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Part of me secretly wishes that Sony would just put out a press release saying "You know what? Fuck it. The Interview will be on Netflix on Christmas Day for 24 hours. No extra charge. So stop downloading our Excel sheets and enjoy a movie. Merry Christmas."

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Well it they wanted to get angry they could go all Oatmeal on them and immediately release the BluRay with all of the profits going some cause antithetical to the hackers.

Wouldn't profits going to Sony and the MPAA already be antiethical to most hackers?

Especially when the entire movie is about killing their leader.

Sony just announced it was pulling the Dec 25 release: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sony-says-it-will-pull-the-...

If I was a movie star with a percentage of the profits, my lawyers would be very opposed to that strategy.

At this point, what profits?

Hold off 6 months, wait until the figure out who hacked them, and then release it.

A lot of people might see it now, who otherwise wouldn't have.

How? Theaters refused to show it. Sony has pulled the movie from distribution.

Just read that. I'll try to skip Sony movies from now on.

...and your agent and accountant would be completely incompetent.

By now, everybody ought to know to demand a percentage of the gross revenue, and not the net profit.

You have to be an A-lister, and a top name at that (like Tom Cruise) to get that kind of deal.

Everyone else gets a flat fee or some other graduated revenue. The Sony leaks show that Rogen and Franco got a fixed salary for The Interview (which is probably the smartest deal of the year, given the circumstances)

Huh? The fact that the actor may or may not have negotiated for gross revenue versus profit wouldn't make a difference if the movie made neither.

Movies never make a profit. Hollywood accounting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

The point is that if there's never a box office release, there will be no revenue (net or gross) to take a share of.

I thought Hollywood accounting was already one step ahead of that and redefined "gross revenues" so those don't exist either?

It's pretty hard to hide the number of tickets sold at the box office. It's actually released to the press to publicize the opening weekend numbers.

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