I mean who's going to go to a movie wondering if the theater is going to be hit by a terrorist attack?

Is this a credible threat?

FBI says that there is no evidence of a credible threat.

It actually seems like a fairly compassionate decision IMO. I don't see how Sony could have been held liable if an attack had occurred, so they risk a financial loss on the movie itself, and no one has to be put at risk.

Of course, if an attack had occurred at such a screening, then it's possible that future Sony properties would suffer at the box office, but that's hard to say.

Also, apparently Sony's own internal communications express the view that this film is terrible. One wonders how they'd have responded if we were talking about a film that was likely to rake in a billion dollars, rather than a half-assed throwaway comedy.

I do think that they could also have other viewing options such as VoD to sell the movie cheaply instead.

Since you're right, it is just a throwaway comedy.

I doubt Sony has the stuff to manufacture this whole fracas, but use it to put a turkey down? Some of them may be thanking North Korea for giving them a good excuse.

In the end, though, it's not worth the hassle putting the film down this way-- plenty of turkeys with high priced stars get trashed in the normal run of things.

as most theaters are multiplex these days, and this is their biggest season.

"but I can't believe the keyboard heroes here who would so easily risk death and destruction, or even war, over a silly movie."



And I can't believe some North Korean tin-pot dictator would "so easily risk death and destruction, or even war, over a silly movie..."

But I can certainly understand that while some may say "jump", the markets will often respond with "how high?"

I don't care how dastardly and hated Kim Jong Un is....they should have changed the fucking names for this 'comedy'. It's stupid to think that North Korea wouldn't react as they are, stupid to think this sort of hysteria wouldn't happen.

The decision makers at Sony, and those who penned the screenplay aren't heroes. They're idiots.

Right on avalux I never thought these clowns were funny before this movie the word idiot is too kind.

You think sony pulled the movie to save peoples lives? Probably more an attempt to stop more embarrassing and personal info coming out concerning higher ups and celebrities. It's all about Sony's bottom line and image. Film wouldn't have made much money anyway. Of course they'll spun it as them sacrificing something for the safety of audiences.

Given the nasty content of the other emails that were revealed, it's hard to believe that they care about anybody but themselves.

Those hackers must have some super juicy stuff.

don't talk about how they are cowards.

Having built and nurtured a post-9/11 military-police security state, and culture of fear in America, it now seems that Americans may be easily scared off by just about any group of nobodies who wants to threaten a "9/11 style attack".

It doesn't matter whether its a huge corporation like Sony who will lose tens (if not hundreds) of millions as a result of caving into the likes of the "NK terrorists" who couldn't plausibly organize a plane ride home, let alone a series of terror attacks on thousands of movie theatres in the US.

What matters is that Sony understood the marketplace, and understood that Americans are now so fearful that they will stay home in droves over even the most implausible and stupid threats to their personal safety.

Which suggests that maybe having a populace gripped by fear isn't as good for the marketplace, and for business, as corporate America might have initially thought.

Worth pondering, I'd say.

I may get shot an killed just going to the theater, see Aurora. No movies got cancelled after that except at that theater.

I get it, but I think it's an overreaction.