Associated Press | Thursday December 25, 2014 | 20:43 hrs
New York – The critics and audiences agree that ‘The Interview’ is far from being a masterpiece but thanks to the threats of hackers that almost prevented its release, it has become a phenomenon in independent cinemas.
On Thursday, hundreds of cinemas of The Edge 8 in Greenville, Alabama, the Bijou by the Bay in Traverse , Michigan Michael Moore comedy premiered Seth Rogen and James Franco on a plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Sony Pictures had canceled the premiere after major theater chains refused to show the film that originally planned to reach 3000 rooms.
But after President Obama and others criticized decision, Sony executives changed their minds. ‘The Interview’ became publicly available in various digital platforms on Wednesday afternoon, including Google Play, YouTube Movies, Video Microsoft Xbox and a site created by Sony. While Sony and several independent cinemas agreed to release the film in 300 theaters on Christmas Day.
“We are speaking for freedom,” said the manager Lee Peterson Village East Cinema in Manhattan, where most of the functions of Thursday had sold out. “We want to show the world that can not tell Americans what they can or they can not see. Personally I’m not scared. “
In some cinemas showing ‘The Interview’ would be more normal to see in their programming a documentary about North Korea a simplistic comedy about the Asian country. In the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico, owned by the author of ‘Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin, the program includes the 1995 Spanish film ‘Flamenco’ by Carlos Saura, local film ‘The Twilight Angel’ and Italian film festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which will begin presenting ‘The Interview’ today, will shortly make a tribute to the Swedish director of ‘Force Majeure’ Ruben Ostlund and submit the documentary about the Nobel Prize Isaac Bashevis Singer.
The very story of ‘The Interview’ has been developed as a Hollywood comedy in which a caricature farce steals attention to more serious movies opening this week in the US as ‘Selma’, a drama about the struggle for Civil Rights, 1965; Angelina Jolie adaptation of the popular history of the Second World War ‘Unbroken’; and stellar version of ‘In The Forest’ by Stephen Sondheim.
But the possibility that attacks occurred during performances of the tape was taken more seriously by the film industry by the authorities. Last week the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying that no plausible threats.
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