James Franco and Seth Rogen’s controversial new movie, The Interview, has been yanked from theaters after a group made terrorist threats against any establishment that planned to show it.

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Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment have decided not to show the film, which features Franco and Rogen’s characters on a CIA mission to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The actors have also cancelled several of their scheduled appearances.

The reported group behind the threats, Guardians of Peace, also claims to be part of the Sony hack attacks.

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"We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places The Interview [will] be shown, including the premier, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to," the group’s threat reads. "The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001."

The Department of Homeland Security quickly began investigating the threats after they were sent. "We are still analyzing the credibility of these statements, but at this time there is no credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters within the United States," Homeland Security told ABC News.

Despite the frightful circumstances, Rogen and Franco aren’t turning their backs on the film.

"I can't definitively say I know the ramifications of the storm. I mean, I don't know if the hacking honestly is because of our movie, definitively or not," Rogen, who co-wrote the movie, said during a appearance on Good Morning America this week. "I know that it has been the center of a lot of media attention lately. It is weird because we just wanted to make a really funny, entertaining movie and the movie itself is very silly and wasn't meant to be controversial in any way."

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