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The Marketing Campaign Is Now Complete: Sony To Release The Interview On December 25 After All
Update: SONY TO RELEASE ’THE INTERVIEW’ IN THEATERS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From the WSJ:
Sony Pictures Entertainment will release “The Interview” on a limited number of screens Dec. 25, the studio said, six days after a hacking attack and terrorist threats led the studio to cancel the slapstick comedy about an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The studio called the limited theatrical opening “only the first step” in the movie’s release plans.
The Sony Corp. unit has told theaters that it will release the film via video-on-demand, a person familiar with the matter said.
The nation’s biggest theater chains are unlikely to play the film, this person said. It is expected to open on just a fraction of the thousands of screens it was supposed to play on. Sony last week gave theaters the option of not playing the film. The largest chains responded by saying they wouldn’t play it and asking the studio to postpone or cancel the film altogether. Sony said last Wednesday that it wouldn't open the film as planned.
Take that evil North Korean Hackers
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And so, what is perhaps the greatest marketing campaign in movie history, comes to a close with the following update from Bloomberg:
- SONY MAY LET THEATERS SHOW INTERVIEW ON DEC. 25: DALLAS NEWS
- Sony executives talking about possibility of releasing “The Interview” on Dec. 25 during a conference call scheduled for 10am in Dallas, Dallas News reports, citing people familiar.
The terrorists un-win!
To everyone who thought North Korea really had nothing better to do with its single 16 Mhz, 80286 "hacking mainframe" than unleash a cyber war against the US, you were punk'd. Now please line up to get your tickets for The Interview - it will sell out in minutes.
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SONY may "let" theaters show it? Theater chains pulled the movie, not SONY (according to SONY).
Everyone pray to GOD this bombs big, otherwise this will be a reoccurring theme for diversion.
We interviewed some folks...
Looney
I look forward to reading more dirt about Sony. BTW, I will NOT be watching this stupid movie, based on the previews.
I've already got my tickets and my molotovs.
/s
The real movie was the PsyOp complete with False Narrative Scripts & Propaganda thrusted upon the Sheeple.
And cue the stand down false flag!
Didn't Bush tell us all that the patriotic thing to do after 9/11 was to go shopping?
Syria, China, Ruissia, NKoreaa.....
How many people do we need to pis off around here to get attacked, anyway ?
Guerilla marketing 101
Just like Isil.
So we're still gonna be torturing people then?
Yep, people who've seen it says it's a floating turd...
Time to flush ..............
@Latina Lover Me too. It's been fun (or I am too easily amused) reading Sony's Pascal, Ruden etc. being utterly disgraceful toward the movie stars that bring home the bacon... Hollywood Hebrew Disgrace
As a resident of Dallas, I would just like to say...
FUCK YOU NK! TEXAS AINT SCURRED!
We hoodwinked you folks...
Better send Kim Jong Un a percentage of the take. After all, fair is fair and he was an integral part of the marketing hype.
Dec 25th? Nice timing.
What better day for a FF event
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Rahm Emanuel
I think it is actually a pagan holiday, not? Many scholars put the birth of Jesus sometime closer to late spring I thought.
I don't think the weather is that condusive to shepards watching thier flocks at night during Dec, unless they were all wearing Columbia brand warm weather jackets.
Now, if your reference was to the pagan holiday, then yes.....perfect timing.
We don't celebrate the Queen's birthday on the correct day either. *Gasp!* You'd think someone would just ask her when it was and then we could celebrate on the correct day!
I always took it as our good friend constantine melded the old pagan traditions and biblical christianity to give birth to the church of rome. Whether it was to get pagans on board or something else who can say.
Either way - to this point the issue as I understand it is that this movie was set to tank overseas and this mongoloid false flag and free advertising won't do anything overseas to generate a buzz. Sure it will cause the average overweight redneck to put on his best cowboy boots and nascar leather jacket to go see the movie so the terrorists don't win but the fundamental problem with this movie still exists.
'the fundamental problem with this movie still exists'
Starts with Seth and ends with Rogan (Franco is also a problem, just not fundamental)
Fuck you. Ain't no self respectin Redneck gonna go pay to watch this Hollyweird POS Movie.
Actually, the "Son" (Jesus) rising again on the 3rd day, coincides with the Winter Solstice on December 21'st and the sun visually beginning to rise again on the horizon on the 25th. Was never really a birthday thing.
except the whole son / sun thing falls apart when one realizes the english language wasn't around when this started. Zeitgeist, Jordan Maxwell and their ilk are charlatans ignoring the veracity of any religion.
How close is son / sun in aramaic?
Perhaps, but it does lend credence to the reasoning for choosing of the date, December 25. Of course, there is that whole Pope Gregory thing with the 11 days, to consider. But for the most part, it viewed correctly.
Quasimodo, what ever gave you the idea that the Christ Child was born in New England?
I remember the lesson well. The Economics teacher had a map of Korea, as seen from space at night time. "See that?", he said. "All them lights in South Korea are due to capitalism and industrialization."
"And see how North Korea is dark? That's because they have all put up the blackest curtains and duct taped them to the windows so you can't see the glow of the computer monitors. That's because they're all training up to be the deadliest computer hackers in the world ... using, ummm, the computers that they invented and built themselves, no ... ummmm, they reverse engineered them and worked out how to program them themselves becoz they're so clever and now they're gonna hack the world, especially the movie business ... they hate us for our freedoms ... its either hack computers or work in the paddy fields, what do you think they're gonna do? ..."
Ummm, and then my memory gets a bit foggy ...
yep.......no banks or mega banks in NKorea........because there is no labor to be stolen........
dup ( one copy for ZH, one copy for the NSA )
and two ups for you
I have a Jewish friend and they always go to the movies on Christmas Day. This is is the backwoods area of NC. Can just imagine the amount that go to the shows in New York.
The Chinese restaurants in NYC are packed on Christmas Eve/Day
There's Jewish people in backwoods NC? Maybe it was a Neanderthal.
Same diff.
Jews need something to watch before they get Chinese and argue about the bill?
Y'all hyped, yet?
Aside from expatriate North Koreans and the two James Franco fans out there, who will watch this movie after the first weekend of its release? Maybe Sony should ask the MPAA to send some of its crack investigators to Korea to investigate this hack. MPAA beloved leader Chris Dodd has not said a word about the alleged North Korean theft of intellectual property. What is he waiting for? The Hollywood studios pay him $3 million a year to try to get internet censorship for Americans, so we can have the same Net freedom as North Koreans. The MPAA should fire Dodd for being missing in action
this wil be good if north korean al quadea shows up at theatre to make trouble and there is a big group of rednecks watching american sniper to shut them down!!
... this idiotic movie is in a fast foot race for worst movie of the year with Dumb and Dumber 2....
The reviews peg it as a turd....
Seth Rogen or the movie? I guess he's running out of dick and fart jokes.
i am so sick of seeing the same chosen few in the same movies. im getting ready to change my name to finklestein and move to hollywood.
Does Seth Rogen get the red-hot blond in this one? It could happen, oy!
I don't know, but it might be worth to go and join in on the 2-minute hate: Down with Seth!
Ha, just pay attention to all the tribe references in regular boob tube programing. I never relized it until I started to pay attention.
next box office smash
adam sandler single handedly takes down the NRA and the republicans with his magic frisbee hat. guest starring seth rogan, barbara walters, and the entire cast of american pie-o-witz
He says "heinie" no fewer than 62 times! CAN. NOT. WAIT.
hahahah
as long as he does that retarded little boy voice, I'm there!
I called this some time ago. Great campaign!!!! Viral geniuses.
Isn't this illegal?
Disturbing the King's peace, or something?
Did the Theater-In-Chief approve of this new official propaganda from him luxury suites in Hawaii?
Never underestimate the power of corporate marketing and psychological warfare
So if one wanted to boycott Hollywood viral marketing AND tell Kim where to stick it - one would 'borrow' a copy off piratebay?
I wouldn't waste brain cells on that fukkin' propaganda piece even if they paid ME.
Could always watch Team America World Police for a second time. My memory could be a little faulty here but ... didn't that movie have something about Kim's dad in it? What is it with Hollywood and NorK leaders?
PT, Team America World Police is a real hoot. Watch it again !!
Yes, it was a great laugh, and it would be a good time to watch it again.
Ame-ricaa - FUCK YEAH!
and it was Kim's dad, wasn't it?
Him "so ronry!"
"...one would 'borrow' a copy off piratebay?"
That wouldn't be possible. Swedish national IP Police (yes, there is such a thing) raided The Pirate Bay, confiscated their servers and shut down the site on Dec. 9th. - thepiratebay.se is gone.
The Digital Mafia (MPIA/RIAA) has also had legal successes in getting ISPs to ban access to The Pirate Bay and other file-sharing sites - France is the most recent example. They're working on banning access to filesharing in the USA - it's only a matter of paying off the right congressmen and sneaking it into some bill they won't read.
Well, there's your problem right there. No-one cares if a PIRATE Bay gets shut down. They shoulda taken a leaf out of the US govt's book and called it FREEDOM Bay, or PATRIOT FREEDOM Bay. LAST BASTION OF THE FREE WORLD Bay! Then watch the govt try and shut it down.
While I think of it, I'm off to my shed to work on my Gloablism Equal Opportunity Rainbow Pride No-Child-or-Parent-or-Other-Person-Left-Behind Patriot Freedom Personal Defence combination M16 / Atom Bomb Launcher ...
JEEPERS ZEROHEDGE DO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CELEBRITY WITH THE SWOLLEN LIP BUTCHER JOB? It's getting *really* old..
Do like Freddie says, and just push your TV out the second story window.
Do the Freddie instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbuRNbujkjA
+1
Frank Zappa "I am the Slime" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwR9pZ74j8Q
and "Trouble Every Day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girnJH7tvpM
It's one big scam and your in it. Since geo carlin not here to say that
All this hype over a shit movie from Hollywood.
When is the movie about Obama being killed coming out??
Oh no, that wouldn't be allowed. THAT would be seen as an act of terrorism.
Let's hope it'a a documentary.
Observation:
Before Obama: a recurring theme in movies was a black president who was either mentally or physically deficient.
Since: the theme stopped. Just an observation.
Morgan Freeman was not mentally or physically deficient in "Deep Impact."
Folks thought they were electing MLK V2.0 in 2008, but they ended up with Steve Urkel!
How to market to sheep 101. A textbook case.
I would not expect anything less since the merikans have been Grubered down to the lowest common denominator IQ … which I read is somewhere around 65.
Well we'll know if it was marketing genius or Sony got the lid back on their pressure cooker if the employees start suddenly dying from polonium-210 poisoning, and nailgun accidents after the release.
The only way to rescue themselves from a rotten tomato of a movie?
I declare self-help from Hollywood!
Government gets their cyberwar and propaganda, RIAA/MPAA get their censorship, Sony gets their insurance and marketing. Everyone's happy.
The classic 'win win win' scenario
what a bunch of drama queens
i cant wait....
fuck off Sony with that fucking shit piece of shit.
Sony is a fucking joke. Pure propaganda and IT administrators are in on hoax to sell a movie.
First: You are an idiot!
Next: You are an idiot for Windows 8.1
Lastly: How to Create an Awesome (Harmless) Computer Virus Prank (Fake Virus)
Enjoy.
All the schemers involved in this craziness are forgetting one thing. They are antagonizing Kim--a violent, paranoid psychopath who is figuring out who to blame at his end. How many innocent North Koreans will be put to death for this?
You are talking about a man who has a fondness for Disney characters and video games.
And Dennis Rodman, unless he qualifies as a Disney character these days.
S & AS,
Yes but that is when the stupid games are on his terms. He is now in the spotlight and probably very angry, so he will take it out on others. We all know that he is insane, but he still has the power of life and death over everyone locked inside his borders.
To those of you who downvoted me--are you okay with any number of Koreans being put to death because of a stupid Hollywood movie story? While you're at it why don't you enlighten me as to how and where a completely isolated maniac like Kim gets all his money to maintain nuclear plants.
Download XBMC xbmc.org and watch these a-hole's movies on your laptop...while they're still in theatres...for FREE! Most of these movies suck but it's fun to steal from these jerks.
It's a nice FUCK YOU to evil liberal statists who donate millions of dollars to politicians who want to stick you in a cage for not buying health insurance.
It's not stealing if the items are of negative value to individual people and societies.
Maybe so...but it still makes me smile.
<---- See?
Keep on smiling, MH, even when Obie signs a memorandum introducing smile tax.
Easier to just not watch it. More fun too!
Vodly.to is a good one. Putlocker.ws is another. I watched a movie called Burn, Hollywood, Burn. It was fairly amusing... http://filenuke.com/f/0EwAn83 Its about a shitty movie and everyone involved with the making blames it on the others for being so badly made (if I remember correctly).
So if I cheer at the end id the movie when the Nork gets popped, would that make me a big sucker?
No, a Patriot, and a member of "Team America"!
Man, they really know how to jerk people around/
Can't wait to hear all of my neocon relatives screaming about our patriotic duty to go see this and American Sniper.
I'm getting really drunk on Xmas and ignoring them.
Yep - and just wait for the obligatory interviews with "common people" who are risking everything to go see the movie, along with the "enhanced" security that the theaters will put in place to "protect our patrons" as they exercise their right to be searched for no reason
I'd like to know how Seth Rogen became so popular, so quickly? He's not funny. Suspect some sugar daddy Jews behind him. That foul mouthed cock sucker is a perfect example of promoting phony talent to degrade the culture.
What a shock!
Now everyone can walk out on this turkey and go get Chinese food!
I'm glad there's someone besides me who recognizes this marketing as a joke. We get back to "The Grays" again and what's scary is that with watching all of this we are now truly seeing how many folks can't tell the difference between a virtual world value and the real world. It is news about the Sony hack but look what the press did with that burning need for "click bait" if you will. They really need the money from the ad revenue. In a way it's hard to fault a business looking for money to stay alive but when you go full circle with all of this, it's all sick. Like I said months ago, we have a real problem when people confuse virtual world values with the real world. Banks, companies, though like this to keep consumers off balance as that means profits for them.
Seriously think about this, who's going to die if they don't get to see this movie for a few months or so, again the real story is with Sony is getting their security and systems back online right now and I'm sure they too are pondering, well if we do release it, will it make money, so there's that side too.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.fr/2014/03/virtual-worlds-real-world-we-have....
Even Obama should have been quiet on this, but not and the White House is not beyond the confusion of their own too, as I caught this a while back with their email bot using junk science numbers that nobody can predict with purshing for Climate Control. I don't have a problem with climate control, but for God's sakes don't shoot yourself in the foot making a case for it as they you look as bad as the other side.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.ca/2014/06/junk-science-appearing-everywhere-...
Now back to the real world, pay attention to Oracle buying Datalogix, that impacts you as more of your personal data gets sold for corporate profits and you get denied access to something based on flawed data they sell about us. They don't give a crap as flawed data gets the same price as good data and when it shakes down to the end with "denied" stamped on you, the consumer, I guess that's when the big shake out might occur.
Anyway, that's a real world situation to where virtual values come out and crush us humans...the movie, again thanks for being one of the few to see what this is all about...so sad that's what the world is coming too with a huge marketing campaign to keep consumers distracted from the real world issues that are eating our lunch and money.
http://www.youcaring.com/other/help-preserve-our-privacy-/258776
The only thing are the email leaks. Maybe this was done to make the ruse seem real? But, people may be fired over this? Al Sharpton is now involved? Pascal is a racist? Obama is in on this?
Bravo MedicalQuack. You see thru the fog. That's why T. Boone Pickens was brought on TV today.
Sorry, T. Boone. Always hated your water monopoly plan. We could fly you in 30 minutes over an ocean and drop you into sea water. You could collect as much water as you please. Fish get hungry. Are we clear? Regarding oil, it’s about the petrodollar disenfranchisement.
You should read her blog. It's illuminating.
I remember buying a new 16 Mhz, 80286 with a math co-processor. Back then it was wicked fast. Today an Internet Streaming Device has more computing power.
I'm having a pork chop for dinner tonight.
First you have to peel the spinach leafs from the stems and give them a good wash. Heat a little olive oil and saute with first, the garlic, then the onions and green onions, then add the spinach, slowly, mixing with the garlic and onions, later add the parsley. Let cool. Then mix with Fetta cheese. Lay a philo dough out and layer with melted butter and panko. Do this 4 times. Then put a blob of the spinach mix and fold it how ever the fuck you want. Bake....YUMMY!!!
Thanks for that recipe Blank Stare.
If you start with garlic first, you risk burning the garlic.
Did you also know that black pepper can burn too?
Yeah, most foods can. The trick is to toast it just enough to enhance the flavor.
"Spinach Puffs?"
This country a its lies are a fucking joke.
All of this mumbo jumbo just to promote a movie???? Really?
What's next??????
The Fed going to start manipulating their numbers?
Did anyone NOT SEE THIS COMING ?
This whole bizarre spectacle has the smell of Presidential/CIA poo poo about it.
I had NEVER heard of this movie until it got "cancelled". Same for my co-workers, family, other close friends, etc. Now pretty much everyone I know of can't shut up about The Interview.
To say this was a ridiculous publicity stunt is being generous at best.
Gosh. What a surprise. I didn't believe NK hacked Sony. I don't want to believe the US President helped advertise a movie. Way 2 Kardashian for me. Next question: how much did Sony pay President Obama? hUm.
New Hollywood movie on NK vs. YouTube Video Maker Blamed for Benghazi Attacks Breaks Silence on CNN. Same tactic, different racism divided motive to upchuck gun violence.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Hilary Clinton, " what difference does it make".
My Christmas wish is to see kikewood being blowed up.
SONY is clever. SONY is also a very nasty bunch too! I view all my movies through a Cloud Service File Download and Storage Site. Wonderful amount of storage for only $7.00 a month, plus search function, download to cloud and free virus scan. Any video file on the internet can be downloaded safely to the cloud and watched on any device there is. I have noticed when I download a file to a SONY film, there are fewer files out there, most are corrupt or won't download, those that do download and can be viewed come with constant warnings they will arrest you! I watched a video file of FURY, which even had a background screen warning come on every few minutes with threats of arrest. SONY is a leader in attacking the internet file sharing world. They a serious about copy write.
Yeah, the errors and dificulty is more to do with their HDCP than anything. They are pretty tight on copyright.
Jack,
Would someone please give a list of the 10 best films published anywhere since 2000 that are worth watching.
I only find about 100 or so movies worthwhile watching like:
Ben- Hur with Ramon Novarro + FX Bushman; The Third Man; M; Apocalypse Now;
Godfather I and II; Deer-hunter; Laura; All about Eve; On The Waterfront;
N by NW; Dr. Strangelove, and many others, where actors and actresses could act and portray realism.
The Bourne Trilogy ;)
Collateral (2004)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Idiocracy (2006)
Limitless (2011)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
The Fall (2006)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Bonus Movies
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Zoolander (2001)
Russia and China are in the process of persuading NK to give up their nukes in exchange for protection and economic development. This would end US presence in East Asia since there would be no more reason for them to be there and SK and Japan would ask them to leave their countries. This is anathema to the US which is desperate for NK to remain the local bad guy, hence this movie, the pinning of the SONY hack on NK.
You read the paper on Vineyard ?
Ungrateful colonies are always a problem.
Sometimes I wonder why we try to raise up these barbarian Asians anyway.
Let them go back to headhunting or whatever they used to do.
Nice to see it was indeed just a marketing gimmick. Pathetic
wait until it goes to DVD and download the torrent - zero cost
You wont have long to wait. Maybe the 26th?
I knew it (they were going to pull this one off this way) the tribe and their propaganda
People this is a good example of BS by the tribe
Watch the sheeple running to watch it over the holidays for a big time BS movie (the tribe is going to fleece them again with quality D movie)
Makes me think Bill Cosby is being excoriated by the cabal for his positive influence on black American yutes. He really can't speak plainly for fear of getting OJ'd.
I know a lot of women but I don't know one that grew old keeping silent about accusations like this. The timing is suspect.
I wasn't going sit through the worst movie since Gung Ho anyway.
+100
u nailed it , the tribe and their games
Agree totally on Bill . He has always consistently railed against 'thug culture', ebonics, race baiting, and black victimhood. Not a peep on the fucked up black 'leaders' who keep chucking their own people under the bus for a profit. Not to mention how the "Great Society" scam has done more to hinder blacks via deception and destruction of their family units than whitey ever could have done by brute force alone.
Or Robin Wlliams'd.
I was really getting worried about the fact that I have not went to a movie since 1999. If I really have a hankering to watch a movie I can always watch my wife's Twilight collection. I had to show the wife this one froim Will Ferrell no less whom I do not always like. Will nailed it here though.
I could not give a shit less about going to the movies. Between AngusMcHugepenis, WB7, Knukles, myself and many others we could write a hell of lot better script then anything Whorelywood can ever come up with. It could be a lot of fun to do.
It wouldn't be complete without a boating accident scene.
Yes FourthStooging for sure you too. You are in my friend.
This marketing theory is asinine. This whole hack thing was a mountain out of a molehill, and seems to be nothing but a false flag event generated by our esteemed leaders, and a comically shitty one at that
On top of the fact that it sounds like it sucks, most won't bother taking needless risk of seeing in public theater
This scared away more people than it will ever attract
Movie theaters already have become shunned. Didn't ZH just post the stats?
So what hoolywood garbage is worth needlessly exposing your safety and/or your life for?
Not that there aren't enough wanna be terrorists already in theaters
Using false flag terrorism to market a movie. Now they've gone too far. Maybe this will wake up another zombie
Nope. Business as usual
Next up false flag terrorism to sell movie theater concessions at the concession stand
You've already conceded all your rights they're running out of things to sell you to concede
English truly is an fascinating language
If the Khazars at SONY could do it over again I think they'd replace the storyline from North Korea to somewhere in Western Europe like this!
I agree with Jim. It's why we're seeing such dramatic events taking place around the oil sector and it's because of that leader in the EU that's finally getting "cold feet" who wants out!
I'd say the likelihood of another 9/11 to pull the clan together is right around the corner!
Angela, or whoever will be replacing you shortly get those fucking embassies and military bases off your property "soon" with lots of PR to move it forward!
Not sure how anyone could call themselves a christian if they go see some no talent tribe hack's movie about killing someone on Christmas day...
I dare you to tell that to Clint Eastwood.
I'm not a chair.
So, I doubt he would have the balls to respond.
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I forgot senile too!
I dare you to tell that to Clint Eastwood.
What do ya think he could do at his age? Throw a Viagra bottle, or swing his walker at ya?....
Someone who has been in the business too many years and knows how to suck circumcised lids with the best of them!
What a way to end what was otherwise a great career. Never watch any of his movies again after this one!
Hill & Knowlton type of stunt, worth every penny since they pulled off that 'Saddam's soldiers are throwing babies out of incubators' stunt to sell the 1ste Iraw war.
This movie is obviously going to be a flop. Lame actors and lame story line. A comedy? Okay. Ha Ha. I'm done. The previews convinced me -- send it to cable already and I still won't watch it.
On the other hand, I could interrupt my Christmas day and go to a "select" theater to watch it. That thought is a lot funnier than the movie itself could ever be.
We false flagged some folks.
Again.