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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: wpeters on December 18, 2014, 09:19:27 AM
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looks like the hackers won this round. :ahand
Kinda sad. Looked like a good comedy
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Here's what happened.
Like 6 huge movie theaters all said they were unwilling to show the movie on Christmas day because they were scared of endangering peoples lives at the box office. Also, they were scared of losing a huge amount of gross income due to people being scared to go to the movies, considering Xmas is a huge movie goer day.
Sony was forced to scrap it because they could not show their movie in the theaters. = no income.
I do believe it was NK who hacked Sony. Who else could it be? And who would stick up for NK anyway? Kim Jung Un was literally all hurt inside that he was being assaniated. Being a man who thinks he is god, it would be unheard of to actually kill him, in his own little mind. So he had to do something to show his "power".
The movie will be leaked, and I'm sure sony will make a few bucks off of it from download torrents and advertising. But I know the actors are probably scared at this point and it has been such a huge debabcle since it began.
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What is for sure NK did a great PR to this movie... now all would want to see it.
BTW: I see this thread is so going to be locked :-)
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Am i wrong, but isn't this film looking more and more like "citizen kane", the movie we're not supposed to see.... Seems a little fishy to me as in I doubt sony is sad over this as it will only serve to propel the movie into a whole new level of taboo.
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Part of me thinks it's a publicity stunt. But Sony is a Japanese company and right across a relatively small body of water is a bunch of nuclear armed loonies who are forced into worshipping a young punk. Sad really, either way it has hyped the movie a lot.
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It hyped the movie greatly, but do I think it will make money for sony.. Nahh, they'd be lucky to get 1/3 back.
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The trailers for make me chuckle. I hope there is some way for me to watch it
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Sony was forced to scrap it because they could not show their movie in the theaters. = no income.
Sony engineered it so they would have a face saving way out without having to look like they gave into the hackers. Before the movie chains started to say they wouldn't show The Interview, Sony told them they could pull the movie without any penalties, knowing the movie theater chains would and then Sony could claim they're pulling the movie because the movie theater chains aren't going to show it.
Sony caved in, they actually did so back in the summer when NK first started to complain. The main honcho of Sony in Japan ordered Sony Pictures to change Little Kim's death scene and had to personally approve the reshot death scene. It was also the Sony president that ordered Sony Pictures to remove any mention of Sony in the movie and in press releases and instead refer to it as a Columbia Pictures release.
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The only way to deal with this is to produce another 20 comedies on Kim Jung Un.
Put the southpark guys on it, they already pulled a number on his father in "Team America". They'll probably have a scene with Bono defecating in KJU's mouth or something in that spirit.
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The company I work for owns a theater that was going to get "The Interview", however, we were really disheartened when Sony pulled it from us. My boss was and still is determined to play that movie. One of our employees recommended getting an old print of "Team America" to play in it's place but Paramount has already denied any theaters from showing it now.
We're trying to use our TV outlet (my division) to see if we can get Sony to change their minds, small chance in hell I know but we're trying. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEmW1Kho4-Y
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Movie looked bad enough to give "The Stupids" a run for it's money and I never would have seen it but pulling it was worse. Of course that is assuming this is all as anonymous as it appears. Their whacked but I wssn't aware North Korea had a strike arm for these sort of things nor the support to prompt one. So the nutbags win and will move to the next thing to create fear over with no more agenda than to be tools.
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Nefarious, I wondered the same thing - It's been super PR for Sony and the film, if all of a sudden Sony pulls a reversal, and says "roll it", I bet a lot of people will go see it just to see what the fuss is all about. I had no, like zero, plans on seeing it, even on DVD/Download, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if the above happened, I'd go see it in the theater now, again, just to see what the hubbub was over.
There's a lot of speculation and stuff out there that NK has been "linked" to the hacking (FBI's exact language), but not directly responsible for it. From what I've read the malware used specifically targeted areas of Sony's network that showed it had to have had prior knowledge from the inside - of course, this could just be another level of hacking, who knows what kind of military capability countries have with computers and networks. For a country with such a handful of net connections even allowed, it does surprise me that NK has such an effective capability to get complete control of such a large and powerful company's network.
I guess the FBI/Sony will release more info as time goes by, whoever did it, it's been very interesting for sure. I wonder what some of the faces of those mentioned in emails in not so flattering light looked like when the heard the news.
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Sony did lay off large portion of their IT department last year because of supposed lapses of proper network security protocol. I'm sure there was a disgruntled IT nerd or two amongst the bunch.
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It's a good thing they postponed it. The last thing we need are all those North Korean terrorists attacking theaters on Christmas.
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They arent terrorists, they are just ronery
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Sony engineered it so they would have a face saving way out without having to look like they gave into the hackers. Before the movie chains started to say they wouldn't show The Interview, Sony told them they could pull the movie without any penalties, knowing the movie theater chains would and then Sony could claim they're pulling the movie because the movie theater chains aren't going to show it.
Sony caved in, they actually did so back in the summer when NK first started to complain. The main honcho of Sony in Japan ordered Sony Pictures to change Little Kim's death scene and had to personally approve the reshot death scene. It was also the Sony president that ordered Sony Pictures to remove any mention of Sony in the movie and in press releases and instead refer to it as a Columbia Pictures release.
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Thats a good point. I could see that.
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I have another scenario for you. The movie sucks.
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This is interesting:
Sony did lay off large portion of their IT department last year because of supposed lapses of proper network security protocol. I'm sure there was a disgruntled IT nerd or two amongst the bunch.
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... the malware used specifically targeted areas of Sony's network that showed it had to have had prior knowledge from the inside - of course, this could just be another level of hacking, ...
Social engineering (or social hacking), i.e. getting a password from a user by pretending to be the IT department, used to be the number one manner in which organizational data was accessed.