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LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 04:39 PM Dec 2014

Paramount Blocks 2004 Movie 'Team America' From Being Shown In Theaters

Source: Talking Points Memo

Several movie theaters that were planning to show the 2004 comedy "Team America: World Police" because Sony Pictures had bailed on the release of another North Korea-themed movie, "The Interview," said on Thursday that Paramount Pictures had cancelled their screenings of the puppet movie.

Sony Pictures cancelled the Dec. 25 release of "The Interview" on Wednesday after major theaters chains backed out, following threats from alleged North Korean hackers.

As a replacement, theaters such as the Texas Alamo Drafthouse decided to screen "Team America" instead, as it contained similar mockery of the North Korean regime.

But on Thursday afternoon, several theaters, including the Drafthouse, announced that Paramount Pictures had pulled their "Team America" screenings.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paramount-pictures-pulls-team-america-the-interview

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Paramount Blocks 2004 Movie 'Team America' From Being Shown In Theaters (Original Post) LanternWaste Dec 2014 OP
What a joke. Renew Deal Dec 2014 #1
Team America: World Police (6/10) Movie CLIP - Kim Jung I'm So Ronery (2004) HD big_dog Dec 2014 #13
Is there something we are not being told? SansACause Dec 2014 #2
Half of me thinks the studios are insuring themselves from a snowstorm of embarrassing e-mails LanternWaste Dec 2014 #3
Have you never seen that shocking 1984 documetary film 'Red Dawn'? IveWornAHundredPants Dec 2014 #4
Being that this is about North Korea, christx30 Dec 2014 #7
Blackmail material in all those emails. Guarantee you that's it. NYC Liberal Dec 2014 #6
Well that's it then LiberalLovinLug Dec 2014 #5
A nickel says they found some serious blackmail material Android3.14 Dec 2014 #8
...and the home of the brave! frylock Dec 2014 #9
Paramount now on the boycott list? X_X PatrynXX Dec 2014 #10
So if we did this while Hitler was in power PatrynXX Dec 2014 #11
Heh ...fucking stupid asses. L0oniX Dec 2014 #12
First of all, I had the misfortune of seeing this movie in 2004 R Merm Dec 2014 #14
That movie is a bigoted piece of junk JonLP24 Dec 2014 #15
 

big_dog

(4,144 posts)
13. Team America: World Police (6/10) Movie CLIP - Kim Jung I'm So Ronery (2004) HD
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 08:15 PM
Dec 2014

I guess musicals are now being censored too

SansACause

(520 posts)
2. Is there something we are not being told?
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 04:59 PM
Dec 2014

Why on earth would anyone be so terrified of a terrorist attack from North Korea on US soil?

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
3. Half of me thinks the studios are insuring themselves from a snowstorm of embarrassing e-mails
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 05:03 PM
Dec 2014

Half of me thinks the studios are insuring themselves from a snowstorm of embarrassing and leaked e-mails, the other half of me thinks the North Koreans have an implicit threat contained in a nasty virus we haven't quite solved yet. I honestly don't believe it's predicated on fear at all (other than the possible fear of a few highly-placed Sony execs and some studio producers getting caught with their hands where they shouldn't be-- and that's more a 'bottom-line on the spreadsheet' thing).

christx30

(6,241 posts)
7. Being that this is about North Korea,
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 05:35 PM
Dec 2014

the 1984 Red Dawn would not apply. The 2012 version is the one that we need to worry about. North Korea is the military that is attacking and subduing the US military in that one. They killed Chris Hemsworth in that one. It was a slight exaggeration of North Korea's capabilities. No one is capable of actually killing Chris Hemsworth. He's Thor.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
11. So if we did this while Hitler was in power
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 06:38 PM
Dec 2014

This parody would never exist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3S8Zx1GfDrM


smh yep the terrorists have won. time to pull the troops back. the movies have given up.

R Merm

(405 posts)
14. First of all, I had the misfortune of seeing this movie in 2004
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 09:22 PM
Dec 2014

and it was not funny, so no loss in of it being pulled. I think what they are concerned about is that the american public would not only stay away from The Interview or Team America, but they would stay away from any Theater where one of these movies is being shown, thus destroying the Holiday movie season.

This year the NC State Fair had people staying home because of Ebola fears, so if they stayed away for something lame like that they would surely stay away for a threat like this.

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