Sony finally decided to show the controversial movie ‘The Interview’ on Christmas Day. The long-awaited movie sold out shows nationwide as crowds began to line up for the screening. Read more on the story below!
After a long month of threats from hackers that almost stopped the movie completely. Hundreds of theaters across the nation showed the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy which depicted the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Kim Song, a North Korean diplomat to the United Nations, called the movie an ‘unpardonable mockery of our sovereignty and dignity of our supreme leader.’ The movie was originally planned to have opened in as many as 3,000 theaters. Even President Obama didn’t agree with Sony’s decision to scrap the movie. Sony officials soon changed their minds and agreed to release the movie in over 300 venues on Christmas Day.
Packed out crowds arrived to support the movie. Many of the people who came to see the movie were there to celebrate liberty and protest censorship. To the moviegoers, the film was more about freedom of expression then about going to the movies on Christmas Day. In a movie theater in Austin, crowds began to sing the song,’Proud To Be An American’ before the film started, and in Atlanta people started to sing ‘God Bless America’ before the movie credits. Lee Peterson, theater manager of the Cinema Village East in Manhattan, said, ‘We want to show the world that Americans will not be told what we can or cannot watch.’ Ken Jacowitz, a 54-year-old from Queens, says that the movie is ‘a funny film made by funny people.’ Another moviegoer, Kay Trice, said that the movie ‘should be shown in this country and somebody in North Korea should not have the right to scare us out of seeing this.’ The box office numbers from theaters is yet to be known.
Are you going to see ‘The Interview’?
