Monday, December 22, 2014

Independent Movie Theaters Pressure Sony To Screen "The Interview"

A Change.org petition from the Art House Convergence defends "freedom of speech and artistic expression."

Sony has been dodging shots from all angles ever since hackers published the gory details of its corporate email for all the world to see. Sony execs, faced with the possibility that safety concerns around The Interview would affect box office returns, were cowed into pulling the controversial movie from theaters. Then, President Obama called that decision "a mistake." To top it all off, movie critics have been giving the The Interview a resounding thumbs-down. "The remarkably dismal quality is emblematic of the mind-set that brought the movie, and its attendant crises, into being," Joe Morgenstern wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

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