PIRACY OF SONY PICTURES: THE RELEASE OF "THE INTERVIEW THAT KILLS" CANCELLED (SHIFT)

Whereas on 25 December in the U.S., the Sony film rooms, our Interview that kills might know a very small output. Hackers at the origin of recent leaks from the Hollywood studio database come indeed threaten the halls and spectators.

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The New York premiere of the Interview that kills, a film where the actors James Franco and Seth Rogen make North Korea as journalists to assassinate Kim Jong-Un on behalf of the CIA, will not take place. Sony has decided to limit the promotion of the film after receiving threats from the Group of pirates at the origin of its recent setbacks.

"Remember September 11, 2001" said the group, which is paradoxically called Guardians of Peace, in a statement echoed by Variety. Hackers threaten retaliation cinemas which will broadcast the film. "We recommend stay you away from these places at this time there. If you live nearby, you'd better leave. What will happen during the next few days will be bound to the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment"adds the document.

Sony is holding firm, cinemas cancel projections

If Sony has preferred to cancel the premiere scheduled for next Thursday in New York, the release of the film, it is still relevant. However, from many American cinemas have already renounced screen the film. This is the case of Carmike cinemas, which have 278 rooms across 41 States. As actors Seth Rogen and James Franco, they canceled their media appearances Tuesday, announces the AFP.

The publication of these threats has been accompanied by new data leaked Sony servers, whose content has not yet been analyzed. However, the files in question is the name of Michael Lynton, the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Assured that the situation "will not ground" studio.

A scene from the film unveiled by hackers

Among documents leaks of piracy of SPE is one of the key scenes of the film, which it will not unveil the content here, but the violent nature towards Kim Jong-Un is hardly questionable. The pirates announced, in conjunction with the short video clip, exchanges between Sony and the production of the film: the studio considered too violent scene, and the CEO of Sony itself, Kazuo Hirai, asked what the sequence is reviewed. The scene is visible on The Verge, for readers who are not afraid of spoilers.

It would be one example among others: last August, well before the piracy that has shaken Sony Pictures, the media were already state of the delicate situation between the studio and Pyongyang. The film has been reworked several times to try to irritate the least possible North Korea. Sentence lost, some might say: even though the country denies being at the origin of the attacks, considers despite all the film as an "Act of war".

In France, the release of the Interview which kills is scheduled for February 11, 2015.

Last updated on 17/12/2014, 11:37 pm:

Before the growing number of cinemas that have canceled the screening of the interview that kills and always subject to threats from hackers, Sony Pictures finally throws in the towel. The firm announced by press release, it would relinquish the broadcasting of the film.

"With regard to the decision taken by a majority of cinemas to film The Interview, we decided to not to come out in theaters December 25," said Sony Pictures.

Specifying, end of the sentence, "December 25", Sony can be however a way out for a possible later output.

Article originally published on 17/12/2014