"The Dark Knight Rises" midnight shooting sends ripples through movie industry
Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in "The Dark Knight Rises."
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Warner Brothers
(CBS News) What was supposed to be one of the biggest movie openings of the year - and perhaps of all time - has been dampened by a tragedy that has sent shockwaves around the world.
Early Friday morning, 12 people died and dozens more were injured in a massive shooting at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., and now the nation's theaters are on high alert. The New York City Police Department, for one, has already stepped up security in the wake of the mass shooting. European theaters are following suit.
"This is a tragedy, one that will no doubt send dark ripples down the aisles of every movie theatre from coast to coast," Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co., told CBSNews.com.
Following the massacre, the National Association of Theater Owners released a statement addressing theater security. "Guest safety is, and will continue to be a priority for theater owners. NATO members are working closely with local law enforcement agencies and reviewing security procedures," it said.
The Department of Homeland Security is assisting the organization by ensuring members go over the federal agency's security checklist for theaters, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The movie's studio canceled Friday's Paris premiere and also scrapped press interviews with director Christopher Nolan and the movie's cast members.
"Warner Bros. is deeply saddened to learn about this shocking incident. We extend our sincere sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims at this tragic time," the studio said.
On Friday, Warner Bros. also yanked a trailer for the upcoming film, "Gangster Squad," which had been playing before the start of "The Dark Knight Rises." In the movie, there's a scene in which men open fire with machine guns inside a movie theater.
Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, released a statement, too: "We share the shock and sadness of everyone in the motion picture community at the news of this terrible event. We extend our prayers and deepest sympathies to the victims, their loved ones and all those affected by this tragedy."
Hans Zimmer, the composer of the "The Dark Knight Rises" score, was supposed to do an interview on Friday with Rolling Stone to promote the film.
"We're all devastated by what's happened," he told the magazine. "When we set up this interview, we didn't know that things would change. I was going to send a note to Chris [Nolan] ... but I didn't have the words. Suddenly, words become meaningless because it's so beyond anything. Devastated, I suppose, is the word."
Box-Office Results
On a financial note, the film broke records with its midnight debut. So far, box-office numbers have topped estimates. The film earned $30.6 million in midnight viewings, the second-biggest midnight opening behind the final "Harry Potter" installment at $43.5 million.
Prior to Thursday's shooting, analysts predicted that "The Dark Knight Rises" would bring in $175 million through Sunday, according to Variety. That would make it the second-highest U.S. opening of all time -- behind only "The Avengers," which debuted with $207 million in U.S. in May.
"Sadly, because of this event, a dark cloud will hang over 'The Dark Knight Rises' this weekend, which may affect box-office grosses," Bock said. "Theatrical exhibition has never witnessed a tragedy like this inside a movie theatre, so it is extremely difficult to gauge the ramifications of this nightmare scenario."
Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box-office division of Hollywood.com, told CBSNews.com it's too early to tell how exactly the tragedy would affect ticket sales.
He noted how a lot of people pre-bought their tickets. "I think they are going to go out and see the movie," Dergarabedian said, noting how the true fans will also visit theaters this weekend. But "people have to be vigilant," about security, he said, just as they are at airports.
Bock points out that even discussing box-office numbers seems "trite when we're talking about the loss of lives." Dergarabedian shared his sentiments, saying, "I have never seen anything like it, and I'm shocked and saddened by it."
Moviegoing Culture
Movie theaters around the country continued showings of the film on Friday, and Warner Bros. has no plans to alter the release so far.
"The company is devastated, but everything is moving forward," a studio executive told The Hollywood Reporter.
But when families head to the movies this weekend, things could feel different.
"One thing is for certain -- families will be much more cautious about bringing their brood to the theaters this weekend," Bock said.
Christine Cooley, who works for the University of Florida, told the Associated Press that she and her 15-year-old daughter were shocked after seeing the TV coverage of the shooting.
"Her immediate reaction was 'I'm never going to the movie theater again," Cooley said about her daughter. "Why should I go somewhere where I'm looking over my shoulder worrying that someone is going to come in and harm us when I can wait six months and watch it in the safety of my own home?'"
The Batman movie premiered in 3,700 locations across the country, and by midday Friday it was playing in more than 4,400 North American theaters.
"The Dark Knight Rises," with its estimated $250 million budget, was one of the most highly-anticipated films of the year, generating Oscar buzz even before it opened. Starring Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine, the movie marks the final chapter in Nolan's dark Batman trilogy.
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Real mind control involves the activation and suppression of action potentials, the firing of an individual neuron, in a pattern which creates a real effect in the brain of humans. It can so subtle, you might not even notice it happening to you. Neurons fire in patterns, and in groups, and the result of these firing patterns is thoughts, feelings, movements, etc. It is scientifically possible to cause these firing patterns to be activated remotely, without the use of an implant, by "injecting" electricity into individual neurons using advanced technology.
This is done by teleporting charge via entanglement, something that has been alluded to in recently published research.
For the last 5 decades, U.S. intelligence has done a significant amount of research and development into a technology called "TEMPEST." This technology was originally used in order to reconstruct usable information from monitors, integrated circuits, etc in order to remotely surveil electronic devices. Later, technology was developed which was able to do the reverse, and cause these machines to act in a certain manner.
Human brains are, for all intents and purposes purposes, advanced computers whose mechanism of action is the product of electrical impulses, and the technology surrounding "TEMPEST" could be modified to take control of, and remotely surveil the thoughts and feelings of human beings.
Throw in a "bit" of neuroscience research, and you have the proverbial Manchurian Candidate... and with a bit of infrastructure build out, Orwell's prophesy fulfilled.
There's proof that this technology is perfected, and it's all around you. A Lockheed Martin researcher spoke about it publicly in 1999, and it may have gotten him killed. John Norseen had a lot to say about mind control. NASA has talked about its potential use in airports. There are a significant number of victims complaining about it all over the world.
If the technology is sufficiently advanced enough, it can be so subtle you won't even notice it. If you look at the big picture though, you'll probably agree it might be happening.
It appears the United States Military used it to cover up the existence of a network of spy satellites.
There's a significant amount of public research in the field, imagine where the military is.
We are trying to save the world from a tyrannical intergovernmental organization that is hell bent on destroying our species. Please help by reading the links below, and then acting. I'd like it if the first action you took was telling everyone you know to read the same thing. This will start what has been called an awakening at which point public knowledge of something really insidious might help to stop it from happening. It's also possible to destroy entanglement, which might be the equivalent of a modern day exorcism, or 'freeing yourself from the matrix'. More about that here: http://unduecoercion.org/2012/12/the-science-of-satan.html
A pattern in history, we believe it is a map and a signature, proving that the 'voice of god' technology, has been given to humanity. http://unduecoercion.org/2012/10/evil-empire.html
How it works, The map above leads us to a specific mechanism of how this technology works. This is the science behind modern day mind control. http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/forbidden-knowledge-quantum-charge.html
It's Mark on history, this means that prior to the last half century, this technology was in the hands of a nefarious force, one which pulled strings in major human events without our knowledge or approval. http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/angels-and-demons.html
Relation to religion http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/of-divinity-and-devil.html
Why we care http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/the-truth-about-mindwar-to-victims.html
How I know about mind control. This is a work in progress, updated daily. It is a personal story of Illuminati mind control, gang-stalking, psycho-surveillance, and general weirdness. It takes you through the story of events that occurred between 2010 and 2011, and describes my inner thoughts and interaction with the dark force shaping the future of humanity. I believe this force to be older than humanity, unearthly, and directly responsible for many religious phenomenon throughout our history. It is also current engaging world governments, intelligence agencies, and organized crime in a conspiracy designed to fulfill the prophesy of Revelation. http://unduecoercion.org/p/silence-betrayal_10.html
This is NOT the FIRST time the Warner Bros / Christopher Nolan films have inspired a murderer of children. In July 2008, the same thing happened in Belgium with another "Joker" killer murdering little babies.
In America, you not only need to be vigilant against gun violence in theaters, but in schools, malls, at public rallies, riding in motorcades, attending plays, walking down the street, buying a pack of smokes from any convenience store, having a drink in a bar, playing in playgrounds, walking down the street, parked at a stop light, driving down the freeway, riding in a greyhound, in a taxi on any busy street, at your work place, attending church, sitting in your home watching television, asleep in your own bed or the bed of a casual acquaintance, or visiting any of the 50 states of the United States...
If you can avoid all these activities, you will be safe from all gun violence. Sleep well.
Why limit it to guns? At any given moment, it's theoretically possible to die in any number of different ways. If you want, you can work yourself up into a whimpering neurotic mess thinking about what might happen to you, no matter how remote the possibility is. A better option is to realize that life can never be risk-free, so you might as well shrug off the long-shot threats and LIVE while you have the chance.
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The type of "mind control" we talk about at Ministry of Forbidden Knowledge (http://www.facebook.com/MinistryOfForbiddenKnowledge) has nothing to do with subconscious messages through advertising and television. It's not related to flickering lights, or "brain wave entrainment." For the effects we have noticed, these things are really, really stupid suggestions as mechanisms.
Real mind control involves the activation and suppression of action potentials, the firing of an individual neuron, in a pattern which creates a real effect in the brain of humans. It can so subtle, you might not even notice it happening to you. Neurons fire in patterns, and in groups, and the result of these firing patterns is thoughts, feelings, movements, etc. It is scientifically possible to cause these firing patterns to be activated remotely, without the use of an implant, by "injecting" electricity into individual neurons using advanced technology.
This is done by teleporting charge via entanglement, something that has been alluded to in recently published research.
For the last 5 decades, U.S. intelligence has done a significant amount of research and development into a technology called "TEMPEST." This technology was originally used in order to reconstruct usable information from monitors, integrated circuits, etc in order to remotely surveil electronic devices. Later, technology was developed which was able to do the reverse, and cause these machines to act in a certain manner.
Human brains are, for all intents and purposes purposes, advanced computers whose mechanism of action is the product of electrical impulses, and the technology surrounding "TEMPEST" could be modified to take control of, and remotely surveil the thoughts and feelings of human beings.
Throw in a "bit" of neuroscience research, and you have the proverbial Manchurian Candidate... and with a bit of infrastructure build out, Orwell's prophesy fulfilled.
There's proof that this technology is perfected, and it's all around you. A Lockheed Martin researcher spoke about it publicly in 1999, and it may have gotten him killed. John Norseen had a lot to say about mind control. NASA has talked about its potential use in airports. There are a significant number of victims complaining about it all over the world.
If the technology is sufficiently advanced enough, it can be so subtle you won't even notice it. If you look at the big picture though, you'll probably agree it might be happening.
It appears the United States Military used it to cover up the existence of a network of spy satellites.
There's a significant amount of public research in the field, imagine where the military is.
We are trying to save the world from a tyrannical intergovernmental organization that is hell bent on destroying our species. Please help by reading the links below, and then acting. I'd like it if the first action you took was telling everyone you know to read the same thing. This will start what has been called an awakening at which point public knowledge of something really insidious might help to stop it from happening.
It's also possible to destroy entanglement, which might be the equivalent of a modern day exorcism, or 'freeing yourself from the matrix'. More about that here: http://unduecoercion.org/2012/12/the-science-of-satan.html
A pattern in history, we believe it is a map and a signature, proving that the 'voice of god' technology, has been given to humanity.
http://unduecoercion.org/2012/10/evil-empire.html
How it works, The map above leads us to a specific mechanism of how this technology works. This is the science behind modern day mind control.
http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/forbidden-knowledge-quantum-charge.html
It's Mark on history, this means that prior to the last half century, this technology was in the hands of a nefarious force, one which pulled strings in major human events without our knowledge or approval.
http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/angels-and-demons.html
Relation to religion
http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/of-divinity-and-devil.html
Why we care
http://unduecoercion.org/2012/11/the-truth-about-mindwar-to-victims.html
How I know about mind control.
This is a work in progress, updated daily. It is a personal story of Illuminati mind control, gang-stalking, psycho-surveillance, and general weirdness. It takes you through the story of events that occurred between 2010 and 2011, and describes my inner thoughts and interaction with the dark force shaping the future of humanity. I believe this force to be older than humanity, unearthly, and directly responsible for many religious phenomenon throughout our history. It is also current engaging world governments, intelligence agencies, and organized crime in a conspiracy designed to fulfill the prophesy of Revelation.
http://unduecoercion.org/p/silence-betrayal_10.html
http://www.realcourage.org/2012/07/batman-movies-inspire-killers/
If you can avoid all these activities, you will be safe from all gun violence. Sleep well.