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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.
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So if 9/11 style threats against theaters will stop a movie from being released, Why the hell didn't someone think of that when Twilight was released?
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I don't follow or watch movies in general
Cool story, bro. Now, I want to know more about these "movie" things. I've never heard of them. I mostly entertain myself with contemporary epics by local poets engraved on sustainably-produced, artisanal clay tablets.
I almost pity the fools that made their veiled threat behind the keyboards...they will pay.
And I am always thinking that the FBI must know a lot more than they let on. Just think of all the resources the NSA has to track this down - taps into every internet trunk line in the world. Surely they can follow the trail to the perpetrators, and deliver a punishment to fit the crime in their own time. They may never even tell us about it, but somewhere, someday, some people will mysteriously meet up with a premature death. For sure the US Gov has an interest in this, above and beyond what they would have in hacks of Target & Home Depot, because the unique wanton destructiveness of the hack and the terrorists threats.
Man, talk about being an arm-chair general.....
I guess when you're in the basement, everything looks like a bomb shelter.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I've been to Austin, and judging from the looks of the locals, it did not appear that the barbers had been very busy.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Well, if you're lucky, the terrorists may kill you before the movie starts.
If you're not so lucky, the last thing you hear before your death is Seth Rogen laughing...
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
It depends on the translation.
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.
Hmm. Does that mean that literal translations are
Seppuku : Ritual disembowelment
Hara-Kiri: Stupid posh bloke killing himself