Sony Hacking Scandal

[Mrs G Norris]

The Sony Hack, 9 more things you didn't know: http://www.cnet.com/news/the-sony-hack-9-more-things-you-didnt-know/ including the fact that Mark Z tried to kill the Facebook movie. More leaks have been promised for Christmas, so we shall have to see ..

 

[Mrs G Norris]

So called 'hacktivist' group 'anonymous' members seem to be sticking their two cents in, but IMO they would know no more than any other casual observer .. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/22/north-korea-internet_n_6367654.html

 

[Snoods]

Freedom has prevailed!

Controversial comedy The Interview will be released on Christmas Day, reversing an earlier move by Sony to pull the film following a massive hack of the studio.

Sony held a conference call with theatre owners on Tuesday and gave them the go ahead to release the movie in a limited number of independent cinemas. The decision came after President Barack Obama said Sony had “made a mistake” pulling the movie following a campaign to kill the movie that the US government believes was organised by North Korea.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/23/the-interview-us-screening-christmas-day

 

[Snoods]

Did anybody really think Un would just let it go? He's an unpredictable, threatening mess of a leader. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have much of a sense of humor, especially with regards to his own assassination.

Can anyone think of any movies made about the assassination of a living political leader?

There was a movie about the assassination of President George Bush while he was a sitting President.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_(2006_film)

 

[wfgodot]

Glad I've been given a chance to give this sorry-sounding film a wide Christmas Day miss, while meanwhile cursing under my breath that the Amy Adams-starring 'Big Eyes' isn't opening on 12/25 in our town. (Link to DM has Sony email scandal tie-in.)

 

[Snoods]

Glad I've been given a chance to give this sorry-sounding film a wide Christmas Day miss, while meanwhile cursing under my breath that the Amy Adams-starring 'Big Eyes' isn't opening on 12/25 in our town. (Link to DM has Sony email scandal tie-in.)

Ha! Yep, I value the freedom to not see a crappy movie!

 

[Irisha]

Ha! Yep, I value the freedom to not see a crappy movie!

I watch " General Hospital". James Franco whined and got a part on the show as " Franco " a "demented serial killer". Before that I never knew who he was. Hated him on GH. Still can't like him as an actor. Just not movie worthy to me. But I do like the Seth and James spoofs of Kim and Kanye K.

 

[Snoods]

Oh my gosh hilarious. The side by side of both videos had me rolling. I wonder why that magic doesn't transfer to their movies lol.

Although I love love Knocked Up.

 

[TGIRecovered]

Just found out a couple of hours ago that the drive in theater in my city will be showing it Christmas night. I had no intention of seeing it before that little dictator brat had his people hack Sony.

I think I will go see it though, just because I can. I hate arrogant insecure jerk dictators. Take that lil'Kim!

 

[wfgodot]

Yup, "The Interview"'s at ye olde 8-plex here Christmas Day all right. But mercifully, so too is "Big Eyes," I finally see.

So if we lie low and don't go to the show then....then the terrorists have won! #recycledbuzzphrase

 

[Mrs G Norris]

On Dec. 18, Clooney told the industry blog Deadline that he and his agent, CAA's Bryan Lourd, circulated a petition to the industry's top powerbrokers and not a single person would sign. According to that story, Clooney and Lourd took the petition to the top people in film, TV, music and other segments of the entertainment industry.

But reps for Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate as well as fellow talent agencies WME and UTA, now say that top executives at their respective companies were never approached by Clooney or Lourd. Paramount did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but sources say top execs including studio head Brad Grey were never asked to sign a Clooney/Lourd petition either.

"I never heard of it until I saw press about a petition not getting signed," says one studio head, who asked to remain anonymous. "No one I know has heard of it. We were just discussing that, of course, we would've signed it, but we had never heard of it, and these were a lot of high-level industry people."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-hack-studios-deny-receiving-759946

Tad awks ..

 

[wfgodot]

According to the theater’s website, anyone who brought a copy of the U.S. Constitution to the viewing of “The Interview” would receive a free popcorn.

Controversy drives moviegoers to see ‘The Interview’ (Hudson Register-Star)

Who hacked Sony becomes Internet's new mystery (AP)

In a report earlier this month, Fey's company described a malicious software tool called Inception, in which attackers suggested a link to China, used home routers in South Korea, included comments in Hindi, with text in Arabic, the words "God_Save_The_Queen" in another string, and used other techniques to show links to the United States, Ukraine or Russia.

 

[TGIRecovered]

We downloaded the movie to watch at home. I expected it to be bad, but this was worse than worthless.

It was Totally Disgusting. So completely full of idiotic vulgar behavior, conversation and images, I feel like I've spent a week in the basement of a brothel in Thailand, surrounded by raw sewage and having to listen to the random thoughts of a brain cell deprived morally bankrupt worthless male pervert who thinks he is witty.

So not worth it for the fraction of the film which contained predictable humorous bits. I need to go sterilize my brain.

Do yourself a favor and don't get any of this crap on you, the stink lingers.

MOO

 

[wfgodot]

Article linked above re: popcorn, Constitution is from hometown paper; there were two TV news vehicles at the theater before the first showing, the reporters eager, no doubt, to record plucky Hudsonians's takes on the matter. We wisely sidestepped the brouhaha and saw the Tim Burton film instead.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Did someone say Hudson? I :heartbeat: Hudson!

Thanks TGIRecovered for taking one for the team, I will not be putting myself through the experience.

I'm starting to wonder if Sony did this whole thing as a publicity stunt, seriously wondering it .. I hope they have an exit strategy to deal with the fallout if that turns out to be the case.

 

[atthelake]

Interesting that folks are seriously wondering if this was a PR stunt that the white house and CIA got involved in. How many here are thinking/wondering that Sony did as PR and then was backed by Barack Obama, CIA as a joint PR stunt?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/26/world/asia/north-korea-the-interview-reaction/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[video=cnn;us/2014/12/26/tsr-dnt-todd-north-korea-sony-hacking-doubts.cnn]http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/26/world/asia/north-korea-the-interview-reaction/index.html?hpt=hp_t1[/video]

 

[IzzyBlanche]

Given some of the unflattering, to say the least, communications that have been leaked, I doubt if this was a publicity stunt.

This from the link wfgodot posted above made me :lol:

He later added: "One last idea. What if all this is just a movie-goer (who) can't stand the idea of another Seth Rogen movie?"

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Interesting that folks are seriously wondering if this was a PR stunt that the white house and CIA got involved in. How many here are thinking/wondering that Sony did as PR and then was backed by Barack Obama, CIA as a joint PR stunt?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/26/world/asia/north-korea-the-interview-reaction/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[video=cnn;us/2014/12/26/tsr-dnt-todd-north-korea-sony-hacking-doubts.cnn]http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/26/world/asia/north-korea-the-interview-reaction/index.html?hpt=hp_t1[/video]

Yes, that would be me LOL!!

I don't think anyone really knows where this group has originated from yet, but I do hope the full truth will come out, until it does I'm keeping an open mind, my comment that it was likely Sony was slightly tongue in cheek Would be fun if that turned out to be the case! Regardless, so far Sony has got a lot of free publicity for their movie, and it did well at the box office, much to the chagrin of the hackers .. look in this case Sony was likely the victim, but don't be surprised if we see something like this used as a viral marketing campaign in the future, I'm sure there are Advertising agencies around the world working on something like this right now. All publicity is good publicity as they say.

http://fortune.com/2014/12/26/sonys-the-interview-pulled-in-more-than-1-million/

https://bgr.com/2014/12/26/the-interview-most-popular-youtube-video/

North Korea still unhappy however ..

North Korea has blasted United States president Barack Obama as a "monkey" inciting cinemas to screen a controversial comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-27/us-caused-internet-outages-north-korea-says/5989754

 

[tlcya]

I don't know about tacit involvement by CIA and white house but I feel pretty strongly that this movie is likely a . I also feel pretty strongly that Sony knew it had a stinker on its hands. So I do find it mighty darn convenient that they were hacked and threatened and now suddenlyn, many have decided it's their civic duty to see this movie in order to tell those horrible N. Koreans that they can't tell us what to do over here in 'Merica.

Call me a cynic or a unAmerican, but I was not going to see this film before and I surely won't be seeing it now.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Security experts who analyzed the leaked Sony emails say the hackers responsible are actually RUSSIAN

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sponsible-actually-RUSSIAN.html#ixzz3NBwzgDUU