Giving in to an online threat from the group Guardians of Peace that claims responsibility for hacking Sony Pictures, the theatre owner of the venue where the New York premiere of The Interview was to take place has cancelled the event. Catherine Shoard of The Guardian reports: The New York premiere of The Interview, Seth Rogen and James Franco’s film depicting a fictional assassination attempt on the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been cancelled. The premiere was to have taken place on Thursday at Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema in Manhattan. A spokesperson for the cinema confirmed the event had been pulled late on Tuesday US time. The move follows a message sent earlier in the day from a group calling itself Guardians of Peace, warning audiences that they would place themselves in danger by going to see the film in a US cinema. The online message said people who chose to see the film could look forward to a “bitter fate”,...(Read Full Post)