Sony to release Interview on X-Mas Day

[arely staircase]

http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2014/12/sources-sony-to-ask-theaters-if-they-want-to-open-the-interview-christmas-day-after-all.html/

Surprised?

Update at 3:47 p.m.: We’ve just received a statement from Tim League, founder of the Alamo Drafthouse — which, far as we know, is still the only local theater that has said it will screen The Interview beginning Christmas Day.

[True Blue Door]

1. And it's probably a lame movie anyway.

Remember all the hype over Fahrenheit 9/11 after the Repugs tried to suppress it? Turned out to be mediocre.

For once, it would be nice if people made a provocative film that justified the brouhaha.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Palme d'Or at Cannes, 220 million dollar gross highest of any documentary in history.

Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars. And you call it mediocre, so it all balances out.

[True Blue Door]

8. I call it mediocre because it was mediocre.

I could have made better.

[unrepentant progress]

2. Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men

Let's celebrate with a fun film about killing people. Freedom!

[bigwillq]

3. If you don't like it, don't see it.

But no reason to stop anyone from seeing it. That's what true freedom is!

[951-Riverside]

5. Its called having an opinion. The OP merely having an opinion does not prevent YOU from seeing it...

I'm not going to see it for the same reason I don't see movies like Lone Survivor, Act or Valor, Zero Dark Thirty, I don't like pro-war/exceptionalism propaganda. I saw enough of it after 9/11 and during the Iraq war, I don't want to re-live those years ago.

[Fred Sanders]

6. I think he meant releasing such a film on Xmas day is kind of contradictory on a day of celebration.

Not to mention the contradiction of the about face, on the release.


Obama was right, again, that is what is missing in the whole discussion. And Sony is fixing it as requested.

[Agschmid]

4. Kick.

Good.