LOS ANGELES — Sony is releasing The Interview on Google Play, Xbox Video, YouTube Movies and a dedicated website starting Wednesday, making good on persistent rumors that it would come out on demand along with its limited theatrical run.
Google stepped up after Sony indicated that multiple potential streaming partners were unwilling to show the film, presumably for fear of becoming the target of hackers that devastated the studio in the past month.
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Here's Google's statement:
Last Wednesday Sony began contacting a number of companies, including Google, to ask if we’d be able to make their movie, "The Interview," available online. We'd had a similar thought and were eager to help—though given everything that’s happened, the security implications were very much at the front of our minds
Of course it was tempting to hope that something else would happen to ensure this movie saw the light of day. But after discussing all the issues, Sony and Google agreed that we could not sit on the sidelines and allow a handful of people to determine the limits of free speech in another country (however silly the content might be) Read more...
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