War of the Worlds<\/a>\u201d turned into a pratfall on Thursday, when heavy security at the movie\u2019s New York premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater meant that guests had to stand in long lines to reclaim their cellphones and handbags. Even Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin and Steven Spielberg were required to check their phones, a Paramount source said.<\/p>\nParamount had security guards confiscate all cellphones and handbags before the start of the movie, something the company warned about in all tickets and invitations to the screenings. (Studios have taken cellphones before but handbags seemed a new twist here.) The concern wasn\u2019t that Mr. Spielberg would be talking loudly to his agent during the quiet parts, but that people might try to capture scenes using cellphone cameras.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re committed to doing everything we can to protect our films against piracy,\u201d said a spokeswoman for the studio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, right, and if Spielberg wanted to leak a pirated version of his own movie, he\u2019d do it by filming the movie from a hand-held cell phone! Nice to see the stars getting a dose of our pain, at least.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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