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Do you think the movie 'Phone Booth' should still be released, even though the plot is similar to the D.C.-area sniper shootings?

D.C. Sniper Disconnecting 'Phone'? Fri Oct 11, 4:35 PM ET By Julie Keller Once again, life seems to be imitating box-office art, and a movie studio is stuck in the middle. Execs at 20th Century Fox are caught in the crosshairs of a dilemma involving the upcoming thriller Phone Booth. The film, starring Colin Farrell as a man stuck in a phone booth and at the mercy of crazed sniper Kiefer Sutherland, is drawing some frightening parallels to the real-life attacks in the Washington, D.C., area. There, police are conducting a manhunt for a sniper who has killed at least seven people (an eighth murder may soon be added) and wounded two others as of Friday. As yet, they have no suspects in custody. But area citizens are terrified, and the attacks have made headlines for days--not exactly working good buzz for a film about a sniper. Fox spokewoman Flo Grace says the studio is 'currently evaluating the situation.' But a report in Friday's Daily Variety quotes a source close to the picture as saying talks have begun to bump back the November 15 release date. If director Joel Schumacher has his way, the movie will be released as planned. He finds comparisons between the film and the attacks in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. to be 'different cases' and said he hadn't even considered negative parallels. 'I mean, there are many serial killers that haven't been caught,' the director told Variety. 'Should they not release Red Dragon?' He does, however, say that he will go along with whatever the studio decides. Regardless of the release date, movies uncomfortably close to real-life tragedies have not fared well of late. Most recently, the ill-timed Kevin Bacon-Charlize Theron kidnapping thriller Trapped bombed at the box office. After several high-profile abductions over the summer, Columbia Pictures decided to put out the flick with no publicity, and audiences stayed away in droves (the film has grossed a scant $6.7 million in four weeks of release)

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