‘Assassination Nation’ Ads Got Blocked From YouTube and More Because of Gun Footage, Character Flashing Her Bra
“We’re making a movie about strong young women,” Neon’s Christian Parkes told Variety. “People feel threatened because it is honest.”
“We’re making a movie about strong young women,” Neon’s Christian Parkes told Variety. “People feel threatened because it is honest.”
“But, you’re a man, I don’t expect you to understand,” Odessa Young laments in the snipped (and surprising) scene, which would have earned the film a restricted rating.
The director’s name is now synonymous with blockbusters, but he remains committed to independent fare like this and his company’s “Assassination Nation.”
“The Purge” gets a hip twist in Sam Levinson’s over-the-top social satire, which debuted in Sundance’s Midnight section earlier this year.
Neon’s dark satire arrives with a massive trigger warning for everything from “giant frogs” to “fragile male egos.”
The biggest sale at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival is a rambunctious indictment of the internet era.
Writer-director Sam Levinson’s second feature generated the biggest price tag yet at the 34th annual Park City film fest.