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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:31:31 PM EDT
[#1]
Dupe
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:32:55 PM EDT
[#2]
No. Sony officially cancelled the release. Not just the theaters.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:36:05 PM EDT
[#3]
It was probably going to suck anyway.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:37:15 PM EDT
[#4]
You don't like that brown sugar?
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:41:46 PM EDT
[#5]
... well that's fucked, hope I get a refund for my tickets
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:42:09 PM EDT
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Weak
I wonder how many millions of dollars they wasted.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:46:10 PM EDT
[#7]
There must have been something really damaging hidden in those emails.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:47:45 PM EDT
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There must have been something really damaging hidden in those emails. I said the same in another thread. I'm guessing execs are trashing 0bongo and the Wookie and how he thinks he's a celbrity. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:48:28 PM EDT
[#9]
i want to see this movie
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:49:08 PM EDT
[#10]
So it's straight to DVD then? |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:49:59 PM EDT
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Weak I wonder how many millions of dollars they wasted. "Buy the DVD of the movie that was too dangerous to see in theaters" 
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:50:37 PM EDT
[#12]
I was going by to go watch it twice
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:51:41 PM EDT
[#13]
Sony pulled it because the theaters wouldn't show it. The theaters wouldn't show it because of a threat of 9/11 style violence at the theaters.
It was a chain of business decisions that caused this. Sony are still the victims here, despite the fact that they're H'wood liberal shitbags. ETA: Be ready for this to happen again, now that every scriptkiddie with a laptop knows that it will work. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:53:33 PM EDT
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It was probably going to suck anyway. How hard is it to make fun of the Hermit Kingdom? Stupid. ETA. Shades of Ishtar.... |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:54:30 PM EDT
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http://www.tmz.com/
Rob Lowe just blasted Sony, calling the movie company a spineless sellout and comparing it to the famous British Prime Minister who caved in to Hitler. Lowe reacted to Sony's decision to pull "The Interview," saying, "Saw @Sethrogen at JFK. Both of us have never seen or heard of anything like this. Hollywood has done Neville Chamberlain proud today." Chamberlain famously conceded Czechoslovakia to the Nazis in 1938. His policy of appeasement became synonymous with cowardice. So far no word from Seth Rogen on whether he embraces Rob's statement. And Newt Gingrich got into the act, tweeting "@RobLowe, No one should kid themselves. With the Sony collapse America has lost its first cyberwar. This is a very very dangerous precedent." To which Rob retweeted "It wasn't the hackers who won, it was the terrorists and almost certainly the North Korean dictatorship, this was an act of war." |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:55:42 PM EDT
[#16]
See ? Was that so hard ? Negotiating with terrorists is apparently okie dokie.
Just ask our prez...
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:56:49 PM EDT
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i want to see this movie |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:57:33 PM EDT
[#18]
cowards !!!!
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:59:23 PM EDT
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I'm really fucking tired of the conspiracy theory horse shit that's going around. Project Goliath is a neat thing that's happening, but it's not this.
This is literally an act of war. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:59:30 PM EDT
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This sets a precedent that sucks any direction you look at it.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 6:59:57 PM EDT
[#21]
Movies involving killing the US President: ok.
movies about killing the leader of North Korea: not ok. 
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:00:40 PM EDT
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Sony has pulled the plug on the XMAS release of "The Interview," after a number of theater chains bailed.
TMZ broke the story Thursday morning ... Sony execs felt their out was if distributors yanked the film because of safety concerns. That would give Sony an out without directly bending to the hackers. Sony just released a statement, saying, "In light of the decision by the majority of our exhibitors not to show the film The Interview, we have decided not to move forward with the planned December 25 theatrical release." The statement goes on, saying, "We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public." The execs are underscoring the distinction between pulling the film because of the distributors rather than out of fear, saying, "We stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome." |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:02:11 PM EDT
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Movies involving killing the US President: ok. movies about killing the leader of North Korea: not ok. Moral equivalency is a logical fallacy. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:02:42 PM EDT
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I'm not following the logic here. Are the "hackers" supposedly from NK? I just assumed they were 4chan kids or something like that. I saw on drudge the other day about the threat, but assumed it was a joke like their "over 9000" prank on Oprah. People are taking this serious?
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:02:50 PM EDT
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Remember that time the new red dawn release was held up for 1-2 years to rebrand the bad guys from being China to North Korea.
The Interview is not the first time this situation has played out. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:02:55 PM EDT
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Movies involving killing the US President: ok. movies about killing the leader of North Korea: not ok. Not sure if serious. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:03:11 PM EDT
[#27]
So the Norks win? The Jap[anise let the Norks win? Fuck the Norks
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:04:33 PM EDT
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Fucking cowards.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:04:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm not following the logic here. Are the "hackers" supposedly from NK? I just assumed they were 4chan kids or something like that. I saw on drudge the other day about the threat, but assumed it was a joke like their "over 9000" prank on Oprah. People are taking this serious? There are lawsuits going on right now because Sony did not secure data that should be confidential. Sony is losing fucking hand-over-foot over this shit.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:07:01 PM EDT
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I think Sony should make a very public press release,
say "You know we thought it over, as of date ##/##/#### we will have a free dvd avail. in every store. and to these so called terrorist, Fuck You." Then throw down the mic. and walk off stage. Hopefully they would have been smart enough to unplug their modems for a while. FKJU |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:08:08 PM EDT
[#31]
Kind of reminds me of Syria in that a bunch of people are getting hurt and I dislike most of them.
I wonder if this might set some sort of precedent for how to get Hollywood and other industries to dance to the tune of what ever group can make a somewhat credible threat? |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:08:37 PM EDT
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There are lawsuits going on right now because Sony did not secure data that should be confidential. Sony is losing fucking hand-over-foot over this shit. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not following the logic here. Are the "hackers" supposedly from NK? I just assumed they were 4chan kids or something like that. I saw on drudge the other day about the threat, but assumed it was a joke like their "over 9000" prank on Oprah. People are taking this serious? There are lawsuits going on right now because Sony did not secure data that should be confidential. Sony is losing fucking hand-over-foot over this shit. Damn, and I just bought a PS4 last week.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:10:07 PM EDT
[#33]
Meh.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:12:51 PM EDT
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Not sure if serious. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Movies involving killing the US President: ok. movies about killing the leader of North Korea: not ok. Not sure if serious. I was being sarcastic and highlighting the hypocrisy of The Interview being controversial while movies like The Shooter, Salt, Death of a President, Vantage Point, etc. exist. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:14:36 PM EDT
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There are lawsuits going on right now because Sony did not secure data that should be confidential. Sony is losing fucking hand-over-foot over this shit. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not following the logic here. Are the "hackers" supposedly from NK? I just assumed they were 4chan kids or something like that. I saw on drudge the other day about the threat, but assumed it was a joke like their "over 9000" prank on Oprah. People are taking this serious? There are lawsuits going on right now because Sony did not secure data that should be confidential. Sony is losing fucking hand-over-foot over this shit. Sony, not being secure with sensitive data, nawww.. Next thing you'll tell me is that they keep PSN S/N's and Passwords in a big file in plain text format. 
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:15:08 PM EDT
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Sony pulled it because the theaters wouldn't show it. The theaters wouldn't show it because of a threat of 9/11 style violence at the theaters. It was a chain of business decisions that caused this. Sony are still the victims here, despite the fact that they're H'wood liberal shitbags. ETA: Be ready for this to happen again, now that every scriptkiddie with a laptop knows that it will work. This is totally accurate. The Anonymous crowd are way more likely to pull this bullshit than NKorea ever was, and Hollywood proved they can be manipulated with threats of violence. Expect more of the same. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:16:04 PM EDT
[#37]
Wow. Pathetic and spineless. Not that I think the movie would have been any good, but to cave because some internet hackers make vague threats is ridiculous.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:17:07 PM EDT
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They couldn't have scripted a better PR campaign.
Look at all the phony buzz, the false demand now to see it, the utter viral marketing tsunami they haven't paid a dime for. Fucking. Brilliant.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:17:57 PM EDT
[#39]
What the hell? I wanted to see this...
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:18:57 PM EDT
[#40]
What the fuck is Sony afraid of?
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:19:32 PM EDT
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They couldn't have scripted a better PR campaign. Look at all the phony buzz, the false demand now to see it, the utter viral marketing tsunami they haven't paid a dime for. Fucking. Brilliant. Yyyyyyyyyep! North Kolea didn't hack shit. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:19:50 PM EDT
[#42]
Fox just said that Obama "plans" on accusing the Norks of hacking Sony tomorrow sometime.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:20:20 PM EDT
[#43]
Best Korea pwnd Sony?
Wtf you could buy the whole country for a case of Johnny Walker red and a CONEX of Marlboros. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:20:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yyyyyyyyyep! North Kolea didn't hack shit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: They couldn't have scripted a better PR campaign. Look at all the phony buzz, the false demand now to see it, the utter viral marketing tsunami they haven't paid a dime for. Fucking. Brilliant. Yyyyyyyyyep! North Kolea didn't hack shit. Let me guess. It was Disney because they want to make a Spiderman movie.  |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:21:33 PM EDT
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i want to see this movie |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:21:45 PM EDT
[#46]
Pussies. Not just for fucking anymore.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:21:45 PM EDT
[#47]
Fucking pussies.
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:22:11 PM EDT
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Are you fucking kidding me? That is absurd. That is beyond absurd.
This is reminiscent of when Comedy Central refused to show the Mohammed episode - rather, the censored the image of Mohammed and censored Kyle's speech - and to prove a point Matt and Trey finished the episode with Jesus shitting on the American flag which Comedy Central did not censor. |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:23:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fox just said that Obama "plans" on accusing the Norks of hacking Sony tomorrow sometime. Just heard this as well. Question is, what will be done about it? |
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Posted: 12/17/2014 7:24:56 PM EDT
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The hacking kerfluffle has been 10X more entertaining than the movie would have been. Thanks, North Korea!
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