This morning, Burnsy told you about a screening of Frozen at the Regal Cinemas Park Place Stadium 16 in Pinellas Park, Florida where the theater “accidentally” showed a “sexually-explicit” scene instead of an animated Disney movie about snowmen. The outlet that initially broke the story, Fox Tampa Bay, just described the scene as “sexually explicit,” while quoting an audience member (heh) who described it as “R-rated,” without ever saying what it was.
Jesus Christ, people, was it porno or wasn’t it? The theater said they played “the wrong part of a movie accidentally,” leading us to speculate that maybe it was Dallas Buyers Club, which has a sex scene at the beginning, and was also playing at the Regal Cinemas. But now a site called Mosh (via Gawker) is quoting a reader who supposedly was in the audience at the time, who says the offending clip was from Nyphomaniac, which most definitely is closer to actual porno than R-Rated, and even features Dongs Going In.
…it’s unclear as to which film played the explicit scene, although a reader of Mosh News said it was an “extended trailer of Nymphomaniac,” which is an upcoming erotic sex based indie-film.
Of course, this raises more questions than it answers. First of all, a reader of a UK film news site was watching Frozen in the middle of the afternoon in Florida? Secondly, why would a Regal Cinemas have a red-band extended trailer for Nymphomaniac lying around? There’s no way they’d be allowed to show that, and I doubt the distributor would’ve sent it to them.
Here’s how the witness described what she saw in the initial story:
“They put in the filler, it looked like ‘Steamboat Willie,’ the old Mickey Mouse cartoon, and then all of a sudden it goes into this other scene,” Greene said.
I admit I’m no projectionist, but I don’t know how the projection would suddenly switch to something else in the middle of the reel unless it was the work of some aspiring Tyler Durden. I have our Florida correspondent Burnsy working on the case, so hopefully we’ll get to the bottom of those soon.
(*emerges from room wearing rubber dish gloves, sees Burnsy in the doorway*) You wanna finish this story off?