HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher mocked political correctness and Sony’s pulling of “The Interview” on Friday. “If there was a theme to the news in the time we were off, it would be ‘no joking, no joking.’ There are
It has long been suspected that the hackers who worked Sony Pictures over, ostensibly to punish it for insulting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in a satirical film called “The Interview,” involved some assistance from insiders. The self-identified primary
In response to new sanctions placed on North Korea by the United States Friday over its alleged involvement in a cyberattack against Sony Pictures, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement hailing the Obama administration for its action but questioning the effectiveness of the new sanctions.
The United States placed new sanctions on North Korea Friday in retaliation for what it claims is the country’s involvement in the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
A Florida kid called 911 over Christmas break because he couldn’t log into the Xbox and Playstation Networks to play with his friends.
(Reuters) – U.S. investigators believe that North Korea likely hired hackers from outside the country to help with last month’s massive cyberattack against Sony Pictures, an official close to the investigation said on Monday.
FBI agents were briefed Monday by one of the world’s leading cyber intelligence firms, who claim that the evidence being gathered in connection with the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment points to a former employee of the studio, rather than North Korea, as the perpetrator of the hack.
The Sony Pictures comedy The Interview took in $15 million from Video on Demand online streaming through Saturday, making the film the studio’s most profitable online release ever.
Victor Cha, Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and Senior Adviser and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that he believes the Sony hack came from North Korea and was more sophisticated than anything they
Evidence released by the Obama administration pointing to North Korea as the culprit behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment is hardly conclusive, a number of private security researchers told The New York Times.
North Korea lashed out at the United States on Saturday, blaming the American government for widespread Internet outages reported in the country and hurling a racial slur at President Obama.
In what may be the silliest argument for not seeing The Interview, Vox’s Max Fisher argues that seeing it actually helps Kim Jong-Un.
Now that The Interview has finally been released, the nation’s top film critics are weighing in with their thoughts on the controversial film.
DVD copies of the 2004 film Team America: World Police are currently sold out at at least three major retail outlets in the wake of the Christmas Day online release of the Sony Pictures comedy The Interview.
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s The Interview debuted on Christmas Eve at number 1 on YouTube Movies, Google Play, and Microsoft’s Xbox Video. With horrible reviews, the movie would have been a financial dud if the Sony hack never happened. Sony will recover about half its investment by moving the first release of The Interview directly to Internet distribution. But the Google’s savvy move may revolutionize movie industry distribution and doom the theater chains that refused to screen the movie.
The Interview is a hit with pirates. The now-infamous Sony Pictures comedy has already been illegally downloaded over 200,000 times in its first 10 hours of release, file-sharing news website TorrentFreak told Breitbart News Thursday morning.
As one of the nations with the closest relationship to the extremely isolated North Korean government, many have been closely following the reaction of the Chinese government to developments surrounding the hacking of Sony corporate servers. China’s official statements have been limited in their scope, though the state has heavily censored news surrounding the hack and, particularly, accusations that North Korea orchestrated it.
This article was originally written by Marc Rogers and posted at Daily Beast: So, “The Interview” is to be released after all. The news that the satirical movie—which revolves around a plot to murder Kim Jong-Un—will have a Christmas Day
Since Sony Pictures reversed its decision not to release the controversial movie “The Interview,” local theater owner Bunny Khorana’s phone has been ringing off the hook at Manassas 4 Cinemas.
Sony’s decision to offer a limited release of The Interview on Christmas Day reportedly has exhibitors upset at the logistical nightmare.
Although big names like Judd Apatow, Rob Lowe and Aaron Sorkin loudly and publicly backed Sony Pictures and “The Interview” against the North Korean cyber-terrorists trying to tear the studio into pieces, George Clooney still puffed himself up as Hollywood’s
It’s been a rough year for the Hollywood film industry, even before Sony Pictures’ decision to pull The Interview from its scheduled December 25 release date in the wake of a massive cyberattack.
As so many on the political right and left join together to condemn Sony Pictures for not releasing “The Interview,” forgotten in the controversy is the fact that it is not just millionaire executives and pampered celebrities exposed like a
In an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Sony Pictures attorney David Boies said that the film studio would inevitably release the scrapped comedy The Interview, although he said it remained unclear how the studio would ultimately distribute the
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union with Candy Crowley,” President Barack Obama said if Sony had called him he would have called up the theater chains and found out “what the story was.” Obama said, “Well look, I was pretty
On Saturday, Jeanine Pirro, host of the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” argued that President Obama was to blame for the pulling of “The Interview,” not Sony. “Tonight America capitulates to a North American thug in a wuss
US News and World Report Chairman and Editor-in-Chief and publisher of The New York Daily News, Mort Zuckerman declared that it was “appropriate” to pull “The Interview” from theaters due to threats of violence on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” “There is clearly
Obama’s national security team is weighing a range of options in response to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said. Earnest told reporters on Dec. 18 that the White House is considering a “proportional
Actor Sean Penn argued that a boycott of the distributors of “The Interview” “should be considered” to support “free speech and free thinking” on Friday’s “Hardball” on MSNBC. “We have to realize that this is a genuine emergency, this is
Friday Sony Pictures released at statement about the Christmas release of “The Interview”: Sony Pictures Entertainment is and always has been strongly committed to the First Amendment. For more than three weeks, despite brutal intrusions into our company and our
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.
