Finally speaking out about the cancellation of The Interview, Sony CEO Michael Lynton tries to slam down his critics, and claims they’re still looking to get the film distributed.

First, a quick refresher on all the news about Sony’s decision to pull Seth Rogen’s The Interview from theaters: a hacking group calling themselves the Guardians of Peace performed several cyberattacks on Sony, exposing private information and email exchanges.

They demanded that Sony pulled the political satire The Interview, which ridicules and eventually assassinates a faux Kim Jong-un (the dictator of North Korea). When Sony did not comply, GoP threatened 9/11-style attacks on movie theaters.

Sony then allowed – even encouraged – movie theaters to drop the film of their own free will. Most of the major chains complied, although several indie distributors were holding strong.

This is when Sony pulled the movie from all cinemas, even those that had not yet cancelled it themselves. Insiders are saying that Sony felt pressured by other movie studios and shopping malls to make this decision, because the fear factor would mean less holiday shoppers and moviegoers, and hence cause a financial loss for the companies involved.

Now, Sony CEO Michael Lynton is claiming it was not Sony’s decision to pull the movie at all, but the movie theaters’.

He appeared on CNN last night to set the record straight, after Sony had already released a press statement.

“In this instance, the president, the press, and the public are mistaken on what actually happened,” Lynton told CNN. “We do not own movie theaters, we can not determine whether or not a movie will be played in movie theaters.”

His claim that it was the cinemas’ decision to cancel The Interview is somewhat true. Several movie theaters did decide to pull the film, after Sony encouraged them to do so.

But what Lynton isn’t mentioning here is that, by openly allowing the theaters to make the decision for them, Sony was pushing the liability from their own company to the cinemas. So if attacks did happen, or if there was a backlash like this one, Sony could claim that the movie theaters were responsible. Like they are now doing.

And let’s not forget that not every movie theater refused to screen The Interview.

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Lynton went on to say that they’re still looking for ways to distribute The Interview to the public, but they have not found any online distributor willing to screen it.

“We would still like the public to see the movie,” he said. But, “there has not been one major VOD or one major ecommerce site that says they are willing to step forward and distribute this movie.”

This is an interesting statement to make, considering that Sony has allegedly looked into filing for insurance on the movie, which would make it illegal for The Interview to be shown.

We’re wondering if Sony checked with Netflix, the largest online distributor of movies, who has previously shown their support for the movie:

We also have to question whether Sony ever considered distributing the movie through one of their own streaming services – like, say, the PlayStation Store.

What say you, should we make a bid for it?

Watch the full interview with Michael Lynton here on CNN.