User blog:Timebomb192potato/The Worcester Beacon on April 7, 2003: Movie Mixup - Children Terrified When Eckhart Meets Tears of the Sun


 * Movie Mixup - Children Terrified When Eckhart Meets Tears of the Sun
 * - Report by Alexander Kopczynski


 * "The mouse star of a PBS Kids program, Eckhart, and about 100 Bellingham movie-goers met Bruce Willis last Saturday when a mislabeled reel of Tears of the Sun, a R-rated action thriller, was inserted into the middle of the G-rated adventure comedy Eckhart: The Movie at the Hoyts Bellingham Cinema 14 theater in Bellingham.


 * Employees apologized and began handing out passes good for any film at the Hoyts Bellingham Cinema 14, Marlborough Cinema 15, Falmouth Cinema 6, or Hyannis Cinema 12 after a screening of the G-rated Eckhart: The Movie was interrupted by graphic scenes from the film Tears of the Sun on Saturday morning.


 * A reel from the Antoine Fuqua-directed action film starring Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci was accidentally labelled "Eckhart" and sent to the Bellingham Cinema 14 theater as part of a replacement kit for a reel for Eckhart: The Movie that had encountered a "brain wrap".


 * "About halfway through [Eckhart], a guy came out and said "What movie are we watching again?" said a Hoyts Bellingham Cinema 14 employee, who asked that we not name her. I thought "Well, it's Eckhart, the kids love that country mouse." Then I looked into the theater, and my jaw dropped."


 * On the screen, the employee saw Bruce Willis and his squad being attacked by Nigerian rebels, including Willis offing a straggling rebel.


 * "You could hear a hush go over the crowd during the scene as the kids asked their parents what was going on" said Dan Klinkenborg, who saw the movie with two friends. "We looked over and saw people begin to file out. They were getting out pretty quick with their kids."


 * The mishap occurred towards the end of the middle of the film, and patrons could not see the rest of Eckhart: The Movie.


 * Sony Pictures Releasing, acting as distributor for Samuel Goldwyn Films who is in charge of the film's wide release, informed Hoyts that the new replacement reel would be sent in time for the next showing of the film on Monday evening at 5:30 p.m., when the complete version of the film was screened.


 * A Hoyts USA representative told The Worcester Beacon that this was not supposed to happen, and that something like this has never happened before at Bellingham Cinema 14."