The critics and audiences agree that “Crazy interview” (The Interview, in its original title) is far from being a masterpiece. But thanks to the threats of hackers allegedly linked to North Korea threatened to attack theaters and almost prevented its release has become a phenomenon in at least three hundred separate rooms.
Yesterday, hundreds of theaters in New York, Alabama, Chicago and Arizona released the comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco on a CIA plot to assassinate the eccentric Kim Jong Un, the dictator of Stalinist regime of North Korea. In Arizona you could see people formed outside the cinema Valley Art in Tempe, where they had exhausted the tickets for the five functions of the film.
Sony Pictures had canceled the premiere after major theater chains refused to show the film that originally planned to reach 3,000 rooms. But after President Barack Obama, actors and directors criticized the decision, Sony executives changed their minds. The film was also available to the public in various digital platforms including Google Play, YouTube Movies, Video Microsoft Xbox and a site created by Sony.
“We are speaking for freedom, ” said the manager Lee Peterson Village East Cinema in Manhattan, where most of the functions of had sold out Thursday.
We want to show the world that can not tell Americans what they can or they can not see. Personally it’m not afraid, “he added, referring to those who criticized Sony’s initial decision to suspend the release in a specific act of censorship.
Kim Song, a North Korean diplomat for the United Nations condemned the release calling the film as a “mockery unforgivable to our sovereignty and dignity of our Supreme Leader “. But Kim said that North Korea may limit your response to his speech and not take “physical action”. Yesterday, Russia empathized with the Pyongyang regime and said that the North Korean reaction to the American film was “understandable”.
The White House North Korea blamed the attack by hackers who spread thousands of internal emails from Sony revealed data and salaries of their employees and broadcast scripts for future films. North Korea denied responsibility, but on Wednesday suffered a phenomenal computing power outage in its territory, which many saw as the promised response “mode provided” by the US government.
In Argentina, the premiere was scheduled for January 22, although no new date.
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