Cinemas want to show parody but Kimball – oe24.at

Notwithstanding anonymous stop threats want to show the political satire “The Interview” as scheduled on Christmas Day, several US independent cinema. As first announced two cinemas in the states of Texas and Georgia on Tuesday in online social networks to make use of the strip into the program.

“Victory!” tweeted the boss of a movie theater in Austin, Texas. The film company Sony authorized a limited release of the film in US cinemas. An anonymous hacker attack and mysteriously stop threats against US theaters had moved Sony in the past week, initially planned for Thursday to cancel the film’s release of “The Interview”. According to the findings of the FBI, the governance of North Korea is behind the attack. The film is about a fictional assassination plot against the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

On Tuesday, Sony CEO Michael Lynton announced surprisingly, “The Interview” with James Franco and Seth Rogen should now but in the first Christmas Day are shown in a limited number of US theaters. “We have the idea never gave up, ‘The Interview’ to bring out and are happy that our film for Christmas comes in several cinemas,” said Lynton. On Monday, a coalition of some 250 US theaters Sony had asked in an online petition to allow them to show the film.

In the center of the affair is a group called Guardians of Peace (GOP ), was the end of November a cyber attack on Sony launched and published internal documents and e-mails. A few days ago, the group said, because of the parody “The Interview” ominous threats and recalled the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. Then decided several cinema chains to take the film out of the program. In Germany, the film should be released in the beginning of February, according to the original plan.

On Monday, the Internet was in North Korea for hours failed on Tuesday was the country according to Internet security experts again many a good hour cut off from the global data network , The incident led to speculation that there could be a US cyber attack.