French theaters urged to pull ‘Bastille Day’

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LOS ANGELES, July 17, (RTRS): Studiocanal asked French exhibitors Saturday to pull the movie “Bastille Day” from their theaters — not just ads for the fi lm — following the truck attack in Nice that left 84 people dead and scores more injured.

The request came as France entered a three-day period of national mourning. The decision by Studiocanal appears to have been taken Saturday morning as media reports started to fi lter through that the Nice attack had been the work of someone inspired by the radical group Islamic State.

The company had initially just yanked ads for “Bastille Day” in France but left the decision whether to continue showing the fi lm — which turns on a terrorist plot to bomb Paris — up to cinema chains. Most if not all appeared to have continued screening it on Friday night and early Saturday morning

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