http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/24/7423421/sony-the-interview-online-youtube-google Sony CONFIRMS: "The Interview" will be available for rental through YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft's Xbox Video, etc. TODAY. At 1pm ET. One big Marketing Scheme ?
One big marketing scheme? You think Sony perpetuated this whole hacking situation to market some comedy?
Major theatres such as AMC and Regal refused to show it after the threats of a 9/11 style attack, blame the theatres not Sony.
I would never have even considered watching this piece of shit movie before the hacking bullshit, now I am inclined to take a look.
Rent as in I have to pay to watch? No thanks. Kudos to SONY though but I guess the hackers will now dump their 100gb of data. Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
I'll grab it off torrent...maybe. I have a moderate level of interest in North Korea and how messed up it is but I doubt this movie will be all that involved in the politics, more likely fart jokes (which has a place as well).
The only positive I can see from this is that if this movie turns out to do ok this weekend maybe movie companies will start thinking of releasing their content on-demand and theater on the same day. Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
They should have done the same thing with "Mockingjay". Maybe more than a dozen people would have seen it by now..
That would be nice. Movie theaters really arent needed anymore other than the fact they can vastly overcharge people.
Everyone Is Torrenting The Interview After much humming and hawing, Sony released The Interview to the internet yesterday, charging $6 for the privilege of seeing a CGI Kim Jong-Un go pop. And, because this is the internet, hundreds of thousands of people are repaying the favor by torrenting the crap out of it. According to estimates from TorrentFreak(which are in the same ballpark as figures we've worked out), 750,000 people have illegally downloaded The Interview so far. That's probably a result of it only being released in North America so far, and also the film getting far more press than any mediocre comedy rightfully deserves. As you'd expect, big torrent websites (like the recently-resurrected Pirate Bay) have put the movie front and center, with links showing up on the homepage. At the moment, the most popular torrents have around 60,000 seeds each. Bet that offer from BitTorrent to work out a worldwide paid distribution isn't looking so bad now. [TorrentFreak]
It certainly was available for download. They rushed the release online but forgot to add DRM so it was virtually free. From what I've heard, you're better off with the free d/l anyway. Beyond the patriotic stuff, the movie on its own I've heard is not funny.
