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Friday, December 26, 2014
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Hundreds of theaters begin screening The Interview’
By Hillel Italie
AP National Writer
NEW YORK - Critics and
early viewers agree that The In-
terview is less than a master-
piece. But thanks to threats from
hackers that nearly derailed its
release, it has become an event.
Hundreds of theaters Thurs-
day, from The Edge 8 in Green-
ville, Alabama, to Michael
Moore’s Bijou by the Bay in Tra-
verse City, Michigan, made spe-
cial holiday arrangements for
the Seth Rogen-James Franco
comedy depicting the assassina-
tion of North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un. Sony Pictures had
initially called off the release af-
ter major theater chains
dropped the movie that was to
have opened on as many as
3,000 screens.
But with President Obama
among others criticizing the de-
cision, Sony officials changed
their minds. The Interview be-
came available on a variety of
digital platforms Wednesday af-
ternoon, including Google Play,
YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s
Xbox Video and a separate Sony
website. Meanwhile, Sony and
independent theaters agreed to
release it in over 300 venues on
Christmas.
“We are taking a stand for
freedom,” said theater manager
Lee Peterson of the Cinema Vil-
lage East in Manhattan, where
most of Thursday’s seven
screenings had sold out by early
afternoon. “We want to show the
world that Americans will not be
told what we can or cannot
watch. Personally, I am not
afraid.”
Some venues showing The
Interview were more likely to
feature documentaries about
North Korea than a low-brow
comedy about it. At the Jean
Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, owned by Game of
Thrones author George RR
Martin, the schedule also in-
cludes the Spanish art-house re-
lease Flamenco, the locally
made The Twilight Angel and
an Italian film festival.
The back story of The Inter-
view has itself played out like a
Hollywood satire, in which a
cartoonish farce distracts from
some of the holiday season’s
most prestigious films: Selma,
the drama about the 1965 civil
rights march; Angelina Jolie’s
adaptation of the best-selling
World War II story Unbroken-,
and the all-star, big-screen ver-
sion of Stephen Sondheim’s Into
the Woods.
Security was light at many
theaters, with the occasional po-
lice officer on hand. The possi-
bility of violence was taken more
seriously by the movie industry
than by government officials.
Last week, the Department of
Homeland Security released a
statement saying that there were
no credible threats.
Meanwhile, Darrell Fox-
worth, a special agent for the
FBI in San Diego, said Wednes-
day the agency was sharing in-
formation with independent
movie theater owners showing
The Interview out of “an abun-
dance of caution” and to educate
them about cyber threats and
what help the FBI can offer.
Kim Song, a North Korean
diplomat to the United Nations,
condemned the release Wednes-
day, calling the movie an “unpar-
donable mockery of our sover-
eignty and dignity of our su-
preme leader.” But Kim said
North Korea will likely limit its
response to condemnation, with
no “physical reaction.”
Decisions to show the movie
through the Internet could open
up companies to hacking. Xbox
and PlayStation’s online gaming
services were down Thursday af-
ternoon but the cause was un-
clear. Meanwhile, YouTube and
other Google products were not
having any disruptions. A Micro-
soft spokesman confirmed the
Xbox outage but declined further
comment Sony PlayStation rep-
resentatives did not immediately
respond to inquiries.
Members of an Arkansas
family who say they otherwise
would have never seen The In-
terview were among the first pa-
trons at the Riverdale 10 theater
in Little Rock. Kay Trice and her
husband drove an hour from
Stuttgart, Arkansas, to see the
movie with their daughter and
appreciated “the freedom to see
it.”
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Father of pilot captured by IS pleads for release
By Omar Akour
and Diaa Hadid
Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — The fa-
ther of a Jordanian pilot cap-
tured by the Islamic State group
in Syria pleaded for his son’s re-
lease on Thursday, asking him to
treat him well in captivity as a
fellow Muslim.
So far, there has been silence
from the extremists about the
fate of their captive, 1st Lt.
Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, since gun-
men from the group dragged
him away following his crash
Wednesday morning.
Al-Kaseasbeh was carrying
out air strikes against the mili-
tants when his warplane
crashed near the northern Syri-
an city of Raqqa, the Islamic
State group’s de facto capital.
The group has executed cap-
tured Iraqi and Syrian Muslim
soldiers in the past — it follows
an extremist version of Islam
that considers rivals, even some
Sunni Muslims, as apostates.
The pilot’s father, Safi Yousef
al-Kaseasbeh, made his plea
while speaking to journalists in
the Jordanian capital, Amman.
“I direct a message to our gen-
erous brothers ofthe Islamic State
in Syria: to host my son, the pilot
Mu’ath, with generous hospitali-
ty” he said. “I ask God that their
hearts are gathered together with
love, and that he is returned to his
family, wife and mother.”
“We are all Muslims,” he add-
ed.
The pilot is the first known
military member to be captured
from the international coalition
Islamic State mil-
itants, with the
permission of the
extremist group,
shows militants
with a captured
pilot, center, wear-
ing a white shirt in
Raqqa, Syria,
Wednesday.
AP
to break its control over territory was pulled by gunmen from a the Raqqa Media Center, which
stretching across Syria and Iraq, body of water and hustled away, operates in areas under IS control
After the crash, al-Kaseasbeh according to photos published by The capture — and the po-
tential hostage situation — pre-
sents a nightmare scenario for
Jordan, which vowed to contin-
ue its fight against the group
that has overrun large parts of
Syria and Iraq and beheaded
foreign captives and local rivals.
The cause of the crash was
not immediately known. The
U.S. military said Wednesday
that evidence “clearly indicates”
that the militants did not shoot
down al-Kaseasbeh’s F-16.
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journalists that the family had
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ly was told that his nephew was
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bombing mission when the mil-
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ing missile and his plane went
down in the Euphrates River.
He said three other war-
planes in the same sortie had
wanted to rescue him, but were
wary of striking militants in the
area for fear of killing al-Kaseas-
beh and so were ordered to re-
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