The Interview (Post-release)

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The upshot is/was given all the vitriol spewed by the ^&*hats, if some type of attack happened, The theatre, theatre chain and Sony Pictures would likely go out of business due to lawsuits and PR. Standing up to terrorists defense won't amount to jack in a courtroom or even in public opinion. They'd be crucified for ignore a direct threat and putting people's lives in danger.

Prompt response should be anonymous or another group of hackers hammering the crap out of NK. I'd take anonymous over NK any day in that fight :) Those guys like to say they're fighting the good fight, well, now's the time to show it if you ask me.

And as for the Clooney article. He's right on every point. Especially faulting the lame media for salivating over the private emails and ignoring the story of a foreign country executing a terrorist act and trying censor other's access.

I had no intention of seeing this, but as far as i'm concerned no one has the right to tell anyone else they can't see it either. Can you imagine the world if we attacked every country that made fun of our leaders? Hell, we'd be attacking ourselves daily...
 
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I don't think so, if Sony hadn't backed down the hackers likely would have released more private and damaging data. And now they will continue to blackmail using that as leverage until all material related to promos and trailers are officially removed from Sony's sites and social media pages. But the hackers will never be able to remove it entirely from the internet.

If at any point Sony decides to release the movie in any format, the company is going to face all damage that is coming for them. But they won't have to cave in fear anymore from the hackers. Of course they need to built stronger cyber security to withstand any future attacks.
 
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http://screencrush.com/president-obama-says-sony-made-a-mistake-by-pulling-the-interview/

"Sony’s a corporation. It suffered significant damage. There were threats against some of its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake."

"If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don’t like, or news reports that they don’t like ... That’s not who we are. That’s not what America’s about."


Sony's response to President's statement

Sony Pictures Entertainment is and always has been strongly committed to the First Amendment. For more than three weeks, despite brutal intrusions into our company and our employees’ personal lives, we maintained our focus on one goal: getting the film ‘The Interview’ released. Free expression should never be suppressed by threats and extortion.

The decision not to move forward with the December 25 theatrical release of ‘The Interview’ was made as a result of the majority of the nation’s theater owners choosing not to screen the film. This was their decision.

Let us be clear–the only decision that we have made with respect to release of the film was not to release it on Christmas Day in theaters, after the theater owners declined to show it. Without theaters, we could not release it in the theaters on Christmas Day. We had no choice.

After that decision, we immediately began actively surveying alternatives to enable us to release the movie on a different platform. It is still our hope that anyone who wants to see this movie will get the opportunity to do so.
 
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Vivek said:
http://screencrush.com/president-obama-says-sony-made-a-mistake-by-pulling-the-interview/

"Sony’s a corporation. It suffered significant damage. There were threats against some of its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake."

"If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don’t like, or news reports that they don’t like ... That’s not who we are. That’s not what America’s about."


Sony's response to President's statement

Sony Pictures Entertainment is and always has been strongly committed to the First Amendment. For more than three weeks, despite brutal intrusions into our company and our employees’ personal lives, we maintained our focus on one goal: getting the film ‘The Interview’ released. Free expression should never be suppressed by threats and extortion.

The decision not to move forward with the December 25 theatrical release of ‘The Interview’ was made as a result of the majority of the nation’s theater owners choosing not to screen the film. This was their decision.

Let us be clear–the only decision that we have made with respect to release of the film was not to release it on Christmas Day in theaters, after the theater owners declined to show it. Without theaters, we could not release it in the theaters on Christmas Day. We had no choice.

After that decision, we immediately began actively surveying alternatives to enable us to release the movie on a different platform. It is still our hope that anyone who wants to see this movie will get the opportunity to do so.
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I agree. This is partially the theater chain's faults as well. But if it comes down to that... this is 100% money motivated. In which case, it still makes Sony look pretty darn weak.
 
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When this is available, it's gonna make a killing with all this press it's had.
 
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Philly said:
When this is available, it's gonna make a killing with all this press it's had.
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Yeah, it probably would have come and gone with barely a notice otherwise. But by making a big stink to suppress it NK only increased awareness of it.
 
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Philly said:
When this is available, it's gonna make a killing with all this press it's had.
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[Cynic]Maybe that is why Sony really decided not to release it. "Pineapple Express" and "This is the End" were OK, but I'm glad I did not pay to see them in a theater. At least I'm pretty sure I did not see "Pineapple Express" in the theater. Either way I liked them but if there had been this much build up over them I would have been seriously disappointed after seeing them.[/Cynic]

Actually, I do believe it was because the big theater chains were pulling back on showing it. So the terrorist won. Of course by "terrorists" I mean "lawyers". If someone is stupid enough to put hot coffee in their lap and then successfully sue McDonalds when they spill it and get hurt you know things are messed up.

So what happens if people push the issue by constantly re-posting the trailers?
 
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