--- title: 'Team America' Screenings Canceled After Sony Pulls 'The Interview' description: Theaters opted to show the film after Sony said it wouldn't screen the 'The Interview' canonical: https://time.com/3641084/team-america-screenings-canceled-sony-the-interview/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-18T22:29:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:00:05.880Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Team America' Screenings Canceled After Sony Pulls 'The Interview' og:description: Theaters opted to show the film after Sony said it wouldn't screen the 'The Interview' og:url: https://time.com/3641084/team-america-screenings-canceled-sony-the-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6160e506e4786286/69876fc335ba6f615bc06156/team-america.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Team America: World Police og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Team America' Screenings Canceled After Sony Pulls 'The Interview' twitter:description: Theaters opted to show the film after Sony said it wouldn't screen the 'The Interview' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6160e506e4786286/69876fc335ba6f615bc06156/team-america.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Team America' Screenings Canceled After Sony Pulls 'The Interview' by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Dec 18, 2014 10:29 PM UTC  Team America: World Police Team America: World PoliceParamount by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Dec 18, 2014 10:29 PM UTC Following Wednesday’s [news](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/17/sony-cancels-christmas-theatrical-release-of-the-interview/) that Sony was canceling the Christmas release of _The Interview_, now another movie lampooning a North Korean dictator will not be seen in theaters: At least two theaters have said their upcoming screenings of _Team America: World Police_ have been canceled by Paramount. On Wednesday, the Dallas/Fort Worth Alamo Drafthouse [explained](https://twitter.com/AlamoDFW/status/545361637985640448) on Twitter that it would have continued showing _The Interview_ despite the fact that a number of theater chains had [dropped screenings](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/17/theaters-cancel-the-interview-sony-threats/)—but because Sony had now pulled _The Interview_ from all theaters, the Drafthouse would [show](https://twitter.com/AlamoDFW/status/545361680700432384) _Team America_, which features a villainous Kim Jong-il puppet, in its place. On Thursday, the Drafthouse tweeted the following: > [](https://twitter.com/AlamoDFW/status/545658720798408704) Alamo Drafthouse said in a statement, “We can confirm that the screening of TEAM AMERICA was cancelled as the film was pulled from release. We are issuing refunds to those that purchased tickets.” The Cleveland-based Capitol Theatre, tweeted earlier today that it was planning to show the [movie](https://twitter.com/CapitolW65th/status/545635171576598528) from the team behind _South Park_ in June, but then later [reported](https://twitter.com/CapitolW65th/status/545649110502871040): “. . . we just received word: Paramount has pulled all future screenings of Team America. Ours is canceled. :(.” The theater wrote: > [](https://twitter.com/CapitolW65th/status/545650131564244992) Paramount did not immediately respond to _EW_‘s requests for comment. Intelligence officials have now linked the Sony hack to the North Korean government, [_The New York Times_ reported.](http://news-briefs.ew.com/2014/12/17/intelligence-officials-north-korea-sony-hack/) [_This article originally appeared on EntertainmentWeekly.com_](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/18/team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3641084/team-america-screenings-canceled-sony-the-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3641084/team-america-screenings-canceled-sony-the-interview/"},"headline":"'Team America' Screenings Canceled After Sony Pulls 'The Interview'","datePublished":"2014-12-18T22:29:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:00:05.880Z","description":"Theaters opted to show the film after Sony said it wouldn't screen the 'The Interview'","url":"https://time.com/3641084/team-america-screenings-canceled-sony-the-interview/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6160e506e4786286/69876fc335ba6f615bc06156/team-america.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Entertainment Weekly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6160e506e4786286/69876fc335ba6f615bc06156/team-america.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Team America: World Police","caption":"Team America: World Police","creditText":"Paramount","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3641084/team-america-screenings-canceled-sony-the-interview/","name":"'Team America' Screenings Canceled After Sony Pulls 'The Interview'"}}]}] ```