The Interview | Limited Release on December 25, 2014

[Mulder]

You know how many death threats Hank Aaron got when he was about to break Ruth's record? 

This is a bit different from death threats from fanboys and even those are taken seriously at times.

[BK007]

The hackers aren't North Korean.

 

The whole North Korea ploy has been fabricated and that awful attempt at a threat has just fucked the hackers over.

 

I'm sure the US government and all their special agencies aren't going to take it lightly now that 9/11 has been evoked.

 

If they wanted to catch them, they would, and now the hackers have idiotically opened up that can of worms, I expect them to be goners.

 

If they are indeed some actual terrorist group, my bet would be Chinese, Russian or Middle Eastern, but then two other plausible theories are corporate sabotage and some domestic flakers who have nothing better to do but are now in way over their heads. North Korea? Please.

[Intensive]

they need to be advertising this more. Right now, I see 25/80, whereas before, I saw over 40+ opening

[RaidensSword]

they need to be advertising this more. Right now, I see 25/80, whereas before, I saw over 40+ opening

No point spending more money advertising it if no cinemas show it.

[23IsEverywhere]

I am expecting a high pta on the 26th

[cookie]

New York premiere cancelled.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/17/us-sony-cybersecurity-theaters-idUSKBN0JU2J820141217

Edited December 17, 2014 by Chr1stm4s C00k13

[CloneWars]

AMC still has tickets on sale I notice. Very tempted to buy some

 

AMC still has tickets on sale I notice. Very tempted to buy some

Good idea. I may do the same.

 

With how this is going. Sony pictures may actually fold. Obviously, the entire studio would need to be restructured, but the cost and damages of this incident are so high that it may not be worth if it for Sony to continue with their film production company. On the bright side, Spider-Man may just yet go back to Marvel.

[cookie]

 

(Reuters) - The head of Sony Pictures consulted with a senior official in the U.S. government in June this year, days after North Korea threatened "merciless countermeasures" over the release of an upcoming film featuring a plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong Un, leaked emails show.

In an internal email seen by Reuters and dated June 26, Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lynton said he told Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Russel the studio was "concerned for the safety of Americans and American and North Korean relations."

U.S. officials have cast doubt on a threat against theaters planning to show the film but police across the United States said they would take extra precautions. Sony executives told theaters the studio would not pull the comedy.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/17/us-sony-cybersecurity-northkorea-idUSKBN0JV0VF20141217

[Krissykins]

James Franco trying to be funny makes my toes curl with cringe.

Like watching the asshole in school acting out a sketch cause he thinks he's hilarious.

Cancel this thing already.

[RaidensSword]

James Franco trying to be funny makes my toes curl with cringe.

Like watching the asshole in school acting out a sketch cause he thinks he's hilarious.

Cancel this thing already.

I think hes funny when he's got the right partner to bounce off, like with Rogen in Pineapple Express or in short bursts. It didn't work in your highness but that whole movie wasnt very funny to me.

[Jay Beezy]

I think hes funny when he's got the right partner to bounce off, like with Rogen in Pineapple Express or in short bursts. It didn't work in your highness but that whole movie wasnt very funny to me.

 

What about the cum fight in This Is the End?

[Lordmandeep]

I really hope the Seth Rogen and company gang goes back to making better comedies like Knocked up.

 

They been very hit and miss these days. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Either you think that is one of the great modern comedy moments or very juvenile and silly. 

Edited December 17, 2014 by Lordmandeep

[Alpha]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/17/us-sony-cybersecurity-northkorea-idUSKBN0JV0VF20141217

"We won't cancel it, but we'll make it harder for people to see."

[RaidensSword]

I really hope the Seth Rogen and company gang goes back to making better comedies like Knocked up.

They been very hit and miss these days.

Either you think that is one of the great modern comedy moments or very juvenile and silly.

Exactly. A lot of rogen humour is built around being juvenile and silly so of thats not someone's taste they'll never be a fan.

[Rorschach]

I'm betting the "terrorists" haven't even seen the damn film and are just wildly assuming "it insults our God Kim Jon-Il, therefore the film sucks". Fucking people.

[forg]

Yikes what a controversial movie

[Mango]

Again I think saying North Korea is capable of a mass hack like this is giving them an awful lot of undeserved credit.

Whoever is doing it though is winning and that is a bad thing.

[Frozen]

TMZ is reporting that Sony believes the hack was an inside job and possibly a laid off IT employee went to someone in North Korea with the info. Crazy stuff.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/17/sony-hack-inside-job-north-korea-investigation/

[AJG]

TMZ is reporting that Sony believes the hack was an inside job and possibly a laid off IT employee went to someone in North Korea with the info. Crazy stuff.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/17/sony-hack-inside-job-north-korea-investigation/

Holy Shit.

[forg]

For years there has been tension between South Korea and North Korea and I know there were threats too but South Korea is doing just fine. Sony is overestimating what these hackers can do

 

But well some cinemas are pulling this because there was simply no demand too. Honestly, I've always felt that the premise of this movie is bad. They could just have made a fictional leader that closely resembles him anyway, making him an actual character kinda loses the fun for me.

 

Anyway, all these Interview drama just exposed how weak Sony's system and management.