Sony pulls the plug on "The Interview"

I find it interesting that Hollywood and Politicians are screaming freedom of speech/choice but yet both are pushing heavily against net neutrality...
 
imranpanji said:
Please PM me so we can discuss delivery/collection of your left ball. See below..... From your fave news network


Obama says Sony made 'mistake' in nixing movie release, vows US response to cyber-attack


President Obama said Friday he thinks Sony "made a mistake" in choosing not to release "The Interview" in the wake of the devastating hacking attack which he blamed on North Korea, while vowing that the U.S. "will respond."*

The president addressed the breach, at a year-end press conference, for the first time since Sony Pictures Entertainment canceled its high-profile movie release. He also spoke shortly after the FBI formally blamed Kim Jong Un's regime for the cyber-attack.*

More here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/19/obama-closing-2014-with-year-end-news-conference/

On another article:

he president also scolded Sony Pictures for pulling back the movie “The Interview” after a cyber attack that his administration is blaming on North Korea.

“I think they made a mistake,” the president said. “I wish they would have spoken to me first. I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern where you are intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.’ ”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/2...ba-north-korea-news-conference.html?referrer=
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So obama now publicly says this that they should have come to him like he is the godfather lol
This after Sony was in touch with the obama state department and got nowhere????
Funny how obama now says this after the massive outcry even by the liberal Hollywood

Please spin another story
 
Texas Theater to Show 'Team America' In Place of 'The Interview'

Update: On Thursday, multiple theaters, including the Alamo Drafthouse in Dallas/Fort Worth, stated that screenings of Team America have been canceled.

Original Story: After Sony canceled the release of the North Korea assassination comedy The Interview, a Texas theater said it would swap the film with Paramount's 2004 film Team America: World Police for one free screening.

"We're just trying to make the best of an unfortunate situation," James Wallace, creative manager and programmer at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's Dallas/Fort Worth location, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

American flags and other patriotic items will be given out by theater employees, Wallace says.

The plot of Team America, co-written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, revolves around Kim Jong Il, the father of current North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The posters promoting the R-rated movie in 2004 included the tagline, "Putting the 'F' Back in Freedom."

Read more Top Five Theater Circuits Drop 'The Interview' After Sony Hack

In The Interview, Seth Rogen and James Franco's characters are tasked with assassinating Kim Jong Un.

The Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Dallas, Texas, will be showing Team America: World Police in place of The Interview on Dec. 27 at 7 p.m. Wallace says that the Dallas/Fort Worth location is the only location as of now that is planning to screen the replacement film.

In a note on its website, the theater added: "THAT is how true American heroes will be celebrating this year, but if you want to let the terrorists win...well, that's your prerogative."

Sony canceled the release of The Interview earlier on Wednesday after the country's five largest theater chains all decided against showing the film, saying in a statement: "We respect and understand our partners’ decision and, of course, completely share their paramount interest in the safety of employees and theater-goers."
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/texas-theater-show-team-america-759037
 
Not anymore. Paramount has refused to allow them to show Team America. See earlier in this thread.
 
Obama's involvement makes no sense. It's like that time he got involved because a black academic was supposedly stopped by a white cop doing his duty when the black academic was trying to get into his house. It smells either of emotionally motivated blundering about OR perhaps someone is looking for an excuse to put the squeeze on NK. Do we even know if NK really did this?

It also seems like hardly the hacking case of the century. We have a private corporation which is headquartered in Japan hacked, and not the first time mind you, perhaps some incriminating stuff discovered or stuff which may sound incriminating and so we have the corporation not wanting to smear its corporate name just wishing to drop the thing quietly. Their responsibility is after all to their shareholders and not Obama, Clooney or anyone else.

Meanwhile really more important hacking has been going on:

Just two examples Obama may want to go after:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/04/germany-inquiry-nsa-tapping-angela-merkel-phone
http://rohrabacher.house.gov/hill-more-congressional-computers-hacked-china

Countries like China and Russia have been doing corporate digital espionage too. And the US has been accused of having the NSA listen in on their corporate competitors.
 
Chris said:
Yip. The modern meaning of the term 'liberal' is very far from classic liberalism.
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So true. What passes for faux social justice these days such as first world feminism is an absolute joke to the term liberal. It socialism and mind control and the bastion of the truly dim of wit.
 
marine1 said:
So obama now publicly says this that they should have come to him like he is the godfather lol
This after Sony was in touch with the obama state department and got nowhere????
Funny how obama now says this after the massive outcry even by the liberal Hollywood

Please spin another story
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Your left ball please. You made false claims as per usual.

Sony decided on their own to pull the plug, you somehow decided it was Obamas fault (was that left ball twitching or something?). He has publicly berated them for it. What else do you want him yo do?

Maybe having a nut missing rather than loose will actually help introduce some logic into your thinking .
 
Sony did not do it, this is according to an exclusive Cnn interview with Sony Ceo.
 
zaap said:
Sony did not do it, this is according to an exclusive Cnn interview with Sony Ceo.
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Lynton told CNN the studio had no choice but to cancel the release after major chains refused to carry it. Some celebrities criticized the theaters that dropped the movie and Hollywood in general as cowardly.
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If you look at his interview he is just doing damage control and making up stories as he goes along.

We didn't cancel it...we had no choice but to cancel it...when we got hacked, why did no one rally around us....no online companies we approached wanted to show it.

Earlier Friday, Obama said Sony*"made a mistake"*when it cancelled the Dec. 25 release of the comedy. "We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States. Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary they don't like, or news reports they don't like," Obama said.
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zaap said:
Cinemas.
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They were some smaller chains that were willing to show it....but Sony didn't give them the option. It seems the money seemed more important than the principle in this case. And considering the relatively low budget for the movie...that is indeed a shame.

But, those cinema chains that pulled out need yo be named and shamed also
 
imranpanji said:
If you look at his interview he is just doing damage control and making up stories as he goes along.

We didn't cancel it...we had no choice but to cancel it...when we got hacked, why did no one rally around us....no online companies we approached wanted to show it.
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While we should not have a society where some dictator imposes censorship on someone else, one should also want the US to be a free country where presidents and politicians don't dictate to companies and people what they can and can't do with their products.

I believe there are already documentaries, including award winning docus on NK and news reports. Strangely enough the West has not been concentrating too much about the situation in NK itself. We hear of people arrested in Iran and whatnot, women raped in India, but there is pretty much silence about left, progressive North Korea.
 
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Space_Chief said:
While we should not have a society where some dictator imposes censorship on someone else, one should also want the US to be a free country where presidents and politicians don't dictate to companies and people what they can and can't do with their products.

I believe there are already documentaries, including award winning docus on NK and news reports. Strangely enough the West has not been concentrating too much about the situation in NK itself. We hear of people arrested in Iran and whatnot, women raped in India, but there is pretty much silence about left, progressive North Korea.
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Yet Obama is being criticised for allowing that choice to occur
 
Apparently they have threatened Sony that **** will fly if they decide to release it in any format anywhere.

Am sure there will be a few online copies floating around somewhere
 
Also got the impression that they busy planning on a strategy to milk it, and they actually more afraid of the pirates.
 
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