warner Bros to take this trailer down immediately. The studio’s response to me? “There’s a meeting about this and then a decision will be reached.” I just received the call that the trailer is being pulled. 
But only after I complained

And yet movie moguls wonder why so much of the country hates Hollywood values where money trumps everything, even during the Aurora theater shooting tragedy. Here’s the horrible clip which no one at Warner Bros should have allowed to be made, much less released, in the first place: