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Theaters cancelling premiers of 'The Interview' due to threats from Bowl Cut Jr.

By Dan Calabrese ——--December 17, 2014

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We've already heard the purported connection between North Korea and the hacker attacks against Sony, which were supposedly spurred by the release of The Interview. But now further threats of terror attacks by North Korea (or at least agents acting out of their extreme admiration of Bowl Cut Jr.) are prompting theaters to get awfully skittish about the film's upcoming premier.
If you haven't read up, it's a comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco about two chuckleheads hired by the CIA to go to North Korea for the ostensible purpose of interviewing Kim Jong Un, but actually on a mission to kill him using some sort of poison handshake thingy. Sony has told nervous theater owners that if they don't want to honor their contracts to show the film because they're afraid of being hacked and/or blown up, they're free to bail. A lot are bailing:
“The world will be full of fear,” the terrorists promised on Tuesday, in addition to releasing another batch of pilfered Sony files. “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.) Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.” By “the places,” they mean theaters showing “The Interview.” They’re threatening to attack those theaters with such force that people who merely live nearby risk injury and death. The correct term for these people has always been “terrorist” – the basic theory of intimidation through criminal injury holds up even when the injury is delivered through non-violent online espionage, and the victims are wealthy studio executives, along with their decidedly not-wealthy lower-level employees. (Maybe the saga of the Sony hack might teach some liberals a valuable lesson about how retribution directed at the rich hurts a whole lot of hard-working people in their employ.) Now that the North Koreans have escalated to threats of physical violence against American citizens – an act of war, if the North Korean government’s wink-wink denials of involvement don’t hold up – there should be no further doubts that this is a terrorist attack, and has been all along.
You can't really blame the theater owners, once it got to this point, not to want to risk their own lives or those of their employees. But for God's sake, how many movies in the history of cinema have satirized or just outright offended someone for the purpose of comedy, making a point or whatever? Is that what we've come to? Is anything that pushes the envelope now out of bounds because whoever is getting skewered will threaten violence and everyone will back down? Also, I couldn't help but wonder this: Would Bowl Cut Jr. have made a threat like this when Bush and Cheney were still in charge? I put it to you, Greg! But they're not, so perhaps the most likely outcome here is for Obama to approach Bowl Cut Jr. and offer to normalize relations in exchange for nothing whatsoever. It seems to be the theme of the day.

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