Sony CEO Says No VOD Company Stepped Up To Distribute 'The Interview'

That didn't take long. Just a couple hours after President Obama weighed in on the ongoing Sony hacking scandal, the president of company, Michael Lynton, gave his version of what's happened, and it's worth paying attention. In all the coverage of "The Interview" being pulled from cinemas, it has been forgotten by many that it was the major cinema owners who first refused to carry the film in the wake of threats from hackers. "In this instance, the president, the press, and the public are mistaken on what actually happened,” CEO Michael Lynton told CNN. “We do not own movie theaters, we can not determine whether or not a movie will be played in movie theaters." It's a good point, so too is the one that Sony is dealing with a situation that no one in their industry, and certainly no other corporation, has ever faced before.  "We experienced the worst cyberattack in American history and persevered for three and a half weeks under enormous stress and...