Tuesday, December 23, 2014

In selected cinemas: Sony’s “The Interview” free – Bayerischer Rundfunk

Sony Pictures Entertainment makes over from the retired: As the company had withdrawn the controversial political comedy “The Interview” after stop threats and hacker attacks, there was the movie now but for some movie theaters in the US free.

Sony CEO Michael Lynton said, the film starring James Franco and Seth Rogen should now but on Christmas Day in a limited number of US theaters are shown. “We have the idea never gave up, ‘The Interview’ to bring out and are happy that our film on Christmas in a few theaters come,” said Lynton.

On Monday, had a concentration of about 250 US theaters Sony have launched an online petition to allow them to show the film. Cinemas in the states of Texas and Georgia announced already in online social networks, they would take the strips from Thursday into the program. These included the cinema “Alamo Draft House” in Austin and the “Plaza Theatre” in Atlanta.

In the center of the scandal a group called “Guardians of Peace” (GOP) the end of November had launched a cyber attack on Sony and released internal documents and e-mails. A few days ago, the group said, because of the parody of ominous threats and recalled the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. Then Sony said the planned film from start first. The Group thus a loss of half a billion dollars was built according to expert estimates.

The cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment wrote the US Federal Bureau of Investigation North Korea. This sensitive employee data, personal emails and scripts were captured and been put online. The film is about a fictional murder plot against leader Kim Jong Un.

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

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