Sony Pictures has canceled the Christmas Day release of “The Interview” after terror threats against movie theaters showing the film.
The decision came after major theater chains, including Regal Entertainment Group and AMC Entertainment Holdings, announced they would not show the film. Regal is owned by Philip Anschutz, owner of the Washington Examiner.
The Sony comedy is about the assassination of North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un and stars James Franco and Seth Rogen.
It is believed the people who hacked Sony Pictures’ computer systems and released thousands internal documents and emails are the same people threatening the terrorist attacks.
U.S. investigators have determined hackers working for North Korea were behind the Sony hack, U.S. law enforcement sources told CNN. Previously, the North Korean government denied that it hacked Sony, but the regime called the attack a “righteous deed.”
In the movie, Rogen and Franco play two television journalists who land an interview with the North Korean leader and are then recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that the threat of a terrorist attack on movie theaters is not credible.
