SONY has now cancelled the release of The Interview

[brettdale]

Agree or disagree?

[yeoman6987]

1. 100 percent disagree

Disappointing too.

[AtomicKitten]

2. Well, that's a damn shame.

[tammywammy]

3. Disagree

With all the dust up, I was very tempted to go see it.

[JI7]

4. i wonder if it has more to do with them exposing more of the corporate stuff and things from

people higher up than actually believing they will be able to carry out some kind of terrorist attack.

[Electric Monk]

5. Agree or disagree? It's not a debate, they did cancel/postpone the release.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/media/the-interview-sony-theater-owners/

Perhaps you meant to ask "Should they have cancelled the release?"

[0rganism]

28. one of them sciencey types, huh?

next thing you'll be telling us that cavemen didn't ride dinosaurs, spread of disease can be limited by vaccination, and astronauts landed on the moon.

[Electric Monk]

31. Well....

[djean111]

6. I can't help thinking there is more going on than we know about. n/t

[Union Scribe]

7. Sadly, more proof that goal-oriented terrorism works.

Maybe these NKoreans learned how to do this from the way the GOP keeps threatening to let the government crash and burn if we don't give them what they want in every budget deal.

[Ykcutnek]

8. Sony Pictures deserves its fate.

Not for making the movie, but for both its lack of security and lack of spine.

It's unfortunate that innocent people will suffer from all of this, but in the long-run we may be better off without Sony Pictures.

[Beaverhausen]

17. so easy to write off the jobs of thousands of people

who had nothing to do with any of this.

[Bluenorthwest]

20. This will not do away with Sony Pictures, it will certainly shake up the mix over there and cost

a giant sum of money and all of that, but that's show biz. In 2012 Sony Pictures had world wide box office of 4.440 Billion dollars. So. What's 50 or 60 million between despots?

[Jesus Malverde]

21. Clearly among the dozen or so executives

Who were making over a million dollars it did not include the head of IT.

I suspect they treated their IT team like servants and got exactly what they paid for.

A folder called passwords.

Does Racist funny gal Amy Pacal still have a job?

[951-Riverside]

9. As a private company they are free to do whatever they like with their product n/t

[chrisa]

10. See you guys (Sony, everyone else) at the next attack.

North Korea just found something that works.

[zappaman]

11. A great win for terrorists and cyber hackers!

[LittleBlue]

12. Agree. Shouldn't have ever been made.

Besides, Seth Rogen and James Franco are annoying and not funny at all.

[PAProgressive28]

13. Disagree

How's that War on Terror going? Bunch of cowards in this country. No surprise with 51% supporting torture and people still freaking out about ISIS.

[hifiguy]

14. disagree 100%

[whatchamacallit]

15. This is a staged prelude to new draconian legislation

Just watch.

[BillZBubb]

16. Totally disagree.

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Agree... but only because Seth Rogan ain't funny. n/t

[moondust]

19. Charlie Chaplin spoofed Hitler in 1940.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards:

Outstanding Production – United Artists (Charlie Chaplin, Producer)
Best Actor – Charlie Chaplin
Best Writing (Original Screenplay) – Charlie Chaplin
Best Supporting Actor – Jack Oakie
Best Music (Original Score) – Meredith Willson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator

That film was made and released before the age of "individualized terrorism" including theater and mall attacks, etc. Chaplin wisely didn't use Hitler's name explicitly. I don't recall if there was any talk of assassinating the dictator.

As dictators go, even Hitler was probably not crazy enough to launch some kind of attack over a Hollywood movie spoof that got under his skin; I can't say the same about Lil Kim.

Discretion is the better part of valor? Maybe the theaters just didn't want the potential security hassles.

[Agnosticsherbet]

22. In North Korea Vs. Capitalism, North Korea won.

[951-Riverside]

24. Sony did it to themselves

You don't release a movie about assassinating the leader of another nation then leave all of your data out in the open. They or their surrogates (CHINA) are going to start sniffing around.

Back in 2011 the PlayStation Network was taken down for 23 days and massive amounts of data was stolen. The Sony Corp is notorious at leaving themselves vulnerable to attacks.

I fully support Sony's right under the first amendment to make and distribute this movie but the right to free speech does not protect them from some despotic nation collecting data and intelligence on them and using it to blackmail them. They should have secured their shit before taking on this venture.

What Sony did is equivalent to me posting my address on craigslist along with a photo of a stack of cash then leaving my door wide open. It just attracts the wrong kind of attention and also puts the people living around me at risk or in Sony's case fellow movie distribution companies.

I don't like that some fat pig in North Korea who can barely walk and starves his own people has a say in what an American company can release but Sony gave him and other bad actors the leverage because their shitty security protocols.

[FSogol]

23. Please cancel all movies staring Seth Rogen. Thanks.

[joeybee12]

25. Actually most theaters refused to show it...

So they sort of had to if nobody would be able to see it...it's the theater chain owners who caved.

[Pisces]

26. They should release straight to pay per view. All of this free advertising and the theaters can't

cry foul as they refused to show it. Win/ win for everyone.

[nomorenomore08]

27. +1

[pampango]

29. Repressive regimes learn a valuable lesson on how to influence American cinema. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

30. If, hypothetically, I wanted to start a war with North Korea, regardless of my reasons...

... what would be the easiest way?

Agree with the decision.

[Dawson Leery]

32. Film makers everywhere would be wise to stay away from Sony.

North Korea should NEVER be influencing any decisions about freedom of expression.