Sony to show 'The Interview' on Youtube, other Internet channels

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Reuters

BY ERIC KELSEY AND MARY MILLIKEN

Sony Pictures will make its controversial comedy, "The Interview," available starting on Wednesday through online video platforms run by Google Inc (GOOGL.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Sony (6758.T) itself, the studio said.

Sony, which just last week canceled the release of the comedy - about two TV talk show hosts who are sent to North Korea to assassinate its leader Kim Jong Un - is now looking for ways to widen its distribution beyond a small group of some 200 independent theaters.

The movie, which triggered the most destructive cyberattack ever to target a U.S. company, will be available starting at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft's Xbox Video and a dedicated website, www.seetheinterview.com.

The sites will offer the raunchy comedy, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, to rent for $5.99 or buy for $14.99.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/24/us-northkorea-cybersecurity-youtube-idUSKBN0K210520141224

[SunSeeker]

1. Good! nt

[Android3.14]

2. that's more like it

I hope they make money somehow from the show.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Hrm...

[HipChick]

4. I'm watching it right now...

[DRoseDARs]

8. Our condolences...

R.I.P. your 2 hours.

[Just for Fun]

11. LINK?

is it accessible for the deaf?

[BlueEye]

15. Available on YouTube here:

And yes, it includes closed captioning. The button to turn it on is in the lower right hand of the player. It costs $5.99 to view (considerably less than most movie theaters), and it's a pretty silly movie, although I enjoyed it for what it is.

[PSPS]

5. The charade sure paid off

All the local newscasts I've heard are leading with a list of all the local theaters playing this movie as well as other channels of (paid) distribution. Sony couldn't have had this kind of advertising at any price, now they're getting it for free. Twenty years ago, a movie of this "caliber" would have "Alan Smithee" credited as the director. But these days, this is how you make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Yup

Marketing genius.

[Triana]

7. I won't waste my money on it. Am wondering if this was a marketing ploy though.

[Spooky69]

9. Yes, the President of these United States . . . .

fell for a "marketing ploy" and made several important comments about it during a press conference . . . thats the ticket

[Triana]

10. Corporations run the country. DC and state Gov't is just a puppet/front group

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to make us think we have a gov't that works for the masses.

We don't.

So yea it may be far fetched. Or, maybe not.

He did express disappointment that they scrubbed it initially.

Whatever. I don't plan to waste my dollars on it.

[daleo]

12. It was a marketing win for Sony and a propaganda win for U.S. Foreign policy

Regardless of how it started, that's how it looks to the American public. It is hard to say how it was received in the wider world, though.

[olddots]

13. NPR must have been paid handsomely

All week they blathered on about this non news story .

[Alkene]

14. Sniff.

What's that smell?