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A small cynical part of me is wondering if Sony is trying to pull a "Cartmanland" move here.

Its sort of understandable why they would pull the christmas release, if the theaters don't want it that weekend fine, you should be angry at the theaters for that, but I think the problem people have with Sony is not at least going VOD or saying that they will delay the theatrical release into next month.

Perhaps they are making a big show of this movie being shut down, never ever released on any format, and none of us can ever see it, then when the hype and demand reaches a critical point they go "OK, here you go" and make money.