Sony Entertainment Announces Limited Release of 'The Interview'
Independent movie theaters based in New York and Atlanta said Tuesday they plan to be among the first in the nation to screen "The Interview" the controversial North Korea satire beginning Christmas Day.
Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed the film's release an abrupt change after the movie company said last Wednesday it was shelving the movie indefinitely. That decision was made after some of the nation's largest movie theater chains said they wouldn't carry the Seth Rogan-James Franco flick in the aftermath of hackers saying they would threaten anyone showing the comedy.
The FBI said North Korea was behind the hack on Sony's internal computers, and Hollywood and the White House criticized the company's decision to pull the movie, which depicts the assassination of dictator Kim Jong Un.
A spokesman with Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, which is based in Yonkers, New York, confirmed to NBC News that is plans to show the movie, although it had yet to release a full schedule for its 19 theater locations, which includes Texas, Virginia and California.
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Independent movie theaters based in New York and Atlanta said Tuesday they plan to be among the first in the nation to screen "The Interview" the controversial North Korea satire beginning Christmas Day.
They should have posted it free on the internet for anyone to watch and distributed it world wide.
I have doubts that NK is behind this attack. The trail is too hot and easy to follow... the threats are so well written in perfect bad grammar.
I hope this is all a smoke and mirrors show... while the real perpetrators are getting locked in an unplugged copper box so not even wifi can reach them. Or maybe just kicked off the real internet to flounder in this pretty lights and funny sounds place all of us "normal people" live in called the www.
just ask them! LOL....
and sail them like frisbees into North Korea. Good one!!
Iranian restrictions on western free speech are still happening ... What have the ayatollahs got that Kimmie Jong does not ?