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Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release
tobiasly writes The country's top five theater chains — Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment — have decided not to play Sony's The Interview. This comes after the group which carried off a massive breach of its networks threatened to carry out "9/11-style attacks" on theaters that showed the film. Update: Sony has announced that it has cancelled the planned December 25 theatrical release.
Uh huh...
Terrorists seem to win over and over.
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Check out the rotten tomatoes score. Not missing much...
Why are they afraid of me? I hide behind a computer screen and have no face.
The only reason Sony would release "The Interview" on the 25 Dec would be if it stinks.
Well, I'm boycotting any theatre that isn't showing this movie because of a terrorist threat. If they don't want to show it because it's crap, that's fine with me.. But not because of some threat.
I am going to make a point of seeing that movie whenever it shows. This is a Nation State threatening us, something Obama needs to deal with. Oh yeah, I forgot. ----never mind.
Why not just put the thing up for public download?
1/2 a dash of PR
1/2 a dash of bullshit (fresh)
Two sprigs of the Smith Mundut act repeal
1 whole FUD, chopped
1 government w/control issues
Mix ingredients in a large water cammode briskly then flush on to American public
"we do not negotiate with terrorists."?
Dude, you don't understand. This is like acknowledging your stalker. It will never stop now.
"The Interview" must really suck to get cancelled so quickly and easily, even after the publicity stunts going on with the movie.
I can easily see how to capitalize on this by releasing it via pay per view/on-demand or other services (assuming, of course, these providers can do a better job at protecting their servers than Sony did in the first place). Who says you have to sit in a physical movie theater with a bunch of strangers that you don't talk to in order to enjoy this movie?
The last time I wrote code, it was Morse
And offer to show it there. You don't want it shown in theaters? Fine, it'll be shown on every TV in the country.
Not sure why they truncated my submission but the questions this raises was more interesting to me than the news itself.
For posterity: What should Sony do? Cut their losses and shelve it? Release it immediately online? Does giving in mean "the terrorists have won"?
I don't like Rogan or Franco, don't like that kind of film, but was planning to go anyway just because I was pissed off at a bunch of script kiddies pretending to be a tinpot dictator's henchmen. Sony should have acquired some 'nads and shown it anyway. At least in the theaters courageous enough to put it on the marquee.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
All they've done is taught attackers that they can force our media around.
Really disappointed in everyone involved here. Especially the cinemas. At least Sony *was* going to follow through.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
I couldn't have cared less about the movie. It didn't really sound like my kind of humor.
But after the threat was made, I was planning on seeing it just to show the (newly become) terrorists what I think of them.
I'd have liked this to be Sony's most successful release of the year.
I'm getting mixed messages from the news, though. Has the release been completely scrubbed, or are they just canceling the formal premier?
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Now that Sony has cancelled the premier, if I want to see this movie I'll have to find a pirated copy.
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As an American, when did Americans become such fucking pussies?
Are we backing Sony at the moment?
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They should be advertising the sht out of this movie as the film that terrorists are afraid of, including funny made up quotes from bogus North Korean hackers and party officials, etc.
They should be running to the fire on this, not away. It could send a message and increase their sales at the same time. The ONLY people in the whole world who really care about this two-bit movie are the North Koreans. They're not going to pull off any real terrorist attacks. Their hack of Sony was impressive, and I can understand the studios being wary of that, but really, some consulting dollars could mitigate a lot of that risk. Run a security blitz at the studios and poke NK in the eye. It's what they deserve.
I don't know what this movie is, and I don't follow or watch movies in general, but I suddenly almost want to find out more about this movie is all about now.
Almost.
This is actually the best marketing this stupid loser of a movie could ever get, since without this too-doo, it would have opened and closed within two weeks.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
It's pretty transparent that these hackers are North Korean. Fuck North Korea.
On the other hand, fuck Sony. I can't say that enough - FUCK SONY.
This doesn't help NK in any way. Oh, this movie is blasphemous to their state-mandated religion, worshipping the rotting corpse of Kim I and Kim II? This movie was never going to be seen by anyone in that entire country, if for the simple reason that so few of them can even afford it. I doubt they can even use this hack as internal propaganda, because the simple fact that such a movie exists shows how little the outside world cares about North Korea. And nobody's fooled by their disavowal - this is just more proof that they're a bunch of thugs.
This hurts Sony. First the humiliation of the hack. Then the financial damage. Then the humiliation of acceding to terrorist demands. They may have had a bad reputation in our circles for years now, but they've now lost face in the mainstream media, too.
So yeah, our enemies are fighting and both of them are losing. Time to break out the popcorn.
Release this comedy via bittorrent - PROBLEM SOLVED!
Since Sony is going to eat the production costs anyway, why not declare the movie to be in the public domain and make it downloadable by anyone at no charge?
That'll piss off the terrorists, but they'll be powerless to stop its distribution.
I was planning to go see this, not that I'm interested in the movie, but to show that I won't kow-tow to terrorists and extortionists. But since Sony has caved by deferring its release, Sony has joined the ranks of the chicken-droppings.
Several sites have called for Sony to release this on the Internet, and that's what I think they should do. And someone needs to make "we don't negotiate with Young Weasel" stickers with Kim Jong Un's face in the background.
Do we have reason to believe that this group is actually capable of or prepared to carry out the attacks that they're threatening? If theaters around the country showed the movie, can these terrorists bomb them all?
Or did all these companies simply buckle to a random threat without anything behind it? Because, yeah, I guess if someone calls in a bomb threat to the local high school, you might have to go evacuate the school while the police check it out, but you should have some plan for keeping the kids from calling in new threats every day and shutting the school down permanently.
So, now I know what to say whenever I don't get my way.
Then *everyone* will watch it, with no large gatherings of people to target. And it'll be a big f*** you to the terrorists. Sounds like a win-win to me!
Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
Perhaps this is more a comment on movie than the fear of Korean Terror or hackers. Perhaps the studio has no faith in the production.
Another stupid comedy that would go quickly to cable... no big deal if it wasn't for the hackers.
'9/11 style attacks'? So if these movies are screened, attackers will sneak in, fueled up with convenience-store-bought Raisinets and armed with box knives? Or are they going to crash an airliner into each theater?
We've become a nation where a college kid wishing to avoid a final exam can call in a bomb threat to close a campus. All threats, however implausible, must be taken seriously, just in case it truly is a real threat and an attack occurs. 99.999% of the time the threat is bogus, but if one doesn't act hysterically and it turns out to be the 0.001% situation, you're screwed (more likely by lawyers after the fact, not so much by the attack itself).
By caving to the threat, they are validating the use of this strategy, and are ensuring that they will get more threats like this in the future. It works.
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Guys, you're clearly missing the massive societal benefit of this news. Say you go to see a movie, only to find out that it's terrible. What do you do to help your fellow man from wasting their time and money? Write a review? Tell your friends? That's just not good enough! Now, all you have to do is send Sony an email and they'll cheerfully pull it from US distribution!
I have the feeling the reason the show was cancelled , was because the pre-release feedback was very negative, that it was a bad film, but with those threat they saw an opportunity, and now they are priming the US market for a massive "buy it to spite terrorrist !" direct to DVD.
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This comes after the group which carried off a massive breach of its networks threatened to carry out "9/11-style attacks"
I can't believe anyone is cowering to these little bastards. Who in their right mind believes any group is going to hijack planes, or even gas trucks and suicide bomb movie theaters? If they would have threatened Batman/Aurora style attacks I would have given them a little more credence. I mean why didn't they just go for broke and threaten Nagasaki style attacks? Or really go all out and threaten Chicxulub or Krakatoa?
So they managed to break Sony's "security" and steal a bunch of data. Wow! From what I've read about Sony and their IT security, this could be a 12 year old girl in Tajikistan who did this for fun. There's been no indication that there is any credible physical threat to anyone. Yet everyone's running around in a panic. What the hell has happened to this country?
The other side of promoting this fear mongering over terrorism, is that people get so scared, they believe their own bullshit. What decades of fear mongering have done is made us a nation of cowards, unable to cope with idle threats, most likely by people incapable of pulling them off. the largest army in the world, the most advanced weapons, the biggest navy by far, with the most amount and most advanced carriers, and we are still scared of unspecified threats on the internet. Sweet Jesus fuck. I think instead of spending millions on tanks, and Jets, and aircraft carriers, and shit that won't protect us, lets spend some time learning not to be affraid, and sticking up for what we believe in, instead of paying the defense industry out the nose for what ultimately won't protect us?
You know... Police, Army, Navy, Air Force, NSA, CIA, FBI, NRA, bronies...
If they can't secure a fuckin mall for an afternoon... What are you paying them for?
Also, WHAT "rational cautions and plausible evidence"?
All the public got so far was some overdue candid insight into scheming of a mega-corporation and what it REALLY thinks about people it uses, hires and its customers.
If that's terrorism, seems to me there's a great demand for more of it.
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Guess I'll have to find a torrent now...
Release the movie. Noone really cares what the head thinks of angelina jolie, or whomever's SSN. It's not as if everyone out there believes sony is a pristine organisation that values its actors and talent like golden geese. Unless this is a diversionary tactic that will buy time to track these people. These are just nonsensical threats used to inflame lone operators but mostly to throw everyone off the scent.
The decision to make this movie has been a complete unmitigated disaster for Sony. In fact Webster should place a picture of Sony and the Interview poster next to the dictionary entry for "disaster".
Financial loss to Sony will easily be in the hundreds of millions, not just from losing a major film release but also from the hacking, which is still ongoing. Employees are scared, many Hollywood bigwigs are angry, and head of Sony Pictures likely will lose her job.
And all for what? Depicting the gruesome murder of a nonfictional living person is normally off-limits for mainstream entertainment. Let alone the sitting head of state of an actual nation. Sony was warned that this would be going into uncharted territory.
According to the leaked emails, the screenwriter had originally written in a fictional dictator of a made-up country, but a few Sony execs thought it would be funnier and punchier if they put Kim Jong Eun instead. In their arrogance they had not considered repercussions of what could happen.
A "real and present threat" on a specific mall is a very different thing from a random threat.
There are 5300 movie theaters in the USA. If half of them show the movie, that's 2650 showings. If the terrorists attack *ten* showings (likely an overestimate), that's still less than half a percent chance of being impacted.
I'd take those odds.
The alternative is that random groups start making threats against everything they don't like while carrying through on just enough of them to keep people scared, and the population lives in fear.
As Doc Martin once said "it's the thin end of the wedge."
Now that terrorists have successfully prevented a movie release with threats of "911-like attacks," everything they want done will be done using that threat as the basis.
release it to the cinemas anyway, sell no tickets, staff make the venue look open then leave discreetly. terrorist honey pot.
Damn, this is a horrible outcome. They've just let NK gov feel like they actually have authority and standing outside of their prison nation.
Sony decided it wasn't economically worth going to war with North Korea over this. That's all. Even the very slight risk of a theater bombing could have cost millions, so they said no.
That said, I hope they carpet bomb North Korea with Korean dubbed DVDs of the movie, complete with DVD players. Also hoping Netflix will start streaming it tomorrow, or that they just release it for free.
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Everybody will go see this movie if it ever gets released now. This could be the most ingenious marketing campaign ever if Sony was the one who hired the hackers and fed them dirt they already knew about the MPAA in regards to take down notices for URLs so the public's curiosity about what the movie was actually like if they had gotten the chance to see it.
Welcome to the club! So many technical people are boycotting Sony already that you'll be joining quite a large community.
In case you're not aware of it, Sony has a long history of doing things that techies tend to consider evil, their rootkit and "Other OS" shenanigans being the best known. They stopped being an electronics leader and became a lawyer-infested content company many years ago, and it has made them take the wrong decision at every turn.
And so here comes Xmas, another opportunity to not buy Sony equipment as presents and yet another year to tell relatives why Sony doesn't deserve supporting.
And adding your suggestion to the list, an opportunity to avoid Sony media content as well. The boycott grows.
Sony is really capitulating because the Hacker-terrorists found pictures of the dead hookers in a Execs closet.
So, protesting a fictional, comedic film about assassinating their leader, the "Guardians of Peace" hack the studio that produced the film and then threaten violence against theaters showing and people who might watch the film. Wow. (I guess that's in line with people who follow a certain "Religion of Peace" threatening violence against those who draw, even respectful, images of their prophet because it's against said religion.)
Narrow minded people thinking mindlessly...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Why didn't the GOPs do that themselves?
In 2014, NATO, the UK and USA all released public statements saying they were entitled to treat NON-VIOLENT acts of propaganda and hacking as IDENTICAL to a physical military attack by an enemy, and respond accordingly, including using physical military strikes against the source of the cyber-activity. In the USA, threatening the President, regardless of intent, is a class-A criminal offence. In Texas, a man who made a drunken reference to a 'Burning bush' in a bar when Bush was in office receive a lengthy prison sentence.
Sony employed extreme racist zionists at the US governments behest to make a movie specifically about the murder of the ACTUAL head of North Korea. There is no doubting that the existence of 'The Interview' was designed to be an 'act of aggression' against North Korea. Seth Rogen thought the North Koreans would have to 'roll over and take it', just as when Team Rogen carried out their filthy Holocaust against the Humans of Gaza a few months ago.
Sony is Japanese, and a little while back Japan announced sanctions against Russia in the midst of a key Russian-Japanese trade deal, because Obama twisted their arm to breaking point, just like all those 'heroes' torturing the 'bad guys' on shows like '24'. Meanwhile, Israel has the closest relationship possible with Russia, and has enacted not one sanction. Neither has Saudi Arabia. Neither has Egypt. Yet the sheeple are told that Israel, Saudi Arabia and the current regime in Egypt are the closest of friends with the USA.
No other major studio would have made 'The Interview'- not even Rupert 'Goebbels' Murdoch's 20th Century Fox. Only Japanese owned Sony could be this dumb and servile. There are rules- everyone knows this- but when Obama says kneel, the Japanese still say "how low?". And why? Because US presence in South Korea is the ONLY reason Korea does not reunify, and the one thing Japan fears in all the world is a re-unified Korea.
But there are rules, and Sony broke them. You don't promote the murder of a currently serving head-of-state. The USA is now a gangster state, and gangsters define themselves as being beyond all the rules. The USA waves evidence of its unthinkably evil torture policies in the face of the world, and laughs as it tells everyone that every depravity involved in torture has been given total immunity against punishment by Presidents Bush and Obama.
When America was exterminating Russia's attempt to modernise Afghanistan, and bring equal rights and social justice to that land (the Russians, not the Saudi loving Americans, that is), Hollywood had Rambo and James Bond work side by side with the 'brave' Taliban (in their 'Mujahideen' incarnation). But depicting fictional state-sponsored 'heroes' in a proxy war is one thing. Neither Rambo nor James Bond were ever shown attempting to MURDER the serving USSR head. There are rules- and Sony broke these rules.
The US War Machine is out of control- gathering rapidly accelerated funding every year. Google has dedicated itself to providing the US armed forces with fully robotic, semi-autonomous genocide machines to help fight in future battlefields like Iran. The heads of Google are convinced the US politicians will support far more wars for Israel if the US sheeple believe far fewer US forces will be put at risk. ISIS is a key project of the USA, expanding deadly Saudi influence throughout the Muslim world- destroying secular Muslim states like Syria, Libya and Iraq, and turning them over to Saudi trained 'clerics'. Israel is an active ally of ISIS in Syria's Golan Heights region.
If the world doesn't act to halt the US War Machine, US authorities will engage in the worst aggressive militaristic 'fantasies' imaginable- and black propaganda like 'The Interview' is merely preparing the ground in readiness.
Something seems off on this whole thing. They are afraid of 911 style threats... at a movie theater?! The Koreans probably got something else on the executives. Something so good that the execs are giving in to these crazy demands. The whole 911 thing sounds like an alternative explanation for whats really going on.
U.S. investigators have determined hackers working for North Korea were behind the Sony attack, and an announcement could come as soon as Thursday, U.S. law enforcement sources tell CNN's Evan Perez.
Because of the North Korean regime's tight control of the Internet in the reclusive country, U.S. officials believe the hack was ordered directly by the nation's leadership.
The hackers have exposed documents from Sony's servers, including personal information about celebrities and embarrassing emails from executives. They also said that people should avoid going to theaters to see "The Interview," which is about an attempt to kill North Korea's leader.
Sony on Wednesday canceled the film's December 25 release.
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If Sony was smart..
The would print the movie and give it away on the street corners in random cities of America AND download for free. It should be Sony VPs, and company directors giving
the movie away.
I'm quite sure I wouldn't like this movie, but Sony must protect to artistic freedom if they have dignity.
This is war.
This is a very sad day for the United States and for freedom of expression. It's so disappointing that we've allowed terrorist fear and propaganda to suppress our culture and art.
"The Interview BlueRay 1080p" coming to a bittorrent server near you ! Hell throw in a few ads for Sony pictures on from the torrent server 8-)
Now this assures an even wider torrent release. We all know more people watch torrents over actual movie theaters these days.
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What are you paying them for?
Choking black people?
Very likely Sony decided that even if all North Korea could do is 3 attacks of theaters like that Joker wannabe a couple of years ago, it would be enough to cost Sony a billion in lawsuits.
I thought they did, actually... purportedly along with several other not-yet-released movies, though I didn't go searching to verify this myself.
Actually, the proper term is "seppuku". "Harakiri" is a word used by lower classes...
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By induction, we should be able to issue a counter-threat to all the movie theaters that do NOT show The Interview this holiday season.
Seeing how often Hollywood remakes movies, and how much attention Kim Jong-un has given this particular picture, it may become the Oedipus Rex or Nutcracker of the next century. After this blows over, Sony's going to rake in the DVD and rebroadcast and international sales, and North Korea will redefine the "Streisand Effect"
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Sony just told the Jihadist how to make sure there will never be any movies involving Islam shown in the US.
Bog corps have a CYA (cover your ass) policy. It has nothing to do with safety. If there is a threat and only one attack is carried out, Sony could be held legally liable for not doing their due diligence. The family of the injured/deceased could sue Sony because there was a threat and Sony ignored it. USA is a nation of litigation, not the betterment of her citizens. But hey, we're in a multinational corporation-run world so the rest of the planet will have to comply. Corporations love to say "it's for your own safety" but that is really one of the biggest lies.
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I can't do much about this and neither can you. But if you would to be a little bit constructive I started a petition:
https://www.change.org/p/regal...
First off Sony has already lost millions from the hacking. How would a bombing have cost millions to Sony?
That way they'd have to bomb everyone
Never go to any of these theaters again. Let them know why.
I work for a sizable sports network. Sony had a ton of inventory purchased across many networks to promote the release. They pulled ALL of it, ridiculously close to airtime. Way closer than we normally allow.
They were negotiating down to the wire to not have to cancel this movie. And why wouldn't they? They stand to lose tens of millions unless they're smart about how they do a private release now.
Trust me. Sony has released FAR shittier movies than this. This one had buzz going for it. Remember that months ago, NK declared it an act of war.
This looks completely legit. A ridiculously weak - and in my mind completely wrong - move, but legit.
I don't give a fuck.
In fact I give so little of a fuck that I'm not going to watch it online, I'm not going to watch it pirated, I'm not going to watch it on Netflix, and I'm not even going to fucking look it up on Wikipedia.
And I'm not even going to announce it on Facebook or G+ that I don't give a fuck. I'm just going to ignore that entire mess, just like I'm doing with Star Wars and Star Trek.
It's pretty transparent that these hackers are North Korean. Fuck North Korea.
Really? What would North Korea have to gain by doing this? They already have less than one friend on the global stage (ie, only partial support from China). If they go around encouraging cyber warfare like this they are only inviting more pain back towards themselves.
Even more so this is likely beyond the technical capabilties of North Korea. Some people have suggested that this hack took upwards of 100TB of data. First of all, it is unlikely that North Korea has the ability to move that much data through their connection to the internet in the amount of time that transpired. Second, even if all the "best" hackers from North Korea did their best job to steal this data and place it elsewhere, it would have been pretty easy to figure that out as well.
So really, scratch North Korea off the list.
Some people have suggested that the hackers are "sympathetic to North Korea". To this I say bullshit as well. If someone wanted to make North Korea look like victims, launching a cyber attack is not a good way to do that. And how would a cyber attack on Sony make North Korea look strong or capable?
I would say the most likely case is we have some hackers who really despised Sony and found a way in. They then laid this "North Korea" cause as a red herring.
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I know my own business insurance has the ability to file a claim if there is loss or damage due to a terrorist attack. Maybe Sony is going to try to recoup their losses on this film that way.
Unless I'm forgetting something, 9/11 involved planes crashing into large buildings. Most movie theaters in the US are single-story buildings and seldom have much around them of great significance (ie they are in big empty suburban parking lots). They would have to completely destroy dozens of theatres in order to match the death total of 9/11, and in the process wouldn't come close to the monetary damage.
But that leaves the giant question of how. You can't take down a full movie theatre with one suicide bomber, you would need several (at least one for each screen, somehow synchronized to maximize damage). 9/11 was 19 terrorists killing almost 3,000 others; you can't get anywhere near that level of destruction with suicide bombers.
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Sony does things for profit. Only North Korea is free to do things to promote an ideology.
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Sony should release it via torrent sites, Bring the freakin thing to the whole world , right up to their firewalled doorstep!
Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you
From what I've seen they DID release the other films, but not "The Interview". And I'm assuming any actual torrents of said movie will have something nasty in it; at least that's what I'd do lol.
I have this sneaking suspicion that the real damage that could be done to Sony is if the group that broke in got into the internal financial data rather than what gets reported.
Word has long been that the accounting practices of Hollywood and the music industry make Enron look pretty tame. And Sony is into both.
Imagine how many lawyers/accountants would be going over any financial records that get released. There are lots of actors and musicians that have felt they got shafted with what they were paid versus what they were actually owed.
threatened to carry out "9/11-style attacks
They are going to fly airplanes into theaters?
Mod this guy up please
.. And Team America: World Police by the South Park guys, which completely ridiculed Kim Jong Il - was cheerfully sent to theaters without issue?
Oh, here's why- Team America: World Police was distributed by Paramount Pictures, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. media behemoth Viacom, which couldn't give a flying fuck about a despot on the other side of the world.
Sony, on the other hand, has its parent company headquartered in Japan, where North Korean missile tests fly over their island on a regular basis, and has actually had citizens literally kidnapped off the beach by North Korean intelligence officers.
Where does this stop? Will Sony approach media outlets like Amazon Instant Video, Google Play Movies and iTunes, only to be told off? It wasn't bad enough that Sony has suffered huge losses from the hacking, now they also eat nearly $50 million on the films' production costs and sunk advertising to date.
During the Cold War, Hollywood ROUTINELY made films depicting the Soviets as drunken bumbling incompetent bloodthirsty warmongers, with fare like Stripes, Spies Like Us, Red Dawn (original), and many many others - This, at a time when there were literally hundreds or thousands of KGB agents active on American sold and > 10,000 ICBMs pointed at us - And you could turn Johnny Carson's monologue on every night and listen to him crack about Brezhnev being a drunken idiot.
Did Sony react to a real threat? Or is this part of the new culture of not offending anyone?
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Guardians of Peace[?] = Guardians of Shit[!]
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With all the backlash to the non existent backlash it'd be a great time to drop the movie full spread and everyone got see it... just sayin
... is to give the movie away for free download.
Nothing would piss of North Korea more, unless they could convince Apple to force you to download it, like U2 did!
We shut down movies now over terrorist threats of 9/11-style attacks?
If they are so worried that a few hackers could hijack a plane, and pull this off successfully, that they are willing to sink a multimillion dollar film that's probably already in circulation on the net.....
Why do I need to have people try to feel my nuts at the airport and treat me like I'm entering jail?
If they can't stop a few nerds with laptops from hijacking a plane, how can they ever hope to stop an actual skilled boogie man terrorist jihadist child molestor movie pirate? I know a lot of us play flight sims but come on..... f**king seriously? This is a whole new dimension of retarded. Why couldn't someone do this when they were about to release Titanic or Pearl Harbor?
This was widely reported.
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-north-korea-executes-80-20131111-story.html
The Kim Dynasty likes movies. This was reported back in 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16245174
Borderline despicable behavior on Sony's part actually. The movie industry makes an enormous amount of money because of the freedom of speech. But when it comes time to defend that freedom this is how they behave.
This is just a ploy cooked up by sony to increase sales. You watch, after christmas the theaters will cave in and show it and then everyone will want to watch it to see what all the hoopla is about.
If Sony decides to shelf the release indefinitely, then I think they should just release it publicly for free and let the world have at it. I'd honestly rather give to Sony directly than to let any shit hacking group decide what I can and can't watch.
Hey Sony, if you want to setup a torrent, I'll be a seeder. Otherwise, let me know where I can send *cryptocurrency of the day* for a nice clean DRM free copy of the movie.
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Sure, the threat to a theater is (certainly to the outside world) highly impressive, so it is a good excuse...
But I wonder if the real threat to Sony Pictures isn't the mails and internal documentation that we haven't seen released by the hackers yet. If for example they found documents detailing how 'Hollywood bookkeeping' really works, or perhaps some juicy details about agreements with congressmen and senators with links to money that can no longer be whitewashed as 'lobbying' but indicate it for what it really is: bribery.
Because THAT would really scare Sony Pictures management.
Let me guess. Next you're going to pontificate about how you "don't even own a TV", right?
You're missing the point. They didn't choose not to show the movie because of a terrorist threat. They chose not to show the movie because it would cost them money. Regardless of what they say, they are not taking the threat seriously. What they are taking seriously is the number of customers who would choose not to come see The Interview, and particularly the number of customers who would choose not to come see anything at a theatre that is merely showing The Interview, out of fear for their own safety. The potential for empty theatre complexes for an entire holiday season scared the shit out of the theatres, and they made the safe financial decision.
Their reaction has nothing to do with terrorism, and everything to do with the almighty dollar. Claming it's a reaction to the terrorist threat is merely the popular way to present the financial decision to the terrorist-sensitive public.
But since Sony has caved by deferring its release, Sony has joined the ranks of the chicken-droppings.
Sony didn't cave. Sony stood by their guns the whole time. It's the theatre chains who caved, so blame them, not Sony.
that Cineplex Entertainment is Canadian, and not american, don’t you..?!
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You have a larger chance of being struck by lightning in the us than being killed by a terrorist. Lightning killed about fifty people a year (US only), which is considerably more than terrorists ten-year average.
But far less than the fifteen or twenty year average, even less than the 50 year average. The "data" has some infrequent by quite large outliers. Its difficult to compare naturally occurring random events (lightning) or accidental events involving humans (car accidents) to intentional events engineered by humans.
That said I was planning on waiting for the movie to show up on HBO but now I feel like seeing it in a theatre. I guess there really is no such thing as bad press.
The Supreme Court never said that corporation are people. That's just a talking point of the left, taken from the post-decision spin of the losing side in the court case.
All the court really said is that
(1) Groups of people have the same speech rights as individuals.
(2) The nature of the group (corporation, labor union, activist group, etc) does not matter.
(3) Media corporations (i.e. traditional news) have no special rights with respect to speech, all corporations have the same speech rights.
There are 5300 movie theaters in the USA. If half of them show the movie, that's 2650 showings. If the terrorists attack *ten* showings ...
The terrorists can be trapped. Have a few theaters where there is a double feature of "The Interview" and "Team America: World Police", that should lure the NK agents to those theaters.
This really is a sad day, those moronic scriptkiddies have won..
I really hope they can catch the persons who did this, and who made the threats. The should get life in prison if it were up to me (well actually they should just get the deathpenalty if it was really up to me)...
These morons ruined the lives of a lot of hardworking people..
You know, that would make a good movie.
Will #GOP go after the torrent trackers that index the movie? Inquiring minds need to know.
If the movie is cancelled does this mean anyone that shares the torrent can't be done for loss of revenue to sony?
This just sounds like the media is trying to get an emotional reaction from the American people with regards to North Korea so they can garner support for more warmongering.
Remember Dubya?
"Iran, Iraq and North Korea form an axis of evil..."
I'm still waiting to hear what 'evil' these countries have actually done - and the "proof" of their links to 9/11 and Al-Qaeda.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
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Do you remember the actual incident at a showing of Batman? The one that actually happened? Where people got shot?
Do you remember how Batman was not pulled from the cinema?
We should start a kick-start campaign to buy the rights from Sony and make the movie public.
How about having a huge public showing of this movie, on a portable projector shining on the side of the Nork Embassy?
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So now NK are terrorists? Since when?
If a movie were made about Koreans/Iranians etc. planning to assasinate Obama, I'mt pretty sure it wouldn't be welcomed in USA, similarly to this mockumentary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_%282006_film%29
Hacking is another thing, and also hard to prove.
Sony, you can't release this thing in theaters, and the same will probably be of brick-and-mortar retail. Your reputation is going in the crapper because of the awful things your executives say in email. Release the movie on a torrent. Let people watch it online. For free. It's not like these idiots aren't going to eventually distribute all of your dirty laundry anyway. Show us you at least have some dignity, if not class.
and here is why we need an outlets like TPB to do the things that corporations and governments won't or can't do.
Yup, that's pretty much hall I have to say.
Dear Sony,
Release the movie for free on the internet. Perhaps issue a bargain-rate DVD as well. If the people behind the hack really don't want this movie out there (as opposed to this being a smoke-screen), and you really are concerned that capitulation will inspire future attacks; up the ante and do the opposite.
To be sure: there is a fiscal cost... but that ship has sailed. Take more of a hit now to save ongoing bleeding.
Heck: Start a commercial campaign about how you stand up to terrorists.
Good job Sony. You just taught the dog that shitting on the floor is rewarded.
1) Everyone must now watch Team America: World Police in protest
2) The Interview should immediately be released to [HBO|Showtime|Starz] and [Netflix|Amazon Prime|iTune] for widest dissemination and viewing. As a one off, there should be no windowing who gets the rights. Sony will still make some money on it, and also gets to make a bit of a statement that while they will be scared into changing their behavior (and I'm pissed about that) they will not be censored.
Congratulations, you've just fallen victim to the reverse-Streisand. Can't say that I blame you though, this is the biggest one since New Coke.
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
That began in the 1960's with the anti-war movement. Anytime a significant portion of a nation decides that it won't fight for anything, the end is at hand. It's been all pussification from then on. (Yes, I'm talking about you hippies.) At least for a large percent of us.
But at a deeper level, it begins when a nation loses all vision for its future, and begins to sit back and take it easy. Having conquered a continent (for better or worse, with all the evils that happen along the way), we no longer had a goal to pursue as a nation. You begin to slowly fall apart at that point. Today, we don't live for anything except for entertainment and games, sex, drugs, pleasure. That's a dead society in my opinion.
Sony secured the movie...for future release. If you saw the trailer, you know where they secured it.
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Was John Kerry involved in making this decision?
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
You're forgetting, there are 18,000 different theatres, it's not so easy, there's no magic to stop these kinds of things (if they're real, that is) as you imagine. Even the NSA, police, etc.. can't read minds, use a crystal ball, or have Superman's x-ray vision, even with all the data they collect.
But even if it is a ruse as we suspect, the hackers still hold tons of personal information about Sony's employees, their addresses, medical records, etc.. so possibly Sony is more concerned over abuse of that data, and is trying to appease NK.
Not that it matters, because appeasement never works. Never in the history of man has it worked, as an end to itself. Even war has a better track record of stopping aggression than appeasement. Unless the appeasement is used merely as a delay tactic, then it may have some strategic value there.
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Shit! release it on YouTube in a private channel. Then get everyone who wants to see it to send an email to someguy@sony.com with "x-mas gift" in the subject line.
Rather than run it normally, show it for free, or at least at a huge discount.
Get as many people to see it as possible. That would send the message that you are going to achieve the exact opposite should you try this garbage again.
Amazingly, the Sony leadership just leapfrogged ahead of Kim Jong Un in the race for most reviled public entity.
*phppht*!
All we'd need to do is put up a bunch of pix of kim un or WTF he's called and pickup all the obviously N koreans drooling over the pix. Job done. Even mall security could handle it or a boy scout sans swiss army knife...
Nice.
Holy fuck! Thank you! I was just a dumbass knuckledragging slashdotter before reading your post. Now, I too, see this for what it really is: a Black Flag Op. It wasn't NK, it was our own NSA & CIA working together to take away moar uv mah freedumbs! This is why I love you guys, I would have never thought in a million years that our people could be capable of this but that's just because I'm a dumbass. Thanks for pointing out the TRUF!
Last time someone made fun of North Korea and its leaders exactly nothing happened.
Same with demonizing them as "invadorz" instead of Chinese.
Or that time James Bond fought a North Korean villain who made himself into a rich and powerful white man.
In fact... Last time anyone actually went out and committed a terrorist attack killing a bunch of people in a a theater - it was a crazy, white, male, American. With store and online bought guns.
And the movie was kept in theaters despite the bodycount.
Why?
Cause it was a final sequel of a very successful franchise whose last movie made over a billion dollars.
In other words...
Corporations have brass balls when gold is on the line.
And again... If they can't really cover a mere 18000 targets...
What good are they? Along with all the other "terrorist fighting" measures?
Trillions of dollars and unquantifiable liberties went up in smoke - and 18000 theaters turns out to be "too much"?
Maybe they should think outside the box on this one? Or more like inside a different kind of a box.
Maybe what's needed is a better kind of a theater? A safe and secure kind, where nothing bad can happen.
We can call it Security Theater.
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