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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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James Franco is to comedy what Kim Jong Un is to comedy....
zing!!
I used to find it a little strange that movies would 'open' on Christmas. And I used to be amazed how little the name of Jesus Christ, or movies about him, were shown at Christmastime, just given the fact around 75% or so of the country is Christian ((including the Evangelicals, who at least consider themselves "Christian."))
Used to.
;0}
Now let's all celebrate the birth of Santa by smoking weed, seeing The Interview, and going to eat Chinese food!
Face it.
Jesus is bad boxoffice. Everyone knows how the story ends.
Mel Gibson did subtitles and upped the red cell count and they all complained.
Now Jesus vs. the Aliens would be a blockbuster.
Next up for Sony Pictures...
A comedic look at a prophets personal life.
"Mohammed, A Pedophile's Love Story."
Followed by 'Buddha you fat prick'
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Followed by "Osiris We Hardly Knew Ye".
FBI confirmed that Sony Pictures employees still receive threats via email after the movie studio’s computer network was hacked. In the meantime, the attack appears to be linked to a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Those emails threaten employees into disavowing the company to prevent further attacks.
The attackers ask the recipients to sign their names to object the false of the company if they don’t want to suffer damage. They go on saying that if the employees don’t, not only them but their families will be in danger.The attackers ask the recipients to sign their names to object the false of the company if they don’t want to suffer damage. They go on saying that if the employees don’t, not only them but their families will be in danger.
In the meantime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that they are aware of threatening emails the employees of the corporation receive. The police continue to investigate the issue trying to identify those responsible for the attack, during which plenty of confidential data, such as usernames, passwords, email addresses, payment details and social security numbers were stolen. It is now believed that the attack originated from a 5-star hotel in the center of Bangkok, Thailand.
Security experts admit that the threats to the employees of the suffered company could have been sent from copycats or any person who had access to the information leaked online via file-sharing services. The representatives of the company confirmed that the email claimed to be from “GOP” – this name was used by the Guardians of Peace hacking group, which is believed to be the initial attacker who stole the data.
Investigations of the police and Sony are still ongoing. They already mooted the North Korea’s involvement over the release of the movie The Interview by Sony, as it depicts an attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un. The country denied its involvement in the attack.
Bangkok ladyboys are hacking in protest because there were no transgendered roles in the film.
Yet another Obama-sponsored hoax.
I'm sure Obama is setting up the next hoax as we speak. Let's not buy it Sandy Hook, line, and sinker.
MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTHY ANIMALS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMCjFQIefg
hi
hi
wag the dog!
i thought sony was going to quick change the script, to tell the story of the nypd assassinating the mayor of new york
Hail Satan!
Satan: "Don't blame me, that's y'alls going."
I don't think those guys are that funny anyway. If it were Charlie Sheen and Bruce Willis I would go see it.
Illuminati determined to strike in US.
NSA stress test is now complete. Y'all motherfuckers go back to worshipping baby Jesus' birthday and being good little capitalists buying extra large dildos at your local ghost mall and fueling your oil addiction! Also, Barry Soetoro says merry christmas, gas under $3!
Does this mean another round of ads on TV with actors reading a cue card with an OBAMA PLEDGE?
easy solution - DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY TO GO SEE IT
Believe it or not, things are getting even stupider :
In a letter to Obama to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter requested that the Commander in Chief hold a special viewing of The Interview on Jan. 5, the day after he returns from his 17-day vacation to Hawaii.
The event should also include a 'serious discussion of the strong, substantive retaliatory measures' that the United States plans to inflict on North Korea for its actions, Vitter said.
Likewise, Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman was lobbying Sony to allow the movie, starring James Franco and Seth Rogen, to be shown at the U.S. Capitol for educational purposes and so that Members of Congress can show their solidarity with the motion picture industry.
BaaHaaHaaHaa!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2885292/GOP-Senator-asks-Obama-h...
Obama's national security council will be briefed, on latest intelligence from N.Korea by watching this movie. One more movie goer who will ever see this shit is fat Boy Un himself. That's what we call movie for 0.000000001%. Bravo SONY.
I would rather watch video of USA bombing NK back into pre-stone age. Would love to see look on Kim Cow-Face pudgy psychopath Nero-wanna-be standing in the pile of burning rubble that was Pyong Yang :-))
The whole thing stinks of an elaborate marketing stunt. There's nothing more the US government wants than for North Korea to make an unprovoked attack on US soil. It plays well with the global terrorism agenda being marketed worldwide. Such an attack would mean domestic US organisations don't have to stage one themselves. Hollywood is a major avenue of propaganda dissemination so by linking a new movie with ongoing geo-politiclal events helps to integrate the apathetic masses and create emotional responses that further entrench the 'divide and conquer' mode of controlling the herd.