Movie:the Interview
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Two Years After Its Unusual Release, ‘The Interview’ Remains Google’s Most-Sold Movie Ever
Talk about unlikely popularity: More than two years after its tumultuous digital-only release, “The Interview” still remains the most-sold movie on Google Play to date. The James Franco and Seth Rogen-helmed comedy has outsold blockbusters like “Frozen,” “Deadpool” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” on Google’s digital media store, according to data released by Google Monday... <a href="http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/the-interview-google-bestseller-1202002541/" title="Read Two Years After
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Seth Rogen Had Studio-Provided Personal Security — Until He Didn't — Due to 'The Interview'
On U.K.’s The Graham Norton Show, costar and cowriter of satire believed to have led to the Sony hack talks safety precautions--on a budget--during controversy
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Employees to Get More Than $5.5 Million in Sony Hack Settlement
The lawsuit led by Michael Corona and other former employees at the studio is a consolidated action of more than a half-dozen negligence and privacy violation lawsuits that were filed after a data breach that has been attributed by the U.S. government to North Korea in anticipation of the release of The Interview. Meanwhile, the class action lawyers who represented the plaintiffs would be getting almost $3.5 million. In addition to those firm cash payments, under the terms of the deal, Sony wo
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Sony's CEO: Amy Pascal Exit 'Didn't Have Anything to Do With Emails'
Amy Pascal (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) By Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter Nearly one year after one of the worst cyber attacks in corporate history, Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton spoke candidly about the fallout from the epic hack. In a wide-ranging discussion Thursday evening with Harvard Business Review Editor-In-Chief Adi Ignatius at Lynton’s alma mater Harvard University, the studio chief remained steadfast that the hack could have happened to any studio or co
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Pucker Up! Highlights From the MTV Movie Awards Best Kiss Category
First presented in 1992, the MTV Movie Awards (airing this Sunday) may never match the spontaneity and irreverence of those early years. Let’s take a look back at the MTV Movie Award category that has always been our favorite (except in 1996, when they gave out that award for Best Sandwich in a Movie). 1992: The first-ever Best Kiss Award is accepted by Anna Chlumsky for the smooch she gave Macauley Culkin in the coming-of-age tearjerker My Girl.
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North Koreans Do Not Think 'The Interview' Is Funny
Seth Rogen and James Franco’s film The Interview drew the ire (and potentially, cyberterrorism) of North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un, who the film depicts as a petulant man-child and target of an American assassination plot. While a record number of Americans have ordered The Interview on demand this month, the actual North Koreans who have seen it haven’t been quite as enthusiastic. “They were angry it depicted North Koreans as a bunch of idiots,” Chung Kwang-il, a North Korean defector living
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Alamo Drafthouse CEO on Fighting for 'The Interview' and How He's Preparing for Screenings
Normally, it wouldn’t be big news that Tim League was going to show a talked-about movie at one of his theaters. Have you been in discussions with Sony since the moment the movie was initially pulled? I only got back into discussions with folks at Sony yesterday, as a part of the Art House Convergence petition that went up.
