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Sony’s ‘The Interview’ To Be Released On Christmas After All | Deadline
Sony’s ‘The Interview’ To Be Released On Christmas After All | Deadline
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https://www.yahoo.com/movies/the-interview-goes-to-youtube-google-play-xbox-106068876912.html
'The Interview' Goes to YouTube, Google Play, XBox on Christmas Eve
By Gregg Kilday
Sony’s The Interview will become available today on a variety of online platforms including YouTube Movies, Google Play, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and Sony’s own dedicated website www.seetheinterview.com, the studio has announced. The movie, which will go online at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, can be rented for $5.99 and purchased in HD for $14.99.
“It has always been Sony’s intention to have a national platform on which to release this film,” Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Entertainment, said. “With that in mind, we reached out to Google, Microsoft and other partners last Wednesday, Dec. 17, when it became clear our initial release plans were not possible. We are pleased we can now join with our partners to offer the film nation-wide today.
Related: An Interview With Someone Who’s Seen ‘The Interview’
“We never stopped pursuing as wide a release as possible for The Interview. It was essential for our studio to release this movie, especially given the assault upon our business and our employees by those who wanted to stop free speech. We chose the path of digital distribution first so as to reach as many people as possible on opening day, and we continue to seek other partners and platforms to further expand the release.
“I want to thank Google and Microsoft for helping make this a reality. This release represents our commitment to our filmmakers and free speech. While we couldn’t have predicted the road this movie traveled to get to this moment, I’m proud our fight was not for nothing and that cyber criminals were not able to silence us.”
On its official blog, Google added, “Sony and Google agreed that we could not sit on the sideline and allow a handful of people to determine the limits of free speech in another country (however silly the content might be).”
Related: 'The Interview' Screenings: Where Can You See It?
Currently, The Interview also is scheduled to play about 300 independent theaters across the country, opening on Christmas Day.
YouTube has a two-year old movie rental system that, to date, has mostly been used for smaller and older titles. But the service offers Sony the opportunity to offer the movie quickly, on a large scale.
By making The Interview available in theaters and on VOD simultaneously, Sony will be setting a major precedent for a Hollywood studio, since the country’s major theater chains have guarded their right to debut movies exclusively and refuse to show movies that are also debuting on VOD. The move is likely to further alienate the chains, which are already furious with the studio for putting much of the blame on them when it canceled the movie’s release last week only to then come up with an alternate distribution plan when confronted with criticism from everyone from the White House on down.
Related: Alamo Drafthouse CEO on Fighting for ‘The Interview’
In 2011, Universal Pictures attempted a more modest VOD experiment, under which the film Tower Heist would have been made available on VOD three weeks after it first appeared in theaters, but the theaters objected fiercely and Universal dropped the plan.
After Sony was hit with criticism for dropping the film, it returned to theater owners, telling them it would release the movie theatrically on Christmas Day, it’s original release date, but that it was also looking at an online release on various streaming platforms.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/the-interview-goes-to-youtube-google-play-xbox-106068876912.html
'The Interview' Goes to YouTube, Google Play, XBox on Christmas Eve
By Gregg Kilday
Sony’s The Interview will become available today on a variety of online platforms including YouTube Movies, Google Play, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and Sony’s own dedicated website www.seetheinterview.com, the studio has announced. The movie, which will go online at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, can be rented for $5.99 and purchased in HD for $14.99.
“It has always been Sony’s intention to have a national platform on which to release this film,” Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Entertainment, said. “With that in mind, we reached out to Google, Microsoft and other partners last Wednesday, Dec. 17, when it became clear our initial release plans were not possible. We are pleased we can now join with our partners to offer the film nation-wide today.
Related: An Interview With Someone Who’s Seen ‘The Interview’
“We never stopped pursuing as wide a release as possible for The Interview. It was essential for our studio to release this movie, especially given the assault upon our business and our employees by those who wanted to stop free speech. We chose the path of digital distribution first so as to reach as many people as possible on opening day, and we continue to seek other partners and platforms to further expand the release.
“I want to thank Google and Microsoft for helping make this a reality. This release represents our commitment to our filmmakers and free speech. While we couldn’t have predicted the road this movie traveled to get to this moment, I’m proud our fight was not for nothing and that cyber criminals were not able to silence us.”
On its official blog, Google added, “Sony and Google agreed that we could not sit on the sideline and allow a handful of people to determine the limits of free speech in another country (however silly the content might be).”
Related: 'The Interview' Screenings: Where Can You See It?
Currently, The Interview also is scheduled to play about 300 independent theaters across the country, opening on Christmas Day.
YouTube has a two-year old movie rental system that, to date, has mostly been used for smaller and older titles. But the service offers Sony the opportunity to offer the movie quickly, on a large scale.
By making The Interview available in theaters and on VOD simultaneously, Sony will be setting a major precedent for a Hollywood studio, since the country’s major theater chains have guarded their right to debut movies exclusively and refuse to show movies that are also debuting on VOD. The move is likely to further alienate the chains, which are already furious with the studio for putting much of the blame on them when it canceled the movie’s release last week only to then come up with an alternate distribution plan when confronted with criticism from everyone from the White House on down.
Related: Alamo Drafthouse CEO on Fighting for ‘The Interview’
In 2011, Universal Pictures attempted a more modest VOD experiment, under which the film Tower Heist would have been made available on VOD three weeks after it first appeared in theaters, but the theaters objected fiercely and Universal dropped the plan.
After Sony was hit with criticism for dropping the film, it returned to theater owners, telling them it would release the movie theatrically on Christmas Day, it’s original release date, but that it was also looking at an online release on various streaming platforms.
And if youre patient enough, Netflix may have it with in a few days.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/netflix-talks-sony-pictures-stream-interview-exclusive-171425770.html
Netflix is in talks with Sony Pictures to stream “The Interview” to its subscribers. If a deal comes together, the movie would not be available day and date with its Christmas Day release in theaters but would likely stream on the netcaster within a few days.
Netflix declined comment. It’s understood that Sony execs screened the movie for Netflix execs in recent days.
Sony has just announced a group of online distribs that will make the movie available for rental today starting at 10 a.m. PT: Google Play, YouTube Movies, Xbox Video and the website SeetheInterview.com for $5.99, or $14.99 for an HD version.
A Netflix deal would also give the movie a broad platform to be seen by the netcaster’s’ 53 million global subscribers. But a Netflix airing also raises questions about how that would impact the movie’s traditional pay TV exhibition window, as Sony Pictures has an output deal with Starz.
Starz has declined comment on the matter as the unprecedented disruption in the movie’s planned release schedule has made the situation very fluid. However, it’s understood that the pay cabler has been leaning toward not taking the movie if it gets broad VOD and streaming distribution prior to its regular pay-TV window, which would kick in about 10 months after the movie hit theaters.
Sony is not believed to be in talks with any other SVOD service — meaning no Hulu or Amazon — for the movie.
“The Interview” has become a cause celeb among free speech advocates after a threat from hackers linked to North Korea spurred major theater chains to back out of showing it and Sony to scrap its Dec. 25 theatrical release.
But on Monday and Tuesday, a number of indie theaters came forward with offers to screen the movie, allowing Sony to save some face and proceed with the Dec. 25 bow, albeit on about 300 theaters rather than the nearly 3,000 that had been set for the wide release, before the unprecedented cyber attack masterminded by North Korea sent the studio and the movie’s prospects into a tailspin.
Although Sony last week denied any plans for a VOD or streaming release, the studio clearly was reaching out to potential digital partners. Sources said the outreach to Netflix and others came before word surfaced about the indie theater push.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/netflix-talks-sony-pictures-stream-interview-exclusive-171425770.html
Netflix is in talks with Sony Pictures to stream “The Interview” to its subscribers. If a deal comes together, the movie would not be available day and date with its Christmas Day release in theaters but would likely stream on the netcaster within a few days.
Netflix declined comment. It’s understood that Sony execs screened the movie for Netflix execs in recent days.
Sony has just announced a group of online distribs that will make the movie available for rental today starting at 10 a.m. PT: Google Play, YouTube Movies, Xbox Video and the website SeetheInterview.com for $5.99, or $14.99 for an HD version.
A Netflix deal would also give the movie a broad platform to be seen by the netcaster’s’ 53 million global subscribers. But a Netflix airing also raises questions about how that would impact the movie’s traditional pay TV exhibition window, as Sony Pictures has an output deal with Starz.
Starz has declined comment on the matter as the unprecedented disruption in the movie’s planned release schedule has made the situation very fluid. However, it’s understood that the pay cabler has been leaning toward not taking the movie if it gets broad VOD and streaming distribution prior to its regular pay-TV window, which would kick in about 10 months after the movie hit theaters.
Sony is not believed to be in talks with any other SVOD service — meaning no Hulu or Amazon — for the movie.
“The Interview” has become a cause celeb among free speech advocates after a threat from hackers linked to North Korea spurred major theater chains to back out of showing it and Sony to scrap its Dec. 25 theatrical release.
But on Monday and Tuesday, a number of indie theaters came forward with offers to screen the movie, allowing Sony to save some face and proceed with the Dec. 25 bow, albeit on about 300 theaters rather than the nearly 3,000 that had been set for the wide release, before the unprecedented cyber attack masterminded by North Korea sent the studio and the movie’s prospects into a tailspin.
Although Sony last week denied any plans for a VOD or streaming release, the studio clearly was reaching out to potential digital partners. Sources said the outreach to Netflix and others came before word surfaced about the indie theater push.
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