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Updated 10.19 pm
SONY HAS DECIDED to cancel the planned release of a new comedy about North Korea after mysterious computer hackers threatened attacks on theatres showing the movie.
“The Interview”, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, is understood to have offended North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un with its plot to assassinate him.
After hacks on Sony, the studio behind the film, and subsequent threats to cinemas, major theatre chains took a decision not to show the madcap movie.
As a result of this, Sony has this evening decided not to release the film as planned on Christmas Day.
A red-carpet premiere scheduled for this week at New York’s Landmark chain’s Sunshine Cinema had already been cancelled, industry journal Variety reported.
The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) backed chains who decided to cancel screening plans.
“We are encouraged that the authorities have made progress in their investigation and we look forward to the time when the responsible criminals are apprehended,” it said in a statement.
“Until that happens, individual cinema operators may decide to delay exhibition of the movie so that our guests may enjoy a safe holiday movie season experiencing the many other exciting films we have to offer.”
9/11 attack threat
Skittishness about attending the movie followed threats by the so-called GOP (Guardians of Peace) hacking group, which invoked the September 11, 2001 attacks in an ominous warning to any movie-goers planning to see the film.
The group warned in a message written in broken English that a “bitter fate” awaits any who attend the film.
“Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made. The world will be full of fear,” the statement warned.
It added: “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)”
US officials have played down the threat.
“There is no credible intelligence backing this up at this point in time,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told CNN.
Additional reporting by © – AFP 2014
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Fathered a child = heinous crime. Fiddled a child = let’s say no more about it. Catholic Church 2017
Don’t think Irish Catholics were “profoundly upset” by Bishop Casey being a dad at all…..
@John003: it was more the embezzling of the money that irritated me.
@john Appleseed: well said
@john Appleseed: I think it was the beginning of the end for the Catholic Church as we knew it in Ireland. If a bishop like Casey could do that then we were able to believe all the other revelations that followed. The Catholic Church might see what he did as harmful but I think he unwittingly did a lot of good.
@john Appleseed:
Nail on the Head John…absolutely disgusting
I think that’s what irritated them the most too
It beggars belief doesn’t it? “Bishop has a child with a consenting adult and steals money” is profoundly disturbing to the the head honchos of Catholic Ireland, but sexually and physically abusing children and leaving them with indelible psychological scarring gets brushed under the carpet. I believe in God but the Catholic Church has proven itself to be a dark, twisted and corrupt organisation with no regard for anyone outside its chosen members. Just like our government. The Lord between us and all harm.
One priest/bishop father’s a child and gets posted to a hell hole in the third world. Another priest molests numerous children and gets moved to another comfortable parish. Priorities are clear.
@Paul Mac Court: Don’t you mean that they are spirited away to another comfortable parish. Ir is all divine intervention or smoke and mirrors with them bouyo’s
@Paul Mac Court: Eamonn Casey wasn’t ‘posted to a hell hole in the third world.’ He chose to go and serve as a missionary priest in a remote area of Peru. He could have chosen to work in the USA or some other economically developed country, and in fact served in an English parish after finishing his stint in Peru.
Keeping his head down more like in a far away place
Once again putting the institution (church) before the welfare of his son and his mother. Somethings never change even after all the revelations.
@Jimmy McCarthy: they attempt to balance every wrong done by clerics with a eulogy on all the good deeds done.
But if you dont follow their rules there’s no balance sheet.
You’re bound for hell.
@Jimmy McCarthy: Thousands of Irishmen are guilty of same crime as Bishop Casey. They put their own welfare and position above that of their children by not living up to their responsibilities. They stood idly by and let women
and children suffer in bell holes like Magdalene Laundries and so called Mother and Baby Homes.
@Philip Howlin: Yep all those immaculate conceptions. Where were the fathers. Some of them moved to another parish. No love for fallen women.
On this day 2013 http://www.dailyedge.ie/good-news-you-can-now-change-your-mind-about-thejournal-ie-comments-911407-May2013/
Yesterday http://www.dailyedge.ie/journal-comments-section-changes-3-3288669-Mar2017/
RIP comments section
Any sign of Annie and/or Len’s son?
@Markonline: crying emoji face
Had to get the dig in… Of course when O’Connell kicked it they basically rewrote history for his eulogy…
The church needs to learn that moder society doesn’t give a toss about the “sins”. It’s their crimes that we have a problem with.
Why do RTE keep calling him ‘Bishop’ when he hasn’t been Bishop for 25 years??
@EvieXVI: once a bishop, always a bishop unless defrocked.
@Kieran O’dwyer: he was kind of defrosted though…
@EvieXVI: *defrocked* even!
@EvieXVI: once a bishop always…..,
No, defrosted is what he was. Got warm and loved a woman.
Cases actions – or lack of them in some cases, were pretty upsetting for his son while growing up. The church in their PR spinning, is always all too willing to gloss over that fact conveniently.
He’s human.
@Michael McGuinness: So was Stalin, Hitler and Churchill?
Bishop Casey was not a bad man but a good one there are priests and nuns out there who raped young boys and girls who were in their care shame on them some of those victims never got justice()
Michael Cleary was worse. He denied ,on his death bed, that he fathered a child.
@Each Way Thief: Father Jack has video evidence.
Where does the torture and rape if small children fit in with those who “preach the gospel?” You just have to hand it the Catholic Church, the bs is never ending.
@Laura Mulcahy: Is that the one with the big white dog that is always flying lol.
Removed from office for having a normal human relationship. That’s what the RC church is most afraid of. Women. Girls, you’re the biggest threat there is to the dead stale corpses who call themselves priests and christians
Suffering?? Caused by the Birth of his Son!! Has nothing Changed? What an Awful thing to say at His Funeral! Appalling! RIP Eamon! God Bless His Son!
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