Posted on 12/24/2014 10:03:43 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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).
So starting at 10 a.m. PST in the U.S., you can rent or buy "The Interview" on Google Play and YouTube Movies. It will also be available to Xbox Video customers and via www.seetheinterview.com.
so? who was going to watch it before the so-called hack?
Isn’t Sony Music onboard trying to convince musicians that music should be available for free and they’ll make it up in volume/celebrity?
Separate but equal topic, why do studio heads sabotage films (especially if they were green light approved before the current board of directors came in)?
See the Battle For “Brazil” for a textbook example.
Additionally even if a little film gets to market and starts to show a nice profit, those profits can be covered up if someone in the studio has a vendetta against you. Hollywood’s creative accounting where the production costs of someone else’s film (or their catering budget) are written off against ‘your’ film. Have to protect the privileged celebs when one of their films is a turkey.
Plenty of films and albums are buried (figuratively) by studios/labels every year. Just because they are completed on budget doesn’t mean that the studio cares to bring them to market (with a big distribution push).
There’s a big difference between not wasting more money marketing a film that there is no demand for, and just releasing for free a film that there is a demand for.
Was there a demand for this film last month? Or was it just the exploitation of “world events” that built up demand?
Since the filmmakers had been in dispute with the studio for awhile over the edit (tone down the exploding Kim Un head etc.) the studio was nervous long before the hacking story broke.
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