Sony says it will release the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy ‘The Interview’ mere days after it announced the film would not in theaters for its scheduled Christmas release date. Sony cancelled the film’s release last week after the hackers threatened real-world attacks on cinemas screening it.
‘Sony only delayed this,’ said company attorney David Boies on today’s NBC’s Meet the Press.
President Obama later said Sony had made a mistake in cancelling the movie, and that he would have intervened to make sure it went ahead. The hackers leaked embarrassing emails between Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin joking in a racially insensitive manner about Obama’s film tastes.
‘Sony has been fighting to get this picture distributed,’ he said, according to The Daily Beast. ‘It will be distributed.’