The Sony polmico film about the North Korean leader reaches 300 US theaters and various digital platforms
The spectators waited on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles in front of one of the 300 independent theaters across America who have been encouraged to show Interview were rewarded. At the beginning of the first projection, after midnight, Seth Rogen, co-star and co-director of the tape that has angered North Korea appeared to thank the public.
“If it were not for people like you this, literally, there will be past, “celebrated Rogen, beer in hand and accompanied by Evan Goldberg, who co-directed the film about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.
Last week, the threat of North Korea led to the producer, Sony, announcing that it was withdrawing the tape. After that even President Barack Obama criticized the decision to Sony, the film is turned into a symbol of freedom of expression. And propici one inslita alliance between a powerful producer, digital platforms and independent cinemas.
pequeas were rooms that Sony managed to accept a “limited release” First. The sign “Sold” hung in many of the sessions before the premiere.
New Yorkers could see yesterday Interview in three pequeos independent cinemas in the neighborhoods of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. The session on the morning of Christmas in da room located a couple of blocks from Union Square ripped with tickets to sell.
“It’s been OK, entertaining” sealaba halfheartedly one of the spectators that she came to the cinema expecting at least rerse. The general opinin is that Kim Jon A North Korean dictator, not out too badly. “Bad or good, even if passed, is entertainment and not censor it made sense,” said another attendee. Removing the frenzy generated, some admit that perhaps had not been interested in going to see it so soon.
There was no police presence at the doors of theaters in the morning session. Interview result being a film it is: a satire to take out. “It’s what esperbamos, a comedy of Franco and Rogen” commented two spectators of Williamsburg Cinemas. Passes for Cinema Village were exhausted for afternoon sessions, as in Brooklyn, but had tickets for the night.
Some who chose to go to the movies this gives family celebration they did the film on s but to defend freedom of expression. “Although not the tpica defending the right of people to express themselves freely, remains an opportunity for all, as pas, say that we will not tolerate freedom of expression of the people is threatened,” explained the pblica Radio NPR Josh Levin, owner of the West End Cinema, a separate cinema Washington. Levin acquired one although it is a commercial film away from what is usually programmed copy.
The defense of freedom of expression LLEV to digital payment platforms such as Google, YouTube Movies and start Microsoft Xbox surprise distribute the film one day before its release in theaters, multiplying its potential audience. But it is to be seen whether the distribution online compensate for loss of income when stopped premiere scheduled in 3,000 theaters.
“We can not allow a handful of people determine the limits of freedom of expression in another country, “he said in a statement David Drummond, Google legally responsible. “Regardless of how silly it may be content.”
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