They cancelled a movie release. A movie they probably spent 10s of millions of dollars to make.
They caved....
If they were SMART, they’d release the thing as far and wide as possible. It has gotten all sorts of free publicity. They should put it on the internet as a $3 download or something, if nothing else.
RE: If they were SMART, they’d release the thing as far and wide as possible. It has gotten all sorts of free publicity.
I believe that the reason why they aren’t doing it is because the hackers have SENSITIVE information on many of their employees ( especially the higher ups ).
The “racist” e-mail of Amy Paschal is just one of them and they intend to release what they have strategically, one at a time.
In other words, it’s cyber-BLACKMAIL and because there’s DIRT on many of them, they caved (even when they say they haven’t ).
There was a similar movie done years ago using puppets playing the parts, IIRC, I don’t recall the name.
It sort of sank out of sight under its own weight.
Somehow, North Korea has become one of those things that are not openly and freely discussed, and since they now have gained the right to censor movies critical of themselves, the discussion has become even more muted.
They didn’t cave. The theaters pulled the movie, not much the studio can do with no theaters.
As far and wide as possible is a handful of indie theaters. Maybe 100 screens.
What’s going to happen is it will get released later. The theaters didn’t say never, they said not on Christmas. Look for it in February or so.