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After terrorist threats against moviegoers, Sony has canceled its Christmas Day release of "The Interview," starring Seth Rogan and James Franco.

Marcus theaters said they respect Sony's decision not to release the movie.

"The Interview" is a comedy about a U.S. government plot to kill North Korea's leader. North Korea didn't find it funny. Then came terrorist threats from hackers and Sony canceled a Christmas Day release after major theater operators said they wouldn't show it.

Milwaukee-area movie producer, screenwriter and actor Jeff Gendelman said he respects the theater owners decision to put safety first, but is concerned about censorship.

You know, here in America, we're free, and now we're letting other people tell us what we should or should not see. And that is a problem, Gendelman said.

Gendelman said he suspects the film will be more popular than ever when it's finally released. WISN 12 News reporter Terry Sater also talked to movie goers.

Obviously, we live in a country where typically it's not smiled upon to cower to terrorist threats, that kind of thing. But at the same time I don't think it's really worth it to risk public lives over a movie that critics said wasn't really supposed to be that funny, Henry Hammond said.

The world isn't what it was 30 years ago, and you have to be realistic about that, Kirstin Roble said.

You don't want to cause uproar. There's so many different things going on the world that you don't want to cause a stir in the world. You just don't want to cause problems, Tyler Schaller said.

After all, it's just a movie. It's just a movie, Ben Cheesman said.

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Local movie producer concerned about censorship after Sony pulls film