The Interview Dropped From All Major Theater Chains in America

December 17th, 2014, 02:55 pm

The Interview Dropped From All Major Theater Chains in America

The Sony hackers won: The Interview just disappeared from America's biggest theater chains http://t.co/16NkWdHGhi pic.twitter.com/yU842dRTed
— The Verge (@verge) December 17, 2014

-Dropped from: Regal, AMC, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas, and Cineplex (in Canada)
-No word yet from Sony on whether it will still be released, but rumors are saying that they are considering a VOD release or just putting it online for free

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Tagged: film, film - comedy, james / dave franco, seth rogen, sony leak - why are u punishing me

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put it online for free

lol

If they're not going to release it, might as well haha

So pathetic and the hackers won.

honestly, it wasnt the hack that forced the pull - it was the threats of violence on theatres showing the film.

50 million dollar film? plus all the money they already put into marketing? not likely

This just leak it.

LOL that's what you get.

what a loss.

This has been a crazy fucking year.

right? jfc. year of the hacker - ruining people's lives.

Year of the hacker, serial rapist/molester, and good old fashioned child murderer. ffs, earth.

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Lol, right?

As

lenee91 said about Madonna, and

ernestinewalker equated to the tone of 2014 as a whole:

"ONTD 2014 In Review: Rape? Terrorism? Go fuck yourself, bitch!"

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ikr

True artistic loss to us all, I'm sure.

Damn this is a mess. People are actually getting mad at the chains but at this point with all the shit going on in the world I wouldn't take the chance either.

wow

I'd rent it through my comcast box thingy. But of course I'd be freaked out if the "guardians of peace" would then like make my tv explode from the inside or something.

the ~geofiltering set to stun tbh

I was excited to see this.

Well I hope this never happens to a movie that I actually want to see.

lmao MTE.

This gif is mesmerizing, I just keep staring at the contouring

what is this from? ... is it raven?

mte, esp if this just ~ends up online for free lol

ugh my queen raven <3

idk why I thought this was Raja

RAVEN, MY UNCROWNED QUEEN <3

Raven <3

this is so stupid.

WOW, seriously??? The major chains?! I'm genuinely surprised, especially considering how hard AMC has been promoting it with the First Look thingy and all. (idk about the others; I spend half my life at AMC Theatres.) I guess I see their point -- I feel like they've been on edge since the Dark Knight Rises thing -- but you hate to see these kinds of things 'work.'

I hate when I remember The Dark Knight shooting. It was just so awful.

I found it especially surreal because I'd been at a midnight show too (actually a marathon of all three films) and I had a great time; everyone was so nice and friendly to each other, like even to strangers. We actually cheered when Tiny Lister threw the detonator out the window and stuff. And I just kinda had the warm fuzzies about humanity for a bit and then in the morning my BFF texted me and told me the news. It was just so bizarre and awful. :\

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lol

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you seem pleasant.

the only reason why the hackers bother me is because of all the personal financial and medical info of lower tier sony employees that's gotten released when they had nothing to do with greenlighting and making this mess of a movie

ikr, like even though it's a comedy it's still reeks of American Exceptionalism to me. Thinking about the actual human rights violations going on in NK makes me even more mad about this dumbass movie...

this. The movie uses N. Koreans as the butt of their jokes. Sucks whenever we need a voice to speak out, hackers are the only ones who can cause a crazy amount of noise in all the wrong ways.

ikr

like can you imagine if N. Korea came out with a movie about assassinating Obama? Americuhns would be up in arms about how racist and insensitive it is

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yeah, but this is america we're talking about...it's to be expected.

Exactly. The hack just did what executives should have done, not let it be seen. It shouldn't have even been filmed.

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International terrorism or a stupid movie... um, yeah, international terrorism is more important, wee one.

I was watching a CNN debate last night and most of the panel was up in arms about the hackers and the threats, but one panel member was basically calling Sony out, holding them responsible for the content of the film and honestly, I agreed 100% with that panel member.

I am conflicted about theaters pulling out of showing the film. I hope it won't hurt distribution and viewing of documentaries or historical films whose content is not popular with extremists groups, who will in turn threaten similar violence.

I started watching "State of affairs" and I'm a bit shocked on how they portray russians/arabs/muslims, etc

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