Sony CEO denies caving in to North Korea

Good day all. The fallout from Sony’s decision to pull “The Interview” from release continues. During a press conference yesterday, King Putt announced that Sony had made a bad decision.

According to Breitbart:

President Obama admonished Sony Pictures for cancelling its Christmas Day release of “The Interview.” He went on to say that if the company had called him, he would have told them to stick by the movie.

This caught Sony off guard.

Sony responded later that same day saying they did in fact reach out to the White House.

[Sony Pictures CEO Michael] Lynton reacted to Obama’s comment that he wished Sony had reached out to them. “We definitely spoke to a senior advisor in the White House to talk about the situation. The fact is, did we talk to the president himself? … The White House was certainly aware of the situation.”

Gee, who do I believe here? The CEO of Sony, Michael “Coward of the Country” Lynton, or Barack Obama, who is a proven liar? Gee that’s a tough one isn’t it?

All this is going on as Lynton denies that Sony has caved in to the demands of The North Korean Pipsqueak, Kim Jung-duh.

“We have not caved,” Sony CEO Michael Lynton said today, defending his company from President Obama’s comment that the studio had “made a mistake” in bowing to terrorist demands over the North Korea-skewering The Interview. “We have not caved. We have not given in. We have persevered, and we have not backed down. We have always had every desire to have the American public see this movie.”

Funny, that isn’t what they said a few days ago.

The Interview is over – really and truly. Despite reports floating around other outlets, Sony Pictures will not be putting the now-shuttered pic out on VOD, DVD or any other platform, at least not any time soon. “Sony Pictures has no further release plans for the film,” a studio spokesperson told me today.

One of the reasons they pulled the movie was threats from North Korea that they would pull a “9/11” on movie theaters.

The hacked-apart Sony pulled the James Franco and Seth Rogen film from its December 25 debut date earlier today. That not-unexpected move came after Regal, AMC and other big movie chains announced earlier Wednesday that they wouldn’t show it after hackers threatened potential moviegoers Tuesday with remarks like “remember the 11th of September 2001.”

The reality of this is that North Korea couldn’t have pulled off such an attack. It’s not that they don’t have the capability, they do have one of the largest Special Operations forces in the world, it was the logistics of getting the teams and their equipment into the United States. There is no question that they are dumb enough to try something like this, they simply didn’t have the time to put it all together.

I do see why the major chains chickened out though. They couldn’t take the chance that those loons would try something like shooting up a number of theaters. That doesn’t explain why Sony didn’t just release it as Video on Demand, direct to DVD or release it to independent theaters that weren’t going to back down.

The fact is, Sony caved in to the North Koreans. What’s worse, Paramount, the makers of Team America: World Police also caved in and informed theaters that they would not allow any showings of Team America in case it offended that little jerk with a bad haircut.

Another major change in the movie industry, thanks to the North Koreans, is a new warning label at the beginning of movies. This will replace the one by the Motion Picture Association of America with a new one.

Sony and Paramount have made major mistakes the past week. So have the theater chains. They have shown that they can easily be intimidated and will happily surrender to anyone who makes a threat at them. If they had just stood firm and told the North Koreans to go pound sand, there is very little doubt that “The Interview” would have been a hit. At least until word of mouth about how bad the movie probably is made the rounds.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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