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### SONY CEO Responds to Obama on CNN

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## Transcript

The President says Sony made a mistake in pulling the film. Did you make a mistake? No. I, I think actually the unfortunate part is in this instance the President, the press and the public are mistaken as to what actually happened. We do not own movie theaters. We cannot determine whether or not a movie will be played in movie theaters. So, to sort of rehearse for a moment the sequence of events, we experienced the worst cyber- attack in American history. And persevere for three and a half weeks under enormous stress and enormous difficulty. And all with the effort of trying to keep our business up and running and get this movie out into the public.

When it came to the crucial moment, when a threat came out. From what was called the GOP at the time. Threatening audiences who would go to the movie theaters. The movie theaters came to us one by one over the course of a very short period of time. We were completely surprised by it. And announced that they would not carry the movie. At that point in time, we had no alternative but to not proceed with the theatrical release on the 25th of December. So you have. [ CROSSTALK ] And that's all we did. So you have not caved in your-? We have not caved, we have not given in. We have persevered and we have not backed down.

We have, we have always had every desire to have the American public see this movie. Why not release it online? In some form or the other video on demand. There are a number of options open to us and we have considered those and are considering them. As it stands right now. While there have been a number of suggestions we go out there and deliver this movie digitally or through VOD. There has not been one major VOD, video on demand distributor, on major e- commerce site that has stepped forward and said they are willing to. Distribute this movie for us. Again, we don't have that direct interface with the American public, so we need to go through an intermediary to do that.

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