The Interview

…that Sony Pictures not release The Interview, a comedy about a CIA plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and threatened to attack theatres that showed the movie. After American movie theatre chains canceled screenings, Sony released the movie online and in limited theatrical release. E-mail hacking has even…

Rogen cowrote and codirected The Interview, a provocative farce about an attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un; he and Franco starred. The film, slated for release in December 2014, was pulled by its distributor, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., in the wake of a hack of the company’s…

Prior to the release of The Interview, a comedic farce about a CIA plot to assassinate Kim, hackers released tens of thousands of Sony’s internal e-mails and issued threats against theatres that showed the film. The North Korean government denied responsibility for the hack.

In the irreverent The Interview, also codirected by and costarring Rogen, Franco played a talk-show host who is tasked with assassinating North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The film, slated for release in December 2014, was pulled by its distributor, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., in the wake of a…