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>> well, john, blowing up a movie theatre is easier than the cyberattack that has occurred on sony. many, many, many people can do that. timothy mcveigh didnt have anything like the technical sophistication these attackers on sewnmy to do. so to say its not within their powers to blow up a movie theatre, which has a exercise for a very long time, in the 21st century, which is the century of firsts, we never had airliners go into office buildings before the 21st century either. this is the centur...

Incredible capability to do damage in cyber domain to its company, but not really in the physical domain. i think theres an important disting there. its very different to say youre able to threaten peoples lives versus releasing data stolen from servers. >> well, john, blowing up a movie theatre is easier than the cyberattack that has occurred on sony. many, many, many people can do that. timothy mcveigh didnt have anything like the technical sophistication these attackers on sewnmy to do. so to...

Theatres, 2,971 screens across 41 states. joining me now is the executive editor of "the hollywood reporter." also joining me is john condra, an east asian richl expert. the breaking news about the theatre cancellations, this is one of the things that sony feared from the start, but the threats to the theatres are very specific and include a threat to people who live nier the movie theatres that might show this film, warning them that they should not be home when this film appears. >> yeah. this...

>> breaking news tonight on the attack on sony. today, the sony attackers threatened to attack movie theatres and movie theatregoers that show the seth rogan-james franco north korean comedy "the interview." a sony pictures film is scheduled to open in wide release on christmas day, according to the hollywood reporter. sony pictures is telling theatres that they are free to drop the movie and that the studio will support them in whatever decision they make. the "hollywood reporter" is also repor...