The Interview (2014)

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Park Sang-hak went to desperate measures to get The Interview into North Korea, as he tried to drive trucks filled with DVDs into the country. Unfortunately, he failed miserably.

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The Interview has had a heck of a ride from the outset with its theater release threatened with 9/11-style attacks through the infamous Sony hacks, which later saw the film's release suppressed through its smaller SVOD distribution path. Now, thanks to some dedicated protestors, the film will expand its release with a very bizarre release in North Korea.

Dennis Rodman doesn’t believe the U.S. government. That’s not such a surprising sentence, but in regards to the recent Sony hacking scandal, which was apparently caused by North Korea, Rodman thinks it’s completely bologna. And is unhappy with Seth Rogen and the film associated with it.

The Interview has been killing it online. If you haven’t been paying attention to what has transpired, the controversial film at the epicenter of the Sony hacking scandal has raked in upwards of $40 million in online and rental sales, which is way more than people are paying to see it in theaters.

The Interview actually ended up losing Sony quite a hefty amount of money because of its savaged cinematic release. In fact it lost them $30 million.

The controversy surrounding The Interview has been one of the most highly tracked in recent memory. But, as pointed out by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in their 2015 Golden Globes opener, the controversy was more interesting than the movie. The film has received a ton of harsh criticism in America by reviewers, but what do the people of North Korea think about The interview?

An editor who worked on the comedy has now said in an interview about The Interview that one significant scene was toned down, though it was a creative choice, and not one mandated by the studio

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Despite the fact that the film essentially caused an international incident, Seth Rogen and Evan Golberg’s controversial comedy The Interview continues to rack up quite a hefty sum for Sony. In fact, it has now amassed $31 million from it's On-Demand release platforms - which, all things considered, is an unprecedented success for the controversial comedy.

The Interview is about to get an even wider aperture. Sony has reached agreements with many big U.S. cable and satellite providers to distribute the film via pay-per-view and video-on-demand services.

Though it was only released last week, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's The Interview actually did manage to make it on to a Top 10 list in 2014 thanks to it's financial success. It turns out that a spokesperson from Google has announced that the comedy was the company's best selling film of the year on their Google Play and YouTube platforms.

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When Sony announced that they would be releasing Seth Rogen and Evan Golberg's The Interview in limited theaters and online simultaneously, everyone began to speculate how the experiment would work out. Would people want to watch the comedy online instead of on a big screen? Would it drive audiences away from theaters?

Because of all the drama surrounding The Interview, one man in Cincinnati, Ohio thought that he could take advantage by buying movie tickets in bulk and scalp them at the local theater. As you may have already figured out, this plan backfired in rather spectacular fashion.

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In case you didn't already realize, the whole distribution situation involving Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's The Interview has been a bit of a mess. Given the way things have turned out, one might think that the major theater chains might be a bit miffed about how everything worked out - but apparently there's a bit of debate going on surrounding that subject.