Really? Variety posted the following quote from some random group of hackers:

“The world will be full of fear,” the message reads. “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.) Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.”

The movie that these grammar impaired mouth breathers are threatening is a comedy about the CIA trying to assassinate the murderous inbred thug ruling North Korea. The hacker group is making a whole lot of very broad based threats according to these messages. From the above article:

The note also threatens people who attend the premiere of “The Interview.” A New York premiere of the film is scheduled to take place Thursday at Sunshine Cinema and has already been scaled down, according to a report in the New York Post. A special screening of the film took place in Los Angeles last week without incident.

Not sure if this actually is North Korea or a delusional  publicist trying to get more buzz about an upcoming film. Either way I am thinking the folks in the FBI are looking closely. If this is a publicist, who really wants to live Orange is the New Black, I am sure the US Attorney that lives near them will be more than happy to oblige. If this is actually Pyongyang then hopefully someone in Washington handles this like an adult. To make it worse, showing the movie opens the theater up to all sorts of issues. The Daily Mail states

Some in the industry are also saying major theater chains that are publicly traded companies may not be able to even show the movie for fear of serious legal repercussions should these threats ultimately be true.

‘If something does happen at theaters showing The Interview, today’s hacker threat means that no one can say they didn’t know or at the very least have a reasonable expectation, explains Deadline.

And that means that any victims or their families could sue the theater or theater chain, and would likely win.

For a theater chain, screening a movie that has been poorly reviewed with additional threats of mayhem is not worth the risk. I cannot say they are wrong; the previews show a movie that is not going in my Netflix queue anytime soon. Hipsters bore me and it seems the critics are less than impressed.  From the daily mail:

USA Today’s Claudia Puig writes; ‘Considering the controversy and chaos Sony Pictures Studios is undergoing because of it, The Interview fails to live up to the hype, floundering as a rowdy comedy as it grows duller by the minute.’

Even harsher was Variety, with Scott Foundas writing; ‘An alleged satire that’s about as funny as a communist food shortage, and just as protracted.’

If I want to watch something entertaining about North Korea, the 2004 movie Team America is a much better choice.