Sony's 'The Interview' outperforms $40 million with digital sales

L . A .: "The Interview, " the Sony Pictures comedy considered to have triggered a cyberattack around the studio, has racked way up over $40 thousand in sales coming from 5. 8 thousand digital downloads, your studio said.

Erika Lynton, chief executive of Sony Corp's amusement arm, called the $40 thousand mark "a significant milestone" for that studio's unprecedented on the net and pay tv set release, on platforms for example Google Inc's Google Play, Apple Inc's iTunes and Time Warner Wire.

The film's electronic digital release on November 24 was cobbled together a week after Sony Pictures shelved a broad release when major theater chains declined to screen the movie due to unspecified threats connected with violence from hackers. President Barack Obama called your decision to scrap the theatrical to produce "mistake" akin to self-censorship.

The video starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, which usually depicts the imaginary assassination of N . Korea leader Kim Jong Un, has additionally earned $6 million at the box office right after independent theaters pushed to get a limited release about Christmas Day.

It had been unclear if Sony Photographs would recoup its investment within the comedy, which cost $44 million to produce and tens connected with millions more to advertise.

The US authorities has blamed North Korea for that most devastating cyberattack using a private company about US soil. This North Korean authorities called "The Interview" a good "act of war, " but denies it is behind the hacking.