Sony hackers threaten "9/11 style attacks"

[HarrisonTX]

I heard they were doing to take away Christmas next :/

[Craizie]

I'm not sure why anyone is blaming Sony for this. Why would they release a movie MOST US theaters are refusing to play it?

[GhostTX]

I'm not sure why anyone is blaming Sony for this. Why would they release a movie MOST US theaters are refusing to play it?

Because they even stopped smaller, independent theaters from playing it and are saying they won't release it on digital (VOD, DVD, BluRay).

LOL

[emg]

Maybe Sony is giving in cause they don't want the hackers to release any more damaging emails or information. Also what if they gave in just to create hype for the movie? The movie might be bad, so release it a month later, we will want to see it cause we were told we couldn't.

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[LaserSVT]

[Craizie]

Because they even stopped smaller, independent theaters from playing it and are saying they won't release it on digital (VOD, DVD, BluRay).

LOL

So they can release a movie to a $30,000 opening weekend. I'm sure that would be great.

[71chevellejohn]

I'm not sure why anyone is blaming Sony for this. Why would they release a movie MOST US theaters are refusing to play it?

Sony was in control of the release. They are the ones that allowed the major chains to back out of their contractual agreements. If the theaters refused to show, then Sony would either end up with a payout or in court against the theater chains.

[Craizie]

Sony was in control of the release. They are the ones that allowed the major chains to back out of their contractual agreements. If the theaters refused to show, then Sony would either end up with a payout or in court against the theater chains.

How do you think that would have ended???

[jluv]

I read a long statement by Sony yesterday that said they still have every intention of releasing the film (in some way), and that it was the theaters who fucked this up, and that they absolutely did speak with the white house on numerous occasions, even though Obama says they didn't. They said pretty plainly that they back the First Ammendment and that caving to NK is chickenshit and dangerous. The statement made sense. If the theaters won't show it, they couldn't release it in theaters. It may go straight to disk or Netflix, or whatever. I bet it will be very soon.

[Broncojohnny]

I read a long statement by Sony yesterday that said they still have every intention of releasing the film (in some way), and that it was the theaters who fucked this up, and that they absolutely did speak with the white house on numerous occasions, even though Obama says they didn't. They said pretty plainly that they back the First Ammendment and that caving to NK is chickenshit and dangerous. The statement made sense. If the theaters won't show it, they couldn't release it in theaters. It may go straight to disk or Netflix, or whatever. I bet it will be very soon.

Pretty much what I expected. Even the part about how our wonderful president talks out of both sides of his mouth so he can look like he has a foreign policy.

[jluv]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6356956

[GhostTX]

I read a long statement by Sony yesterday that said they still have every intention of releasing the film (in some way), and that it was the theaters who fucked this up, and that they absolutely did speak with the white house on numerous occasions, even though Obama says they didn't. They said pretty plainly that they back the First Ammendment and that caving to NK is chickenshit and dangerous. The statement made sense. If the theaters won't show it, they couldn't release it in theaters. It may go straight to disk or Netflix, or whatever. I bet it will be very soon.

Except there WERE theaters that wanted to show it, and Sony pulled the movie. Why not let those that wanted to show it, show it?? There's plenty of movies that have "limited release". This would have been a de facto one.

[GhostTX]

So they can release a movie to a $30,000 opening weekend. I'm sure that would be great.

Versus $0?

Put the movie out there. With all the hype, they'd gotten their money back.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

yall are acting like it was going to make money going against American Sniper and Unbroken.

I'm almost thinking that Sony is really behind #gop to cover for the initial hack and as an insane publicity stunt gone wrong as a reason to pull a poorly reviewed film out of the Christmas release lineup. So they can release it in Jan or Feb against less competition

[Craizie]

Versus $0?

Put the movie out there. With all the hype, they'd gotten their money back.

"Worst opening of any major movie, ever" The head lines read...