Pursuits
Universal Pulls Video Plan for ‘Tower Heist’ After Protests
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Universal Pictures abandoned a plan to offer the Eddie Murphy comedy “Tower Heist” on pay television three weeks after its theatrical release, yielding to a threatened boycott by exhibitors.
Universal delayed the planned experiment to offer the film for $59.99 to cable customers of parent Comcast Corp. in Atlanta and Portland, Oregon, the studio said today in an e-mailed statement. That’s earlier than the usual three to four months after the start of a theater run.