HUFFINGTON POST: Moviegoers will be able to see “The Interview” after all. Sony announced on Tuesday that “The Interview” will have a “limited theatrical release” in the United States on Christmas Day…
“We have never given up on releasing ‘The Interview’ and we’re excited our movie will be in a number of theaters on Christmas Day,” Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Entertainment, said in a statement. “At the same time, we are continuing our efforts to secure more platforms and more theaters so that this movie reaches the largest possible audience…
Following terror threats made by hackers against theaters that planned to show “The Interview,” Sony had reportedly told theater owners they could pull the film at their discretion. Last week, after major chains such as AMC Entertainment, Regal Entertainment, Cinemark, Cineplex Entertainment and Carmike Cinemas decided against screening “The Interview,” Sony yanked the comedy from the release schedule. In the days since, the studio also deleted the film’s social media accounts.
“I think actually the unfortunate part is in this instance the president, the press and the public are mistaken as to what actually happened,” Lynton said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Friday, soon after Obama spoke out. “We do not own movie theaters. We cannot determine whether or not a movie will be played in movie theaters. So, to sort of rehearse for a moment the sequence of events, we experienced the worst cyber-attack in American history and persevered for three and a half weeks under enormous stress and enormous difficulty. All with the effort of trying to keep our business up and running and get the movie out to the public.” … (more)
