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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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 18 2014, @04:51PM
I predict that the name of the group claiming responsibility is an intentional seed for a future disruptive astroturfing campaign. The GOP party will start posting thousands of fruit loop comments calling the GOP hack a covert reference to the GOP party. In doing so they will discredit any real evidence that comes out of the investigation. As a bonus they will also discrediting anybody who is critical of the military industrial complex driven media blitz that we are about to see.
Place your bets! Place your bets!
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday December 18 2014, @07:32PM
But do most people even inside the US actually believe anything the US says? They don't have any reason to.
To me GOP sounds like a throwaway name, a double in-joke making exactly that very obvious reference just because it's silly (and maybe they actually vote R) as well as mocking their own megalomania (Guardians of Peace sounds like a He-Man movie, has to deliberate, maybe they'll call themselves Greyskull next). Maybe throw some irony on top of all that since they're attacking.
Weren't the people who hacked the Saudi oil companies and wrecked their computers also Guardian-of-something?
Anyway that's just my weird opinion and I know I'm a really strange person, as an example I'm no fan of Fuckhead Castro (except for naming a drink) or his brother but with the current knowledge if I was in charge in Cuba I would tell the so-called “Americans” to keep their distance. Who the fuck wants or needs a US embassy? And Cuba already has Guantanamo Bay: McDonalds and Dungeons. Would they also like a side order of some Ebola or lymphatic cancer with that? Or maybe they want the NSA to finance a local ITC boom? :P
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