Release of the movie "The Interview" derailed because of threats

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**Jihadin**

I stick with Amazon digital movies though

**Ouze**

I think Amazon Prime is an amazing deal when you consider the video library, I'm a huge fan.

**Torga_DW**

to add more fuel to the fire: http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/12/27/23/43/north-korea-calls-obama-monkey

AFP

North Korea has called US President Barack Obama a "monkey" for inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader, and blamed Washington for an Internet blackout this week.

The isolated dictatorship's powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) threatened "inescapable deadly blows" over the film and accused the US of "disturbing the Internet operation" of North Korean media outlets.

The Internet outage triggered speculation that US authorities may have launched a cyber-attack in retaliation for the hacking of Sony Pictures -- the studio behind madcap North Korea comedy "The Interview".

Washington has said the attack on Sony was carried out by Pyongyang.

The NDC accused Obama of taking the lead in encouraging cinemas to screen "The Interview" on Christmas Day. Sony had initially cancelled its release after major US cinema chains said they would not show it, following threats by hackers aimed at cinemagoers.

"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," a spokesman for the NDC's policy department said in a statement published by the North's official KCNA news agency.

"If the US persists in American-style arrogant, high-handed and gangster-like arbitrary practices despite (North Korea's) repeated warnings, the US should bear in mind that its failed political affairs will face inescapable deadly blows," the NDC spokesman said.

He accused Washington of linking the hacking of Sony to North Korea "without clear evidence" and repeated Pyongyang's condemnation of the film, describing it as "a movie for agitating terrorism produced with high-ranking politicians of the US administration involved".

The film took in $1 million in its limited-release opening day, showing in around 300 mostly small, independent theatres. It was also released online for rental or purchase.

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/12/27/23/43/north-korea-calls-obama-monkey#XJxh4w5kzTysUtzO.99

I wonder if there's any irony to be found in the words of the NDC spokesman.

**Hordini**

You mean North Korea made some some ludicrous threats on the internet after hacking Sony, and then didn't follow through in any way whatsoever?

Imagine that.

**BaronIveagh**

Interestingly,, despite several cybersecurity firms showing that the FBI's proof was made of Yellow Cake Uranium....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30661973