Posted on 12/17/2014 3:25:21 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Sony Cancels Theatrical Release for ‘The Interview’ on Christmas
With theater chains defecting en masse, Sony Pictures Entertainment has pulled the planned Christmas Day release of “The Interview.”
In announcing the decision to cancel the holiday debut, Sony hit back at the hackers who threatened movie theaters and moviegoers and who have terrorized the studio and its employees for weeks.
“Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale – all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like,” the statement reads.
“We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public,” it continues. “We stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome.”
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There goes the seventeen dollars that movie would have grossed.
LOL! Sometimes I wonder if they make these movies strictly for tax write offs.
what a pump for a poor movie and the masses will flock.
"Hit back"?
"Hit Back"!?
These morons just made themselves a target for the next lunatic.
I would have gone to see the movie just to give Kim Jong-un, and the rest of the scum who run North Korea, the finger.
Spoilers: A missile hits his helicopter while Katy Perry’s song ‘Fireworks’ plays in the background.
Well they didn’t do it. The major theater chains pulled out. It’s hard to release a movie when the top 5 chains won’t show it.
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” H.L. Mencken
Calling Dennis Rodman, yellow & red courtesy phone please...
To be fair, the chains only stated they were delaying showing the movie in their theaters. Christmas Day is a big movie day for theaters, and if anything DID happen, the John Edwards contingent would bankrupt them.
Sony could have continued the release, and likely would have had a fair opening weekend, and once nothing happened, a very very good second week (whereupon it would flop out of theaters, because, well, it is a brain dead movie...)
Sony will still release it, much like the chains they only said “not on Christmas”.
Sony couldn’t have continued the release, they had no screens. They maybe could have scraped up 100 indies, but most indies are art houses and don’t show these kind of movies.
When the chains decide it’s “safe” it will get released.
A screening at the White House would show resolve.
why haven’t we found these hackers adn dropped a nice cruise missle on them?
This is a publicist’s DREAM. Prediction: it’ll be released straight to home video with massive fanfare and make an almost unimaginably huge amount of money the first weekend. If it sucks, somewhat less unimaginably huge amount of money second weekend. But still unimaginably huge.
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