Forget those plans by Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and other theaters to run Team America: World Police in place of The Interview. The Austin-based chain says that Paramount has now decided not to offer South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 satire that focuses on Kim Jong-il, the late father of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Alamo says that the cancellation at its Dallas theater is “due to circumstances beyond our control” and says it will offer refunds to those who have already bought tickets. Cleveland’s Capitol Theater also tweeted that Team America “has been canceled by Paramount Pictures.”
Yesterday Sony pulled The Interview, which depicts an assassination of Kim Jong-un, after hackers threatened theaters that showed the film. Working with Sony since the first days of the massive hack in late November, the FBI has established some degree of connection between North Korea and the data breach. Having said that, while the White House today said the investigation is progressing, the Bureau and the Justice Department have not scheduled an announcement yet on the Democratic People’s Republic’s connection to the hacking of Sony, sources tell Deadline.
Deadline’s Dominic Patten contributed to this report
Ugh….Hollywood fail
Depending upon your defn. of success, there are very few Hollywood successes…but that’s my opinion
rally, so now on north Korea decides what movie Americans see really
This honestly just keeps getting better. It’s almost as if all of Hollywood hired consultants to tell them exactly what NOT to do in a situation like this.
It’s been so much fun watching these get away from them…best Christmas present EVER.
So true! Fun to watch, bring me some popcorn!
Grant is right! This is payback to all the reckless Hollywood liberals who love criminal dictators like Castro and Kim Jong and foisted the punk traitor Obama on us. A little karma, girls.
Remember in the old days when theaters weren’t all cowards?
What days were those? Theaters all across the US caved to william Randolph Hearst because he wanted to prevent Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” from being shown. That’s one example among many.
Have we all become a nation of cowards? Where is a Churchill type when you need one?
Where’s Reagan when we need him?
Churchill’s defending the Allies’ survival, sovereignty and the values of democracy against the tide of Naziism and fascism is a little bit higher-level than the protection of two reckless, trivial and needlessly provocative low-brow movie mockeries.
Wow. Were we this afraid to offend Germany when Charlie Chaplin released The Great Dictator in 1940? Somehow, I don’t think so.
Good comparison. Different generation…too bad.
No Ron, there was no aversion of Chaplin’s classic when it originally aired…
What it is, is Sony doesn’t want anymore of their dirty laundry aired to the world so they are folding into demands instead of having a backbone…. They capitulated faster than France, even faster than Obama folding like a cheap lawn chair in front of Putin on the world stage.
France was very smart to “capitulate” in WW2. Where else have they ‘capitulated’? Your comments are just a bunch of cheap ‘n cheesy Jr High level cliches..
Secondly, Obama is a puppet and his ‘hands’ are the ones that started this row with Putin. Go back to your Team America movie now.
“…even faster than Obama folding like a cheap lawn chair in front of Putin on the world stage.”
You mean the way Bush did when Putin invaded Georgia (and remains to this day)?
Paramount has nothing to do with sony
do you realize the possibility of people being killed over a stupid movie isn’t worth your idiotic sense of pride that is worthless in all realms of reality
I’ll take my chances any day of the week rather than be told what I am allowed to watch by an international bully.
30,000 people die in car wrecks every year, most years nobody dies in the US as a result of terrorism.
If you are that afraid, stay in you bed with the covers over your head. I’ll rather live my life without fear.
How did that work out for Putin considering Russia’s current situation? Not well it would seem.
The moderator here is a champion of free speech and rational thinking…I just know it.
Chaplin was attacked by business and political “leaders” for the Great Dictator. Do not allow historical revisionists to alter the facts. The US had as many racist and fascist laws as Nazi Germany in ’39.
There were thousands of American citizens who suffered due to their portrayal of the truth in the entertainment industry. The HUAC was just the tip of the iceberg.
You got to be kidding! Guess we are going to start having banned movies in the US.
try to find bugs bunny and hitler cartoons
More cowardly actions on behalf of hollywood and their minions. They are as anti-American as it comes.
Those crying free speech would be the first to lynch spike lee if he ever made a movie about black journalists going to Israel and killing Reuven Rivlin
I guess different rules for different complexion
So stick a sock on it cowards
What in the bloody hell are you talking about?
I’m personally for ALL forms of free speech(as long as it isn’t threatening or harrasment in nature). If Spike Lee truly wants to make that movie, let him.
And…what does Israel have to do with this? Are you trying to say Jews run Hollywood? For someone that cares a great deal about race/racism…that is quite a comment you have there.
They might cry out, but they won’t kill anyone OR ban a movie – remember the Bush assassination movie? Free speech will be battled by other’s free speech, that is not the issue here, no correlation here at all.
Spike Lee is a POS, period.
Well said! The idea of killing a real living person in a work of fiction troubles me to no end. Sony and the buffoon, Seth Rogen, deservedly got b itch ed-slapped.
Black journalists hate jews?
You just pulled that out in the hopes of increasing racial hatred. No one wants to lynch Mr Lee whom last i checked lives a life of luxury in the US. Go home racist, and keep hate at home too.
There would be a lot of people who would freak out and bitch about a movie like that. There were people who petitioned to have local theaters not screen The Last Temptation of Christ when I was a kid. Neither of this two things are the same as a studio giving in to terrorist demands, or did you not pay attention in sociology class?
Exactly my thoughts. Double standards are the sign of the hypocrite.
Not me.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
They are in-effect, along with Sony, condoning censorship by a dictatorial regime who routinely murders people. They are scum and I spit on them.
Are you referring to the censorship of the US Government, such as in the case of the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks?
Wtf. Cowards!
At the rate this bending over for Kim Jung Un is going, all copies of M*A*S*H* are going to be recalled and burned as well.
This gets worse and worse. What’s next to be banned, the remake of Red Dawn???? We’re a pathetic, scared nation.
What’s this “we” crap?
That movie was already edited to replace China with the most implausible North Korea. So it is was censored to appease the Chinese.
Studios are cowards. Always have been.
Already happened. The remake had China invading & thr Chinese gov’t forced Hollywood to a rewrite w N. Korea being the baddie.
Maybe the studios and theater owners should set up a hotline to Kim Jong Un so they can get his approval for all future projects.
Wow! Hollywood lost what little balls they have left.
Caving in at this level, sends a clear message to an evil dictator that he has power over the movie industry. Although Hollywood does not represent the American people, it does reflect poorly on our citizens as it will be misinterpreted that our country is weak. What the producers need to remember is that Americans will silently boycott the movie companies just like viewers fled from A&E when they pulled Duck Dynasty. Whether you agreed with A&E or not, they shot themselves in the foot with that blunder. Their audience never came back to the network.
This is bullshit. What happening to my country!!
So, it takes SONY canceling a really bad movie for you to realizes this?
The problem with this country is you and what you place importance on.
Even if we had total freedom of speech, we would have still been going down for decades.
Boycott movies until they release the interview
Wow another audio bowing down to idle that’s from the most blustery of countries, I am embarrassed for these people.
What the hell is going on? Are we just closing up shop?
Boo paramount, way to behave like you don’t have a pair.
They’re messing with Trey and Matt!? Uh, oh… now the fan is gonna hit the shits…
Ah, I’m going to be so rone-ry now.
Something doesn’t add up. Alamo Drafthouse was offering the movie for free, so how one receive a refund on a ticket that was sold for nothing?
the alamo didn’t offer a free movie. It was an option to watch that movie since the interview was pulled back.
Probably just good customer service by offering those who had tickets tickets to something else, besides theatres make most of their money from food sales.
Alamo has ‘presale’ for their free screenings in the form of $5 reserve seats that you get back as $5 concession vouchers. That’s what that’s about.
Wow. Another step in the wussification of America.