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Two years ago, Warner Brothers<\/a> 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 \u2014 frisking, scanning the audience with night-vision goggles while the movie plays, the works. The Georgia Straight<\/a><\/i> had a brief report on this at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh well, at least the studio could always argue that festival screenings are sort of<\/i> like preview screenings. But now, reports The Consumerist<\/a>, Warner Brothers has started hiring security guards to spy on audiences after the movies have gone into wide release<\/i>. That\u2019s 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<\/a><\/i> \u2014 you know, the remake of that movie about the pod people.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip<\/a> to John Campea at The Movie Blog.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"