Yahoo News – by Jordan Zakarin
After a month of leaks, embarrassment, and terrorist threats — not to mention an admonishment from President Obama himself — Sony has reversed course and will release The Interview on Christmas Day in a limited number of theaters.
The Alamo Drafthouse, an independent theater chain based in Austin, confirmed to Yahoo Movies that it will screen the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy about assassinating North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. The Plaza theater chain in Georgia also tweeted that it would be showing the film.
According to The Wrap, Sony will also release the film on video on demand systems.
“We have never given up on releasing The Interview and we’re excited our movie will be in a number of theaters on Christmas day,” Sony Entertainment chair and CEO Michael Lynton said in a statement. “At the same time, we are continuing our efforts to secure more platforms and more theaters so that this movie reaches the largest possible audience. I want to thank our talent on The Interview and our employees, who have worked tirelessly through the many challenges we have all faced over the last month. While we hope this is only the first step of the film’s release, we are proud to make it available to the public and to have stood up to those who attempted to suppress free speech.”
Rogen finally broke his silence on Twitter, celebrating the announcement.
Sony gave the green light to the theaters after pulling the movie from theaters last Wednesday; that decision came in the wake of North America’s five biggest chains announcing that they would not screen the movie due to threats made by anonymous hackers who promised a “9/11-style” attack on theaters that showed the film.
The hackers have wreaked havoc on Sony, exposing years of personal and business emails and embarrassing the company for over a month. The FBI has formally accused North Korea of being involved in the hacking.
President Obama criticized Sony for pulling the film, as did much of Hollywood, which saw the move as a bow to terrorists and a blow to free speech; Sony claimed that it “had not caved” to such pressure. A lawyer for Sony said earlier this week that the film would eventually be released, but gave no further details.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/the-interview-will-play-in-select-theaters-on-105974119167.html
How low will this POS POTUS go in pulling false flags – evidently there is simply no bottom to it – promoting movies through false flags….how pathetic…
Team Dark – provoking governments all over the world….
We pretty much know Team Dark is behind every shitty thing going on in the world today………you lie about ISIS, you lie about RUSSIA, you lie about North Korea, you lie about Iran, you lie about Syria,you lie about the Ukraine,you lie about Amnesty, you lie about Ebola, you lie about Obamacare………….what a disgrace you are. A total, utter disgrace…….
One day no one heard of Seth Rogan. The next day, he’s in several films a year and on every talk show. How does that happen? He doesn’t seem to have much acting talent OR writing talent, so how does that happen that one day out of the clear blue he’s shoved down our throats 24×7?
OH WOW!!! REALLY? I GOT TO GO SEE THIS ONE!!!
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