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
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)I guess musicals are now being censored too
SansACause
(520 posts)Why on earth would anyone be so terrified of a terrorist attack from North Korea on US soil?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)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).
IveWornAHundredPants
(237 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)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.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)The terrorists have officially won.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)eom
frylock
(34,825 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)I smell massive lawsuits coming
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)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.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)R Merm
(405 posts)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.