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Egypt has banned Hollywood’s big screen biblical epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” a 20th Century Fox spokesman has said to Reuters. The studio owned by 21st Century Fox Inc. declined to give a reason for the ban, but films that depict biblical figures have been prohibited before in the Muslim country.

Sony's PlayStation reported that its network was back online and claimed that it had been attacked, three days after it and Microsoft's Xbox went down in an outage.
      
An allegedly coordinated Christmas day hack brought down the gaming consoles, both hot gifts for the holiday season, although Xbox has been working at near full capacity since Friday.
      

North Korea on Dec. 27 blasted U.S. President Barack Obama as a "monkey" inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader, and threatened "inescapable deadly blows" over the movie.
 

North Korea is unlikely to have any "physical reaction" to the release of The Interview, a controversially perceived comedy about a fictional plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong-un.

"The Interview," the provocative comedy that triggered a  devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures, went straight to U.S. consumers on Dec. 24 in an unprecedented online debut after hacker threats prevented its wide release on Christmas day.
   

North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United  States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Dec. 23, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said.
   

The relationship between the US and North Korea has been strained in the past few weeks following the cancelled release of a controversial movie and a cyber attack on producers Sony Pictures.

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Madonna on Dec. 20 suddenly released six new songs months ahead of schedule, furious that early versions had leaked online in what she had described as "artistic rape."

Sony Pictures on Dec. 17 cancelled the release of a madcap comedy about North Korea that triggered chilling threats from hackers, as US investigators reportedly blamed Pyongyang for a damaging cyber-raid on the movie giant.
      

Hackers invoked the 9/11 attacks Dec. 16 in their most chilling threat yet against Sony Pictures, warning cinema-goers not to see a film which has angered North Korea.