The Cricket's Daily 3: Fallout from 'The Interview'

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All that's being talked about in pop culture today is how Sony is pulling the release of "The Interview" — Seth Rogen's comedy about a CIA effort to kill North Korea's Kim Jong-un — after threats from hackers. (Variety has a roundup of celebrity reactions.) Here is more about it:

• Forget about any video-on-demand plans for "The Interview," because Sony won't release it in any format for the foreseeable future. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• "They won. We lost." A pretty scathing analysis of the Sony decision, and how it gives hackers a green light to try something like this again. [Mashable]

• Meanwhile, the Alamo Drafthouse theater in Dallas/Fort Worth is registering its protest in a funny way: They're screening "Team America: World Police," a marionette comedy that depicted an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-un's father, Kim Jong-il. [The Huffington Post]