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Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release

Posted by samzenpus on from the nothing-to-see-here dept.

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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  1. No winner here, except for us all by gman003 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  2. OT: Seppuku by mi · · Score: 2, Informative

    But it does irritate me when people say hari-kari. I get that it's used in English a lot, but the original term is Hara-Kiri.

    Actually, the proper term is "seppuku". "Harakiri" is a word used by lower classes...

    --
    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
  3. Supremes never said corps are people ... by perpenso · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.