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Thu Dec 18, 2014, 02:49 PM Dec 2014

Paramount Bans Showing ‘Team America’ [View all]

Three movie theaters say Paramount Pictures has ordered them not to show Team America: World Police one day after Sony Pictures surrendered to cyberterrorists and pulled The Interview. The famous Alamo Drafthouse in Texas, Capitol Theater in Cleveland, and Plaza Atlanta in Atlanta said they would screen the movie instead of The Interview but Paramount has ordered them to stop. (No reason was apparently given and Paramount hasn't spoken.) Team America of course features Kim's father, Kim Jong-Il, as a singing marionette.

In 2004, North Korea demanded Team America be banned in the Czech Republic. "It harms the image of our country,'' a North Korean diplomat said then. "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture. Therefore, we want the film to be banned.''

"Obviously, it's absurd to demand that in a democratic country," a spokesman for the Czech Foreign Ministry said at the time.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html

Bunch of fucking cowards.

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Paramount Bans Showing ‘Team America’ [View all] name not needed Dec 2014 OP
This has gone beyond the point of being totally fucking stupid snooper2 Dec 2014 #1
+1 Initech Dec 2014 #3
Land of the freeee, home of the OMG WTF EVERYBODY RUUUN! JaneyVee Dec 2014 #2
NK has the studio execs by the short hairs. AZ Mike Dec 2014 #4
The North Koreans need an abject lesson in the Streisand Effect. nt Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #5
Won't work Bragi Dec 2014 #10
We need independent studios. Dawson Leery Dec 2014 #6
What? Bragi Dec 2014 #8
Fearful America (Pt. 765) Bragi Dec 2014 #7
Naw daredtowork Dec 2014 #9
Hollywood is just one giant pintobean Dec 2014 #11
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