Sony Pictures' contentious action-comedy film will be available for streaming on Netflix starting January 24, 2015. The movie is lead by the Seth Rogen who boasts credit for leading various iconic action-comedy films such as 'This is the End' and 'Knocked Up'. Together with him is James Franco, who is known for numerous notable films across different genres such as '127 hours', 'Springbreakers' and 'Homefront'.
If you remember, the movie has been made available for purchase or rental on various online outlets such as itunes, Youtube, Google Play and Xbox Video. Now, Sony took another step and made an announcement that the film will be available for the Netflix community.
"We are thrilled to offer exclusively the controversial comedy, 'The Interview,' to our US and Canadian members beginning this Saturday, Jan. 24 - just 30 days after it debuted in theaters and pay-per-view,", Netflix CEO Reed Hasting wrote on a letter to his shareholders, reportedly.
Rotten Tomatoes, via Sony Entertainment, says that the hilarious film revolves around Dave Skylark (James Franco), a host of a tabloid show named "Skylark Tonight" with Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) as his producer. Aaron, being a journalist graduate, later on seeks a need to cover a real news. Dave then sees the opportunity to make Aaron's wishes come true when he found out that the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of their show. The two were able to secure a strict interview but everything got more awesome when CIA Intelligence recruited them to assassinate the North Korean leader.
Controversial but trending
Due to the huge satire used against the movie's North Korean leader, followed by a scandalous hack in Sony's systems, the movie release was put on halt and instead, it was abruptly released online. Due to this reason, speculations flew that it might be North Korea who was behind the hacking.
"I can't definitely say I know the ramifications of the storm. I mean, I don't know if the hacking honestly is because of our movie, definitely or not. I know that it has been the center of a lot of media attention lately. It is weird, because we just wanted to make a really funny, entertaining movie, and the movie itself is very silly and wasn't meant to be controversial in any way." Seth told GMA's George Stephanopoulos, US Magazine said.
With the strong consumer statistics, Netflix is looking big at the result of the movie's release on the online streaming platform.
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