You might not die if you go to see the new Seth Rogan movie.  Two US Security officials are playing down possible threats to movie theaters planning to show Sony’s controversial movie about an assassination of the leader of North Korea.  It might be the only good news Sony’s Hollywood division has gotten lately.

“At this time there is no credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters within the United States,” said a Department of Homeland Security official quoted by the Reuters news agency.  A second security official backed that up.

The hacking group that is apparently responsible for releasing troves of embarrassing internal emails and scripts from upcoming movies warned of a “bitter fate” for those who go to see “The Interview” starring Seth Rogan and James Franco.  Police departments across the country including New York and Los Angeles are taking the threat seriously.  So are Rogan and Franco, who stopped promoting the film due to the threats.  The New York premiere was cancelled.  One theater chain announced it would not show the film.

In the movie, Franco and Rogan play wacky television journalists who are sent to North Korea to assassinate leader Kim Jong-un.  Although North Korea has denied hacking, Pyongyang has called it a “righteous” act.

Oddly enough, one of the leaked Sony emails worries that “The Interview” is a dog, “desperately unfunny”, and will tank at the box office.  The leaks contain a trove of catty comments, loathing of big stars, understandable loathing of that hack Adam Sandler, sexist and racist salary disparities, and worries that the upcoming James Bond flick will suck.