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The Terrorist Hackers Win: Sony Pulls Release Of "The Interview" Due To Fears Of "9/11-Style Retaliation"
Update: and moments after we wrote this, Sony itself decided to cancel the release of the movie.
Sony Pictures says it cancels release of 'The Interview' http://t.co/HTzu5s2kqE
— WSJ Breaking News (@WSJbreakingnews) December 17, 2014
Straight to "must watch" Netflix it is.
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One of the biggest conspiracy theories in recent weeks has nothing to do with the stock market and the Fed, or with HFT manipulation, or with Ukraine's gold, or with who brought down the two Malaysian airliners, but whether the now beyond ridiculous drama surrounding Seth Rogen and James Franco's latest movie, The Interview, which has its very own cast of C-grade characters, including an alleged furious North Korean dictator and his hacker disciples, a mega corporation whose servers were hacked releasing the content of thousands of emails into the open, and of course, delighted marketing stuiod execs, has been staged and planned from the beginning. Because the latest development in this soap opera is almost as surreal as today's shocking detente with Cuba: as the Hill reports, America's top five movie theater chains have decided to pull the Sony Picture's comedy "after cyberattackers on Tuesday threatened Sept. 11-style attacks against any theater showing the movie."
Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment will all withhold the film from their lineups, meaning “The Interview” will not appear in thousands of theaters nationwide, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
More for those who are, blissfully, unaware of the stupidity behind this latest contrived escalation, from The Hill:
A hacking group going by “Guardians of Peace” infiltrated Sony in late November, stealing massive amounts of data. The group has since been slowly leaking Sony’s internal documents, including unreleased films and Hollywood executives’ emails.
But on Tuesday, the group upped its rhetoric, threatening violence against any theater showing the film and even against any person in the vicinity of one of the theaters.
Many have speculated the cyber offensive is a North Korean retaliation for film, which depicts the fictional assassination of Kim Jong Un. Pyongyang has denied involvement in the hack but praised the action as “a righteous deed.”
Sony on Tuesday reached out to theater chains to reaffirm it would be releasing the film on Dec. 25, but said it would respect any decisions about pulling the now-controversial movie.
The National Association of Theatre Owners said Wednesday it was working with law enforcement to investigate possible threats.
“We are encouraged that the authorities have made progress in their investigation and we look forward to the time when the responsible criminals are apprehended,” the group said in a statement.
Thus far, federal officials have said there is “no credible intelligence” of an active plot.
“Individual cinema operators may decide to delay exhibition of the movie so that our guests may enjoy a safe holiday movie season,” the association said.
Regal Entertainment said in a statement it had decided to "delay the opening of the film" because of Sony's "wavering support of the film" and "the ambiguous nature of any real or perceived security threats."
The Hollywood elite quickly lashed out against the decision to pull “The Interview.”
“I think it is disgraceful that these theaters are not showing The Interview. Will they pull any movie that gets an anonymous threat now?” tweeted Judd Apatow, producer and writer of such films as “Knocked Up,” “Pineapple Express” and “Funny People.”
What goes unsaid is that as Judd Apatow, and Sony, and Sony's marketing execs know all too well, there is nothing to boost interest in a movie, especially a movie that is a spoof from the beginning, and one which certainly did not get glowing pre-release reviews, if regular viewers have i) already heard so much about it and ii) are at least indirectly prohibited from watching it.
So the question remains: is the entire drama surrounding The Interview legitimate, or is it the biggest publicity stunt in movie history?
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its fine..
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What did they expect when they made a movie about killing a president?! You know that the CIA would be ALL OVER a country that made a movie about killing the US Prez. So what...? They shut down a stupid propaganda movie.
So we made a piece of shit movie...how do we save it? Stage a hack? Ok...but how? Get the FBI involved you say??? Well, then we surrender creative control...but it's a pice of shit...so why not? OK. Greenlight the PR firm and go to town....
Maybe the hackers can save a better movie to the Sony servers while they're in there.
Because if we don't see the movie, the terrorists win.
You made me cry!
Nork terrists behind every bush, I tell ya!
See "The Producers" a movie about a play about a dictator. Springtime for Un.
We love the hackers! Hack everything! Buy Bitcoin!
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funny just watched a trailor for this movie...6 15 pm est....go figure
Direct to DVD...
Every politician knows that Sony played it wrong. It would have been another false flag moment just like 9/11.
moved
.... the trailer looked stupid.... so dumb and dumber pull the movie.... what a loss.... boo hoo...
"The funny thing is how lousy most of your stuff is. You know, you make violent films, you make dirty films, you make family films, but just most of them are not very good, are they? Funny, that so many smart people can work so hard on them, and spend all that money on them, and, what do you think it is? It must be the money. It turns everything to crap." - Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth:
Debate Producer: Just between us, Senator, do you think it's advisable to schedule campaign stops with industry leaders when you have such a low opinion of their product?
"My guys are not stupid. They always put the big Jews on my schedule. You're mostly Jews, right? Three out of four of you?" - Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth
"I bet Murphy put something bad about Farrakhan in here for you! " Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth
Bulworth (1998) 108 min Nominated for 1 Oscar.
Director:Warren Beatty
Writers: Warren Beatty (story), Warren Beatty (screenplay),
Stars: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna Adams
+100 for the Bullworth reference
Best reverse mind fuckery, sales gimmick ever. Create a buzz around a product then, as Mr. Silverstein once uttered, "Pull it"
Ban it, yank it, destroy all copies, create death threats, or have Tipper Gore and her peeps label it as offensive.
Eddy Bernays would be proud.
"Drop it, or I swear I will blow this Ni@@ers head all over this town"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JOGmXpe5I
Exactly Right!
Kind of like Jewish lightning. Do they carry insurance for this kind of thing?
These lowbrow fucks should have aimed for Hollywood as a whole.
My sisters x makes 80 $ a hr hacking for nk and you can too! Just a few hrs a week from home drod@nk!gov
Yahoo just had a story claiming it would be "patriotic" to go see the movie in the remaining theaters.
Some days I am embarrassed to be an American....ok...every day
can I get a side of Freedom Fries with that?
Dude, you stole my joke from the Yahoo board!!!
or stage an another 9/11 false flag on these theatres and blame it on N.Korea .
If a threat had been made to Walmart prior to Black Friday, anyone think Walmart would have shuttered their stores?
No, the "folks" burnt the one in Ferguson to the ground, instead.
Same conclusion but with more fun and free shit
Apples and Oranges. If Walmart stayed open and no one came, only Walmart would suffer.
Consider the multiplex that has 20 different theaters. Suppose only two out of 20 theaters show The Interview - but nobody comes to see any movie our of fear of an attack on the Theater. Now all the other studios that were showing movies in the other 18 theaters are damaged financially.
I think maybe the other studios leaned on Sony to take the hit to themselves only, by pulling the movie, so that the other movies could have an audience and the other studios could make their anticipated profits over the holiday season.
You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack.
Dying from a terror attack is only slightly more likely than getting hit by a meteorie. Maybe the hardhat industry should be pushing for mandatory headgear laws.
Man, that brings back old memories of that chick from college....
knuckles - you should have thought about your future, you may have died, but it would have been a happy ending. and no need for 70 whatever virgins.
maybe we should just grant all of isis and alqueda free tuition to american universities. oblama did pretty well with his.
(not us).
This already happens on Black Friday, just No threats. People just trample each other ad-hoc, over the latest worthless toys for their rugrats. Toys that will be in the dumpster by May.
Thank you Guardians of Peace for this awesome public service!
so, can we get it on pirate bay? not that I would bother.
"after cyberattackers on Tuesday threatened Sept. 11-style attacks against any theater showing the movie."
So flying airplanes into movie theaters? America is retarded.
Yelling "fire" might be worth a shot, but from the sounds of it, the theater won't be crowded.
Montagraph would like to share some thoughts with the class:
B.S. Alert - Guardians Of Peace
Listen, y'all....
This is another Propaganda Triumph of the Western Media and Perceptions Mechanism.
There's NFW that 911 style actions are going to be made on theaters showing this or any other film.
But now that a shitty film is cancelled, once again, there's that malignant Terrorist Threat taking away your freedoms to see any shit movie you so desire.
y'all get my drift....
Maybe Sony hacked themselves for an insurance write off of a crappy movie and they achieve victim status at the same time?
I definitely agree NFW on the 911 style actions. It doesn't even make sense.
What is #GOP supposed to do, send hackers through the wires to plant explosives in the theaters to bring them down in controlled demolitions?
Makes no sense whatsoever.
Movie theaters crumbling into themselves at freefall speed due to fires.
And not far from the raging inferno they will find a pristine passport of one of the suspects.
from Saudi Arabia, no doubt
Que dancing Mossad agents in 3...2...1...
Hanni Hanjour could have handled it - make a negative 5g right at the McDonalds sign, slow to 550 mph and descend to 3 ft. off the ground, and PRESTO!
I'd like to see them try, I'll just pack my concealed armed drone and overwatch the theatre waiting for an airspace violation.
You'll change your tune when they find the first passport. /sarcasm
Great .... throw it on to the steaming shitpile of other crappy films coming out of Hollyweird.
I can't believe I was tricked into seeing Intersmeller (I was only going to give dad company, but I consider it getting tricked since it was so hyped by everyone). What a load of horsefeathers.
I couldn't agree more. Massively overrated shit movie.
I watched "Fury" - one of the movies the hackers snatched from sony servers and posted online. What a fucking piece of crap it was. In one scene Brad Pitt is driving towards German antitank guns (with blind gunners apparently) and a German soldier comes out of a foxhole with a panzerfaust and takes aim at Brad's Sherman. Brad's screw discusses this development at lenght before finally machine gunning the German. I counted the seconds from the moment the German appeared and until he got shot: For eight seconds he aimed at the tank from point blank range while waiting to be shot. The entire movie is like that. It's like a really shitty straight to video B movie; written, directed and edited by drooling retards - and it's prolly gonna get an Oscar. I hope these guys destroy Sony.
I always like how the bad guys are waiting for the good guys to hit them, especially if there's 20 of them circling the good guy. The rest of the 19 wait patiently while one of them takes a turn attacking the good guy. Greatest serial logic ever.
that's how james bond always prevailed, as the enemy wasted time explaining how cleverly he was going to create bond's death. he escaped and got revenge.
but - at that time, 60's, 70's the audience loved it for being silly hyperbole. now - we believe it.
i personally don't see kim il jong as very much more than a poor performance of an early bond villian. seriously. look at it.
they attempted to make people like saddam hussein and qaddafi look that dumb, but if you had half a brain, something still shone through in the media (i am not saying they were nice people, but they were NOT stupid comic book villians, as much as cia tryed).
and that is about how bright the cia is. and how dumb the us public has become.
....concur.....separated me from my money and lost several hours of my life...
Interstellar is one of a handful of transhumanist/AI promoting films that are coming out.
The cunts are framing climate change, disability, terrorism, animal-rights, and the next commodity/debt crisis as reasons to implement the "planned obsolescence" of humans, by "transcending" them with AI.
And if you google Bilderber Meeting statue, you can see what their plan is.
Good write up here: http://souloftheeast.org/2014/11/26/transhumanism-genocide/
and in other hollyweird news...
Former Warner Brothers Chief Barry Meyer Joins Board of Federal Reserve in San Francisco | Variety
http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/former-wb-chief-barry-meyer-joins-board...
Looks like they win. Everyone pack it in and go home. It seems we are now a nation of cowards.
Because watching a lame movie about assassinating a scapegoat for western problems is soooo... brave. Got it.
'Mericans lost their courage a long time ago.
I figure they lost their courage around the time when they wanted to "play house" and ignore the problems of the world.
Milkman's fucking your wife, but hey, as long as you maintain the facade, you'll pull through.
Shit's fucked, and it's always been fucked. Now things are just more fucked. Make no mistake about it, from the moment you pop out from your mother, you're nothing but fucked in this world.
There's just a few of us that fuck back, because it's the only thing you really can do.
Fuck me?! Fuck you!
Fuck yeah! Fuck the milkman!
Just be sure your diaper is fresh, right? It'll fill up fast.
Maybe they can make a movie about killing babies and torturing people. 'Mericans are brave at that at least. I'm not sure why they don't feel closer to North Koreans anyway.
Urine idiot. Hollywood and regular 'Mericans disconnected a long time ago, hence the mutual loathing. Hollywood hypocrites are cheese-eating Europhilic surrender monkeys, not Navy Seals. Et tu?
Hollywood also famously pulled the Mohammad Southpark episode after threats and decided to rerun an episode mocking Jesus in its place instead. But thanks, asshole, for trying to oversimplify the story with a sterotype and missing the entire plot.
+1 homiegot
I bet that movie is such garbage the North Koreans don't even give a shit. More Hollywood bull shit.
what fucking pussys! turn over and die or is it die and turn over. Fucking pussys!
Disney was a pussy too I guess, they pulled the premire "Dumbo the flying elephant", but only after the japs had flown all the way to HI and dropped some bombs. Must have thought it had a bad taste to it among politicians, republicians and all.
tough to pick a team here, filthy degenerate hollywood kikes vs. N Korean "terrorists" = a real head scratcher
Do we even have any physical evidence of said DPRK "terrorists?"
I hope the hackers end up releasing Sony execs' personal information anyways.
I hope the hackers aren't using Sony computers. If so - they are fucked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
Any comments from Dennis Rodman?
Yeah, he thinks Seth Rogan is lame, too.
Do you think a snuff film involving Seth Rogen would be marketable? I would pay to see it....
Yeah, if he was gonna be the one on the receiving end of a donkey punch, I'd probably spring for a ticket.
So a straight-to-Netflix release is also a no-go?
Can someone delete spammer hedgeaccodingly
I think I need to read this shit again when i'm sober.
It won't make any more sense.
I'll drink to that.
Right....this movie was going to flop. So cue the terrorist propaganda and general warmongering effort for the Holidays.
Ray Charles could see this one coming...
James Franco is such a truly weird faggot
maybe they finally realized Red Dawn 2 "out there" ...
Publicity stunt. They will make moar fiat now then it ever would have if they released it in theaters.
Here's your excuse for Q4 GDP miss...
Excellent. It took this excretia for me to be so disgusted that I actually sided with Dear Leader's son on this one.
I hope max damage is done and Sony Pictures goes T.U.
I hated this Hollywood filth as soon as I heard about it. New low for the USA. Alphabet bureau fun & games, knuckle-dragging stupidity. Much worse than the fruity A.Q. playing card deck they issued in Kabul. Just hard to believe garbage at this level could be carried out.
I rarely watch any movies, ever. Even rarer for me to go to a theater (only to accompany a family member or friend).
Had the misfortune of watching the trailer for this movie a couple of weeks ago when I had to watch Intersmeller. So low. The sheer arrogance, stupidity, exceptionalistic hubris...
If this is okay, then anything is. Because that's how low our standards are.
Fucking cunts.
Well said, Skateboarder (and I probably haven't been to a movie theater in close to 10 years...just not my cup of tea, either).
I quit watching everything once I came to the realization I didn't like being programmed by others under the guise of entertainment.
This POS movie was nothing but an attempt to further dehumanize society.
This hub bub is just the new measuring stick to gauge the citizens of the USSA's stupidity.
in the end, does it matter the 'reason' for censorship? In a fascist state - the reasons are numerous. But that's how it always begins. Very small.
jb
No doubt the theatre chains are heaving a sigh of relief. Or at least their employees are, not having to watch this piece of shit a bajillion times. I'm not sure what Tyler Durden would do these days; maybe splice decent scenes into movies?
wimps
I reported Amy Pascal to the ADL for racisst remarks..........oh, wait a minute she is tribe.......sorry, my bad
hey now theres some good old fashioned clean fun flood the bastards e-mails with complaints about their fellow tribes men/women if nothing else waste someof their time and keep em out of our hair
they hate darkies, even more than goys
What a relief! I could not decide between this movie and Hobbit 3 - Battle of the 5 Armies.
Go Gandalf, you old coot!
BTW... The English actor playing Gandalf "plays for the other team". Seems that a lot of top English actors do (Olivier, O-Toole...) You knew that, right?
As the Sopranos were wont to ask...pitcher or catcher?
The hobbit on acid was awesome. My preferred way to see movies in the theater.
Yep!
Brought to you by the same Hollywood Langley production that is bringing you the poignant story of an American Navy Seal Sniper that mowed down anything and everything just so that he could have the notoriety of largest number of kills -man, woman and child!
To Clint Eastwood and Chris Kyle both whores to the Israeli lobbies! Clint you could have ended your directing career a winner with a story about the U.S.S. Liberty or Pat Tillman, Instead you chose the lowest life piece of shit the military glorifies!
Chris you're already burning in Hell and as for Clint? It won't be long now old man!
Hollywood: Where having a vagina is not a mandatory prerequisite to being a pussy...
Were the hackers Palestinian? Israel should respond by raining napalm on some women and children
In all seriousness, does anyone really believe any of the bullshit coming from the zionist run media anymore?
It just gets more and more ridiculous every day
We are approaching peak Bullshit.
Let's hope.
"Israel should respond by raining napalm on some women and children"
I thought that only Hitler and the Nazis did such things.
An American, not US subject.
In Europe killing people is genocide. In Israel it is just a real estate negotiation tactic.
that stuff they used on Gaza seemed to do the trick, white phosphorus? anyway nobody complained
" anyway nobody complained"
Zionist controlled complicit-media didn't "allow" anyone to complain.
An American, not US subject.
Dennis Rodman approves this message
do they even have movie theaters in NK?
Course dey gots muvee theaters in Norf Karulinah
Where else does a psycotic childman tyrant who puts Caligula to shame with a bowl Moe Howard haircut get to wear dark glasses and have such a fine piece of bumpkus to enjoy while watching mass executions?
No where except half of Africa.
So there.
Maryland as well.
wasnt going to see it in the theater anyway.
maybe, probably not, see it in couple years on tnt.
No they will bleep the fantastic dialogue.
Never going to see it.
Anyone who believes this is really NK needs to a one way ticket to a firing squad.
Yeah, even my less than initiated dad said last night, "North Korea?! I don't think so. And they would have to know that eventually the movie would end up on download sites anyways."
But then maybe we should get Robbie Parker's thoughts.
An American, not US subject.
That this film could even exist speaks volumes to the geopolitical advice the Magic Negro has surrounding him, directing him; every day. Go North Korea.
I thought it was that same Youtube video that pissed off the ragheads, no?
Seriously.
Stranger and stranger, down long winding rabbit holes, we have lost our way.
Sony should hire some black ops and take care of the dictator.
Oh the dirt SONY must be fearful of...hope the hackers release it anyway.
Cowards deserve no more than that.
If you knew that Japan, financially, was just about done to a crisp, and soon to de facto default, and you wanted to be able to grab some of their foreign assets before hand, before other competitive bidders, like China, came on the scene, wouldn't it be in your best interest to hobble those assets so you could pick them up cheap now ahead of competing bidders?
Or put another way, isn't this North Korean bogeyman just a tad too convenient, much like Bin Laden and free falling buildings?
An American, not US subject.
Call the Guinness Book of Records on that first sentence. Wow.
Where the hell were these hackers when Spider-Man 3 was released?
same hackers that leaked the upcoming 007 playbook?
Sony is in deep shit
we scared some folks
Correction: We were scared by some folks.
Somebody really doesn't like Seth Rogen
Jingoism with a double twist somersalt...
Neville Chamberlain indeed...
Seth Rogen and James Franco stopped promoting the movie.
Archer - Ugly Duckling...BAWK BAWKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4recrtm4cks
Now I want to see a movie about the assasination of Rogen.
As a romantic slap-stick comedy, of course.
Damned straight... The snarky elitist smack-talking Hollyweird hooknoses just experienced a serious public smackdown by a short fat North Korean dweeb. I always suspected that they had no stones, now I know it.
Seriously, if the NSA / CIA / Big data dudes are watching US every second of every day, you FUCKING KNOW that every single packet out of North Korea or the entire region is sniffed like 100 times before it reaches American Shores.
This whole thing smells like bullshit and has since the beginning. I honestly don't have a clue about who or why but I don't buy any of the official stories.
Weren’t medical records released for some of the Hollywood parents with the retards as children?
that could never happen...
hippa records are hacker proof don't ya' know...
Now don't be silly we already know the jew-wood actors are all tards what would make their kids any different , no need for med records ;)
breathtaking pr work. bravo.
fuck sony and turn hollyweird into a sheet of glass along with that shit hole ishrahell then find the exact location of a rothbastards family pow wow and light those bastards up with white phosphorus thats my scortched earth policy save the remaing bankers and .gov scum for hangings and shootings maybe some waterboarding first whatever be creative ... now theres an outline for a documentary fuck fiction
maybe need to throw a few more F bombs in there for clarity LOL get the film crews ready ....anddddd action!
Whatever happend to freedom of expression? Some animals decided the movie was not appropriate for Americans to see for themselves if it was offensive. Are these the same assholes that kill children and rape women? Bring it on I'm ready for you.
They pulled it because of the emails showing them as assholes not because ot the terror threats.. That is the cover .
When you relegate the " middle class" to dung beetles, what do expect?
Hollyfarce is a fucking joke. Sony should stick their liberal Japanese supported heads between their ass cheeks and whistle Dixie.
We have turned into the Biggest Pussies in the World.
They knew it would flop and spent too much money on it...now they get a bailout with the added bonus of distracting all those idiot voters away from the real deal.
So they were going to hijack 3000 planes and crash them into cinemas across the US?
Mind you, remember this, nah few do
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/
9/11 style attack? So the CIA was going to fly some planes into some theaters and defy the laws of physics along the way? Interesting.
Hmm, I thought we were told the 9/11 (false flag) attack took years to plan for the cave dwellers yet I'm being told here you can just whip up a big plan like that on a weekend? Gotcha.
Theaters probably pulled premiering this because it is apparently a shitty movie and they got to use this as their scaegoat.
I would love to see the outrage in the U.S if people made a comedy movie about taking out Obama. If they were domestic then they'd be put on death row. If they were in a different country then people would demand Obama drop the nukes on them. Oh and of course we'd be told it was racist.
This movie was illegal to begin with, watching it is a form of torture I would not wish on anyone...
It is unlikely that Sony hacked itself just to recover the investment in this film - the costs are far greater.
They are probably just using this as an excuse, although if they actually got threats it makes one wonder who is behind the hacking.
If it is the Chicoms or Norkoms, that's bad.
If it is Reddit or 4Chan and they are in it for the lulz and they want this film to be successful, that is good.
Who knows...back to the workshop and my hobbies you losers have fun...
Instead of a 'look-a-like' they should have gotten the real North Korean leader and his buddy Dennis Rodman - then -- no problems and no hackers!
Probably got production insurance against terrorist events.
We should call "terrorists" the companies that have declared war against Internet freedom. An attack on Internet freedom is an attack to all of us, remember this.
Something smells to high heaven here.
Besides, to pull off a 9-11 style attack, you'd need to full cooperation of *you know who*.
This is much more important to watch:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/ctbulb.jpg
Ask yourself!
After you view this epic release, YOU WILL ASK!
"Why is this thing still on?"