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North Korean officials released a statement on Sunday claiming that the American government not only conceived the idea for the film The Interview, but was also behind its production. The statement, which was released by the Korean Central News Agency, also

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Breitbart’s  John Nolte defended Sony. “It is not up to Sony to fight the government,” Nolte said. “I think They kept their product viability. I don’t think it is a good precedent if you

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the attorney for Sony Pictures, David Boies, said President Obama is “blaming the victim” in  North Korea’s hacking attack on Sony. Boies said, “This is a state-sponsored criminal attack on a private corporation and

On “Fox News Sunday,” the outgoing chair of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said out intelligence community has the capacity to respond to the North Korean hacking attack on Sony Pictures but President Barack Obama has stalled on a

On Saturday, Jeanine Pirro, host of the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” argued that President Obama was to blame for the pulling of “The Interview,” not Sony. “Tonight America capitulates to a North American thug in a wuss

North Korean officials proposed a joint investigation with the United States into the cyber attack against Sony on Saturday and promised “serious” consequences if the offer is rejected, according to the Hollywood Reporter. An unidentified spokesman for the country said

US News and World Report Chairman and Editor-in-Chief and publisher of The New York Daily News, Mort Zuckerman declared that it was “appropriate” to pull “The Interview” from theaters due to threats of violence on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” “There is clearly

A senior defense analyst for Rand Corporation said Friday that he believes The Interview’s depiction of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un may be the reason behind the Sony hack. Bruce Bennett, who was reportedly asked by Sony chief Michael Lynton

Actor Sean Penn argued that a boycott of the distributors of “The Interview” “should be considered” to support “free speech and free thinking” on Friday’s “Hardball” on MSNBC. “We have to realize that this is a genuine emergency, this is

WASHINGTON — President Obama, during a press conference, refused to explicitly say whether he is considering military action in response to North Korea’s damaging cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. When asked if he would rule out military action against North

Movie posters of the recently pulled Sony Pictures film The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, are currently hot sellers on eBay.  Originals of the movie poster are selling for $1,000, while reproductions of the original poster can cost

In his last press conference of 2014, President Barack Obama blamed Sony for pulling The Interview after hacking attacks and terror threats from North Korea. Yet not only did President Obama do and say nothing to defend Sony at the time, he

George Clooney has once again found a way to insert himself into an international story where he has conveniently cast George Clooney as the lonely heroic crusader of all that is good and brave and righteous. This time he’s not

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton argued that those who have cyberattack capability “will use it” and that “the United States does not have adequate offensive cyberwarfare capabilities” on Thursday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. Bolton stated that

State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki declined to dub the hacking of Sony as “cyberterrorism” terming it a “cyberhack” and arguing that there isn’t any point in “putting new labels on it” on Thursday’s “The Lead” on CNN. She added, “I

George R.R. Martin, the creator of HBO’s Game of Thrones, called Sony’s decision not to release The Interview “corporate cowardice” on Wednesday in his LiveJournal blog. He offered his opinions of the film, Sony, and the decision to cancel its

The Sony Pictures hack, which the U.S. State Department believes originated from North Korea, caused both a personal crisis for its employees and a potential national security crisis for the United States. One effect of the hack on interpersonal communications within Sony represents a regression

Over a surreptitiously recorded racist conversation, Donald Sterling lost his basketball team. Over an anti-Semitic drunken rant, superstar Mel Gibson was exiled from Hollywood. The media and Hollywood have already established the necessary precedent for firing Sony co-chair Amy Pascal

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson declared that the Sony hack was a “very serious” attack “on freedoms that we enjoy in this country” on Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “At this point we’re not prepared to officially say who

Forbes columnist Gordon Chang argued that unless the Obama administration takes serious action, the hacking of Sony will be “just the first” incident of a regime using cyber warfare in an attempt to prevent the publishing of content they don’t

The actual facts of the story do not support the headline and opening paragraph of this Sony leak report in The Independent. My reading of the actual story is that Sony should be applauded for its decision to cast Denzel

Howard Kurtz, Fox News Media Analyst, and host of “MediaBuzz” argued that after Sony pulled “The Interview” following threats made against the film that “there is now nothing to stop other attackers from targeting [anything]…that displeases them, and many, many

The terrorists (they are no longer just hackers) who call themselves The Guardians of Peace (and are likely backed by the North Korean government) wanted “The Interview” dead, and now it is dead. At least for now. Losing stinks, and

The threats against Sony Pictures and its film The Interview are giving pause to filmmakers who want to set their films in North Korea. New Regency films had planned to shoot a thriller set in North Korea written by Steve