The Interview | Limited Release on December 25, 2014

[ZappBrannigan]

Can we stop equating Sony and movie theater chains to America, please?

[TLK]

Sony got no support from either the movie industry or the exhibitors. They did what they had to.

[MrPink]

The theater chains had to hold strong together. But once one broke, the others would follow. If there's only 500 instead of 2500 theaters to play the Interview in, that just makes the targets to hit that much easier in case of a real actual threat.

 

It's just a complete unfortunate situation all around that has yes, set a terrible precedent.

[Lordmandeep]

I still just can't wrap my head around how this went from a big Christmas Day release to a film that is basically banned and now may never see the light of day in less than 48 hours. A whole new level of surreal.

 

 

Actually the buzz from the latest scandal likely would have made it big.

 

Otherwise it would been a moderate hit film at best. 

[Lordmandeep]

The theater chains had to hold strong together. But once one broke, the others would follow. If there's only 500 instead of 2500 theaters to play the Interview in, that just makes the targets to hit that much easier in case of a real actual threat.

 

It's just a complete unfortunate situation all around that has yes, set a terrible precedent.

 

 

When a theater chain in Canada with 80% of the Market walks out, SOny had no option. 

[Ozymandias]

I still can't believe these theaters blinked at such an empty threat. What a fucking embarrassment and disgrace, they deserve all the shit they're gonna get for this. 100 percent pussy.

[RobinHood26]

The funniest thing is the demographic who would see this could care less about a threat. This isn't an "adult" film. 

[MrPink]

I seriously want to boycott all movie going during the holiday season.

 

But I gotta get dat 5th Interstellar viewing in.

[forg]

I blame Sony's IT dept. If there was no hacking at all, they would not have taken those threats seriously. 

 

So much drama for this movie

[cory]

just surreal

[Alpha]

Sony should just sell the film to another distributor for a limited release.

 

If they won't do anything with it, someone else could.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Just saw the news, wow. This legitimizes hacking to achieve political goals, at least in the entertainment industry.

[boogiezen]

Sony is such a hot mess.

[Lordmandeep]

Just saw the news, wow. This legitimizes hacking to achieve political goals, at least in the entertainment industry.

 

 

This has been a rather transformative year for how we see the internet.

 

The Icloud scandal shows privacy does not exist online and now a movie has been cancelled from hacker threats. 

[Captain Craig]

If only we had known that threatening violence would work as a tactic to stall or outright stop a film we all could've done more on TASM2 front. Been sparred that atrocity. 

[grim22]

Sony is such a hot mess.

 

The thing is that this isn't specifically about Sony. Just that they were the targets of the hack. Any other studio emails being hacked would have shown similar internal emails, similar back and forth about ideas and brainstorming and similar trash talking (just about different people instead of Angelina Jolie). 

 

Half the stuff which has come out of the hack as "Exclusive" and "Breaking" news is nothing more than the producers and directors discussing future directions for their franchises. The only actual "news" from the hacks would be Project Goliath.

[Alpha]

If only we had known that threatening violence would work as a tactic to stall or outright stop a film we all could've done more on TASM2 front. Been sparred that atrocity. 

 

 

Not funny.

[Lordmandeep]

I wonder how this would have played out if Disney was hacked.

 

Considering the power of Disney they likely have a private army to respond lol. 

[filmlover]

The funniest thing is the demographic who would see this could care less about a threat. This isn't an "adult" film. 

Yeah, this could really hurt the box office overall over the holidays. This is the movie that more or less filled the Wolf of Wall Street void, and now the only alternatives for them basically family titles. Mind-boggling, really.

[Alpha]

This all sounds like a great idea for an action-comedy.