Capitulating to a massive cyberattack on its systems and violent threats that apparently came from North Korea, Sony Pictures has decided not to release its movie, “The Interview,” as scheduled on Christmas Day — and perhaps ever.

The film, a fictional farce about a goofball CIA assassination of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un, was withdrawn after Sony and news outlets received terrorist threats against American movie theaters that showed it. “Remember the 11th of September 2001,” one poorly written threat warned, adding, “We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.”