Unscrupulous people lie or exaggerate the extent to which they were threatened to gin up attention. The more they get in the news, the more they will be noticed. People who hadnt heard of some project now know. That translates to more ticket sales. May be the case here. Theres a very high chance.
What may have been an unserious pisstake troll wrote a mean thing online = a life was threatened and in danger? Could be a stretch. Theres no actual example in the article, just a guy saying it. Huge conflict of interest.
