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Old 12-19-2014, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by janmcn View Post
If anyone looks back over the events of this past week, they would realize it was the four major theater chain owners who decided they would not show the movie therefore forcing Sony to cancel the opening. If there is no distribution, there can be no screenings. It was the theater owners who forced Sony's hand, and it would have been the theaters who would be paying the lawsuits had something bad happened.
I believe you are incorrect about the theater owners - SONY pulled the film and even if they had not they would have been just as liable because they were aware of the threat.