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I Take All the Credit
Me, yesterday:
Theaters pulling “The Interview” should show “Team America” in its place.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 17, 2014
Breaking news from The Hollywood Reporter:
After Sony canceled the release of the North Korea assassination comedy The Interview, a Texas theater said it would swap the film with Paramount’s 2004 film Team America: World Police for one free screening.
“We’re just trying to make the best of an unfortunate situation,” James Wallace, creative manager and programmer at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s Dallas/Fort Worth location, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
American flags and other patriotic items will be given out by theater employees, Wallace says.
The plot of Team America, co-written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, revolves around Kim Jong Il, the father of current North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The posters promoting the R-rated movie in 2004 included the tagline, “Putting the ‘F’ Back in Freedom.
You’re welcome, America.
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Nice one, Jon!
America [Expletive] yah!
You breaking my balls here, Hans. You breaking my balls.
The tweet heard ’round the world! Well, at least in Dallas. I bet other places will do that too.
Exjon gets results.
I’m no fan of the liberal hypocrites at Sony Pictures, but I’d love to see Sony do free screenings online with voluntary donations to some NK refugee charity. Nothing would annoy the Norks more than this (well executed) stunt backfiring on them like one of their cheap missiles.
I approve. I would never watch either movie, but just the fact that a foreign country cyber-attacked a US company makes me want to support Sony somehow.
-E
Jon, you so cool I bet you’re never ever ronery.
I have no one I can rerate to.
Cooler than a wooly mammoth in Siberia.
Paying to see The Interview is now a patriotic duty. We have to go.
And Paramount has now canceled theater screenings of “Team America: World Police”. Hollywood is horrible. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/paramount-cancels-team-america-showings-105544056112.html
I think Sony told them not to do that because they thought it might cause more trouble. for me, I’d love to see both. not because I expect the movies to be any good but just to p!ss off NoKorea