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Studio bosses behind an upcoming Steve Carell movie set in North Korea have decided to cancel the project in the wake of the fall out from Sony Pictures' controversial new movie, The Interview. Last month, a group of activists calling themselves Guardians of Peace infiltrated the Sony database and leaked whole movies, celebrities' salaries, and stars' personal information on the Internet, threatening more hacks unless studio executives scrapped plans to release the Seth Rogen film, about two Americans who set out on a mission to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. They subsequently threatened "9/11 style attacks" on movie theatres that screen The Interview if the release went ahead as planned, prompting officials to scrap the film's New York premiere on Thursday.