Sony Pictures has cancelled the Christmas Day release of its movie

By: Doualy Xaykaothao, KERA News.

Sony Pictures has cancelled the Christmas Day release of its movie— The Interview, a comedy about the attempted assassination of North Korea’s leader.  This followed reports that U-S intelligence officials determined Pyongyang was behind the latest cyber-attacks on Sony. KERA’s Doualy Xaykaothao talked with North Texas movie-goers about the decision.

Plano-based theater chain Cinemark won’t comment on why it decided to pull THE INTERVIEW before Sony did.   but listen to the interview with actors  James Franco and Seth Rogen in the trailer, and you get the idea…

FRANCO AND ROGEN:  “We got the interview! The CIA would love it if you could take him out. HUMH. Like for drinks…you want us to kill the leader of North Korea? What? ”

Sony, in a statement, said it’s been a victim of an unprecedented criminal assault, referring to the hackers who revealed company secretes and threatened  9/11-style  attacks if the movie opened on December 25th.
Sony’s decision angered avid Dallas movie-goer Tamaya Seaphus

SEAPHUS:  “I think it’s ridiculous, I think that people take things too serious. I think if people laughed more there would be less violence.”
She doesn’t think the threats are credible.

SEAPHUS:  “I don’t believe that. That’s stupid. Put it out and let people laugh. Let the people be the judge…I think it will be positive.”

Seaphus works at Northpark. The AMC manager there confirmed that a screening of THE INTERVIEW planned for tonight had been canceled, but didn’t say why.

Larry Bankston brought his three kids, Kingdom, Christian and Heaven to see another new movie— The Hobbitt. Waiting for his wife, he said Sony is jumping the gun.

BANKSTON:  “We don’t even know the outcome of the movie, I mean they could become friends…it could have a message that bridges the gap between North Korea and America, you just never know.”

Here’s another AMC customer, Jonathan Blanchard.

BLANCHARD:  “The way I kind of look at it, is, hackers are all usually about causing chaos, and not actual violence.”

For now, SONY says there are no plans to release the film in any form. The cancellation of this new release could cost the company as much as 50 million dollars.
Doualy Xaykaothao, KERA News.