Hey, if it makes you feel good to cast a limitation on government as one of government’s greatest hits, knock yourself out. Maybe we’ll have more hits like that and we’ll both be happy.
Actually, it was nominated for an Oscar, for Maurice Jarre’s score.
Or just as many as it takes to knock out the Progressive fairy tale.
Did anybody else have a sudden mental picture of Flo in glass slippers?
(Yeah, I know: epic Right-v-Left battle, not TV commercials reference. But, still.)
That’s being suggested. I hope it happens.
There are times when I’m proud to be an American.
This ain’t one of them. Fuck Sony and Paramount and the theater chains. Cowards. I got no problem with a company saying’ shit, we ain’t gonna make any money’ and pulling the plug. That’s business. But buckling to a threat? They should do free showings everywhere. They should play it in Times Square, the should rent out Dodger Stadium for a showing and fireworks display! They should stream it on Netflix.
That may be a cumulative average, but it’s not a fixed figure. Different films may have somewhat different contracts, but revenue splits within a given contract typically adjust week to week. Distributors take much more than 55% in the early weeks, maybe 90% in week 1, and stepping down from there.
They continue to make demands against Sony so it’s not over. I think it’s time Sony turns the tables. Threaten to burn the movie on 100,000 thumb drives and float them over NK in balloons. Then threaten to torrent the movie in every known language including Klingon.
I’ve read there is a group threatening to airdrop DVDs of the film into North Korea. But it’s not clear how they would avoid being shot down in the process.
They were also planning on using balloons, which means that even if they were shot down, unless a lucky shot hits the DVD case itself the movie would survive.
Ah, I see. When I read “airdrop,” I naturally thought of planes.
It would be fun to build paper airplanes using battery powered hobby motors and just launch millions of them over the border. include a news cast of the Sony hacking story as a movie trailer.
Anyone who wants to debate the history and/or larger significance of the First Amendment should go do so in Great Debates – it’s heading off-topic in this thread.
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Sony’s backtracked on it’s decision not to release the film at all. This is encouraging.
Wait, this was a $90 million Seth Rogen picture? That’s as much as his last three pictures combined. Neighbors had an $18 million budget, and though that got a great $150 million U.S. gross, far more than any other Seth Rogen picture, that wouldn’t have looked so great if it had cost five times as much.
$90 million? It’s like paying $90,000 for a Honda Fit. That’s craziness.
I heard $44 million, and that was a number apparently backed up by the leaked documents from Sony.
From alphaboi’s link:
Maybe that number includes all marketing and other costs, though a doubling of the production budget would be a lot.
I hate when articles state “Sony cancels release of The Interview.” Of course they cancelled it, their top three markets refuse to show it. The deceptive titles in most articles give the appearance that Sony cowed to threats, when that is not remotely true.
And the statements about “never letting it be sold in any format”?
I’m obviously talking about the theatrical release.