The Sony Pictures Leak F**kery Thread

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Thats so much for making a thread op :blessed:i have a feeling the idea of men in blackand 22 Jump street merge was a joke and they just took off with it :russ:
lmfao at calling kevin hart a who're :mjlol:

:why r u punishing me:sadcam:" had me rolling last night ahahahaha this shyt is so funny to me idk why :whew: sony is fukked right now tho :whoo:
 
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Alot of this was already posted in here, but not all of this

Watermarked Screeners and Forthcoming Films
Soon after Sony's systems went down, awards-season screeners of Fury, Annie,Still Alice, and Mr. Turner, as well as a cut of the 2015 film To Write Love on Her Arms, were disseminated on illegal file-sharing sites. The films immediately became early Christmas presents for piracy-site frequenters. According to Variety, Fury was downloaded more than 1 million times one day after the leaks.

Silver Linings
Trying to find some optimism amid the piracy muck, Sony told Deadline a few days after the first leaks that its computer systems were copacetic and that it was working out a deal to create a narrative feature of Tiller Russell's The Seven Five, essentially the corrupt-cop version of Goodfellas. The site alsoreported that Sony's social accounts — for the company and its compromised movies — surged with new subscribers. The official Sony page grabbed 1.6 million likes on Thanksgiving Day.

The $1 Million Club
Fusion sifted through the compromised internal documents and discovered an eye-opening annual rate chasm: Of the studio's 17 seven-figure U.S. earners, nearly all are white and only one of them is a woman. The data dump also included the compensation plans and personal information of more than 6,000 other Sony employees (later including Princess Beatrice of York, who earns $30,300 as an intermediate coordinating producer), as well as cheesy scripts for HR's in-house recruiting videos. Sony confirmed the veracity of the compromised assets soon after.

James Franco and Seth Rogen's Payday
Adding to a breach that exposed salaries at Deloitte Touche and a top Sony exec's credit card number, the hackers also released The Interview's budget. According to the documents, it took roughly $44 million to make the movie, with Seth Rogen receiving $8.4 million-plus and James Franco $6.5 million. The documents also catalogued the compensation rates and social security numbers for other celebrities tied to the studio, including Sylvester Stallone and Judd Apatow.

A Problem With Adam Sandler Movies
Gawker sorted through a text file called "Sony_2012_Comments" and learned that people at the studio don't like that they make so many Adam Sandler movies. (Since 2008, Sony has released six.) "There is a general 'blah-ness' to the films we produce," complained one employee. "Althought [sic] we manage to produce an innovative film once in awhile, Social Network, Moneyball, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we continue to be saddled with the mundane, formulaic Adam Sandler films."

Don't Forget About TVReporters at Mashable reviewed a number of documents, too — some having to do with Sony's television arm. They found that Sony's three-year Seinfeldsyndication deal for local affiliate stations will earn the company at least $18.5 million. Pilot scripts for the 2014 TV season were also leaked — one of the juiciest was for Vince Gilligan's Battle Creek.

Top-Secret ProfitabilityAmong the thousands of documents floating around, THR found top-secret letters that note details about production spending and ultimate profitability on some of last year's films. A slew of projects, including This Is the End ($50 million), Grown Ups 2 ($48 million), Captain Phillips ($39 million), andAmerican Hustle ($27 million), will end up in profit, among others.

Celebrity Aliases

Fusion was able to track down a folder labeled "publicity bibles," which included cast and crew contact directories for recently released Sony films. The files blew the cover on the secret aliases some of the studio's movie stars use to do normal-people things. Fusion shared the alter egos of Tom Hanks ("Harry Lauder," "Johnny Madrid"), Jessica Alba ("Cash Money"), and Natalie Portman ("Lauren Brown"), among others.

Monetary Demands

For the first few weeks, it was unknown what the hackers wanted from Sony.Mashable, however, tracked down an extortion email sent to top studio execs three days before the attack. It reads:

We've got great damage by Sony Pictures.

The compensation for it, monetary compensation we want.

Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole.

You know us very well.
We never wait long.

You'd better behave wisely.

From God'sApstls


As Mashable pointed out, it has not been possible to confirm that the letter from God'sApstls was wholly related to the ensuing Guardians of Peace hack. This tweet/email makes things a little more confusing, but one thing is certain: Whether it's one group or several, a seemingly global force is pissed off at Sony.

The Steve Jobs MeltdownInformation about Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs film was released Tuesday in the form of some acerbic emails. Gawker posted a string of correspondences, between Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin, that purportedly details how Sony lost control of the project. The exchanges the site posted reveal almost a year's worth of incensed Hollywood hardball (including some Angelina Jolie-bashing and Michael Fassbender-penis-appreciating). Even David Fincher got in on the fun with an Adam Driver slam. Ars Technicagot its hands on another portion of the exchanges that had Sorkin lobbying for Tom Cruise to try on the lead role.

Spider-Man Crossover
More Amy Pascal emails, the details of which were revealed by The Wall Street Journal, discussed new plans for Sony's Spidey. One email reportedly referenced a Marvel-produced trilogy, and another let loose that the comics giant wanted Spider-Man in its third Captain America movie. One of theJournal's sources said that Marvel eventually pulled out and that Sony is now going forward with its own plan. A part of said plan is an animated comedy for the superhero; it would be produced by 22 Jump Street's Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

So far the hackers have released to reporters three batches of documents, which many outlets are still sifting through. Although investigators have not presently identified the culprits, the attackers reportedly worked from a hotel in Thailand. Despite speculation that North Korea could be involved and that Sony's upcoming film The Interview was the root of the problem, the country has denied involvement, and according to Variety, Sony still plans on releasing the Rogen-Franco pic on Christmas Day.
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American hustle made like half a billion and only like 20 million profits and I dont think it won any awards
 
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Sony employees are surveyed to be happy with the company, or at least those who've been with the company for 15+ years. :mjlol:

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Also gotta love how every group shyts on the person they have to answer to (Direct Manager). :russ:
 
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http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/10/technology/security/bond-movie-budget/index.html?source=zacks

JAMES BOND FILM SPECTRE WAY OVER BUDGET, BUT SONY GOT PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS!

The next James Bond movie, "Spectre," is massively over budget and on track to be one of the most expensive films ever made, costing more than $300 million. :whoo:

That's according to internal memos from the president of MGM Studios, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures. CNNMoney is reviewing thousands of documents leaked online by hackers who broke into Sony.

MGM president Jonathan Glickman sent emails in early November explaining how the studio is scrambling to cut costs.

He says the current budget "sits in the mid $300Ms," but the studio has to drastically cut back to $250 million. And the shooting period already costs $50 million more than the previous film, "Skyfall." :damn:

His suggestions show some Hollywood tricks:

  • Villa in Rome? It's a nighttime scene, so try doing it in London instead. :whoa:

  • There's fighting on a train! Again! But use fewer carriages -- three instead of four. :whoa:

  • Forget the dramatic finale in the rain. It'll lower the cost of visual/special effects. :whoa:

  • Earn an extra $6 million by showing "the more modern aspects" of Mexico to maximize "the Mexican incentive." (The makers of Spectre are getting paid to film there.) :blessed:


"We recognize that this movie needs to build on the past few films - and there are expectations we must meet for the audience. Still, we must find further cuts," Glickman says. "This is not about 'nickel and diming' the production."

Barbara Broccoli, the producer (and heiress to the Bond empire), fights back -- saying that she "cannot find the cemetery or villa in the UK" and refuses to cut down the number of trains. :deadmanny:

Later, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal, looped in on all of this, sends a note directly to MGM's president, saying: "It's insane and you know with no script this movie is gonna go overbudget." :mindblown:

It's a rare look at the inner workings of Hollywood.

On the positive side for the studio, though, the major product placement deal struck with Heineken is helping reduce the budget, Glickman says.

The emails also show that director Sam Mendes wants to cast Andrew Scott (who plays villain Dr. Moriarty in the Sherlock TV show) as Bond's intelligence agency boss, "C." And MGM can afford it, because they can pay Scott $1 million less than they were going to pay Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave). :mjpls:

A few more tidbits: There's a "lesbian bad lady." :shaq:

And yes, we will meet Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the evil genius behind the creepy, secret transnational organization SPECTRE.
 
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