10. The Interview Causes An International Incident
The reason everybody's talking about this in the first place is the seeming ban on the (admittedly seemingly in very poor taste) The Interview, a Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy where the pair play a talk show host and his producer who go to North Korea to interview despotic leader Kim Jong-Un. And also, with advice from the CIA, to assassinate him. Sony, the studio responsible for the film, recently suffered from a devastating security breach that saw hackers breaking into their computer systems and leaking a whole heap of internal emails into the hands of journalists, with a handful of big upcoming films winding up on file sharing sites too. Turns out the cyber attack was all down to The Interview. Not long after all that unpleasantness there came also a threat of terrorism like September 11th from North Korea targeted at every theatre that showed the movie, with the country seemingly taking responsibility for the hack as well, as retaliation for the film. Sony swiftly pulled it from general release.
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