{"id":5592,"date":"2009-05-14T04:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2009-05-14T04:14:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T03:14:08","slug":"variety-exorcist-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/05\/14\/variety-exorcist-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety Exorcist Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5593\" title=\"Variety Exorcist Fail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/variety-exorcist-fail.jpg\" alt=\"Variety Exorcist Fail\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Industry bible <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\">Variety<\/a><\/strong> has a new feature on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=new_photoGalleryAlbu&amp;galleryid=2889&amp;ref=ssp\">films that have caused religious controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But why are they listing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070047\/\">The Exorcist<\/a><\/strong> as a 1979 film?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>General knowledge or even a quick IMDb check shows that it came out in 1973.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Has someone been possessed over at their offices on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=variety+building,+Wilshire+Blvd,+los+angeles&amp;sll=53.800651,-4.064941&amp;sspn=12.583143,27.553711&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=34.186814,-118.32756&amp;spn=0.274912,0.430527&amp;t=h&amp;z=11\">Wilshire Blvd<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fact_checker\">fact checking<\/a> is no longer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=slanguage\">boffo<\/a> since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Bart\">Peter Bart<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=slanguage\">ankled<\/a>\u00a0upstairs?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the classic horror film, there is now some unlikely merchandise available:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbadtoystore.com\/bbts\/product.aspx?product=NEC11168&amp;mode=retail&amp;picture=out\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5594\" title=\"Exorcist merchandise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/exorcist-toy.jpg\" alt=\"Exorcist merchandise\" width=\"480\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can be bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbadtoystore.com\/bbts\/product.aspx?product=NEC11168&amp;mode=retail&amp;picture=out\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070047\/\">The Exorcist<\/a> at IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Exorcist\">More on the book<\/a> at Wikipedia\u00a0<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/theexorcist.warnerbros.com\/\">Official Warner Bros site for the film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety think The Exorcist came out in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[464,782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}