Apple Said to Have Declined Offer From Sony to Host 'The Interview' on iTunes

honglong1976 said:
Of course Apple won't distribute it. North Korea are best friends with China. Apple's manufacturing is in China and Apple wants to sell in China.
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This.

Well, I don't think the manufacturers will care, but Apple is facing enough challenges getting their products in to China as it is. It's a key area of growth, so publishing The Interview on iTunes would make it much, much more difficult for them.
 
Just a thought, but maybe Apple are thinking about platform stability during the holiday season when lots of people will be at home wanting to watch all their Christmas movies, and firing up their new iToys for the first time etc...

If they agreed to release the Interview they would get innundated by traffic and potentially impact all their other users... Given the recent string of issues I'm sure the last thing Apple want is an iTunes outage on Christmas Day!
 
Apple leadership is disgraceful. The idea that an American company would become a willing accessory to censorship of a movie in response to terrorist threats once again shows us the hypocrisy of limousine liberals.

And LOL at the idea that they did this because the movie is bad.... as if iTunes isn't full of movies that are total dogs. Marriage equality is not the only freedom you should stand for, Mr. Cook.
 
Michael Scrip said:
So.... to drum up hype for a single movie... Sony decided to leak their own private emails and other personal info from their employees?

Couldn't they have built hype without harming themselves and others?

Real information got leaked and caused real damage. Former employees are now suing Sony. Relationships will most likely be severed between Sony and some actors. If I was an actor/director/producer... I'd think twice about working for Sony now. Irreparable harm will be done to Sony.

Besides... Sony released 20 films this year and brought in over a billion dollars in theaters. Did they really need a publicity stunt for a silly Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy?
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You win THIS round, "logic"...;)
 
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Ken Kaniff said:
http://www.theinterviewstream.com

It's interesting that this article is posted at this hour of the night. To me anyways.

The whole thing reeks of a publicity stunt. There are plenty of reasons why it wasn't and couldn't have been the DPRK hacking Sony.

Just Hollywood doing what they do best..propaganda and marketing/hype..
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A publicity stunt? So they hacked themselves, ruined their reputation, released their private emails, released their employees personal info... For publicity on a movie they can't release.

People love conspiracy theories.
 
apolloa said:
Oh good, I am very glad of that. Someone with some common sense in this mess.

Can't believe the utter arrogance of Sony and the writer of this ridiculous film.... Hey let's make an American comedy where we kill the most repressive, violent, threatening, secretive dictatorship alive that hates the west and especially America, and he wants nukes! I'm sure they'll find it funny.. :rolleyes:

What's next? An American comedy film killing the prophet Muhammed?

Yeah, only in America.

I just hope Sony's arrogance doesn't lead to the PlayStation Network being hacked all week!

Sorry for the rant, but I just couldn't believe how stupid they are making this film.
As for Team America, that was taking the mickey out of Americans as much as Koreans and is not exactly real life actors..
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Stop being such a sorry sap apologist. Not a good look, clean it up bro.
 
The movie made by a decadent and silly "comedian" whose dream is to be Adam Sandler, trying to make cheap money by being politically incorrect just for the sake of shock value, has been denied at iTunes? Great. I wish Apple would remove all other pieces of trash from iTunes too, but one less is a good first step.
 
North Korea: "LOL WE HACKED SONY!!!"

Sony: "What..."

Obama: "Nonono this is bad... Prepare to strike back!"
 
Fair enough. Apple doesn't want to annoy it's customers. ;)
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The real culprit to boycott!

In all this mess, the stand by major theater chains is the cowardly one!

The movie may be an B- at best, most would watch it in 3 or so months in DVD release, etc., and Sony would still make huge profits! From me, the theaters are not getting a cent! The movie is not the ideal audio-visual medium suited for a big screen; add the yielding to threats by the theaters shouting, "We are SCARED!".

I will definitely avoid the theaters! They must not yield to threats - period. If they screen the movie, the public can show their value by attending or skipping, this particular movie or the entire complex of theaters, hopefully positive!
 
apolloa said:
Oh good, I am very glad of that. Someone with some common sense in this mess.

Can't believe the utter arrogance of Sony and the writer of this ridiculous film.... Hey let's make an American comedy where we kill the most repressive, violent, threatening, secretive dictatorship alive that hates the west and especially America, and he wants nukes! I'm sure they'll find it funny.. :rolleyes:

What's next? An American comedy film killing the prophet Muhammed?

Yeah, only in America.

I just hope Sony's arrogance doesn't lead to the PlayStation Network being hacked all week!

Sorry for the rant, but I just couldn't believe how stupid they are making this film.
As for Team America, that was taking the mickey out of Americans as much as Koreans and is not exactly real life actors..
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It's a complex issue, but if you say you can't make jokes about North Korea, Islam, then other countries, religions, parties etc will start kicking up fuss and before we know it we'll have censored ourselves.

Cherry picking what is ok and what isn't ok to joke about is dangerous territory. It's either ok to joke about any country, or it's not ok to joke about any country.
 
I doubt Apple wanted to make themselves a target for cyber-attack, whether at the hands of North Korea or some other group that may try to copy what happened to Sony.
 
Teste said:
The movie made by a decadent and silly "comedian" whose dream is to be Adam Sandler, trying to make cheap money by being politically incorrect just for the sake of shock value, has been denied at iTunes? Great. I wish Apple would remove all other pieces of trash from iTunes too, but one less is a good first step.
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:rolleyes: Because your personal tastes reflects everyone else's... I hope one day iTunes removes every movie YOU like because someone else doesn't like it.
 
highly-anticipated film "The Interview"
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Highly anticipated by the idiots who still watch and get giggles out of Seth Rogan movies. He's the epitome of what's wrong with Hollywood comedies in the past years.

I want Sony to show the movie. And then I want the group who threatened Sony to do what they threatened to do. Because who's brilliant idea was it to make a movie about killing North Korea's leader when there's already tension between that country and the US? Those arrogant ****s could've picked a fictive country and a fictive leader... but no, it had to be NK and Kim Jong-un. That's the definition of adding fuel to the fire. If NK made a movie about killing Barack Obama, I wouldn't want to know the US' response. Teach them a lesson.

Happy christmas.
 
RammyXX said:
Highly anticipated by the idiots who still watch and get giggles out of Seth Rogan movies. He's the epitome of what's wrong with Hollywood comedies in the past years.

I want Sony to show the movie. And then I want the group who threatened Sony to do what they threatened to do. Because who's brilliant idea was it to make a movie about killing North Korea's leader when there's already tension between that country and the US? Those arrogant ****s could've picked a fictive country and a fictive leader... but no, it had to be NK and Kim Jong-un. That's the definition of adding fuel to the fire. If NK made a movie about killing Barack Obama, I wouldn't want to know the US' response. Teach them a lesson.

Happy christmas.
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Thank goodness we have you here to guide us in what he should and shouldn't watch and enjoy. Anything else, Adolf?
 
This isn't a prepared app that is being uploaded by a developer. It's a feature length film. There are a lot of things that have to be prepared in order to prep a film for distribution on iTunes, I am sure. They have to encode the film for their system, prep FairPlay, consider multiple resolutions, etc.

This is all work the iTunes team probably has to do.

It's probably less that Apple didn't want to distribute and more than Sony gave them two days lead time, everyone is on vacation this week, and maybe they don't want to screw up their employee's holidays for a Seth Rogen movie.
 
Tim Cook has shown time and time again that money trumps moral stances. He is not going to offend the Chinese.

Don't forget, the same people who ran tanks through Tiananman Square are his partners. The same rap star that beat a woman because he didn't like her review, is his business partner.

Col4bin said:
This is utterly laughable. Afraid of North Korea retribution, Apple? Show some balls.
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First the movie is probably bad looking at Rogan's last few films. Second why did sony and the filmmakers allow the movie to feature the real leader and name of country, most movies would of had a Kim Jun Un lookalike with another name , people could've figured out who they were talking about. It's bad to make a piece of entertainment calling for the assassination of any world leader no matter what you know to be true about his ideology. If anycountry made same film calling for that to happen to our leader we'd probably nuke them.
 
America is a country where free speech is held just as dear as our religion and guns. Of course there's people argue those as well so.... *sigh*
 
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