{"id":750762,"date":"2026-08-26T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:28:12","slug":"chris-hansen-buys-ads-before-every-screening-of-a24s-primetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750762\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hansen Buys Ads Before Every Screening of A24\u2019s \u2018Primetime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMoviegoers who show up to see Robert Pattinson<\/a> play To Catch a Predator<\/a> host Chris Hansen<\/a> in Primetime<\/a> will first find themselves face-to-face with the real thing.<\/p>\n

\n\tHansen has purchased preshow advertising on every screen showing the upcoming A24 release, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. In the spot, he directs audiences to TruBlu<\/a>, his streaming network devoted to the same kind of predator investigations that made him famous.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, a dark exploration of Hansen\u2019s specialty of luring suspected sex predators into nondescript suburban kitchens before confronting them on camera, opens Sept. 25 following its world premiere Sept. 5 at the Venice International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tHansen has said on podcasts and on Jesse Watters\u2019 Fox News program that he declined an invitation to see the film because he was required to sign an agreement barring him from taking legal action against A24.<\/p>\n

\n\tSources close to Hansen tell THR that he is now consulting attorneys about his options following the film\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the meantime, Hansen is capitalizing on the renewed attention by placing the ad before every theatrical showing of Primetime. In the spot, shared exclusively with THR, Hansen enters his familiar hunting ground, a kitchen, and delivers a variation on his dread-inducing catchphrase.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m going to need everyone in the theater to take a seat right over there,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow there are more platforms than ever before where this disturbing crime is being committed,\u201d Hansen continues. \u201cJoin us undercover every day on my streaming network, TruBlu.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA QR code directs moviegoers to a landing page for the network, which offers a steady stream of predator investigations and other true-crime programming.<\/p>\n

\n\tHansen wanted to end the commercial by reminding audiences that what they were about to see in Primetime was \u201ca Hollywood fantasy version\u201d of what actually happened, according to sources. But there were concerns about possible blowback from A24, and the line was removed.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Lance Oppenheim, Primetime is based on Luke Dittrich\u2019s 2007 Esquire article \u201cTonight on Dateline, This Man Will Die.\u201d<\/a> The article examines the suicide of Bill Conradt, a Texas district attorney who became a target of one of Hansen\u2019s televised sting operations after allegedly attempting to solicit sex from a minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moviegoers who show up to see Robert Pattinson play To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen in Primetime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,206778,96,206780,35588,206781,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-hansen","tag-entertainment","tag-primetime","tag-robert-pattinson","tag-to-catch-a-predator","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}