there will never be an article or a movie, for that matter about brave screenwriter executives, and they would be the first ones to laugh you out of the room if you pitched a movie about brave studio executives. but ask yourselves what you would have done if people who broke into your company and stole everything out of your files and then started making it public, and then started threatening you and your family and the families of everyone who worked at your company, and all they wanted you to do was suppress one little thing that your company was doing, suppress a movie that didn t cost a whole lot to make and probably wasn t going to turn a profit anyway. it wouldn t be the first movie a studio made and didn t release. the blackmailing thieves who robbed from sony were not asking for the impossible. they were just asking a movie studio not to release a movie,
would love it if you could take him out. hmm? ? take him out. for coffee? for dinner? for kimchi? take him out. you want us to kill the leader of north korea? gentlemen. they offered to keep ti it secret if they would withdraw the movie. they were threatened with not only you but your family will be in danger, end quote. now you are can scour the news media for stories about the brave studio executives choosing to support freedom of speech instead of cowering in front of a dictator, but you won t find those stories. instead, you ll find quotes from their e-mails.
we are preparing for you a christmas gift. the gift will be larger quantities of data and will be more interesting. the gift will surely give you much more pleasure and put sony pictures into the worst state. cnn s senior media correspondent brian stelter and the host of reliable sources says the concern for any corporation being hacked to this magnitude is a chilling effect. it creates a fear of self-censorship, that movie studios or other companies won t go down a road because they re afraid of getting hacked in the future. reporter: garnering the biggest attention? e-mails allegedly disrespected president obama while discussing the types of movies he would enjoy watching at a breakfast with studio executives. sony apologized for these exchanges. sony s co-chairwoman amy pascal also apologized directly to angelina jolie after executives slammed her talent and demeanor in an e-mail. the identity of the hackers is limited at this point to the guardians of peace who say they
you never know who is going to read it. sony s ceo health a town hall with employees to address concerns. bond. james bond. on the list of highly sensitive material reportedly stolen, an early script of the newest 007 movie. the breach worthy of a movie plot complete with the fbi investigating. studio executives all over hollywood now wondering just how vulnerable they, too, might be. sony does not appear to be backing down. the interview is still set for release on christmas day. abc, los angeles.
journalists but there s an important distinction to make. the journalists are not the ones hacking into sony. that would be illegal and that would be wrong. we re only reporting on what has already been made public. reporter: the hackers say the best is yet to come. we are preparing for you a christmas gift. the gift will be larger quantities of data. and it will be more interesting. the gift will surely give you much more pleasure and put sony pictures into the worst state. cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter and the host of reliable sources says this has a chilling effect. it creates a fear of self-censorship, that movie studios or other companies won t go down a road because they re afrafd getting hacked in the future. reporter: garnering some of the biggest attention, e-mails allegedly disrespecting president obama while discussing the types of movies he would enjoy watching at a breakfast with studio executives. sony apologized for these