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Posted by Fired Fred on June 19, 2007 5:23 PM
I caught the new Fantastic Four movie at a 12:01 showing, and I liked it. So did a bunch of other people, since it did like $54 million over the first weekend and Variety says it's up over $63 million now.
Before Jessica Alba and the rest of the foursome were onscreen for the unwashed masses, a major movie fan named Jesse 'Memflix' Morrison got a peek at FF2. He used to work in Memphis as a projectionist, with an emphasis on the "used to" part.
His shredding of FF2 showed up on Ain't It Cool, and it didn't take long for his review to cause ripples in Hollyweird...
20th Century Fox saw the review and was very displeased. They were so displeased that they tracked down Morrison and filed a complaint with his employer. Morrison's employer, Malco movie theaters, has suspended him until further notice. The senior vice president of Malco movie theaters told WMC-TV in Memphis, TN that Morrison "violated policy by writing a review on a movie that had not been released to the public yet."I think if Malco wanted to really punish Memflix, they'd make him watch Deck The Halls and Basic Instinct 2 over and over again.