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Movie Chain Drops 'The Interview' after Threats of Violence

posted by janrinok on Thursday December 18 2014, @01:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-blinked-first dept.

Hugh Pickens writes:

In the latest episode of the Sony hack, Hollywood Reporter says that Carmike Cinemas, which operates 278 theaters and 2,917 screens in 41 states, will not show the Sony comedy "The Interview" following threats of violence from hackers. Sony Pictures told exhibitors who had booked The Interview that it planned to move forward with the movie's release, but that they were free to decide not to show the film, and that the studio would support them in whatever decision they made.

Citing 9/11, the hackers issued a warning and said, "We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places The Interview be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to." The situation is also raising concerns among studios that the threat of violence could keep some movie-goers away from the multiplex over the lucrative holiday movie-going period. "This is bad for everyone. This will stop people from going to theaters, and that affects all of us," says one source at a rival studio. "If somebody called a bomb threat for a concert, and it was credible, you'd have to cancel or postpone the concert."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Geezer on Thursday December 18 2014, @02:32PM

    by Geezer (511) on Thursday December 18 2014, @02:32PM (#127146)

    I hear ya. I'm no Sony fan, but I am a freedom fan. Fuck intimidation.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 18 2014, @04:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 18 2014, @04:52PM (#127194)

    No fan of intimidation, great, I shall look forward to your campaign to highlight continued ethnic cleansing by Apartheid Israel (using 200 billion of US taxpayer 'aid' to date). But it's more likely that you, like all your politicians, are far to cowardly to risk the intimidatory backlash that that would incite. But hey, maybe you can grow a spine and prove me wrong ?

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 18 2014, @06:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 18 2014, @06:04PM (#127212)

      Grow a dick and self-suck yourself to a Heaven of 72 Gay Virgins.

  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday December 18 2014, @06:55PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Thursday December 18 2014, @06:55PM (#127224) Journal

    They should have BANNED SCREENING: BATMAN- 'The Dark Knight Rises'

     

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