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TIL the movie Big Trouble was set to come out on 9/21/2001 and was a comedy movie about smuggling a nuke onto a plane but the movie was postponed til April the next year and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. The movie later bombed at the box office.

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