Two years ago, Warner Brothers forced paying customers at the Vancouver International Film Festival to endure the sort of intense security measures that are usually reserved for invitational preview screenings — frisking, scanning the audience with night-vision goggles while the movie plays, the works. The Georgia Straight had a brief report on this at the time.
Oh well, at least the studio could always argue that festival screenings are sort of like preview screenings. But now, reports The Consumerist, Warner Brothers has started hiring security guards to spy on audiences after the movies have gone into wide release. That’s just creepy. Obsessive. Weird. And especially ironic, considering the film that was playing as the security guards spied on their audiences last weekend was The Invasion — you know, the remake of that movie about the pod people.
(Hat tip to John Campea at The Movie Blog.)
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