In an interview set to air on Friday night with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton denied his studio had “caved” in cancelling the opening of “The Interview.” “The president, the press, and the public are mistaken as
Friday at his year-end news conference before leaving for his annual holiday vacation in Hawaii, President Barack Obama, in answering a question about the Sony film “The Interview” being pulled from theaters due to threats of terrorism, mistakenly called actor James
In his last press conference of 2014, President Barack Obama blamed Sony for pulling The Interview after hacking attacks and terror threats from North Korea. Yet not only did President Obama do and say nothing to defend Sony at the time, he
President Obama explained he believed Sony “made a mistake” by deciding not to release their movie The Interview after hackers threatened them. “I wish they had spoken to me first,” he said, when asked his opinion on the matter. “I
George Clooney has once again found a way to insert himself into an international story where he has conveniently cast George Clooney as the lonely heroic crusader of all that is good and brave and righteous. This time he’s not
In an extensive interview with Deadline Hollywood, George Clooney revealed that “a large number of people” in Hollywood refused to sign his simple petition of support for Sony in the wake of the cyber attacks that have crippled the film
The White House, in its usual impotent way, responded to the cyber attack on Sony Studios with a barrage of verbiage. White House spokesman Josh Earnest intoned that the attacks were executed by a “sophisticated actor with malicious intent… We
The FBI claims that the cyberattacks targeting Sony pictures originated from North Korea, but the attack aimed at the film The Interview may have been launched from Iran, China or Russia. The suspicion of the three other countries derives from
On Thursday’s Hugh Hewitt radio show, conservative commentator Mark Steyn, author of “The Undocumented Mark Steyn,” said the actions by Sony Corporation not to face down apparent threats from North Koreans was a bad sign for the so-called power of American
On Thursday’s “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart reacted to the decision by Sony to cancel the release of next week’s “The Interview” due to apparent hacking and threats that have come from North Korea over the films controversial content.
When did it become the job of theater owners and movie stars to respond to terrorist threats by rogue nations? Don’t we elect a president to do that job? After what may be the most costly, and certainly the most
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton argued that those who have cyberattack capability “will use it” and that “the United States does not have adequate offensive cyberwarfare capabilities” on Thursday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. Bolton stated that
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki declined to dub the hacking of Sony as “cyberterrorism” terming it a “cyberhack” and arguing that there isn’t any point in “putting new labels on it” on Thursday’s “The Lead” on CNN. She added, “I
A leaked scene from the now-scrapped film The Interview may shed some light on just what angered the hacking group Guardians of Peace into sabotaging the Sony Pictures release. According to Roger Friedman at Showbiz 411, the scene in question
The Sony Pictures hack, which the U.S. State Department believes originated from North Korea, caused both a personal crisis for its employees and a potential national security crisis for the United States. One effect of the hack on interpersonal communications within Sony represents a regression
A decision by Sony Pictures to cancel the release of its upcoming movie poking fun at the leader of North Korea was ultimately a result of the Obama administration’s “failure to satisfactorily address the use of cyber weapons by our
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirms reports that administration officials had reviewed the controversial Sony film “The Interview” that features the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Earnest stressed that “there’s no policy of the administration for screening films before
Over a surreptitiously recorded racist conversation, Donald Sterling lost his basketball team. Over an anti-Semitic drunken rant, superstar Mel Gibson was exiled from Hollywood. The media and Hollywood have already established the necessary precedent for firing Sony co-chair Amy Pascal
The White House sternly addressed the hacking incident at Sony, insisting that artists in the movie industry should be allowed the right to free speech. “What I can say is as a general matter, the president and the administration stand
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson declared that the Sony hack was a “very serious” attack “on freedoms that we enjoy in this country” on Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “At this point we’re not prepared to officially say who
Forbes columnist Gordon Chang argued that unless the Obama administration takes serious action, the hacking of Sony will be “just the first” incident of a regime using cyber warfare in an attempt to prevent the publishing of content they don’t
The actual facts of the story do not support the headline and opening paragraph of this Sony leak report in The Independent. My reading of the actual story is that Sony should be applauded for its decision to cast Denzel
The Ukraine crisis weakened relations between the West and Russia, which has forced Moscow to look for allies elsewhere. In his quest for friendly nations, it appears President Vladimir Putin has chosen North Korea, as Putin invited leader Kim Jong Un to Russia’s Victory
Howard Kurtz, Fox News Media Analyst, and host of “MediaBuzz” argued that after Sony pulled “The Interview” following threats made against the film that “there is now nothing to stop other attackers from targeting [anything]…that displeases them, and many, many
The terrorists (they are no longer just hackers) who call themselves The Guardians of Peace (and are likely backed by the North Korean government) wanted “The Interview” dead, and now it is dead. At least for now. Losing stinks, and
