Harry Knowles at Aint-it-Cool News reports that he, as an internet scribe, was not allowed into a screening of DVC last night:

(language alert for the rest of the link.)

I was invited to a late screening on Thursday night for this film, but Thursday night happens to be the birthday party of a dear friend – which I had already committed to attending. But I wasn’t worried, because there was a screening last night (I guess that means Tuesday – AW) at 7:30pm and another one this morning at 10am here in town. I figured, great, they’re enthusiastic about word getting out on the movie, so I contacted Sony Publicity… going through proper channels to see if I could switch to one of these earlier screening… Where I was stonewalled and told that from the HIGHEST LEVELS of Authority at SONY – that INTERNET OUTLETS were forbidden to see the film until Thursday night… that print outlets were only allowed into those first two screenings.

This is too funny. I don’t think any bad-word-of-mouth will discourage fans of the book, but for those on the fence…it will.