Sony plans to eventually release 'The Interview'

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Uncertainty reigned another day in the on-going Sony hack-attack mess: Looks like the movie The Interview might not be as doomed as it was last week.

Super-lawyer David Boies, who signed on with Sony Pictures Entertainment in the wake of the hack attack that left the studio embarrassed, threatened and financially and legally in jeopardy, says The Interview might be distributed after all.

"Sony only delayed this," Boies said on Meet the Presson Sunday. "Sony has been fighting to get this picture distributed. It will be distributed. How it's going to be distributed I don't think anyone knows quite yet."

In other words, never mind what Sony said last week.

On Wednesday, Sony released a statement saying that it had "no further release plans" for the film, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco in a comedy about a cockamamie plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

North Korea, notorious for paranoia and over-the-top rhetoric, was not pleased. The Hermit Kingdom decided the movie was an actual plot by the USA to kill off their "dear leader," and, according to the FBI, unleashed hackers to unleash chaos on Sony, starting in November.

The studio has been struggling to contain the fallout ever since. North Korea denies it had anything to do with the hacking.

After the hackers also threatened American theaters, where The Interview was supposed to open on Christmas Day, most major chains pulled the film. Then Sony pulled it, too.

This was followed by outraged criticism that Sony had capitulated to cyberterrorists — criticism from the filmmakers, from First Amendment advocates, from politicians and industry leaders, even from George Clooney and President Obama.

Sony has tried to defend itself, to little avail, having taken a beating in social media and regular media over its decision. Plus, class-action lawsuits, from its own employees and stemming from the hacking, pile up against its doors.

meanwhile, has aggressively pursued the U.S. media, sending "caution" letters warning them against using the huge cache of files and information the hackers have pried out of Sony and leaked, from embarrassing emails to employee medical records.

In the "sharply worded letter," reported last week by the New York Times, Boies said the leaked Sony documents are "stolen information" and demanded that the files be ignored, or destroyed if they had already been downloaded.

Sony has been urged to release the film for free online on Crackle, the online video site it owns. A New York Post story suggesting the studio was preparing to do that was shot down Sunday, according to CNN, by an unnamed studio spokesman who said Sony is still exploring the options.

In fact, the decision to not release the film brought out all sorts of volunteers hoping to talk Sony into releasing it to them. The Dish Network had a secret plan to run the movie, according to Fox Business Network, but those talks fell apart over the weekend.

A coalition of independent art-house theaters posted a petition on Change.org offering to show the film in their theaters. "We stand in solidarity with Sony and offer our support to them in defense of artistic integrity and personal freedoms; freedoms which represent our nation's great ability to effect change and embrace diversity of opinion," the petition read.

And if that weren't enough, George R.R. Martin, the author of the Game of Throne books on which the popular HBO fantasy series is based, offered his Santa Fe, N.M., theater, the Jean Cocteau Cinema, to show the film. He made the offer on his blog, where he has been railing against Sony's "corporate cowardice" in refusing to release the film.

"Come to Santa Fe, Seth, we'll show your film for you," Martin wrote.

To all this Sony continues to say little except that they're examining their options.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/12/22/sony-plans-to-eventually-release-the-interview/20754645/

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