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Sony’s costs from ‘The Interview’ and cyber attack are approaching $200M

Sony Pictures decision to let Seth Rogen make a comedy about a plot to kill a head of state will potentially cost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars after a devastating cyber-attack linked to North Korea.

By Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg | Updated on December 19, 2014
A movie billboard is displayed behind a Sony Pictures Entertainment Studio entrance in Culver City, Calif. on Dec. 18. Companies across the globe are on high alert to tighten up network security to avoid being the next company brought to its knees by hackers like those that executed the dramatic cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

(Bloomberg) — Sony Pictures’ decision to let Seth Rogen make a comedy about a plot to kill a head of state will potentially cost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars after a devastating cyber-attack linked to North Korea.

The Sony Corp. studio spent about $80 million to make and market the film, whose release was canceled Wednesday after threats of violence by hackers, according to Wade Holden, a researcher at SNL Kagan. On top of that, there’s the bill for rebuilding Sony’s computer network.

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