SONY HACK UPDATE: ‘The Interview’ Facebook, Twitter Accounts Are Deleted
Posted: December 20, 2014 Filed under: Asia, Breaking News, Censorship, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Advertising, California, Chloe, Culver City, DVD, Facebook, Interview (2007 film), North Korea, Sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twitter Leave a commentTodd Spangler reports: The Facebook and Twitter pages for Sony Pictures Entertainment’s “The Interview” — the satirical film at the center of North Korea’s alleged attack on the studio — as of Saturday morning were not accessible.
It’s not clear if Sony deleted the accounts or if hackers had disabled them….(read more)
Here’s One Way to Turn the Cyberattack on Sony Back on North Korea
Posted: December 19, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, War Room | Tags: Assassination, Central Intelligence Agency, Francisco Franco, Interview (2007 film), James Franco, Kim Jong (table tennis), Kim Jong-un, North Korea, Seth Rogen, Sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment Leave a commentDrop ‘The Interview’ on Pyongyang
Sony might fear retribution if it did this, but an alternative would be for the U.S. government to buy the movie rights from Sony and release it into the public domain.
U.S. officials are saying they think North Korea is responsible for the hacking of Sony Pictures, and perhaps also the threats that led the studio to cancel release of “The Interview.” Outsiders aren’t so sure, but the U.S. presumably has evidence others don’t. If the Obama Administration believes the evidence, the question is what it will do about it.
“Chinese netizens love to mock Kim, and North Koreans like to watch movies smuggled across the border from China. Perhaps the CIA could dub the movie into Korean to make sure it gets to its target audience.”
Park Sang Hak, a North Korean defector now living in the South, has an idea. Mr. Park, whom we profiled last year, puts information about the outside world along with movies and television programs on USB drives, which he floats into the North on balloons. The Kim Jong Un regime has labeled him “enemy zero” and sent an assassin to kill him with a poison-tipped pen. For real.
#BREAKING New message to @Sony top execs from hackers: “very wise” decision to scrap movie from theaters via @CNN @brianstelter #SonyHack
— Carol Costello (@CarolCNN) December 19, 2014
Mr. Park wants to include “The Interview” on future balloon launches. But there is another way to make sure that the movie gets the giant audience that Kim fears, even in North Korea: Make it free. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Paramount Bans Showing ‘Team America’
Posted: December 18, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Interview (2007 film), James Franco, Kim Jong-il, Matt Stone, North Korea, Seth Rogen, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Team America: World Police, Trey Parker 1 CommentThree 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….(read more)