The Interview

With all of the chatter and faux-controversy surrounding “The Interview” in the Anglosphere, I wanted to know what normal Korean folks thought about the film.

“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” has stolen the show the third week in a row since its release on December 17. The recent weekend receipts of $21.9 million drove up its domestic total to $220.8 million at the box office, according to Rentrak, a box office revenue tracking service.

FBI Director James Comey says he’s confident that North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony.

The United States says its new round of sanctions against North Korea is just the opening salvo in its response to an unprecedented cyberattack on Sony. Yet there may be little else the U.S. can do to further isolate a country that already has few friends in the world.

Sony’s “The Interview” has been a hacking target, a punchline, and a political lightning rod. Now, with its release online at the same time it debuts in theaters, it has a new role: a test for a new kind of movie release.

Google and Microsoft both took a stance against hackers when partnering up with Sony to release The Interview on Christmas Eve, something Apple wasn’t so eager to do. But for Google, this move might be a lot more important than simply making its voice heard when it comes to defending freedom of speech and angering hackers in the process, Reuters reveals.

Releasing the controversial movie “The Interview” was a tough decision for Sony Pictures. They initially canceled it pending an FBI investigation. The studio eventually reconsidered after public criticism of caving in to the hackers’ demands, but only 331 small theaters chose to show it on Christmas, with major chains still holding out.

North Korea has compared President Barack Obama to a monkey and blamed the U.S. for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the movie “The Interview.”

There’s no denying Sony has been under enormous pressure over “The Interview,” but it’s remarkable how invisible the film’s official presence is online.

North Korea’s microscopic corner of the Internet has had a rough couple of days, suffering seven outages in the last 48 hours.

Following Sony Pictures decision to ax “The Interview” after cybercriminals made threats against cinemas, the film will now be shown on Christmas Day at theaters that want to air it.

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, there’s something you need to know: Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked. Just about everyone with an Internet connection or a TV is aware of the Sony hack — we even know exactly how the hackers broke into Sony’s internal network — but there are still plenty of things that people don’t know.

As President Obama vows a proportionate response to North Korea’s alleged hack of Sony, experts see few measures that could effectively punish the isolated communist dictatorship.

How do you joke about the Sony hacking story? After all, it was an attempt at comedy that launched this whole sobering mess.