Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Poster Upsets Fans With 9/11 Imagery

Exploding skyscraper and a Sept. 11 Australian release date

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A poster for the Australian release of the Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot—showing the half-shell heroes leaping from an exploding skyscraper and advertising a Sept. 11 release date—met with widespread criticism after being tweeted by Paramount Pictures. 

The poster image, tweeted by @ParamountAU, was accompanied by the message "Check out the official poster for #TMNT in cinemas September 11!" The tweet was deleted several hours later, after being passed around Twitter by offended users.

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