Movie's hoax campaign fools German media

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With the 10th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, it's only natural that another set of filmmakers should honor the occasion by orchestrating an elaborate Internet hoax to piss off their potential viewers. The makers of Short Cut to Hollywood, a satirical movie due out in German theatres later this month, fooled Germany's wire service into reporting on a fake suicide bombing in California allegedly perpetrated by German rappers called (get this) the Berlin Boys.

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