Posted on 12/19/2014 8:41:25 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
Really can’t release a film if there are no theaters that will agree to show it.
Wonder if the rep would feel the same way if threats were made to close down an abortion clinic or gay wedding chapel.
They didn’t really have a choice, as I understand it; no theaters wanted to play it, for fear of attacks, liability, etc. (and didn’t some post-9-11 insurance guarantee just expire, or will expire... things that make you go hmmmmm... ?!!!)
That being said, I really, really hope it finds it way out. It should, and it must. Because this is completely ridiculous. No foreign power should have a say in our entertainment choices.
And the fact that I can say such a ridiculous statement just proves my point. LOL.
Or maybe I’m just overtired.
Hold on, new tagline coming up...
They really are a sucky studio, but I keep wondering if the thing about this ill-advised movie (duly run past the State Department, no less) is some sort of misdirection?
SONY isn’t Japanese?
From what I’ve seen of the trailer any excuse to pull it is
AOK with me.
The brand name is Japanese, but the studio side of the house is mostly Hollywood-types. Their intent was to make films which had sales potential for the US and Japan. If you look at commentary over their emails....they argue a lot about impact in the foreign market...they need these sales to make funds outside the US and shift around to avoid US or Japanese tax issues/impact.
Why do you say that?
Big studios that hope to have their products screened and sold abroad will always tailor those films so as not to run afoul of foreign ministries that decide what can be shown domestically. These ministries have the power to embargo certain film production companies, meaning that no films from a given company (Sony for instances) that made a particularly objectionable film can ever be shown in-country. That's why the Sum of All Fears featured neo-Nazis instead of Arabs. It's also why Red Dawn featured North Korean villains instead of the proposed Chinese ones.
Exactly. Sony didn't do that, the theaters did. And wisely perhaps, given the subsequent report of North Korean sleeper cells placed here in the 1990s. I am convinced they will one day detonate an EMP against us.
Yes, because appeasing monsters always works. /SPIT
I beleive it was smart.
North Korea wants any excuse and certainly the Sony execs have families in Japan that might end up being targets. Japan has every legitimate reason to end up fearing that that sociopath might do to them in retaliation for exposure of his regime. Even “Team America: World Police” isn’t being played, as was originally suggested as a replacement.
Kim Jong-Un is indeed worse than his father and far more crafty. Given his youth, he has more time.
You know that appeasement never works right?
It looks horrible. I kind of wish the NKs had threatened Paramount over the Star Wars prequels too.
Yes, by all means, get down on your knees, p*ss yourself, and cry a lot - and maybe the North Koreans will leave you alone.
From my perspective and having seen other films by these two together, the best of the movie was already in the trailers. I fell for watching one of their movies written on the wisps of a marijuana high once. I wouldn’t do it again.
They’ve been hacked, damage is done...so turn the film loose in the same Internet that attacked them. If Korea hated the film enough to do this, they would be punished nicely with everyone in the world having free access to the movie.
Then again, the movie casts the CIA in a more negative light, as a Keystone Cop Intelligence Agency.
Maybe somebody high up in the US government, with former CIA ties, became incensed at the film, directed the CIA to target Sony and the Jewish filmmakers, and then blame it on N Korea or Venezuela.
Now in comes the Hegelian dialectic.
Sony is probably more afraid of the army of lawyers that would descend upon it if there was a theater attack after they were warned and showed it anyway than they are of the Nork army.
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