The Distribution Resurrection of “The Interview”

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE NO EXTERNAL LINKS TO THIS POST, I DO APOLOGIZE.

Originally in my previous article about the Sony hack, I originally decided to take a break. However I decided to continue google it anyway. And as days pass by, Sony Pictures has finally found a distribution outlet for “The Interview”. Actually three of them: YouTube, XBOX Video, and Google Video as well as Kernel. Not only that, but Sony Pictures announce a limited theatrical distribution to small independent theaters including the Almao Drafthouse theater chain.

The movie, staring Seth Rogen and James Franco, has gross over $5 million at the box office as well as over $30 million online. And the distribution keeps going. Now “The Interview” is available on PlayStation store, iTunes, Amazon, as well as a cable and satellite services with video-on-demand providers.


Though there are still consequences. Major theater chain owners are not happy with the way Sony Pictures handled the distribution release of “The Interview” and they are not happy that they release this movie that is supposed to be release theatrically online and on video-on-demand. They wish that Sony Pictures should cooperate with theaters first before they could even make the decision (Sony Pictures actually let theaters decide whether to drop the film, which they did which ultimately led Sony Pictures to cancel the initial release).

Meanwhile, despite cyber-security doubts that it’s a person working inside the company, the FBI, for some reason, still believes that North Korea is behind the attack, which is not true. Although that country condemns “The Interview”, North Korea has denied responsibility. Because of being accused, North Korea threatened to attack the United States if the United States continues accusing the country.

For some reason, I can’t believe that the FBI rejected the cyber-security experts’s clams. I think they should have believed them and start reopen the investigation behind the hack, but no, instead the FBI continues to point-fingers at North Korea. I would have to agree with the cyber-security experts and not the FBI…because I believe that if the American press helped the hackers thwart the initial release of “The Interview” and they helped the FBI as well. And that’s what Aaron Sorkin believe as well.

Thanks for reading. See my previous post about “The Interview”.