James Franco and his LIPS !!!

had no idea there was a sitewide megacrush on james franco going on ca. 2009

amanda palmer won the ILM poll in 2009 too

there's a giant billboard for this movie right in the middle of koreatown in L.A. on wilshire blvd.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:12 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so what does this mean?

lmao tough day for these guys

https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/545339504803196928
https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/545346735510257664

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/north-korea-did-not-hack-sony-probs/

so the implication here is that the NK gov't hacked Sony in order to stop the release of this movie, and succeeded?

that scenario seems so unlikely and yet

lol xp

I kinda can't believe the NK gov't could hack their way out of a paper bag with a butter knife

why not use a sharper knife in that visual?

man all it takes is some sketchy theories about communists on the internet to get conservatives to treat a dogshit buddy comedy as a patriot cause celeb, and to treat degenerate hollywood as the USS Maine

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/12/17/this-is-cyberwar-not-tabloid-fodder/

The hackers behind the Sony attack have invoked comparisons to 9/11. They are right in at least one respect. Look where they attacked: The American film industry carries as much symbolic weight as did the World Trade Center. Culturally, perhaps more so. Hollywood movies are a monolithic U.S. export that have served to plant American notions of freedom and unbridled possibility in the minds of untold millions. From now on, filmmakers will think twice before crossing the next paranoid despot. That’s tragic.

I bet George Washington would totally go see "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb".

It sounds like the government knows exactly who did what for whom, and is just trying to figure out the right way to explain how they know that.

the interview-truthers.

can everyone in this country just get fucked immediately please

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/545343730061152256

Every American is a pot-loving, white, Canadian Jew.

(As with all of our 'celebrities', America, you can have this one, as well)

The officials told NBC News the hacking attack originated outside North Korea, but they believe the individuals behind it were acting on orders from the North Koreans.

"We have found linkage to the North Korean government," according to a U.S. government source.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-behind-sony-hack-u-s-officials-n270451

oh you don't say

so the implication here is that the NK gov't hacked Sony in order to stop the release of this movie, and succeeded?

holy shit if this is true, this is absolutely amazing

why would anyone outside of north korea take orders from north koreans. besides dennis rodman.

I mean do the NK regime honestly have sympathizers, that just seems nuts

"orders" could mean "$$$"

huh

NK has $$$? really?

Enough to pay hackers

I don't see how NK paying lulzec types to do this is any less hard to believe that NK doing it, or "ordering" someone to do it

I find all those scenarios hard to believe

you say NK sympathizer, i say bored hacker who thinks sony's a joke, tomato, tomahto

all the government reporting is "linkage"

This is a hella lot of free publicity and notoriety, the movie's value must be skyrocketing because of it's outlaw status. Maybe this is all just a brilliant viral marketing campaign.

i think that theory was crushed by the 9/11 references

the thing is NK making sabre-rattling terrorist threats would not give any pause for even a second, the only reason this is garnering the paranoid response it has is because of the anonymity of the threat source

give anyone

that should say

looking forward to the next movie campaign from the rogen/franco crowd. 'from the guys who almost brought you world war III'

wonder if there was any pressure on sony from the gov't not to poke the NK bear in the wake of realizing who was behind it?

it's unclear who's slapping these communiques atop the files and it's not even certain they're all from the same source. if these files are out there anyone could take a few and type some gibberish atop it. but i can't blame movie theaters for not wanting call any bluffs over this in terms of liability.

Sony should just immediately leak the movie online

Has this been posted already?

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/north-korea-did-not-hack-sony-probs/

considering whoever has these files sends them to writers for mashable, i'm guessing this aspect isn't being run by NK

omg the 'free speech' arguments on FB for the Apatow bros

"first we will reveal wacky e-mails to gawker...then, if that fails, the ground war."

I sorta wish whoever is behind this hack finds a way to stop the studios from releasing even more movies each year.

Michael Moore asked as much

Judd Apatow @JuddApatow · 5h 5 hours ago
This only guarantees that this movie will be seen by more people on Earth than it would have before. Legally or illegally all will see it.

jesus christ

i like the dramatic redundancy of "on Earth"

FIGHT THE POWER
SEE THIS SHITTY MOVIE

the interview sparks La Révolution surréaliste

Good job Korea, giving Franco even more self importance was indeed something that would rile everyone up.

Legally or illegally all will see it.

chilling

didn't hear it from me, but this is all viral advertising for another movie, in which the US government, under pressure, extradites James Franco to north korea

the quote in the NYT from the nameless government official is that NK was "centrally involved"

even if they tear out my eyes!

i will cradle a laptop that's playing it in my arms as I bleed out!

apparently the other rumor is that it's a digruntled Sony IT guy who was fired