Svet

[Sludge Factory]

Sta je ovo? Ne znam prosto na koji topic da okacim, moderacija ako ima pametnije resenje slobodno nek prebaci (ili otvori novi topic, ako nemamo odgovaajuci). 

 

Prvo ova vest o hakovanim dokumentima,

 

Sony Hack Reveals Top-Secret Profitability of 2013 Movies

2:41 PM PST 12/05/2014 by Tatiana Siegel

 

A new document reveals figures for 'This Is the End,' 'Grown Ups 2,' 'Captain Phillips' and 'American Hustle,' among others

 

As The Hollywood Reporter continues to sift through a massive trove of Sony Pictures documents leaked by an unknown hacker, more financial details have emerged, giving an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of a major Hollywood studio.

 

Among the most stunning documents is one prepared for parent company Sony Corp. in Japan that reveals studio “ultimates" -- among the most closely guarded information in Hollywood -- on a number of recent films. “Ultimates” is studio parlance for the ultimate profitability (or loss) of a film, once its theatrical run, home video and other ancillary revenue streams are taken into consideration, as well as the cost of making, marketing and releasing the film.

 

Read more Sony Hack: Studio Security Points to Inside Job

 

According to the leaked document, several 2013 movies will end up in profit, including This Is the End ($50 million in profits), Grown Ups 2 ($48 million), Captain Phillips ($39 million), American Hustle ($27 million), One Direction: This Is Us ($18 million), Elysium ($18 million) and Monuments Men ($10 million). Several other movies will not make a profit, according to the document (Monuments Men was scheduled to be released in 2013 but was pushed to 2014). 

 

The document appears to have been prepared in April in an effort to herald the cost-cutting measures implemented by Columbia Pictures president Doug Belgrad and Sony Pictures digital production president Bob Osher.

 

The non-encrypted document, which was prepared by SPE’s senior VP of finance and controller Curtis Crider, offered up numbers rarely discussed outside of studio board rooms.

 

Read more Sony Hack: Mysterious Emails Promise More Internal Data Leaks

 

“Currently, approximately $1B in production spending can be expected to deliver $500M-$600M in profits,” the letter says. “Through his continued focus on financial discipline, Doug hopes to improve that ratio to a point where $800-$900M in production spending delivers $500-$600M in profits.”

 

The document also illuminated Belgrad’s handling of negotiations on a Paul Blart: Mall Cop sequel. “The production budget was originally set between $45M and $50M,” the letter says. “Doug successfully negotiated with the producers to get Kevin James to accept less compensation and to reduce the production budget to approximately $38M.”

 

Similarly, Belgrad brought the budget of the upcoming Adam Sandler movie Pixels down by $25 million even after chairman and CEO Michael Lynton agreed to make it for up $135 million. "Doug artfully negotiated with the producers to reduce the production budget to $110M and through his own network of contacts secured the required co-financing,” the letter says.

 

Read more Sony Leaders Give Rousing Anti-Hacking Pep Talk at Studio Holiday Party

 

Also contained in the same document were details of Osher’s recent restructure of Imageworks, Imageworks Interactive, Colorworks and Post Production -- a move that reduced staff by 230. Osher's move to outsource much of the company’s special-effects work was controversial in VFX world.

 

“Because of Bob’s extraordinary focus on cost management, Imageworks is expected to generate $7M in EBIT (before restructuring) in FY15 despite a 30% reduction in revenue,” the letter states.

 

Even as THR plodded through the mountain of data, the hacker or hackers dubbed Guardians of Peace released a third trove of documents Friday afternoon, far larger than the previous two batches, which combined for some 38,000 individual documents. Those documents contained social security numbers and sensitive personal information on approximately 47,000 current and former employees as well as celebrities like Sylvester Stallone and Judd Apatow. Among the former employee base salaries listed in one spreadsheet were those for former marketing head Marc Weinstock ($1.5 million), former Columbia Pictures co-president Matt Tolmach ($2.1 million) and former vice chairman Jeff Blake ($2 million), who exited in July.

 

Read more Security Expert Offers 5 Tips to Prevent a Studio Hack

 

The Sony hack has rocked both Hollywood and the business world as the FBI works with the studio to figure out who is responsible. 

 

“It’s a wake-up call for corporate America that sensitive personal information and intellectual property in digital form are at risk,” says Gerry Stegmaier, a Washington D.C.-based cyber-security legal expert with the law firm Goodwin Procter. “IP and data is the most important asset that these businesses have. It’s like the secret recipe for Coca-Cola. Anything that you would have kept in a vault in the past is stored on a server somewhere. Whether that server has a level of security that is appropriate for the sensitivity and economic value of that information is a question that is now being asked in corporate board rooms across the country.”

 

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Twitter: @TatianaSiegel27

 

 

 

sto mu dodje skoro pa uobicajeno, a onda sad ovo, kao iz nekog filma direktno:

 

 

Hackers Threaten Sony Employees in New Email: ‘Your Family Will Be in Danger’

 

DECEMBER 5, 2014 | 02:56PM PT

Dave McNary

Film Reporter

@Variety_DMcNary

 

Hackers have struck again at Sony Pictures Entertainment, threatening employees of the studio in a new email sent Friday.

 

The GOP group, which hacked Sony on Nov. 24, said it planned to eradicate all of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

 

Employees were told to turn off their handheld devices, sources tell Variety.

 

“We are aware of the situation and are working with law enforcement,” a spokesman said in a statement.

 

Read the email in full:

 

I am the head of GOP who made you worry.

 

Removing Sony Pictures on earth is a very tiny work for our group which is a worldwide organization. And what we have done so far is only a small part of our further plan.It’s your false if you if you think this crisis will be over after some time. All hope will leave you and Sony Pictures will collapse. This situation is only due to Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures is responsible for whatever the result is. Sony Pictues clings to what is good to nobody from the beginning. It’s silly to expect in Sony Pictures to take off us. Sony Pictures makes only useless efforts. One beside you can be our member.

 

Many things beyond imagination will happen at many places of the world. Our agents find themselves act in necessary places. Please sign your name to object the false of the company at the email address below if you don’t want to suffer damage. If you don’t, not only you but your family will be in danger.

 

Nobody can prevent us, but the only way is to follow our demand. If you want to prevent us, make your company behave wisely.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 2014 by Sludge Factory

[Roger Sanchez]

Ludilo, pratim to već danima. Ukradeni su čak i screeneri. Navodno, djelomično i inside job - netko je iznutra pomogao

 

Laconica Telefonica

[Прслин]

 

[Roger Sanchez]

Joice Mujuru plot: Fresh details emerge

December 6, 2014 in National, News

 

FRESH details on how beleaguered Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her cabal allegedly tried to oust President Robert Mugabe were yesterday revealed with Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda saying the plot started in 2009.

MOSES MATENGA

STAFF REPORTER

The details emerged as Mugabe is today expected to replace Mujuru by appointing new members of the Presidium.

Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is tipped to replace Mujuru.

Mudenda, who presented the state of the party report in the absence of national secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, who together with Mujuru snubbed the Congress, alleged that the VP usurped power from the centre years back.

Mudenda said until the coming in of First Lady Grace Mugabe to expose the rot in the party, Zanu PF had been hijacked by members funded by the United States and Europe to remove Mugabe from power.

He said Mujuru’s camp manipulated structures to create a base for her, with Mutasa losing focus on his main duties and working as second-in-command to

Mujuru in their “treacherous” actions.

Mudenda, however, added that those who showed remorse and apologised would be pardoned.

“Sadly, however, towards the end of this review period, particularly in the year leading to this 6th national people’s congress, the party unearthed and thwarted a plot which had external underpinnings, to remove the President and first secretary of the party unconstitutionally, before or during the congress,” Mudenda said.

“This plot involved some among us, under the leadership of then Vice-President Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru and her cabal of senior politburo members, who had been enticed by the Americans and some Europeans with promises that they would pour billions of dollars into Zimbabwe once they succeeded in allying with the opposition formations to oust Zanu PF and its iconic President and first secretary from power.”

Mudenda said the same people mentioned in the whistleblower website Wikileaks as hobnobbing with the “enemy” were the same people who were plotting dubious means of ousting Mugabe.

“They instead deepened their plotting, captured party and State structures through imposition, vote-buying, patronage, corruption and all sorts of treacherous intrigue to appoint where they felt sufficiently ready to oust the President, even threatening to assassinate him,” he alleged.

Mudenda alleged the plot to remove Mugabe by the Mujuru camp started with the usurping of power from the centre, rigging and manipulating internal elective processes from the national level down to the cell or village and filling them with people either “bought with money” or “indoctrinated” to support their cause.

“They orchestrated sham primary elections ahead of the 2013 harmonised polls resulting in their domination of both the House of Assembly and the Senate and consequently, Cabinet,” Mudenda said.

He alleged the Mujuru camp imposed their loyalists in crucial positions in the structures.

Mudenda said due to the massive scheming by the Mujuru camp, “the party became unco-ordinated, with attendant policy incoherence, as the secretary for administration ensconced himself as Vice-President Mujuru’s second-in-command in the faction. A lot of other ills followed, creating a chronic state of near-paralysis in the party.

“Thanks to the revelations made by the First Lady Amai Doctor Grace Mugabe, a whirlwind was unleashed which swept away the conspirators. The challenge that the party faces now, going forward from this congress, is to orient all its organs, members and functionaries in government back to its ideology and policies.”

Mudenda also said that poor funding of party projects could also have fuelled factionalism.

“The failure of the party to fund its programmes sufficiently from the centre talks very strongly of the need for the party to urgently address this problem,” he said.

“Quite commonly during this review period, the funding of all commissariat programmes was left to the whims and caprices of community leaders and opinion makers who were moneyed.

“Those who repent and are remorseful must not be persecuted, but we must embrace and gently mentor them back into rectitude.”

Mujuru loyalists were yesterday, however, conspicuous by their absence in several committees to deliberate on the resolutions of the party in various organs.

Mnangagwa was tasked to chair the important resolutions committee that would have Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, Jonathan Moyo, Chris and Monica Mutsvangwa, Jorum Gumbo, A Ndlovu and academic Charity Manyeruke as members.

All members are aligned to Mnangagwa.

Chinamasa also presented the state of the economy to the congress and the progress report on ZimAsset.

It was not clear if current chairman Simon Khaya Moyo would retain his position as he has also come under-fire and linked to Mujuru.

Ti iz vrhova partije su uvijek najgori izdajnici! Dole s njima!

Živela Amai Dr Grace!

Edited December 6, 2014 by Roger Sanchez

[Takeshi]

Russia's new European friend

 

Russia has been financing Europe's far right, which has returned the favour with support for Putin's foreign policies.

 

One such goal is to prevent Europe from becoming more united. A kind of Europe that implements a single foreign and energy policy is Putin's nemesis. Russia's European strategy is based on punishing countries it perceives as hostile, such as Ukraine or the Baltic states, while rewarding friends, such as Italy, Hungary, Finland and Serbia - with favourable gas contracts, investments, shares in multibillion dollar infrastructure projects and greater access to the domestic market. At home and in the immediate neighbourhood, the goal is to marginalise pro-European forces and to discredit the very idea of European integration.

 

otkud finska u drustvu sa madjarskom i srbijom?

[Muwan]

Bolje pitanje je otkud bilo ko u tom društvu tj šta je bilo koja od te četiri zemlje navodno dobila kako bi se Evropa podelila. Ako su dobile™ isto što i Srbija, onda Evropi fakat nema spasa

[Dagmar]

Bolje pitanje je otkud bilo ko u tom društvu tj šta je bilo koja od te četiri zemlje navodno dobila kako bi se Evropa podelila. Ako su dobile™ isto što i Srbija, onda Evropi fakat nema spasa

 

 

Kako sta smo dobili? A borsc sto smo jeli? A krimski sampanjac? To sve nista?

 

Autor priloga govori i o ekonomskim vezama Srbije i Rusije, o NIS-u u kome 51 odsto vlasništva ima Gazprom. A što se tiče svakodnevice, „ona se ne može zamisliti bez ruskih proizvoda: ovde su ljudi rasli uz krimski šampanjac i boršč“. „No, u Srbiji se Putinu dive pre svega zbog neustrašivosti kojom se suprotstavlja Zapadu – i zato što i danas podržava srpske pretenzije na Kosovo. Ovde bi mnogi, umesto pristupa Evropskoj uniji, mogli da zamisle pristup Putinovoj Evroazijskoj uniji.“

 

[iDemo]

Russia has been financing Europe's far right, which has returned the favour with support for Putin's foreign policies.

 

Ima Rusija iskustva s time, svakako... 

Operation Gladio

[Anduril]

Bolje pitanje je otkud bilo ko u tom društvu tj šta je bilo koja od te četiri zemlje navodno dobila kako bi se Evropa podelila. Ako su dobile™ isto što i Srbija, onda Evropi fakat nema spasa

 

Pa kao zemlje ne moraju da dobiju nista - dovoljno je da potplate par insidera. I njima je smesno kao i tebi.

[Takeshi]

 

front national deluje bas zagrejano za ruse.

[Muwan]

Pa kao zemlje ne moraju da dobiju nista - dovoljno je da potplate par insidera. I njima je smesno kao i tebi.

Šta ti sad to znači? Onaj piše o povoljnim gasnim aranžmanima, investicijama, udelima u basnoslovno vrednim infrastrukturnim projektima. Kakve to ima veze sa kupljenim insajderima? Srbija plaća ruski gas skuplje od većine pravovernih™ evropskih zemalja, jedine ozbiljne ruske investicije su one u energetskom sektoru, u infrastrukturi nisu godinama u stanju da povuku jedan kredit od 800M dolara. Jedina opipljiva prednost je FTA sa Rusijom, a njega zemlje članice EU ne mogu da imaju sve i kada bi htele. I to treba da bude slika zemlje koja od Rusije nešto specijalno dobija kako bi se Evropa zavadila i podelila?

 

Ako postoji zemlja koja se uklapa(la) u tu njegovu viziju povlašćenog statusa kod Rusa, to je Ukrajina do pre godinu dana.

[borris_]

 

front national deluje bas zagrejano za ruse.

 

Kazu da su im sve fr banke odbile dati kredit.

[Roger Sanchez]

Očekivano, Joice je zglajzala, ovaj se nakon 10 godina osvetio.

 

Laconica Telefonica

[Utvara]

Oskrnavljeno srpsko i rusko groblje u Sidneju, Australija.

 

Šta se ovo dešava? WTF?

[Gandalf]

In the wake of the shameful Delhi Uber Rape Case, actress Shenaz Treasurywala has shared her personal experience in the form of an open letter addressed to the men she considers “most powerful and influential” in the country – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir Khan, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and industrialist Anil Ambani – asking them to help fight rape and sexual harassment.

...

We produce some excerpts from the letter:

“Dear Narendra Modi, Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Anil Ambani, I am writing to YOU specifically because you are the most powerful and influential MEN in our country. I am writing to you as a woman who grew up in a middle class family in Mumbai. I am writing to YOU for HELP!”

...

"Please demand the Death Sentence for the Rapists. NO BAIL. Just Death."

 

http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/uber-rape-case-actress-shenaz-treasurywala-writes-open-letter-to-narendra-modi-shah-rukh-khan-amitabh-bachchan/

Edited December 11, 2014 by Gandalf