{"id":183357,"date":"2014-12-17T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/17\/crap-i-guess-that-im-actually-watch-this-damn-film-now\/"},"modified":"2014-12-17T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T03:41:00","slug":"crap-i-guess-that-im-actually-watch-this-damn-film-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/17\/crap-i-guess-that-im-actually-watch-this-damn-film-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap!   I Guess that I&#8217;m Actually Watch this Damn Film Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time in my life,<sup>*<\/sup> threats of terrorism have pulled a major motion picture from release.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that I <\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s for the James Franco and Seth Rogen farce <i>The Interview<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/18\/business\/sony-the-interview-threats.html\">that has been pulled from screens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday dropped plans for its Christmas Day release of \u201cThe Interview,\u201d a movie that depicts the assassination of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, after receiving a terror threat against theaters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Before that, the four largest theater chains in the United States said they would not show the movie, which has been at the center of a devastating hacking attack on Sony over the last several weeks. In a statement, Sony said: \u201cWe respect and understand our partners\u2019 decision and, of course, completely share their paramount interest in the safety of employees and theatergoers.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday dropped plans for its Christmas Day release of \u201cThe Interview,\u201d a movie that depicts the assassination of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, after receiving a terror threat against theaters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Before that, the four largest theater chains in the United States said they would not show the movie, which has been at the center of a devastating hacking attack on Sony over the last several weeks. In a statement, Sony said: \u201cWe respect and understand our partners\u2019 decision and, of course, completely share their paramount interest in the safety of employees and theatergoers.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hollywood executives never miss a chance to choose the craven path, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>In a development that should surprise no one, &#8220;Senior Administration Officials&#8221; have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/18\/world\/asia\/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html\">confirmed that the hack originated in the DPRK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, James Franco had the best tweet about the cancellation:<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Emmastone?src=hash\">#Emmastone<\/a> kills it in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cabaret\">@cabaret<\/a>!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/alancumming?src=hash\">#alancumming<\/a> is so good I started smoking and slapped his ass. \ud83c\udf32\ud83c\udf32\u2764\ufe0fBye NYC!\u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\udf32\ud83c\udf32<br \/>\u2014 James Franco (@JamesFrancoTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesFrancoTV\/status\/545334696607891456\">December 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is so cool.<\/p>\n<p>For the irony impaired, he tweeted this after the film was puled, and he says <b>nothing at all<\/b> about this.<\/p>\n<p>Epically cool!<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The first time was when the film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammad,_Messenger_of_God\"><i>Mohammad, Messenger of God<\/i><\/a> was pulled as a result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1977_Hanafi_Siege\">1977 Hanafi Siege<\/a>, where hostages were taken in Washington, DC.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2nd time in my life,* threats of terrorism have pulled a major motion picture from release. I guess that I This time it&#8217;s for the James Franco and Seth Rogen farce The Interview that has been pulled from screens: Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday dropped plans for its Christmas Day release of \u201cThe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1052,1065,1051,997,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-crimes","category-entertainment","category-hypocrisy","category-internet","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183357"}],"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=183357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}