Police protest is a bust at premiere of Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight'

Quentin Tarantino's "Hateful Eight" premiere on Monday night was a surprisingly peaceful affair.

Concerns of a police protest in response to the director's recent controversial comments about cops went unfounded, as the event at the ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome in Hollywood went off without a hitch.

Instead of battling a boycott, Tarantino hammed it up for the cameras on the red carpet with filmmaker and "Inglourious Basterds" actor Eli Roth.

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They were joined by stars of the three-hour plus film including Channing Tatum, Kurt Russell (with Goldie Hawn and son, Wyatt Russell), Craig Stark, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demian Bichir, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen and Samuel L. Jackson.

While there were barricades on the north side of Sunset Blvd. across the street to brace for trouble, they were only occupied by a few eager fans, according to TheWrap's Party Reporter Mikey Glazer, while two police officers on duty stood quietly watching the premiere.

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However, Tarantino told TheWrap before the weekend event that he was unfazed by the threats. "It doesn't concern me that much commercially," he said.

As the controversy over his comments exploded, Patrick Lynch, president of New York's police union, called the director a "cop-hater" and touched off the calls for a boycott. Several other law enforcement groups joined Lynch's rallying cry, including the National Fraternal Order of Police, whose director Jim Pasco, promised a "surprise" for the director.

"They say they've got a surprise waiting for me, and I'm kind of curious what that is," Tarantino continued. "I can't imagine it being anything other than them trying to embarrass me, like picketing the premiere or something like that. That could happen, and they have the right to do that if they want.

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"What concerns me is the way that the mouthpieces for the police unions have misrepresented what I said, and I think actually slandered me, calling me a cop hater," he added.

"Hateful Eight" is a Western set in Wyoming a few years after the Civil War. The plot revolves around eight strangers who seek refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass during a blizzard.