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 quote:Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) are the team behind the popular tabloid-TV show "Skylark Tonight." After learning that North Korea's Kim Jong Un (Randall Park) is a huge fan of the show, they successfully set up an interview with him, hoping to legitimize themselves as actual journalists. However, as Dave and Aaron prepare for their journey to Pyongyang, the CIA steps in, recruits them, and assigns them an incredible mission: Assassinate the dictator. So the news for this is seriously everywhere, so here's the short version: The Interview is announced Sony gets hacked a bunch Hackers claim to be from North Korea, threaten to "9/11" theaters that show it Sony gives theaters the option to pull it Enough theaters pull that Sony cancels it outright 
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Pointed it out in the Who Greenlighted thread but Sony has not removed the teasers/trailers from their official YouTube channel. And I heard some reports of people saying they were still seeing TV ads for it. So I guess while they aren't releasing it and have no plans to at this time, they aren't trying to bury it completely either?
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Dec 18, 2014 05:44
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They just showed an ad during The Daily Show. My guess is that they already paid for the ad time, and since they only officially cancelled it this evening, they didn't have time to pull them. If this is really from the DPRK, how were they planning on "9/11 style violence" anyway? Do they even have a plane?
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Dec 18, 2014 05:52
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Well, this is really embarrassing. Why did the theaters pull the movie again? And what were the hackers going to do if Sony didn't kill the premiere?
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Dec 18, 2014 05:53
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Hand of the King posted:Well, this is really embarrassing. Yell vague threats and invoke 9/11, if their prior messages are any indication. A theater local to me was going to stand fast and show the movie, but it looks like it didn't take long for them to crack  http://lancasteronline.com/news/loc...8c600fae91.html
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Dec 18, 2014 05:54
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raditts posted:They just showed an ad during The Daily Show. My guess is that they already paid for the ad time, and since they only officially cancelled it this evening, they didn't have time to pull them. Yeah, I've been seeing ads for it all night on cable, guess they'll be going away in the next few days though, unless something changes.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:01
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I read this before the cancellation, but Waterloo, IA will be damned if they let Hollywood tell them what they can and cannot watch.a local Iowa newspaper posted:Local theaters not bailing on 'The Interview,' despite threat
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Dec 18, 2014 06:06
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How far in advance do movies get sent out to theaters? Is there any chance of this being screened anywhere anyway despite what's happened? Although I'm guessing any theater that did that would get sued by Sony since they officially canceled it.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:13
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:How far in advance do movies get sent out to theaters? Is there any chance of this being screened anywhere anyway despite what's happened? Although I'm guessing any theater that did that would get sued by Sony since they officially canceled it. Even if they had it already, I doubt they'd be able to show it. IIRC the digital film hard drives are encrypted and theaters are given the code before the release. Unless, of course, they have it in 35mm, but I feel like that might not be common.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:15
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:How far in advance do movies get sent out to theaters? Is there any chance of this being screened anywhere anyway despite what's happened? Although I'm guessing any theater that did that would get sued by Sony since they officially canceled it. If that's the case, I hope some intrepid minimum-wage theater employee leaks it. What's one more leak to Sony at this point, after all?
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Dec 18, 2014 06:15
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raditts posted:If that's the case, I hope some intrepid minimum-wage theater employee leaks it. What's one more leak to Sony at this point, after all? They should just do that themselves. If they're saying they no longer have plans to release it in theaters why not just put it on Amazon VOD for $4.99? Or are they saying whoever streams it will get 9/11ed in their house too? It's gonna be like 9/11 times 1000. Basically 911,000 will happen.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:19
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So uhhh, this will probably get taken down, but someone put up the Kim Jong Un death scene from the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYw9eJ_jf0 That version of Firework 
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Dec 18, 2014 06:20
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raditts posted:Yell vague threats and invoke 9/11, if their prior messages are any indication. There's a shitload of liability involved if they continued with the showings despite the threats and being warned by the government and police. If something happened and someone was injured or killed, they'd be then sued out of existence by the personal liability claims. And that wouldn't just be for The Interview, it's for every screen in the theater. A nut pulls a gun in the middle of Annie and shoots someone and gets killed by cops, the liability still stands because a lawyer could claim the gunman was a NK sympathizer. It doesn't take a lot for someone, NK or not, to pull an Aurora-style shooting and completely destroy the holiday movie season. Rad Russian posted:They should just do that themselves. If they're saying they no longer have plans to release it in theaters why not just put it on Amazon VOD for $4.99? Or are they saying whoever streams it will get 9/11ed in their house too? They probably will do it eventually, but they also have an insurance policy on the film in case it never gets released, so Sony makes money if it's shelved or not.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:22
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Young Freud posted:There's a shitload of liability involved if they continued with the showings despite the threats and being warned by the government and police. If something happened and someone was injured or killed, they'd be then sued out of existence by the personal liability claims. Lawyers ruin everything in this country, again.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:22
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Yoshifan823 posted:
The members of Seal Team 6 pick through the scattered rubble following their brief but intense firefight. One of them approaches Bin Laden's now lifeless body slumped over a desk and pushes it aside. Underneath, stained with blood, is a map of the United States with a single red circle drawn around one name: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. "My God."
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Dec 18, 2014 06:38
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Rad Russian posted:Lawyers ruin everything in this country, again. I'd rather not give dumb, violent assholes from Maine to Mexico an excuse to gently caress someone up at a movie theatre.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:41
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:So uhhh, this will probably get taken down, but someone put up the Kim Jong Un death scene from the movie: And this is AFTER they covered the head exploding. I wanna see it without that fireball in front of it.
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Dec 18, 2014 06:54
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:So uhhh, this will probably get taken down, but someone put up the Kim Jong Un death scene from the movie: So this confirms that there's a screener out, and it's just a waiting game until it hits the usual places.
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Dec 18, 2014 07:05
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SALT CURES HAM posted:So this confirms that there's a screener out, and it's just a waiting game until it hits the usual places. It makes sense that they would leak the ending and nothing else, ruin the movie for people who wanted to see it without actually getting the film out there for people to see. Too bad they couldn't get an actor that actually looked like him though.
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Dec 18, 2014 07:24
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Best or worst publicity/promotion stunt ever? You decide.
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Dec 18, 2014 07:25
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So I guess we can add North Korea to the list of "bad guys you can't use in movies anymore" after China, the USSR, etc. Hollywood needs to find a new stock villain, and fast. Also, I think this particular theater has the best contingency plan: http://www.mediaite.com/online/texas-movie-theater-will-show-team-america-instead-of-the-interview/
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Dec 18, 2014 07:44
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Young Freud posted:but they also have an insurance policy on the film in case it never gets released, so Sony makes money if it's shelved or not. Maybe this insurance fraud was planned by Sony when they realised how much the movie was going to bomb. Who are these "hackers" anyway?
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Dec 18, 2014 07:47
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Yoshifan823 posted:I'd rather not give dumb, violent assholes from Maine to Mexico an excuse to gently caress someone up at a movie theatre. Dumb violent assholes who truly want to hurt people are going to do it regardless of if they can use a Seth Rogen movie as an excuse or not. Now aside from that, before all this poo poo went down the studio was pretty vocal about the fact that they hated the movie. I can't be alone in suspecting that they're using the hacks as a convenient excuse to pull some kind of Producers type scam.
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CPL593H posted:Now aside from that, before all this poo poo went down the studio was pretty vocal about the fact that they hated the movie what did they say?
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Dec 18, 2014 07:48
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CPL593H posted:Dumb violent assholes who truly want to hurt people are going to do it regardless of if they can use a Seth Rogen movie as an excuse or not. Last week this dumb conspiracy theory was about Annie. Can't wait to see what movie is apparently so terrible it's worth pissing millions of dollars down the drain next week.
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zVxTeflon posted:what did they say? My guess is that a lot of old white guys in expensive suits were making a lot of "Harumph!" sounds at it, but the quote going around is that one of them referred to it as "desperately unfunny". I'll see if I can dig up the article I read about it but basically this is what was the big talk about it before any of this other stuff happened and then a day later it was all about the supposed terrorist threats. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Dec 18, 2014 |
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INH5 posted:Also, I think this particular theater has the best contingency plan: Please tell me the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin will be doing this too.
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Here's an article about what I was talking about. One of the big sticking points is that they found the movie to be too violent and just generally don't know how to sell it or who the audience for this is. http://defamer.gawker.com/leaked-emails-the-interview-sucked-for-sony-even-befor-1671234001
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CPL593H posted:Here's an article about what I was talking about. One of the big sticking points is that they found the movie to be too violent and just generally don't know how to sell it or who the audience for this is. I don't know what they could possibly have been expecting, both of the other two films Rogen and Franco have headlined together were violent and gory as heck for comedies, too. And they both did just fine.
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DeimosRising posted:I don't know what they could possibly have been expecting, both of the other two films Rogen and Franco have headlined together were violent and gory as heck for comedies, too. And they both did just fine. One of those emails also complained about them swearing too much.
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DeimosRising posted:I don't know what they could possibly have been expecting, both of the other two films Rogen and Franco have headlined together were violent and gory as heck for comedies, too. And they both did just fine. Old white people will always be a mystery.
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Dec 18, 2014 09:20
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Spending $44m on some comedy not headed by creative types seems like a good way to flush away money, hermit kingdom hacking notwithstanding.
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Dec 18, 2014 09:43
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SALT CURES HAM posted:So this confirms that there's a screener out, and it's just a waiting game until it hits the usual places. That scene was one in one of the big file dumps from a week or so ago. Though i do hope a screener leaks soon.
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Dec 18, 2014 10:20
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You whippersnappers suck at this, in my day we had a screener for lovely movies months before they came out
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Dec 18, 2014 10:33
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raditts posted:They just showed an ad during The Daily Show. My guess is that they already paid for the ad time, and since they only officially cancelled it this evening, they didn't have time to pull them. While I did eventually see an ad for this last night, it was only the one during a couple of hours. Which was a big change from Tuesday where it was getting advertised about once a break. So maybe they pulled as many as they could but couldn't get everything.
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raditts posted:They just showed an ad during The Daily Show. My guess is that they already paid for the ad time, and since they only officially cancelled it this evening, they didn't have time to pull them. Given DPRK's track record with this kind of thing, not to mention the severe consequences were it to even be suspected to be responsible for an attack against the US, it was almost certainly an empty threat. But I can't blame Sony & co. for not wanting to take any chances.
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North Korea: noted international terror powerhouse. Obama making nice with Cuba is big news and Rubio is raising a big stink about it, yet Sony rolls over because Kim Jung Un doesn't like being made fun of. Which is the real shameful move?
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Dec 18, 2014 11:57
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This movie was due to come out here in February (The UK). I wonder if they'll cancel any International showings?
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Dec 18, 2014 12:48
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mcbexx posted:Best or worst publicity/promotion stunt ever? This. If they were honestly going to shelve it forever they wouldn't announce it, they would pull ads, they would take down the YouTube trailer. It's a lovely stunt to build buzz. And it'll backfire when it gets leaked onto torrent sites. In a short time expect to see an official marketing campaign about the release of a banned movie or something.
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935 posted:This. If they were honestly going to shelve it forever they wouldn't announce it, they would pull ads, they would take down the YouTube trailer. It's a lovely stunt to build buzz. And it'll backfire when it gets leaked onto torrent sites. This opinion, and ones like it, are the dumbest thing I've heard. Sony leaked all their employees information (Resulting in a class action lawsuit), embarrassed themselves and tanked their own movie just so they can release it again as some sort of stunt? The ads will be pulled in the next few days and of course the movie will eventually get released. But Sony aren't so stupid that they're going to say "Yeah we pulled it because of this, but hey it's coming out in March!". Don't forget that Sony only actually pulled it because theatre chains did. Had they gone ahead and shown it then this 'lovely stunt' would've fallen apart. This 'stunt' argument has so little merit that I'm surprised people feel comfortable saying it out in public.
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