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Paramount Bans Showing ‘Team America’ after Sony pulls The Interview
- cratermoon 12y agoThere must be a money trail, somewhere, explaining this. Studio execs wouldn't give up revenue even for a bad film unless there was something else financial in play.
- cryptoz 12y agoSony/the theatres didn't really require the threat of violence to pull The Interview; it seems plausable that they cancel/postpone the release because the hackers potentially had really, double-bad-super-embarrassing data that they had not released yet. But this is a different company entirely (Paramount), with no known hack and no threat of violence against them. What's going on?
- pkroll 12y agoI think it's straightforward: a Dallas theater decided to get Team America to play as a middle finger to the terrorists, and Paramount decided that suddenly getting the focus from all this would be a horrible, horrible idea. So they ran.