Hollywood's humiliating surrender to computer hackers was roundly mocked and ridiculed yesterday — as movie theaters were even forced to pull scheduled 10-year anniversary screenings of "Team America," just one day after Sony Pictures nixed "The Interview — in what experts called a stunning display of cowardice over the North Korea movies.
"The only safe country to write about now is Canada, because all they'll do is throw snowballs," said Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School. "I think the movie industry has failed miserably. ... When Salman Rushdie wanted to publish 'The Satanic Verses' and the Iranian Supreme Leader issued a fatwa, all the publishers got together and simultaneously published the book jointly. That's the opposite of what happened here — all the Hollywood studios ... were concerned about was their bottom line."
The latest capitulation to the cyberterrorists came yesterday when movie theaters planning to show "Team America: World Police" — a North Korea comedy by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone — announced they were dropping the screenings, claiming they were being canceled by Paramount Pictures, the studio that released the film. Paramount didn't respond to emails yesterday.
The pulling of the 10-year-old puppet film came just a day after Sony announced it wouldn't air "The Interview" starring Seth Rogen and James Franco in movie theaters or release it on DVD or online.
Terrorism expert Jim Walsh of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the Herald Sony's decision to wave the white flag could hurt other institutions in the long run.
"I think it's shocking that they would give in on this," Walsh said. "You have to think that that's going to catch the eye of some people and say, 'Hey, I can do the same.' I worry that this will inspire others to follow suit."
Some on Twitter lambasted the movie industry yesterday, offering alternative sanitized versions of film favorites under the hashtag #NewHollywood Classics.
"'Dead Poets Society,' in which a young and energetic teacher learns to teach to the syllabus rather than speak out," tweeted @EdMorrissey.
"All the Presidents Men: Reporters are hunted down by heroic FBI agents & sent to jail for daring 'to fol- low the money'" tweeted @DrewMTips.
Meanwhile, a U.S. official told The Associated Press yesterday that federal investigators have now connected the Sony hacking to North Korea. Publicly, however, White House officials have not drawn similar conclusions.
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