No I'd say gray/grey of some shade, however, those of the Government of Iran are most certainly much darker.
Sony Cancels Theatrical Release for ‘The Interview’
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I am a Sony Shareholder! Therefore it affect me. You so full of shit Fuji. This is about my money fuck your principle !! Sony subsidiaries ( Sony Pictures got hack in USA). I am worry about Sony Corporation that located in Japan ..they maybe hack too. Corporation is about maxmize shareholder value..it not about defending the constitution of the USA.
Can you tell me 100 % that Sony Corporation in Japan did not get hack too!
Imagine the Parent company Sony Corporation employee in Japan got all the personal info and social secruity number stolen too. This is about a business decision not about free speeches or the consitution of the USA. Corporation is about maxmize shareholder wealth and maxmize profit.
Your are so fucking reckless like Obamma go lick Obamma's asshole. World War III can start over a stupid film. USA retaited against North Korea then ..North attack South Korea then USA by treaty obligation defend and attack North Korea. Then China by treaties obligation attack and defend Noth Korea and hence World War III start over a stupid film.
By the way USA / ISArel goverments hack Iran centfigue computer .. Dont anyone see a double standard here? You are the coward here.
PS I think all muslum are terrorist and I am glad they " IRAN " got hack by USA goverments but I do see a double standard here. Plus anyone who is associated in making the film "the interview" should be fired ... the amount of shareholder wealth lost due to this hack is enormous someone have to take blame.
I work at Sony Pictures. This is what it was like after we got hacked.
http://fortune.com/2014/12/20/sony-pictures-entertainment-essay/
An employee of Sony Pictures Entertainment outlines what they went through following North Korea’s alleged cyber attack on the company.
An employee* in the Los Angeles office of Sony Pictures Entertainment SNE -2.65% opened up to Fortune about the personal ordeal they went through following revelations of North Korea’s alleged cyber attack on the company. What follows is their words, condensed and edited for clarity.
***
The Monday before Thanksgiving, we all came to work; some people had turned on their computers and were working. At around 8:15 a.m., that black screen of death came on.
They shut down the entire network. We couldn’t really work the rest of the week, which seemed OK because it was a holiday week. But as Tuesday and Wednesday progressed, it became clear that this wasn’t a simple hack.
Over Thanksgiving, I joked about it. We all thought it might take a while to get our work life back—files, things we have to do before the end of the year.
It wasn’t until Monday or Tuesday of the following week when we realized the extent of it. That’s when we got word that it might take weeks to get back up. Things became more clear when it was revealed what information was released. Around Wednesday or Thursday, people started saying: call your bank, change your passwords, set up a new checking account.
I was completely irate. Once it got personal, it was just, are you kidding me? Seeing the faces of colleagues with families—they’re worried about their life savings, their retirement funds, their kids.
And the blogs were the ones giving us all the information. We got more information from blogs and websites than we did from Michael [Lynton, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment] and Amy [Pascal, co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment].
The company provided us with All Clear ID, which is a security monitoring firm, but some people said that LifeLock was the way to go, and I decided to get it. There’s a reason you pay [$29.99 a month] for it.
That weekend, I set up alerts on all my bank accounts and credit cards. I get a text message about every transaction, and the [smartphone] apps send me notifications on my home screen anytime there’s a charge.
I changed every single password. Five for banking and credit cards. Then for my 401(k), health insurance, three email accounts, and Facebook. I changed them for Amazon, eBay, PayPal, and other shopping sites. In all, it was probably 25 to 30.
A few days later, we were on loaner laptops, pen and paper, recreating PowerPoints, re-creating databases. All the things you’d need when you’re working on any kind of business deal. Word documents, contracts, PDFs. We chugged along. We did as much as we could. But there were certain days that people had to leave the office to do what they had to do personally.
Going forward, I want to know that I won’t get a random $500 charge. I decided that I’m never going to access any of my financial accounts on my work computer ever again. If I need to do something urgently, I’ll use my smartphone, or I’ll go home and do it. It’s not worth the risk.
Some people have gone a little overboard, changing their passports and things like that. For me, money and keeping my finances secure is most important.
It’s taken a toll, mentally—do I have to worry about someone getting a random medical procedure with my benefits? And there’s the frustration at the way the top top brass handled the situation. Why didn’t they provide more for the employees? Why didn’t they bring in security consultants?
You read all these reports about morale being low. I wouldn’t say it’s low. You chug along. But it is like, wow, you always have to look over your shoulder. This is forever.
*The employee’s name has been withheld due to the sensitivity of the ongoing situation.
http://fortune.com/2014/12/20/sony-pictures-entertainment-essay/
An employee of Sony Pictures Entertainment outlines what they went through following North Korea’s alleged cyber attack on the company.
An employee* in the Los Angeles office of Sony Pictures Entertainment SNE -2.65% opened up to Fortune about the personal ordeal they went through following revelations of North Korea’s alleged cyber attack on the company. What follows is their words, condensed and edited for clarity.
***
The Monday before Thanksgiving, we all came to work; some people had turned on their computers and were working. At around 8:15 a.m., that black screen of death came on.
They shut down the entire network. We couldn’t really work the rest of the week, which seemed OK because it was a holiday week. But as Tuesday and Wednesday progressed, it became clear that this wasn’t a simple hack.
Over Thanksgiving, I joked about it. We all thought it might take a while to get our work life back—files, things we have to do before the end of the year.
It wasn’t until Monday or Tuesday of the following week when we realized the extent of it. That’s when we got word that it might take weeks to get back up. Things became more clear when it was revealed what information was released. Around Wednesday or Thursday, people started saying: call your bank, change your passwords, set up a new checking account.
I was completely irate. Once it got personal, it was just, are you kidding me? Seeing the faces of colleagues with families—they’re worried about their life savings, their retirement funds, their kids.
And the blogs were the ones giving us all the information. We got more information from blogs and websites than we did from Michael [Lynton, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment] and Amy [Pascal, co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment].
The company provided us with All Clear ID, which is a security monitoring firm, but some people said that LifeLock was the way to go, and I decided to get it. There’s a reason you pay [$29.99 a month] for it.
That weekend, I set up alerts on all my bank accounts and credit cards. I get a text message about every transaction, and the [smartphone] apps send me notifications on my home screen anytime there’s a charge.
I changed every single password. Five for banking and credit cards. Then for my 401(k), health insurance, three email accounts, and Facebook. I changed them for Amazon, eBay, PayPal, and other shopping sites. In all, it was probably 25 to 30.
A few days later, we were on loaner laptops, pen and paper, recreating PowerPoints, re-creating databases. All the things you’d need when you’re working on any kind of business deal. Word documents, contracts, PDFs. We chugged along. We did as much as we could. But there were certain days that people had to leave the office to do what they had to do personally.
Going forward, I want to know that I won’t get a random $500 charge. I decided that I’m never going to access any of my financial accounts on my work computer ever again. If I need to do something urgently, I’ll use my smartphone, or I’ll go home and do it. It’s not worth the risk.
Some people have gone a little overboard, changing their passports and things like that. For me, money and keeping my finances secure is most important.
It’s taken a toll, mentally—do I have to worry about someone getting a random medical procedure with my benefits? And there’s the frustration at the way the top top brass handled the situation. Why didn’t they provide more for the employees? Why didn’t they bring in security consultants?
You read all these reports about morale being low. I wouldn’t say it’s low. You chug along. But it is like, wow, you always have to look over your shoulder. This is forever.
*The employee’s name has been withheld due to the sensitivity of the ongoing situation.
So am I and half the world, I am also a Sony customer. Claiming that being a shareholder or a customer means you have "skin in the game" is bizarre and stupid. You don't have skin in the game, you are just a loudmouth.
The attempt to suppress the film is an attack on freedom. I will see it the day it comes out, on principle, even if it is a terrible movie. Same way I went to eat lunch in First Canadian Place on 9/11.
Fuck the terrorists.
lol. Baby steps. If Fuji wants to take the George Bush route to fighting terrorism (lets shop our way out of the crisis, that'll show 'em we can't be rattled), more power to him. As for myself, I had no intention of ever seeing this movie before the hack, and I have no intention of ever seeing it after the hack. In other words, absolutely nothing has changed. Nobody123: 1 , North Korea: 0
In your face, terrorists !!
I'm generally disgusted by people who are willing to sacrifice our way of life in order to protect themselves from terrorists. The George Bush approach was to sacrifice a lot of freedoms in the name of "security", freedoms we may not get back. I am repulsed by the cowardice that underlies that sentiment, and will take any opportunity, however small, to assert that I'm not going to live in fear. I would rather be less safe, and more free.
It's not Bush's sacrifice of (everyone else's) freedom in the name of security I was referring to, but his "we're a shiny consumer society, so let's be extra sparkly and consume extra good now. That'll show 'em!" shtick that you are kinda mirroring here when you suggest we "fight terrorism" by seeing some stupid movie. I don't even know whether I disagree with you entirely, really. Just amused by the parallel.
And now to get back on topic... Hollywood's new look:
Sony Brass Worried Over Kim’s Fate in “The Interview” Film, Emails Show
Two months before a hacking attack brought Sony Pictures Entertainment to its knees, the studio endured a crisis of another kind: Japan’s jitters over assassinating the leader of North Korea on the big screen.
Concerns about the style in which Kim Jong-un’s head explodes in a climactic scene in Sony’s film “The Interview” originated from the highest ranks of the global conglomerate.
These worries, expressed in a private email correspondence between the studio chief and the filmmaker, underscore just how sensitive the subject matter was to the Japanese corporation whose country has attempted to open dialogue with its reclusive neighbor.
North Korea, or its sympathizers, are being investigated as suspects in one of the most devastating cyber attacks on a major corporation in U.S. history. While North Korea publicly denied being behind the hack, it praised the perpetrators, and the group claiming responsibility, the Guardians of Peace, demanded Sony halt distribution of what it called “the movie of terrorism.”
Anxiety over the comedy came to light this week, as hackers released gigabytes worth of emails from Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal and from Steven Mosko, president of Sony Pictures Television. The communications are authentic, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. In a series of email exchanges dated Sept. 25, she and filmmaker Seth Rogen discuss how to address worries about Kim’s violent on-screen demise.
“You have the power to help me here,” Pascal wrote to Rogen. “I haven’t the foggiest notion how to deal with Japanese politics as it relates to Korea so all I can do is make sure that Sony won’t be put in a bad situation and even that is subjective.”
Rogen responded: “We will make it less gory. There are currently four burn marks on his face. We will take out three of them, leaving only one. We reduce the flaming hair by 50% … The head explosion can’t be more obscured than it is because we honestly feel that if it’s any more obscured you won’t be able to tell its exploding and the joke won’t work. Do you think this will help? Is it enough?”
In the R-rated comedy, due for release on Dec. 25, two American TV journalists travel to North Korea to interview its young but reclusive leader. Along the way, they’re recruited by the CIA to try and assassinate him. The duo carry out their mission, and Kim dies as a result of a confrontation between a tank and a helicopter played out in slow motion, with many fiery special effects.
Kim’s death was so bloody it apparently prompted Kaz Hirai, CEO of the studio’s parent corporation, to express some unspecified worries, according to the emails. North Korea denounced the film to the United Nations and to President Obama, and called it, among other things, “an act of war.”
Pascal noted, in her correspondence with Rogen, that she has never “gotten one note on anything” from Sony corporation over her 25-year career with the studio. Although she said she acknowledges the circumstances are “embarrassing,” she added, “we haven’t just dictated to you.”
Rogen, the 32-year-old, Canadian-born funny guy and star of comedies like “Knocked Up” and “Pineapple Express,” wrote the following to Pascal: “We will play with the color of the head chunks to try to make them less gross.”
This was part of an exchange that had been going on since at least the summer. Rogen delivered his first revision on July 18, only to hear on Aug. 6 that it had been rejected by Sony brass, which led to the further revisions in September.
Both Sony and Rogen’s representatives declined comment.
The back and forth continued on Sept. 26, when Rogen sent an email containing new video footage. Looking for feedback, Rogen followed up three days later with the subject line: “Is no news good news?”
Pascal responds: “Let’s talk in the am. I need one night without dreaming about head explosions. But I am damn happy.”
On Oct. 6, the epic wrangling over the worrisome 15 seconds of film — a slow-motion sequence set to Katy Perry’s “Firework” in which Kim, played by the actor Randall Park, is fatally incinerated as his helicopter explodes just as he’s about to order the launch of some nuclear missiles — comes to an end.
Rogen writes: “This is it!!! We removed the fire from the hair and the entire secondary wave of head chunks. Please tell us this is over now. Thanks so much!!” The final film sequence, which runs about two minutes, is attached.
Pascal doesn’t answer Rogen directly but forwards his message to other Sony Pictures insiders, including studio CEO Michael Lynton and president Doug Belgrad.
It was about this time that news reports said that Kim, the North Korean leader, had dropped from sight, fueling rumors he might have been ousted in a coup d’etat.
“Very good,” Belgrad wrote after watching the new footage. “I’m just happy everybody’s finally happy. Now we go make this a giant hit and hope that Kim Jong-un hasn’t been deposed before our movie comes out (I can’t believe I’m actually saying that!).”
Kim wasn’t deposed. And he clearly wasn’t happy. His government has officially denied a connection to the hacking attack, but praised those who carried it out, calling their action “a righteous deed.”
Two months before a hacking attack brought Sony Pictures Entertainment to its knees, the studio endured a crisis of another kind: Japan’s jitters over assassinating the leader of North Korea on the big screen.
Concerns about the style in which Kim Jong-un’s head explodes in a climactic scene in Sony’s film “The Interview” originated from the highest ranks of the global conglomerate.
These worries, expressed in a private email correspondence between the studio chief and the filmmaker, underscore just how sensitive the subject matter was to the Japanese corporation whose country has attempted to open dialogue with its reclusive neighbor.
North Korea, or its sympathizers, are being investigated as suspects in one of the most devastating cyber attacks on a major corporation in U.S. history. While North Korea publicly denied being behind the hack, it praised the perpetrators, and the group claiming responsibility, the Guardians of Peace, demanded Sony halt distribution of what it called “the movie of terrorism.”
Anxiety over the comedy came to light this week, as hackers released gigabytes worth of emails from Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal and from Steven Mosko, president of Sony Pictures Television. The communications are authentic, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. In a series of email exchanges dated Sept. 25, she and filmmaker Seth Rogen discuss how to address worries about Kim’s violent on-screen demise.
“You have the power to help me here,” Pascal wrote to Rogen. “I haven’t the foggiest notion how to deal with Japanese politics as it relates to Korea so all I can do is make sure that Sony won’t be put in a bad situation and even that is subjective.”
Rogen responded: “We will make it less gory. There are currently four burn marks on his face. We will take out three of them, leaving only one. We reduce the flaming hair by 50% … The head explosion can’t be more obscured than it is because we honestly feel that if it’s any more obscured you won’t be able to tell its exploding and the joke won’t work. Do you think this will help? Is it enough?”
In the R-rated comedy, due for release on Dec. 25, two American TV journalists travel to North Korea to interview its young but reclusive leader. Along the way, they’re recruited by the CIA to try and assassinate him. The duo carry out their mission, and Kim dies as a result of a confrontation between a tank and a helicopter played out in slow motion, with many fiery special effects.
Kim’s death was so bloody it apparently prompted Kaz Hirai, CEO of the studio’s parent corporation, to express some unspecified worries, according to the emails. North Korea denounced the film to the United Nations and to President Obama, and called it, among other things, “an act of war.”
Pascal noted, in her correspondence with Rogen, that she has never “gotten one note on anything” from Sony corporation over her 25-year career with the studio. Although she said she acknowledges the circumstances are “embarrassing,” she added, “we haven’t just dictated to you.”
Rogen, the 32-year-old, Canadian-born funny guy and star of comedies like “Knocked Up” and “Pineapple Express,” wrote the following to Pascal: “We will play with the color of the head chunks to try to make them less gross.”
This was part of an exchange that had been going on since at least the summer. Rogen delivered his first revision on July 18, only to hear on Aug. 6 that it had been rejected by Sony brass, which led to the further revisions in September.
Both Sony and Rogen’s representatives declined comment.
The back and forth continued on Sept. 26, when Rogen sent an email containing new video footage. Looking for feedback, Rogen followed up three days later with the subject line: “Is no news good news?”
Pascal responds: “Let’s talk in the am. I need one night without dreaming about head explosions. But I am damn happy.”
On Oct. 6, the epic wrangling over the worrisome 15 seconds of film — a slow-motion sequence set to Katy Perry’s “Firework” in which Kim, played by the actor Randall Park, is fatally incinerated as his helicopter explodes just as he’s about to order the launch of some nuclear missiles — comes to an end.
Rogen writes: “This is it!!! We removed the fire from the hair and the entire secondary wave of head chunks. Please tell us this is over now. Thanks so much!!” The final film sequence, which runs about two minutes, is attached.
Pascal doesn’t answer Rogen directly but forwards his message to other Sony Pictures insiders, including studio CEO Michael Lynton and president Doug Belgrad.
It was about this time that news reports said that Kim, the North Korean leader, had dropped from sight, fueling rumors he might have been ousted in a coup d’etat.
“Very good,” Belgrad wrote after watching the new footage. “I’m just happy everybody’s finally happy. Now we go make this a giant hit and hope that Kim Jong-un hasn’t been deposed before our movie comes out (I can’t believe I’m actually saying that!).”
Kim wasn’t deposed. And he clearly wasn’t happy. His government has officially denied a connection to the hacking attack, but praised those who carried it out, calling their action “a righteous deed.”
Sony didn't drop the ball, the distributors refused to release it. Everyone says it is a publicity stunt but they can't get anyone to show it on video as everyone is afraid of a cyber attack on them. The ramifications of this ifringement of freedom of speech are glaring. For sure ISO and the Taliban are watching this unfold and will hold the US ransom to future events, books, films, etc. Something needs to be done. Charlie Chaplin starred in "The Great Dictator," parodying Hitler back in the 30's and Neville Chamberlain was intimidated and reluctant to show it in England. The movie went on to become a classic and Chamberlain known as a fool. The movie was shown nevertheless. The FBI has who and where the hackers are and there should be retribution in the form of a cyber attack retaliation.
Obama should have the balls to say to the distributors if any harm comes to them NK will be bombed. The US is leaving itself totally open and vulnerable for future attacks and threats if it doesn't take control now. This film needs to be released. For better or worse.
Obama should have the balls to say to the distributors if any harm comes to them NK will be bombed. The US is leaving itself totally open and vulnerable for future attacks and threats if it doesn't take control now. This film needs to be released. For better or worse.
Well, seeing as how NK has denied any connection, and the US has not revealed and real compelling evidence linking NK to the hack... it looks like we're in another Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" situation.
Besides... China (a close ally of NK basically owns the USA financially). As if Obama is just going to go bomb NK, even if they had rock solid proof.
I just finished watching it, it is a dumb movie. The only saving grace is Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex), she is one sexy lady. You can watch it here for free.
http://www.levidia.ch/movie.php?watch=the-interview
I am not sure how it got a 9.7 on IMDB. with 47K votes, I guess everyone hates N. Korea
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788710/
http://www.levidia.ch/movie.php?watch=the-interview
I am not sure how it got a 9.7 on IMDB. with 47K votes, I guess everyone hates N. Korea
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788710/
