Diehard security at Bruce Willis preview

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

PARIS (AFP) — Highlighting Hollywood's combat against movie piracy, Twentieth Century Fox threw up stringent security measures at a select world preview in Paris of the latest Bruce Willis epic "Live Free or Die Hard."

"US studios are very reticent about screening movies ahead of release and we personally guaranteed there would be nobody inside the cinema whom we did not have entire confidence in," Alexis Rubinowicz, communications official for Fox France, said ahead of the screening Wednesday.

Willis took a more relaxed attitude to the journalists at a media conference, spreading around witty banter.

He said he had come back for his fourth "Die Hard" movie -- 22 years after starring in the original -- because of the rollicking script.

"It was scary...