EXCLUSIVE: Despite a spate of reports to the contrary, Sony Pictures has not shut down production of all its films because of the hack attack that has shaken the film division to its core. The James Bond film Spectre is shooting in the UK; the untitled Peter Landesman-directed film about football concussions that stars Will Smith is shooting in Pittsburgh, and YA novel adaptation The Fifth Wave, about an alien invasion, is shooting in Atlanta.
Insiders said that protecting these productions was made top priority the moment hackers breached the studio on November 24; shooting hasn’t been interrupted and dailies are being viewed by studio executives despite the tumultuous distractions. An unchecked and misinformed report from The Times Of London got aggregated everywhere, including in the juicy scandal coverage in this morning’s New York Post. Strangely, studio higher-ups consider this gossipy misfire is among the least troubling thing being reported by blogs and filtering to more legitimate publications, all sourced by the swarms of private e-mails sent by hackers to media outlets, ostensibly to try to upend Amy Pascal and Michael Lynton’s regime and to blackmail them into not releasing The Interview…
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