https://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-theater-owners-pull-the-interview-terror-threats-1201327612/
DAMN! Looks like the terrorists have won!
DAMN! Looks like the terrorists have won!
The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker threats
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It looked like a pretty bad movie but now I kind of want to see it.
It looked like a pretty bad movie but now I kind of want to see it.
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
Bigger publicity than they could've ever generated by themselves.
Sony could have this movie with streaming and cable companies over Christmas with DVD and Blurays out early in the new year.
Probably going to make more money than it would have otherwise...
Bigger publicity than they could've ever generated by themselves.
Sony could have this movie with streaming and cable companies over Christmas with DVD and Blurays out early in the new year.
Probably going to make more money than it would have otherwise...
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
This was never a movie I was going to rush out and see in the theaters, but it still seems pretty ridiculous to cancel the entire opening like that.
Even if it has been confirmed to be from North Korea, it's a MAJOR stretch to think they'd actually be able to attack any movie theaters in the US. I mean, come on.
This was never a movie I was going to rush out and see in the theaters, but it still seems pretty ridiculous to cancel the entire opening like that.
Even if it has been confirmed to be from North Korea, it's a MAJOR stretch to think they'd actually be able to attack any movie theaters in the US. I mean, come on.
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
I wasn't interested in seeing it but whenever or however it's released eventually then I'll see it. FU NK!
I wasn't interested in seeing it but whenever or however it's released eventually then I'll see it. FU NK!
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
It wasn't so much about saving US movie theaters as saving Sony Pictures (what was left of it after the hacking, that is). Not to mention the lives of Seth Rogen, James Franco and everyone else who had anything to do with the film. One bullet from a sniper rifle can really ruin your day.
It wasn't so much about saving US movie theaters as saving Sony Pictures (what was left of it after the hacking, that is). Not to mention the lives of Seth Rogen, James Franco and everyone else who had anything to do with the film. One bullet from a sniper rifle can really ruin your day.
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
It’s Official: Sony Scraps ‘The Interview’
So the movie isn't getting released, ANYWHERE. 44 million down the drain.
The bad news keeps coming for Sony.
It’s Official: Sony Scraps ‘The Interview’
So the movie isn't getting released, ANYWHERE. 44 million down the drain.
The bad news keeps coming for Sony.
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
It's probably the lawyers who are (indirectly) blocking this movie. Now that the threats have been made by NK, there may well be liability issues if any theater shows this film and anything bad happens as a result of that. Even if it's just some random psycho. Sony's doing this to cover its own ass.
It's probably the lawyers who are (indirectly) blocking this movie. Now that the threats have been made by NK, there may well be liability issues if any theater shows this film and anything bad happens as a result of that. Even if it's just some random psycho. Sony's doing this to cover its own ass.
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
Sony Has “No Further Release Plans” For ‘The Interview’ On VOD Or Elsewhere
Sony Has “No Further Release Plans” For ‘The Interview’ On VOD Or Elsewhere
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
Attention terrorists: Threaten violence and you get what you want.
Attention terrorists: Threaten violence and you get what you want.
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
I'm utterly shocked they would cave in like this. It's a major movie! It was going to do 100 million domestic! Threatening the theaters was a completely empty threat. I certainly was going to go see it in theater without a second thought.
And to not release it AT ALL? Not even on blu ray?!
I'm utterly shocked they would cave in like this. It's a major movie! It was going to do 100 million domestic! Threatening the theaters was a completely empty threat. I certainly was going to go see it in theater without a second thought.
And to not release it AT ALL? Not even on blu ray?!
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
"We have one rule, we don't negotiate with terrorists. We just give them what they want right away."
"We have one rule, we don't negotiate with terrorists. We just give them what they want right away."
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
"Dead actors don't make movies." And neither do scared filmmakers.
http://deadline.com/2014/12/north-korea-thriller-gore-verbinski-steve-carell-canceled-new-regency-1201328532/
Well, if Kim Jong Un wanted to make his mark and distinguish himself from his "I'm So Ronery" dad, he's done it. Just imagine if he and his hackers set their sights a little higher than a mere movie studio...
"Dead actors don't make movies." And neither do scared filmmakers.
http://deadline.com/2014/12/north-korea-thriller-gore-verbinski-steve-carell-canceled-new-regency-1201328532/
Well, if Kim Jong Un wanted to make his mark and distinguish himself from his "I'm So Ronery" dad, he's done it. Just imagine if he and his hackers set their sights a little higher than a mere movie studio...
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(CNN) -- There's a sad irony in the fact that one of the great tests of America's freedom of speech should involve a movie that, according to some reviewers, utterly sucks.
Variety calls "The Interview" an "alleged satire that's about as funny as a communist food shortage, and just as protracted." Yet this "comedy" about two TV guys tasked with assassinating North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has sparked a cyberterror campaign that amounts to extortion.
It never ends. And it always seems to happen that new ways to "play" are created and reacted to.
North Korea Wins?
By Timothy Stanley
December 17, 2014 -- Updated 2320 GMT (0720 HKT)
This is the current headline at CNN's site.
Guess the answer is "Yes!"
Now, I am not presenting my position as one of supporting the idea, fictionally and humorously or not, of assassination of anyone. There are laws and flaws and hems and haws and just cause and unfortunately, it does not always turn out bad for the Bad Guys. But this? This is...jesus, I do not even know what to call it. The Press is calling it "extortion" but I do not think it is. It is more fundamental than that. Totalitarian? The Hack Heard 'Round the World?" What is next? Cummerbuns coming after me because I refer to him as Cummerbuns? eesh!
(CNN) -- There's a sad irony in the fact that one of the great tests of America's freedom of speech should involve a movie that, according to some reviewers, utterly sucks.
Variety calls "The Interview" an "alleged satire that's about as funny as a communist food shortage, and just as protracted." Yet this "comedy" about two TV guys tasked with assassinating North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has sparked a cyberterror campaign that amounts to extortion.
It never ends. And it always seems to happen that new ways to "play" are created and reacted to.
North Korea Wins?
By Timothy Stanley
December 17, 2014 -- Updated 2320 GMT (0720 HKT)
This is the current headline at CNN's site.
Guess the answer is "Yes!"
Now, I am not presenting my position as one of supporting the idea, fictionally and humorously or not, of assassination of anyone. There are laws and flaws and hems and haws and just cause and unfortunately, it does not always turn out bad for the Bad Guys. But this? This is...jesus, I do not even know what to call it. The Press is calling it "extortion" but I do not think it is. It is more fundamental than that. Totalitarian? The Hack Heard 'Round the World?" What is next? Cummerbuns coming after me because I refer to him as Cummerbuns? eesh!
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
Probably the best response to Sony cancelling showings of The Interview comes from Alamo Draft House, as they will show Team America: World Police instead.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ[/yt]
Probably the best response to Sony cancelling showings of The Interview comes from Alamo Draft House, as they will show Team America: World Police instead.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ[/yt]
Re: The Interview movie release canceled by theaters after hacker thre
I'm sure they'll eventually do what they did with Red Dawn: they'll go in remove any mention of North Korea or Kim Jon Un and then release it; probably right to home video.
Would it involve re-shoots? Probably. Unless they can CGI their lips differently whenever they say the name of the guy. Or, more hilariously, they could just bleep it out every time they say it! They should do that!
Turn his name into a curse word!
I'm sure they'll eventually do what they did with Red Dawn: they'll go in remove any mention of North Korea or Kim Jon Un and then release it; probably right to home video.
Would it involve re-shoots? Probably. Unless they can CGI their lips differently whenever they say the name of the guy. Or, more hilariously, they could just bleep it out every time they say it! They should do that!
Turn his name into a curse word!Similar threads
