Threatened with lawsuit, Oakland theater cancels screening of Stormy Daniels interview

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Oakland's well-loved New Parkway Theater was forced to cancel a planned screening of the Stormy Daniels 60 Minutes interview scheduled for Sunday at 7 p.m. after CBS threatened to sue, the theater announced this week.

The New Parkway, which periodically screens notable television events, originally planned to charge $5 a ticket for admission to see Anderson Cooper's sit-down with the adult film star, President Trump's alleged former mistress.

But CBS contacted them and said that if they did so, they would be sued, the theater said Thursday in a statement.

"In the irony of ironies, CBS reached out to us tonight to let us know that we would be sued if we went ahead with our scheduled airing of the Stormy Daniels interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday night, an episode for which they will likely be sued by Trump," the theater wrote.

"If only we had a CBS-sized legal team and CBS's deep pockets, we'd love to go ahead with this screening and meet them in the court of public opinion. Disappointing that they are putting their perceived bottom line above having this important story being seen by as many eyeballs as possible--and having patrons discuss it during and after in a space like the New Parkway."

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The theater added that they asked about licensing the content from CBS, but were told that it would not be possible to license.

Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, recently sued Trump in order to nullify a confidentiality agreement she says she made with Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, a month before the presidential election. Daniels has said she had unprotected sexual contact with Trump on multiple occasions while he was married to his current wife, Melania.

Filipa Ioannou is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at fioannou@sfchronicle.com and follow her on Twitter