{"id":183324,"date":"2014-12-24T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/24\/so-the-interview-is-going-to-be-released-after-all\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T03:05:00","slug":"so-the-interview-is-going-to-be-released-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/24\/so-the-interview-is-going-to-be-released-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"So, The Interview is Going to be Released After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And suddenly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-30589472\">I have no urge at all to see the film<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A comedy film about North Korea that had its Christmas Day launch cancelled after a major cyber attack and threats against US cinema-goers is now to get a limited theatrical release, Sony says.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Interview will be shown in some independent US cinemas on Thursday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sony Chairman Michael Lynton said he was &#8220;excited&#8221; that the comedy, about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, would now be seen.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Two cinemas in Atlanta and Austin have already revealed screenings.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any urge I had to see the movie has vanished, but I am now seriously considering Will Bunch tweeted tongue in cheek conspiracy theory:<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\"><p>Elevator pitch: Slapstick comedy about worst movie ever made becoming box-office smash when it&#8217;s hacked by North Korea<br \/>\u2014 Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Will_Bunch\/status\/547487155459993600\">December 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And suddenly I have no urge at all to see the film: A comedy film about North Korea that had its Christmas Day launch cancelled after a major cyber attack and threats against US cinema-goers is now to get a limited theatrical release, Sony says.The Interview will be shown in some independent US cinemas on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}