Posted on 12/17/2014 7:17:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Fans of Seth Rogen and James Franco are going to have a harder time seeing the guys' latest funny film, The Interview, as several movie theaters are refusing to play the movie.
The Thursday premiere of The Interview at New York City's Landmark Theater was canceled after threats alluding to attacks of 9/11 were made by hackers responsible for the leaks of private Sony documents.
Rogen and Franco's new comedy is about two journalists who set out to assassinate the North Korean president, and since the recent promotion of the movie, Sony Pictures has faced tremendous pressure to pull the film from theaters.
The hackers, who call themselves the Guardians of Peace, have threatened to attack several cinemas if the film is shown. "Remember the 11th of September 2001," the hacker group said in a message posted Tuesday. "We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time."
The statement continues with even more threats, "If your house is nearby, you'd better leave. Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment."
Carmike Cinemas, which operates 278 venues across the country, has canceled screenings of the comedy, but Sony is not objecting and is pledging full support if other theaters follow suit. "If they play it, we'll show it," said Tom Stephenson, CEO of Look Cinemas (via BBC News). "Sony has a right to make the movie, we have a right to play it and censorship in general is a bad thing."
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You can’t buy PR like this!
Don’t blame me for the title of the thread. I’m just posting it AS IS.
True...a “must” see now.
I bet you can, and I bet they are.
There were to terrorist threats?
The terrorists win.
Funny how they didn’t do it for “Team America.”
RE: Funny how they didn’t do it for “Team America.”
I read that the father ( Kim Jong Il ) actually watched that film. Apparently, the Dear Leader’s son doesn’t have the sense of humor of his father...
Well, we always suspected with whom the Hollywood puppet masters were... now we know with certainty.
Some how I believe that our Dear Leader, King Obama has something to do with this crap.... America, held hostage by a movie....
Hollywood folds like a cheap suit.
Yeah...that’s the ticket....yeah....let’s go with this.
No, no...that Sony hacker thing didn’t have nothing to do with this. This is just a prudent response similar to all the trouble with that Muslim hate film for Benghazi...
No Hollywood/Sony hacker stuff here. Nope, no sir.
This is serious folks.../s
Howard Stern has been lambasted for calling the Sony Hack a terrorist attack.
While I agree that Stern is an idiot, it IS interesting that NK can “cyberbully’ an organization as large as Sony, cause it to change its schedule, and even cause it economic loss.
Others should be concerned about their free-speech rights, if they can do this.
Sony is big rime surrendering.
RE: You can’t buy PR like this!
That statement of yours releases the inner conspiracy theorist in me. How do we know SONY didn’t make this faux threat to rouse public curiosity?
I seriously doubt NK had anything to do with it.
I wonder how this film...in theaters and on home video...will be received in South Korea.
“it IS interesting that NK can “cyberbully’ an organization as large as Sony...”
NK is backed by China here. It’s not about NK. But NK is the proxy.
Its about China.
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