Following weeks of controversy surrounding the material behind the Seth Rogen and James Franco political comedy about the assassination of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, "The Interview" premiere finally came about through different mediums on Christmas- and even without a proper big studio release, it managed to make $1 million on day one.
A lot has been said about this political comedy after all the insane amounts of publicity it's gotten following the fact that the North Korean government hacked Sony Pictures e-mails trying to stop it from releasing the movie, but art prevailed in "The Interview" premiere, between independent movie theaters and an official online release by big the studio.
According to Latino Fox News, the official "The Interview" premiere on theaters, which had only about 300 movie screens in the United States showing the movie, actually managed to gather about one million dollars on its very release date, last Christmas.
After the studio had planned for a huge "The Interview" premiere (after all, it was a film made by two box office stars, Seth Rogen and James Franco), Sony Pictures stepped back following the FBI discovery that the leak of their internal e-mails did indeed come from the North Korean government.
Sony Pictures officially pulled the title off its original full release (after hackers had threatened action against any theater that showed it), but many independent theaters across the country decided to screen the controversial film anyway; all while figures across the world criticized Sony for giving in to terrorist demands, including United States President Barack Obama.
After a lot of pressure, the studio itself relented and released the film online, according to The Daily Mail, and making history in the process: it's turned into the first film to be officially released simultaneously in three different viewing platforms, and it also became the first studio movie to have an official online release.
However, critics haven't been as gracious with the film as expecting audiences have - in all, "The Interview" movie currently has a 48 percent "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on critics' reviews.
