North Korean request Chinese government blockade of a funny video

heckler73

heckler73

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NoDrama said:
Are there any good Canadian actors?
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To borrow a quote from Luigi Barzini's book, The Italians.
Orson Welles once acutely observed Italy is full of actors, 50 million of them, in fact, and they are almost all good; there are only a few bad ones, and they are on the stage and in the films.
 
vostok

vostok

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NoDrama said:
Are there any good Canadian actors?
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There is a little dog (0)
reputed to come from Toronto
but with north korea and cannada so similar
its to close to call...lol
the guy who played Kim, Randall Park was worth the watch
or maybe he was the only guy to watch
but with way too many sexist comments

I hold by the above
its a big PR scam

SCORE 3/10​
 
vostok

vostok

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Sony on ‘Interview’ Hitting $1 Million: ‘We Are Extremely Grateful’ to Moviegoers

On the heels of a $1 million-plus Christmas Day launch for “The Interview,” Sony Pictures’ top distribution executive has thanked moviegoers for their support of the controversy-laden political comedy.

“Considering the incredibly challenging circumstances, we are extremely grateful to the people all over the country who came out to experience ‘The Interview’ on the first day of its unconventional release,” said Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony Pictures, in a statement Friday morning.
“The audience reaction was fantastic — the limited release, in under 10% of the amount of theaters originally planned, featured numerous sellouts and a first-day gross over $1 million.”
“The Interview” finished in 15th place for Christmas Day and played at 331 independent theaters in the U.S., following more than a month of intensive news coverage — starting with a massive cyber-attack on Sony, a Dec. 16 threat by hackers to launch a 9/11-style attack on theaters showing the movie, the studio’s decision to withdraw the movie on Dec. 17 and an about-face six days later.

The hacker threat of attacks on theaters — which the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security had said last week was not credible — failed to materialize.
The opening day numbers for “The Interview” were impressive given that Sony launched a VOD release of the film on Wednesday morning via YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and its own http://www.seetheinterview.com site. Major chains such as AMC, Regal and Carmike are refusing to book “The Interview” due to the VOD release.

As a result, “The Interview” wound up playing in smaller venues, and its per screen average for the day came in around $3,000. By comparison, Disney’s “Into the Woods” took in about double that per-screen total as the musical played particularly well in big-city multiplexes.
Overall Christmas Day business was better than expected on three titles — Universal’s “Unbroken” with $15.6 million at 3,131 sites; Disney’s “Into the Woods” with $15.1 million at 2,440; and New Line-MGM’s “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” with $13.6 million at 3,875.

All three are likely to wind up with at least $40 million each for the four-day Christmas weekend.
Angelina Jolie’s war drama “Unbroken” notched the third highest Christmas Day opening in history and the highest Thursday Christmas Day opening.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-on-interview-hitting-1-million-we-are-extremely-grateful-to-moviegoers-1201387484/

so... it was just a PR STUNT?
 
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NoDrama

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"It’s an awfully stupid movie, and by stupid, I don’t mean good-stupid, the kind that makes you laugh so hard you forget to be embarrassed. The Interview is so drenched in flop sweat that anyone seeing it for reasons of patriotism should be saluted."
 
heckler73

heckler73

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vostok said:

“The audience reaction was fantastic — the limited release, in under 10% of the amount of theaters originally planned, featured numerous sellouts and a first-day gross over $1 million.”
“The Interview” finished in 15th place for Christmas Day and played at 331 independent theaters in the U.S.,
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As a result, “The Interview” wound up playing in smaller venues, and its per screen average for the day came in around $3,000. By comparison, Disney’s “Into the Woods” took in about double that per-screen total as the musical played particularly well in big-city multiplexes.
Overall Christmas Day business was better than expected on three titles — Universal’s “Unbroken” with $15.6 million at 3,131 sites; Disney’s “Into the Woods” with $15.1 million at 2,440; and New Line-MGM’s “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” with $13.6 million at 3,875.

All three are likely to wind up with at least $40 million each for the four-day Christmas weekend.
Angelina Jolie’s war drama “Unbroken” notched the third highest Christmas Day opening in history and the highest Thursday Christmas Day opening.


so... it was just a PR STUNT?
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I'm not certain it was set up as a stunt, but it was definitely capitalized upon.
If the Hobbit (is it the finale, yet?) is pulling in ~$3500 per screen in comparison, then it obviously worked.

 
vostok

vostok

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The real embarrassing thing was the whithouse having to use the CIA
thru the efforts of the FBI...please update those FBI o/s to at least windows XP ....pleeeze!​
 
heckler73

heckler73

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Esdreel said:
This is a very funny movie, I watched twice in a row.
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Would you say it is a political movie? Did it inspire you to start a revolution against the CCP? :lol:
I still can't believe something like that is reason for national espionage.
 
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schuylaar

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vostok said:
Sony on ‘Interview’ Hitting $1 Million: ‘We Are Extremely Grateful’ to Moviegoers

On the heels of a $1 million-plus Christmas Day launch for “The Interview,” Sony Pictures’ top distribution executive has thanked moviegoers for their support of the controversy-laden political comedy.

“Considering the incredibly challenging circumstances, we are extremely grateful to the people all over the country who came out to experience ‘The Interview’ on the first day of its unconventional release,” said Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony Pictures, in a statement Friday morning.
“The audience reaction was fantastic — the limited release, in under 10% of the amount of theaters originally planned, featured numerous sellouts and a first-day gross over $1 million.”
“The Interview” finished in 15th place for Christmas Day and played at 331 independent theaters in the U.S., following more than a month of intensive news coverage — starting with a massive cyber-attack on Sony, a Dec. 16 threat by hackers to launch a 9/11-style attack on theaters showing the movie, the studio’s decision to withdraw the movie on Dec. 17 and an about-face six days later.

The hacker threat of attacks on theaters — which the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security had said last week was not credible — failed to materialize.
The opening day numbers for “The Interview” were impressive given that Sony launched a VOD release of the film on Wednesday morning via YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and its own http://www.seetheinterview.com site. Major chains such as AMC, Regal and Carmike are refusing to book “The Interview” due to the VOD release.

As a result, “The Interview” wound up playing in smaller venues, and its per screen average for the day came in around $3,000. By comparison, Disney’s “Into the Woods” took in about double that per-screen total as the musical played particularly well in big-city multiplexes.
Overall Christmas Day business was better than expected on three titles — Universal’s “Unbroken” with $15.6 million at 3,131 sites; Disney’s “Into the Woods” with $15.1 million at 2,440; and New Line-MGM’s “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” with $13.6 million at 3,875.

All three are likely to wind up with at least $40 million each for the four-day Christmas weekend.
Angelina Jolie’s war drama “Unbroken” notched the third highest Christmas Day opening in history and the highest Thursday Christmas Day opening.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-on-interview-hitting-1-million-we-are-extremely-grateful-to-moviegoers-1201387484/

so... it was just a PR STUNT?
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are you serial?..we're talking american jew$. no way.
 
vostok

vostok

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I said it was a PR scam ...​

The Interview makes $15m in online release

Controversial Sony film The Interview has become the number one online movie ever released by the studio just four days after its release on 24 December.

The film raked in over $15m (£9.6m) and was downloaded more than two million times as of 27 December.

The film, about a fictional American plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was initially halted from being released by the studio.

It angered North Korea and was behind a wide scale cyber attack on the studio.

The hack from a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace led to the leaking of confidential information including upcoming movie scripts, confidential emails and actors' salaries.

Sony halted the release after unspecified threats of attacks against theatres and moviegoers.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) later said its investigation into the hacking attack pointed the finger at North Korea. The country denied involvement, but described the hack as a "righteous deed".

Sony said in a statement on Sunday that the movie was made available in the US and Canada through Google services YouTube and Play, Microsoft's Xbox Video and its dedicated website in HD versions for 48-hour rental at $5.99 and for purchase at $14.99.

There was also a "strong turnout" for the movie's limited theatre release, after major US chains backed out of screening it.

Sony's move to cancel the film's release had garnered criticism in the US including from President Barack Obama, who said it meant freedom of expression was under threat.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30620926


..yet another way too train movie fans to get there movies online?​
 
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