Nation's Top 5 Theater Chains Won't Show 'the Interview'

[Nellore Pedda reddy]

 

North America's top five theater chains have bowed out of The Interview, choosing not to show the comedy after hackers that have bedeviled Sony Pictures for nearly a month vaguely threatened attacks against any cinemas that show it, Mashable has confirmed.

 

Regal, AMC, Cinemark and Cineplex joined Carmike, which made its decision Tuesday night. The top five, which hold a vast chunk of the nation's theaters, caved in the face of the hackers' threat, which the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday was not credible.

 

Sony did not immediately comment on the development. Statements from the theater chains were forthcoming, Mashable has learned.

 

The four chains represent nearly 22,000 screens at roughly 1,600 locations across the U.S., nearly enough alone to open a film in what's considered a wide release all by themselves. Sony quietly told theaters on Tuesday night that it was going ahead with The Interview as planned, but that individual theater chains could decide for themselves whether to exhibit it.

 

The threat came Tuesday along with a new batch of hacked emails, mostly from the keyboard of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton. Though those emails have yielded nothing like the trove of embarrassing correspondence from the past few weeks, they came with this ominous message

 

Warning

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.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.

 

In the hours that followed, reports surfaced that Sony was considering scrapping the movie, but that turned out to be false; instead, the studio told the National Association of Theater Owners that it was up to theaters to decide for themselves whether to show The Interview.

[Hyderabad_Nawab]

 

North America's top five theater chains have bowed out of The Interview, choosing not to show the comedy after hackers that have bedeviled Sony Pictures for nearly a month vaguely threatened attacks against any cinemas that show it, Mashable has confirmed.

 

Regal, AMC, Cinemark and Cineplex joined Carmike, which made its decision Tuesday night. The top five, which hold a vast chunk of the nation's theaters, caved in the face of the hackers' threat, which the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday was not credible.

 

Sony did not immediately comment on the development. Statements from the theater chains were forthcoming, Mashable has learned.

 

The four chains represent nearly 22,000 screens at roughly 1,600 locations across the U.S., nearly enough alone to open a film in what's considered a wide release all by themselves. Sony quietly told theaters on Tuesday night that it was going ahead with The Interview as planned, but that individual theater chains could decide for themselves whether to exhibit it.

 

The threat came Tuesday along with a new batch of hacked emails, mostly from the keyboard of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton. Though those emails have yielded nothing like the trove of embarrassing correspondence from the past few weeks, they came with this ominous message

 

Warning

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.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.

 

In the hours that followed, reports surfaced that Sony was considering scrapping the movie, but that turned out to be false; instead, the studio told the National Association of Theater Owners that it was up to theaters to decide for themselves whether to show The Interview.

 

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[Nellore Pedda reddy]

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cinema budget kante ekkuva nashtam vachindi cinema valla sony vallaki 

[Krish]

ardham kaledu?...aa leaked emails ki deeniki em link..

[SeemaLekka]

2 lines lo matter pls

[arshad]

cinema budget kante ekkuva nashtam vachindi cinema valla sony vallaki 

[tom bhayya]

:3D_Smiles_38:

[Nellore Pedda reddy]

ardham kaledu?...aa leaked emails ki deeniki em link..

 

threat vachindi hackers nunchi 9/11 type attacks chestham ani

 

The threat came Tuesday along with a new batch of hacked emails, mostly from the keyboard of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton. Though those emails have yielded nothing like the trove of embarrassing correspondence from the past few weeks, they came with this ominous message

 

Warning

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.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.

[ARYA]

:3D_Smiles_38:

[Nellore Pedda reddy]

2 lines lo matter pls

 

terror threat from hackers....9/11 type attacks chestham movie ni screen chesthe ani....anduke premiere kuda cancelled 

[Krish]

 

threat vachindi hackers nunchi 9/11 type attacks chestham ani

 

The threat came Tuesday along with a new batch of hacked emails, mostly from the keyboard of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton. Though those emails have yielded nothing like the trove of embarrassing correspondence from the past few weeks, they came with this ominous message

 

Warning

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.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.

 

 

vodiamma...ee rachha endi??

[mukunda1]

bammardi...nijamga nenu sony ni hack sesndi NK hackers anukole.

 

[Nellore Pedda reddy]

vodiamma...ee rachha endi??

 

evvadu thaggatledu.....cinema ni etlagaina release cheyyalani planning sony vallu....homeland security valla info prakaram threat em ledu antha buss ani

 

but cinema aapesthe mathram US lo cinema release aapinchina credit vasthadi N korea vallaki 

[Nellore Pedda reddy]

bammardi...nijamga nenu sony ni hack sesndi NK hackers anukole.

 

 

valle chesaru ani ee racha choosaka anipisthundi 

[Jesse_Pinkman]

e scene lo kim gadni champestaru anta anduke valaki kali threatening anta