Sony Is Pulling The Interview from Dec. 25th Release

Sony has decided to pull the Christmas Day release of The Interview, after threats from hackers led the top movie theater chains in the country to decide against screening it.

Both CNN and Reuters broke the news late this afternoon:

#BREAKING Sony deciding not to move forward with planned Dec. 25th release of "The Interview" after majority of theatre chains pull the plug

— Pamela Brown (@PamelaBrownCNN) December 17, 2014

Sony says it canceled release of 'The Interview' in light of the decision by the majority theaters not to show the film #breaking

— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) December 17, 2014

And CNN’s Brian Stelter obtained this full statement from Sony Pictures:

Full Sony Pictures statement… pic.twitter.com/zxM0hMQxHG

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 17, 2014

It’s important to note here: this doesn’t mean the movie won’t be released on a later date or just go to video on demand instead of being released in theaters, but that they’re just pulling it from its planned release date.

Well, that was quick.

UPDATE- 5:14 pm EST: Oh, and of course, Sony will be pulling all the television advertising for the movie.

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