It has been a long road for ‘The Interview’. Between Sony being hacked and being pulled from theaters, it has finally arrived for our viewing pleasure. Unfortunately, pleasure is not what you will get from watching this movie. The Seth Rogen and Even Goldberg directed film is full of cheap, racist jokes and is in very poor taste. After seeing the movie, I now see that it is all hype and that it is unfortunate that this movie is now the current face of freedom of speech.
After Sony scrapped the Christmas release date of the controversial comedy ‘The Interview’, it looks like audiences will end up being able to see the movie after all.
Sony has given permission for theaters to show the film starting on Christmas day. The major theater chains are still refusing to show the film but Sony has managed to secure about 300 theaters. Many showings have already sold out and analysts are predicting a a four-day-gross of $4 million.
Sony has also announced that audiences will be able rent and buy the movie online through YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Xbox Video and the films website. You can rent the movie for $5.99 or purchase it in HD for $14.99. The film has already shot to the top of the movie charts on many of these platforms.
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Sony Pictures announced yesterday that it would be canceling its release of the James Franco and Seth Rogen film ‘The Interview’ after receiving terrorist threats. Controversy around the film which tells the story of and interviewer and his producer attempting to assassinate the dictator of North Korea has been devastating to the studio. First the studio was hacked, resulting in the leaking of five Sony movies, confidential data and information about its employees and actors. The hack was executed by a group called Guardians of Peace and U.S. officials have found that North Korea is also behind the attack. This group also announced that any theaters showing ‘The Interview’ will experience “9/11” sized attacks. This threat resulted in many theater chains such as Regal and AMC pulling the movie from their theaters and Sony eventually canceling the release. Today Sony released the following statement:
As is being widely reported in the press, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) experienced a significant system disruption on Monday, November 24, 2014. SPE has determined that the cause of the disruption was a brazen cyber attack. After identifying the disruption, SPE took prompt action to contain the cyber attack, engaged recognized security consultants and contacted law enforcement.
SPE learned on December 1, 2014, that the security of certain personally identifiable information about its current and former employees, and their dependents, that participated in SPE health plans and other benefits, and certain production employees potentially may have been compromised. Although SPE is in the process of investigating the scope of the cyber attack, SPE believes that the following types of personally identifiable information that such individuals provided to SPE potentially may have been obtained by unauthorized individuals: (i) name, (ii) address, (iii) social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, and/or other government identifier, (iv) bank account information, (v) credit card information for corporate travel and expense, (vi) username and passwords, (vii) compensation and (viii) other employment related information. In addition, unauthorized individuals may have obtained (ix) HIPAA protected health information, such as name, social security number, claims appeals information submitted to SPE (including diagnosis), date of birth, home address, and member ID number to the extent that the potentially impacted individuals participated in SPE health plans, and (x) health/medical information provided to SPE outside of SPE health plans.
Also on December 1, 2014, SPE began the process of notifying employees that it would be providing identity theft protection services to them and to their dependents. SPE has continued to reach out to potentially impacted individuals with notification about this situation, to offer identity protection services and to provide them with information about how to protect themselves from identity theft and other potential loss. SPE is encouraging potentially impacted employees and former employees to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information, as neither SPE nor anyone acting on its behalf would contact them in any way, including by email, asking for credit card number, social security number/government identifier or other personally identifiable information. Individuals asked for this information can be confident SPE is not the entity asking. To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, SPE encourages potentially impacted employees and former employees to remain vigilant, review account statements, monitor credit reports to the extent available, change passwords and to enroll promptly in the identity theft protection services made available to them by SPE.
The purpose of this press release is to take further steps to make sure that potentially impacted individuals receive this information.
Potentially affected individuals can review the full text of individual notifications and/or obtain information about AllClear ID identity protection services that may be available to them at sonypictures.com or by calling the SPE Information and Support Hotline. The U.S. toll free number is: (866) 361-8961; the international number is: +1 (262) 222-0434.
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