Patrick Mirza
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In the wake of Tuesday's events, many in the entertainment industry have moved to postpone, cancel or pull products from the market.
MOVIES: Warner Bros has indefinitely postponed Arnold Schwarzenegger's Collateral Damage, set for an Oct. 5 release, in which Arnold seeks vengeance after his family is killed in a bomb blast at a downtown skyscraper. The studio will also pull all promotional materials including posters, trailers and the movie's
website; WB will also pull the remaining prints of Swordfish from theaters.
Disney's Big Trouble, a Barry Sonnenfeld comedy set to open Sept 21, has also been postponed due to its bomb-in-a-suitcase plot. The film's press junket, which was set for this weekend, has been canceled;
Sony has pulled the Spider-Man teaser trailer from theaters and the website due to a scene featuring a helicopter full of bank robbers caught in a web spun between the World Trade Center towers.
The Ed Burns-Heather Graham indie film Sidewalks of New York has also been postponed until later this year, not for any terrorist content, but simply for its setting and title.
There is no word on next July's Sum of All Fears, the next "Jack Ryan" film installment from Paramount, in which terrorists plot to blow up the Super Bowl with a nuclear device.
MGM's Nosebleed, which was to have starred Jackie Chan as a World Trade Center window washer who becomes involved in a terrorist plot to destroy the Statue of Liberty, definitely "won't see the light of day as originally written."
Columbia Pictures shut down production on Men in Black 2, whose reported opening and finale featuring the World Trade Center buildings "opening up and spaceships flying out" will have to be rewritten and reshot.
TELEVISION: Variety reports that NBC plans to scrap production on "Terror," a five-hour Law & Order miniseries for next May; ABC has pulled a Saturday showing of the 1997 George Clooney thriller The Peacemaker; the networks have pulled promos for new fall terrorist-themed series like 24, Alias and The Agency; Fox has cancelled an airing of Independence Day in which the White House and the Empire State Building are blown up; even a film about rats taking over New York City was withdrawn; the scheduled Sept. 20 premiere of The Agency, in which CIA agents foil a plot to blow up London's Harrods department store, is most likely going to be scrapped; the Fall television premieres set for this week have been bumped and many more shows, like The X-Files, have postponed their shooting schedules; Leno, Letterman and many other talk shows will not air again till next week; the Latin Grammy Awards have been cancelled altogether and the Emmys still remain unscheduled.
Equipment from NBC's Third Watch, which deals with New York City emergency workers, was made available to their real-life counterparts in the grim search for survivors in the rubble that was once the World Trade Center.
MISCELLANEOUS: The new CD release by Dream Theatre, "Live Scenes from New York", which has a cover picture of a burning apple with the WTC and the Statue of Liberty within the fire is being pulled from stores; Majestic, the online game that envelops players in a corporate thriller by sending players phone calls, faxes, e-mails and instant messages at all hours of the day and night has been temporarily suspended; Universal's Greenwich Village American Werewolf in London DVD party was called off; Fox canned its French Connection and Simpsons DVD events on the 20th and 25th.
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MOVIES: Warner Bros has indefinitely postponed Arnold Schwarzenegger's Collateral Damage, set for an Oct. 5 release, in which Arnold seeks vengeance after his family is killed in a bomb blast at a downtown skyscraper. The studio will also pull all promotional materials including posters, trailers and the movie's
website; WB will also pull the remaining prints of Swordfish from theaters.
Disney's Big Trouble, a Barry Sonnenfeld comedy set to open Sept 21, has also been postponed due to its bomb-in-a-suitcase plot. The film's press junket, which was set for this weekend, has been canceled;
Sony has pulled the Spider-Man teaser trailer from theaters and the website due to a scene featuring a helicopter full of bank robbers caught in a web spun between the World Trade Center towers.
The Ed Burns-Heather Graham indie film Sidewalks of New York has also been postponed until later this year, not for any terrorist content, but simply for its setting and title.
There is no word on next July's Sum of All Fears, the next "Jack Ryan" film installment from Paramount, in which terrorists plot to blow up the Super Bowl with a nuclear device.
MGM's Nosebleed, which was to have starred Jackie Chan as a World Trade Center window washer who becomes involved in a terrorist plot to destroy the Statue of Liberty, definitely "won't see the light of day as originally written."
Columbia Pictures shut down production on Men in Black 2, whose reported opening and finale featuring the World Trade Center buildings "opening up and spaceships flying out" will have to be rewritten and reshot.
TELEVISION: Variety reports that NBC plans to scrap production on "Terror," a five-hour Law & Order miniseries for next May; ABC has pulled a Saturday showing of the 1997 George Clooney thriller The Peacemaker; the networks have pulled promos for new fall terrorist-themed series like 24, Alias and The Agency; Fox has cancelled an airing of Independence Day in which the White House and the Empire State Building are blown up; even a film about rats taking over New York City was withdrawn; the scheduled Sept. 20 premiere of The Agency, in which CIA agents foil a plot to blow up London's Harrods department store, is most likely going to be scrapped; the Fall television premieres set for this week have been bumped and many more shows, like The X-Files, have postponed their shooting schedules; Leno, Letterman and many other talk shows will not air again till next week; the Latin Grammy Awards have been cancelled altogether and the Emmys still remain unscheduled.
Equipment from NBC's Third Watch, which deals with New York City emergency workers, was made available to their real-life counterparts in the grim search for survivors in the rubble that was once the World Trade Center.
MISCELLANEOUS: The new CD release by Dream Theatre, "Live Scenes from New York", which has a cover picture of a burning apple with the WTC and the Statue of Liberty within the fire is being pulled from stores; Majestic, the online game that envelops players in a corporate thriller by sending players phone calls, faxes, e-mails and instant messages at all hours of the day and night has been temporarily suspended; Universal's Greenwich Village American Werewolf in London DVD party was called off; Fox canned its French Connection and Simpsons DVD events on the 20th and 25th.
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