The Interview | Limited Release on December 25, 2014

[Chewy]

Sony is fucked. They just lost $44 million (not including the marketing budget) on this movie.

 

Pretty sure they've lost a lot more than 44M cuz of this movie

[Mulder]

The Sony hack's shifted from funny to just depressing.

[Jandrew]

BREAKING: After learning of the drama with Sony's The Interview, Paramount Pictures is cancelling the release of Selma. Anerican Ku Klux Klan groups are outraged that Paramount would release a movie starring a central African American character putting white characters to shame. The KKK emailed all theater chains, telling them that if they release Selma, they will burn them down and plant crosses in the parking lots. Selma will not release Christmas Day and instead will air on Bravo in March. Bravo, the channel catering mainly to women and flamboyent men, is least likely to attract the Klan's stern attention.

[The Futurist]

I ask again, why nothing for Olympus has Fallen last year ?

[Mojoguy]

Regal, AMC and Cinemark just pulled the movie?

 

FUCK! The terrorists have WON!

[CloneWars]

Cancelled just 8 days from release. That's something new. And, I remember when we thought it was crazy when Joe 2 moved just a month before release.

[CloneWars]

Regal, AMC and Cinemark just pulled the movie?

 

FUCK! The terrorists have WON!

Nope. Now, it is not playing anywhere, not even independent theaters.

[redfirebird2008]

Because you really think that you wouldn't find dirt in emails in the other five studios or in any major corporation or in any company period ?

Have you read tthe fucking emails from shameless banksters of Wall Street who were insulting their own clients in their emails while taking positions on the market AGAINST them ?

That s human nature for you, there are millions of Amy Pascal out there, don't fool yourself.

 

I'm sure you are right, but the fact is she got busted.

[RobinHood26]

This is so stupid. The movie still would have probably done 100m or close to it

Edited December 17, 2014 by Jay Hollywood

[Jake Gittes]

Fuck all this.

[Alpha]

BREAKING: After learning of the drama with Sony's The Interview, Paramount Pictures is cancelling the release of Selma. Anerican Ku Klux Klan groups are outraged that Paramount would release a movie starring a central African American character putting white characters to shame. The KKK emailed all theater chains, telling them that if they release Selma, they will burn them down and plant crosses in the parking lots. Selma will not release Christmas Day and instead will air on Bravo in March. Bravo, the channel catering mainly to women and flamboyent men, is least likely to attract the Klan's stern attention.

 

Let's do more of these.

 

BREAKING: After a Japanese terrorist group targeted the studio, claiming the movie reinforces stereotypes about WWII-era Japan, Universal Pictures is cancelling the release of Angelina Jolie's Unbroken.

[Hatebox]

What a clusterfuck. Such a capitulation doesn't bode well for any controversial art.

[Mango]

So wait, are they never releasing it at all? Moving it to Jan/Feb? They aren't seriously going to completely cancel everything are they?

[TLK]

Jordan Hoffman ‏@jhoffman 28s28 seconds ago

What we're witnessing is what happens when corporations and lawyers run the country. There's no fear of violence, but of economic havoc.

[ChD]

Breaking: Deaf people complain they can't hear. Disney cancels Into the Woods.

[Klingo]

Let's do more of these.

 

BREAKING: After a Japanese terrorist group targeted the studio, claiming the movie reinforces stereotypes about WWII-era Japan, Universal Pictures is cancelling the release of Angelina Jolie's Unbroken.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[Chewy]

So wait, are they never releasing it at all? Moving it to Jan/Feb? They aren't seriously going to completely cancel everything are they?

 

They'll release it on BluRay as a two-pack with Sinister Six

[Alpha]

BREAKING: Warner Bros. cancels American Sniper after members of the Taliban threatened the studio's headquarters.

[Klingo]

http://www.rep-am.com/news/world/849180.txt

 

'Unbroken' gets negative reaction in Japan

By YURI KAGEYAMA
Associated Press

TOKYO — Angelina Jolie's new movie "Unbroken" has not been released in Japan yet, but it has already struck a nerve in a country still fighting over its wartime past.

And the buzz on social networks and in online chatter is decidedly negative over the film that depicts a U.S. Olympic runner who endures torture at a Japanese World War II prisoner-of-war camp.

Some people are calling for a boycott of the movie, although there is no release date in Japan yet. It hits theaters in the U.S. on Dec. 25.

Others want that ban extended to Jolie, the director — unusual in a nation enamored with Hollywood, especially Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt, who both have reputations as Japan-lovers.

The movie follows the real-life story of Louis Zamperini as told in a 2010 book by Laura Hillenbrand. The book has not been translated into Japanese, but online trailers have provoked outrage. Zamperini, played by Jack O'Connell, survived in a raft for 47 days with two other crewmen after a plane crash, only to be caught by the Japanese and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Especially provocative is a passage in the book that refers to cannibalism among the troops. It is not clear how much of that will be in the movie, but that is too much for some.

"But there was absolutely no cannibalism," said Mutsuhiro Takeuchi, a nationalist-leaning educator and a priest in the traditional Shinto religion. "That is not our custom."

Takeuchi acknowledged Jolie is free to make whatever movie she wants, stressing that Shinto believes in forgive-and-forget.

But he urged Jolie to study history, saying executed war criminals were charged with political crimes, not torture.

"Even Japanese don't know their own history so misunderstandings arise," said Takeuchi, who heads his research organization, the Japan Culture Intelligence Association.

[Ezen Baklattan]

BREAKING: Into The Woods is the recent victim of a terrorist attack and is being pulled by Walt Disney Pictures, due to its negative portrayal of the furry community displayed in Johnny Depp's performance as The Big, Bad, Wolf.