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Oprah with Meghan and Harry is a 2021 television special hosted by American media personality Oprah Winfrey, that featured an interview between Winfrey, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
The Interview: Night of 26/11 (formerly titled Cover Story) is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Laurence Postma and co-written by Farrukh Dhondy and starring Anjum Nayar and Jackie Shroff.
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Dave Skylark is the host of the popular talk show Skylark Tonight, where he interviews various celebrities (including Eminem and Rob Lowe) about personal topics. The show's broadcast gets interrupted by news reports about North Korea regarding its leader Kim Jong Un and concerns about his nuclear weapons. After Skylark and his crew celebrate produc...
Randall Park as Kim Jong Un(credited as "President Kim")Development
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg developed the idea for The Interview in the late 2000s, joking about what would happen if a journalist was required to assassinate a world leader.Initially, screenwriter Dan Sterling wrote his script for the film involving a fictional dictator from a fictional country (reminiscent of Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator), but Rogen, Goldberg and Sony executives asked him to rewrite the script focusing on Kim. The screenplay was then titled Kill Kim Jong Un. Previous i...
Filming
Principal photography on the film began in Vancouver, British Columbia, on October 10, 2013, and concluded on December 20, 2013. There are hundreds of visual effects in the film; for instance, a crowd scene at the Pyongyang airport was digitally manipulated with a shot from 22 Jump Street.
Pre-release reaction
In June 2014, The Guardian reported that the film had "touched a nerve" within the North Korean government, as they are "notoriously paranoid about perceived threats to their safety." The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the state news agency of North Korea, reported that their government promised "stern" and "merciless" retaliation if the film was released. KCNA said that the release of a film portraying the assassination of the North Korean leader would not be allowed and it would be cons...
Delay and changes
In August 2014, Sony delayed the film's release from October 10 to December 25, 2014 and made post-production alterations to the film in order to modify its portrayal of North Korea, including modifying the designs of buttons worn by characters (which were originally modeled after real North Korean military buttons praising the country's leaders) and cutting a portion of Kim Jong Un's death scene.In December 2014, South Korean singer Yoon Mi-rae revealed that the film used her song "Pay Day"...
Sony Pictures Entertainment hack and threats
On November 24, 2014, an anonymous group identifying themselves as the "Guardians of Peace" hacked the computer networks of Columbia Pictures's parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment. The hackers leaked internal emails, employee records and several recent and unreleased Sony Pictures films, including Annie, Mr. Turner, Still Alice and To Write Love on Her Arms. The North Korean government denied involvement in the hack. On December 8, the hackers leaked further materials, including a dema...
Distribution
The Interviewwas not released in Japan, as live-action comedy films do not often perform well in the Japanese market. In the Asia-Pacific region, it was released only in Australia and New Zealand. Rogen predicted that the film would make its way to North Korea, stating that "we were told one of the reasons they're so against the movie is that they're afraid it'll actually get into North Korea. They do have bootlegs and stuff. Maybe the tapes will make their way to North Korea and cause a revo...
Box office and online rentals
The Interview opened to a limited release in the United States on December 25, 2014, across 331 theaters and earned over $1 million on its opening day. Variety called the opening gross "an impressive launch for a title playing in only about 300 independent theaters in the U.S."It went on to earn over $1.8 million in its opening weekend, and by the end of its run on January 25, 2015, had grossed $6.1 million at the box office. Within four days of its online release on December 24, 2014, The In...
Critical response
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 51% approval rating, based on 154 reviews, with an average rating of 5.70/10. The site's consensus reads: "Unfortunately overshadowed by controversy (and under-screened as a result), The Interview's screenplay offers middling laughs bolstered by its two likable leads." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 52 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". IGN's Roth Cornet wrote that "though it's unlikel...
Political response
In the wake of the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, leaks revealed e-mails between Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton and RAND Corporation defense analyst Bruce Bennett from June 2014. Bennett advised against toning down The Interview's graphic Jong-un death scene, in the hope that it would "start some real thinking in South Korea and, I believe, in the North once the DVD leaks into the North". Bennett expressed his view that "the only resolution I can see to the North Korean nuc...
In Greece in April 2017, the film's opening scene, depicting a young girl reciting a poem with hate speech, was mistakenly broadcast in the news bulletin of Alpha TV and the news program Live News on Epsilon TV, as a real-life provocative event against the United States. In response to the backlash on various online newspapers, Antonis Sroiter and ...
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