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Proprietary company information posted online, including really lurid and damaging personal e-mails, medical histories, also their most valuable intellectual property, including the scripts for forthcoming movies. they also destroyed information on some sony machines by just wiping some computers clean. it was basically a very dramatic business story with a lot of gossip and celebrity news mixed in, until it crossed into a different kind of story. when the hacking also develops to include threat...

>> glad to be here. >> lets begin with i know you read that george clooney interview and you were watching the presidents remarks saying this was a huge mistake on behalf of sony. do you agree with the president or do you think its easy for the rest of us to monday morning quarterback this? >> its easy to monday morning quarterback it but that decision was made by sony more for exhibitors who didnt want to show it for fear of violence. by the time sony decided to shut down, they heard from the b...

Hacked. had all their private and proprietary company information posted online, including really lurid and damaging personal e-mails, medical histories, also their most valuable intellectual property, including the scripts for forthcoming movies. they also destroyed information on some sony machines by just wiping some computers clean. it was basically a very dramatic business story with a lot of gossip and celebrity news mixed in, until it crossed into a different kind of story. when the hacki...

Film. i kind of got like a muddled message from the chairman, all due respect to him. what exactly was he saying he talked to the white house about? >> well, he talked to the white house about the fact that they had this threat. i think on the question of the pulling of the film, what he said -- what michael linton said was that the president, the public and the press have misunderstood. his argument is sony never pulled the film. what happened was sony was working very hard to get the film out....

Anonymous hackers, tlenting a 9/11 style attack. >> we take seriously all threats. sin plex now calling it an unprecedented situation. the chains are corming their options opening with regal saying theyre just delaying the opening. but this is another blow for sony after 1 00 terabytes of data were stolen on tuesday, actors seth roe gan and james franco canceled many of their prez events including late night with seth meyers, jimmy fallon and "live with kelly and michael." >> they had to cancel,...

Cnn senior analyst jeffrey toobin. >> sony canceled the release after five chains said they wouldnt run it. did they cave to blackmail? >> of course they did. lets point the finger at north korea. they declared war on our 1st amendment. and they have won the first victory. this is pearl harbor on the 1st amendment. we have to decide huh to respond. we must respond. first of all, sony, i think made a terrible mistake. not in pulling it from the theaters. but in not announcing theyre going to make...

Happened wednesday. sony, caving under pressure, cancelling next weeks release of "the interview" in light of the decision by many of the countrys biggest theatre chains to yank the film from their schedule, citing uncertainties and security fears. this coming after a warning by anonymous hackers, threatening a 9/1 1 style attack at theerts where the film is playing. the state department says they have no evidence of a specific credible threat but -- >> we, of course, take seriously all threats ...

Many of the biggest theater chains to yank the film from their schedules citing uncertainties and security fears. this coming after a warning by anonymous hackers threatening a 9/11-style attack at theaters where the film is played. the state department says they have no evidence of a specific credible threat in but -- >> we take seriously all reported threats against the homeland including recent threats made against movie theaters. >> reporter: there were real worries that americans might fear...

>> we have breaking news on a story we brought you earlier. moments ago sony pictures entertainment announced it is cancelling its christmas day release of its film "the interview" the move comes after the nations five largest chains said they wont show the film in the wake of threats by cyber hackers. in a statement sony said this. we have planned not to move forward. we respect and understand our partners decision and completely share their pouraramt interest in the safety of employees and the...

Empty threat. however theres been considerable damage done already. theyve also spent a lot of money to market this movie. and as tom indicated, this movie could actually do very well because all of this negative publicity has been aroused by the controversy. so when youve got the likes of jaud ap tath going out on twitter saying its the patriotic thing to do to go sigh this movie, you could see a snowball effect. even though youve got the actual chains like carmike pulling out. >> so tom ill po...