Horror film posters get the chop
Thousands of US adverts for the new horror film Captivity will be pulled following complaints about graphic scenes of kidnapping and murder.
The posters, which appeared on 30 Los Angeles billboards and on over 1,000 New York taxis, went up on 13 March and will be taken down this week.
A spokesperson for production company After Dark said the billboards were a communication error with the printers.
The posters portrayed star Elisha Cuthbert being tortured and killed.
The film's distributor, Lionsgate, made the decision to take down the adverts after receiving a barrage of calls from members of the public who objected to them.
Release date
Lionsgate spokesman Peter Wilkes said the studio did not know about the contents of the adverts and had not approved them.
He said the film's promotional campaign was being handled by After Dark.
"Once aware of the materials and the reaction to them, we immediately asked After Dark to remove the billboards, to which they immediately and co-operatively responded," he explained.
The film, from British director Roland Joffe, is due to be released in the US and the UK on 18 May.
Joffe is best known for 1980s films The Killing Fields and The Mission.
Cuthbert made her name in popular television series 24 as the daughter of agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland.
She also appeared in Richard Curtis's ensemble film Love Actually and teen film The Girl Next Door.
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