The Interview is top of YouTube's Popular Right Now chart after being released online on December 24th through four digital channels: Google Play, SeeTheInterview.com, Xbox Video, and YouTube Movies.
There was never any question this week that I would be spending part of my Christmas watching The Interview. When it was announced the morning that the film would get an online release at 10 a.m. PST, without missing a beat I yelled to my mom in the next room (who I am currently visiting for the holidays) that we would have to cancel a day trip we had planned. Welcome to the hot take workshop: when a story snowballs to the proportion that the Sony hack and near-non-release of The Interview has, a certain kind of professional easily becomes a slave to the feeds and the whims of the individuals at the center of the story.
It's actually happening! After initially canceling the film's premiere following threats from a group of hackers, Sony Pictures will now allow The Interview to play in select theaters on Christmas day — and reportedly plans to release it online, as well. It is, after all, the internet's favorite movie.
Sometimes, a movie's notoriety can transcend its actual content and make it a culturally significant milestone all by its lonesome. No movie this year (or maybe even this decade) has been as notorious as Seth Rogen's The Interview, which was pulled from US movie theaters in response to threats of terrorist attacks if it were ever released. An outspoken backlash against the decision has risen up in the United States and elsewhere, which today sees itself expressed through the fan scores of movie-rating websites IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes: 22,607 IMDb users collectively rate The Interview a perfect 10, after it'd been sitting at 9.9 for the past few days, while 96 percent of 28,662 people on RT have rated it with three stars (out of five) or higher. The Rotten Tomatoes definition describes the phenomenon well, calling it the "want to see" rating. PROFESSIONAL CRITICS HAVE BEEN LESS FORGIVINGIn a rather suspicious coincidence, North Korea is currently going through a widespread internet outage, according the Associated Press. The connectivity problems started 24 hours ago, and have deteriorated further since.
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