If the theatres refuse to show it, or if something happens at one that does, and the lawsuits come flying, Sony alone gets to eat up the lawsuits.
No one is really willing to help them. The studios taht made no such film gets a free pass, even though they would have done the same.
There is one way to technically show the flick without the Norks knowing ... slip it in between a double feature of Gigli and Town & Country
The death scene has been hacked and posted many times on YouTube. It does not last long. But it is still on this guy’s blog —
http://bestshowsontvkasuwell.blogspot.com/2014/12/kim-jong-un-death-scene-interview.html
Sony is not a country/nation ... they’re “in business” to make money and to do whatever it takes to absolutely minimize risks and costs, while maximizing income.
Don’t look to business in order to maintain any political ideology or societal standards, because such a thing DOES NOT EXIST within “business”.
Business has NO MORALITY other than “making money” ... while some “people” who work in a business, may themselves have some morals. Again ... don’t look to “business” for anything else, other than to make money in any way possible.
i think the SONY thing has a lot to do with ‘as yet’ undisclosed e-mails which now lay in the possession of the North Koreans. A few weeks ago they putted some mild e-mails of SONY executives. I wonder what else they found as they filtered through this high tech e-mail treasure trove. The North Koreans may have the leadership of SONY by the ‘short and curlies” with what else is found in the hacking trove.
Hackers took on a huge corporation and WON. Hackers everywhere are chomping at the bit to accomplish the next epic win. Lots more fun on the way. It’s now an open competition. Hacker utopia.
Can I be a bit mystified by this event?
How is Sony making a movie, even a comedy about assassinating the leader of a country appropriate. The North Korea government, as evil, and psychotic as it is has every right to be upset at this and to consider this movie to be a highly provocative action.
That they only hacked the Sony studios could be considered a restrained response on the part of a insane, tyrannical reactionary government.
I think the left bit off more than they could chew in that they remembered the non-response to the movie about assassinating George W. Bush that was made several years ago. After all if you can get away with that then why not this?
The left are morons. They assume that everyone who disagrees with them is evil but but nice. They can trash republicans because they know the US conservatives will take the high road and turn the other cheek.
You don’t spit on a tyranny unless you want a fight.
Sony deserved this. The movie crosses a line and should have used an imaginary or fictional leader rather than a real one. Change the government, suppose the movie was about hiring two bumblers to kill Angela Merkel or David Cameron? Would Germany or the UK protest that?
As much as I hate to say it.
Good for North Korea. Maybe it will make studios think twice before insulting others.
That said - I hope the North Korean leaders die a horrible lingering death and do so soon.