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The Interview with Seth Rogen and James Franco Moved to Christmas Release Date

August 7, 2014

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Despite North Korea’s protestations against the movie’s subject matter that focuses on killing Kim Jong-Un, Sony is moving the release of The Interview starring Seth Rogen and James Franco back to a bigger release date, Christmas.

Originally, the movie was slated for release in early October, but Sony is lining up its Christmas weekend offering for The Interview, where it’ll play against the third installment of The Hobbit franchise and more.

This will also give North Korea two more months to further decry the movie, though we’re not sure how much more they could say outside of an “act of terrorism”.

North Korea Is Calling ‘The Interview’ An Act of Terrorism

June 25, 2014

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North Korea Is Calling ‘The Interview’ An Act of Terrorism

North Korea continues to be outraged about the upcoming spy assassination comedy The Interview with Seth Rogen and James Franco. In fact, they’ve gone so far as to call it “an act of terrorism” and “a war action”.

We think that’s a bit of stretch, but, apparently, “If the U.S. administration connives at and patronizes the screening of the film, it will invite a strong and merciless countermeasure,” according to a North Korea’s Foreign Ministry spokesman.

Well, if that strong and merciless countermeasure is a film where they go after Obama, it would be interesting to see where they will find a black actor in North Korea.

North Korea Isn’t Happy With Seth Rogen-James Franco Comedy ‘The Interview’

June 21, 2014

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North Korea Isn’t Happy With Seth Rogen-James Franco Comedy ‘The Interview’

The subject of the spy comedy farce, North Korea, is not amused by the fictionalized attempt by characters played by James Franco and Seth Rogen to attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un in The Interview. That’s what Kim Myong-choi, executive director for the Centre of North Korea-U.S. Peace, which we had no idea was a thing that existed, thinks anyway.

Still, Kim Jong-un reportedly plans on seeing it anyway. Myong-choi also added the dig “that James Bond movies are better than Hollywood films.”

Perhaps, North Korea will make a movie in response in a sort of “filmic cold war” and this all becomes something that Armando Iannucci fictionalizes?

Watch James Franco and Seth Rogen as Spies in Teaser Trailer for The Interview

June 12, 2014

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Seth Rogen and James Franco team up yet again for an action packed comedy in The Interview coming out in October. This time, they’re not taking on drug cartels or the Apocalypse against all odds, but rather North Korea, also against all odds.

Rogen and Franco play spies who are attempting to take out North Korea’s Kim Jong Un which you can see here in the trailer.

This has us wondering if Franco and Rogen, as an action duo, will ever cross paths with the other popular action comedy duo right now, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.