The premiere was to have taken place on Thursday at Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema in Manhattan. A spokesperson for the cinema confirmed the event had been pulled late on Tuesday US time.
The move follows a message sent earlier in the day from a group calling itself Guardians of Peace, warning audiences that they would place themselves in danger by going to see the film in a US cinema.
The online message said people who chose to see the film could look forward to a “bitter fate”, that the world would be “full of fear”, and hinted that another 9/11-style attack could be expected.
Although the film’s Los Angeles premiere last week did proceed as planned, it was a low-key affair with minimal media attention. Earlier on Tuesday, appearances by the film-makers including a Buzzfeed Brews conversation, as well as on Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talkshows, were pulled.
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