Posted on 12/16/2014 8:02:24 PM PST by Steelfish
Movie Theaters Begin Canceling Showings Of Kim Jong-Un Assassination Film The Interview after hacker terror threats - as Sony says 'pull the film if you want' Guardians of Peace have released a chilling new message including ominous threats against cinemas showing Sony's The Interview
The Carmike Cinemas chain, which operates 278 theaters in 41 states, is now the first chain who will not be showing the film when it opens This as legal experts warn of the problem these theaters and chains could face in lawsuits should an attack be carried out that they were warned of None of the big cinema chains have said if they plan to ban the film, but shares in Regal, AMC and Cinemark all dropped after the announcement A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson has said that they don't believe that the source of threats is credible By DAVID MCCORMACK and CHRIS SPARGO 16 December 2014 Sony has told theater owners they can cancel screenings of their upcoming film The Interview following threats of a terrorist attack.
Early Tuesday, the hacking group Guardians of Peace, who have been systematically releasing email correspondence and leaking films after breaking into Sony's internal system, claimed at event similar to '11th of September 2001' would occur at theaters showing the film.
North Korea is believed to be behind this hack and now terrorist threat, angered over the film which tells the story of two men who travel to North Korea to kill Kim Jong-un.
The Carmike Cinemas chain, which operates 278 theaters in 41 states, is now the first chain who will not be showing the film when it opens.
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Didn’t they show the Bush assassination film? Why does this despot get a break?
I never go to theaters. There is nothing there. If its free on TV — I might watch and laugh.
Oh geez, what a bunch of wusses.
Exactly. I’m not sure if Sony did it, but they sure aired the one on Bush. I think that’s disgusting.
Frankly, I don’t approve of showing that same type of thing for Obama either.
Remove the guy by legal means. Enough of this assasination stuff.
As for North Korea, it’s different. The government there does not allow their leaders to be removed.
Same thing with the Red Dawn remake —they’d shot 70% of it with CHINA as the logical enemy, but then the green eyeshades guys starting talking about how it would damage relation$ with a huge emerging con$umer market.
Presto..!
They changed the enemy into North Korea —a ridiculous premise.
Hollywood likes to whine about the courage of the leftists in the face of the Blacklists, blah, blah, blah.
It’s BS —they’re utter cowards.
Because the Dear Leader has a congenital mental defect and even kills his relatives. It is even a possibility that At some time he could have the technology, if not currently, to set off a massive EMP attack on us. Even though that would guarantee his demise.
Sell it as a DVD and stream it. Up yours, Gaurdians of Piss!
When the Bush snuff films were shown, nobody with credibilty or hacking ability ever threatened to create a 9/11 type situation if this were shown. This is worrisome for many reasons.
This nothing of a movie would make lots of money just due to the publicity, but I cannot blame the theater owners for not taking the chance. I’m sure Sony never thought they would be a repeated victim of data theft and public blackmail. I’m starting to think this really is from North Korea because of the way they overstate what horrors may happen if they don’t get their way.
If I was the director, I would find some way to release the movie with all images and all direct mentions of Krazy Kim obviously and heavy handedly blacken out. It would become a Cult Classic.
They've set the precedent of rewarding terrorists.
Brave new One New World Order???
It isn’t possible to buy advertising as effective as this!
I always avoid going near large masses of people...self-preservation and commonsense kicks in...I’ll watch stuff at home...we live in tumultuous times.
This now has the makings of a direct to video super hit.
I’d buy it just to spite the loony sumbich.
We’re now letting the North Koreans dictate how WE live? Boy, that dictator has more power even than Obama.
It’s gonna kill it in the secondary market.
Whatever to me; it looks painfully unfunny in the television ads.
I’ll stick with ‘Team America.’
I don’t even like Seth Rogan and I’d buy that so hard they’d need earplugs to muffle the blast of breaking wind (Hi Laz!)
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