It's mid-December 2014, and as is traditionally in the United States, families are already

planning their Christmas day outing to the movies.

But what to see?

If you want something for the kids, there's into the woods.

Or if you don't, there's always American sniper.

But there's another Christmas day movie that's casting a long shadow.

You asked to kill the leader of North Korea?

It's...

Woo!

What a joke!

Hello, North Korea!

It's the interview, with its comedy plot about a bumbling assassination of North Korea and

Ruler Kim Jong Un.

It's triggered a devastating hack against Sony Pictures its creator, costing the company

millions and unleashing a bunch of embarrassing headlines.

Despite this, Sony Pictures still wants to release the film.

But now hackers are threatening to attack movie theaters showing the interview.

And that's a big, big issue because...

That movie was going to be released on Christmas Day, and that's a peak time for other studio

releases.

And the other studios were pressuring the theaters to not allow the movie.

This is Ben Weissbun, one of the film's executives, producers.

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