Updated: Sony cans The Interview release as North Korea linked to hack

Update December 17: Sony cancelled the planned Christmas Day theatrical release of The Interview following the decision of the US' biggest movie theaters not to show the film. Messages from hackers had threatened theaters that played the movie and patrons who went to see it. An anonymous US official speaking to CNBC said the US "found linkage" between the North Korean government and the massive Sony Pictures Entertainment hack that's had the company, its employees and Hollywood reeling