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Movie studio red-faced after 9/11 Ninja Turtles movie tweet

Sydney - Paramount Pictures film studio apologised on Wednesday for a poster for its upcoming movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, showing the four characters jumping down from an exploding skyscraper underscored with an 11 September release date.

The poster went out in a tweet posted by the Australian Paramount Pictures Twitter account and also appeared on its official Facebook page, which has more than six million fans.

Both posts received a barrage of criticism and were deleted, though some screenshots were still being shared on social media.

"We are deeply sorry to have used that artwork for the marketing materials promoting the September 11 opening in Australia," Paramount Pictures Australia said in an e-mailed statement.

"Combining that image and date was a mistake. We intended no offence and have taken immediate action to discontinue its use."

The live-action reboot, starring Megan Fox and Johnny Knoxville and produced by Transformers director Michael Bay is due for release on 8 August in the US.

In Australia it will be released on 11 September, the thirteenth anniversary of the al-Qaeda militant attacks on US cities and the destruction of the World Trade Centre twin towers in New York.

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