https://www.yahoo.com/movies/the-interview-pulled-amc-regal-cinemark-105457697412.html
Multiple movie theaters are pulling “The Interview”
America has really turned into a bunch of babies when a random anonymous email threat can get billion dollar companies to pull a movie.
Now pulled completely by sony
Why? What happened? It doesn’t really say other than “threat”. What threat?
“Warning
We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places “The Interview” be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.”
I bet they planned their threatened 9 - 11 style attacks for about as long as it took me to type this post.
I like Seth Rogan and James Franco, but I wasn’t overly excited for this movie to begin with. No doubt, it took some balls to make this movie, but I don’t think that Sony ever thought they would get hacked over this…
If I had to guess its either someone doing some massive trolling…or North Korea used one of its allies most likely Iran to do this.
Are you kidding? Could you imagine the lawsuits that would happen if anything were to happen? Think of the risk/reward. They release the movie and make what, 3 (10 million max) assuming this is added press and get sued for much much more if anything were to happen. It doesn’t even have to be North Korea fulling their threat. It could be anyone shooting up a theater like in CO that would leave them in court paying out millions of dollars.
It’s not a credible threat as confirmed by DHS and others…
There are threats made against Twitter, Google, and a number of other business on a regular basis that don’t impact anything or cause a change in their behavior.
And this just in
“Sony has said it has cancelled the release of ‘The Interview’ in light of the decision by the majority of cinemas to not show the film”
Canceling a movie because an email was sent with 0 attribution is pretty epic.
I doubt its credible too but your image is already destroyed by this. Why make it worse and just eat the 3 million you would have made and move on.
The precedent this sets for enterprises in America is extremely bad.
It’s also not eating 3 million the movie budget was 44 million.
LOL @ them gambling $44 mil on a shitty and/or risky movie and eating it hardcore.
The hackers won? The fucking terrorists are winning. This is fucking bananas and we all should be 1000 times more scared about this type of reaction to a threat than we should be of actually being a victim of terrorism.
Holy fuck.
So what happens when the next movie, event, whatever is “threatened”? Do we just do as we’re told?
I am just surprised they can’t find the threat.
It’s really hard to do attribution when it comes to hacks like this.
The hackers will now ironically leak the stolen movie for free downloads.
Decent article http://motherboard.vice.com/read/reaction-to-the-sony-hack-is-beyond-the-realm-of-stupid?utm_source=mbtwitter
this friggin movie had better get “leaked” online
It is probably just a PSYOP or MISO.
His father gave zero fucks when ‘Team America’ was released,guess we should pull it off the shelves so they wont get offended.
