{"id":76743,"date":"2015-01-07T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T06:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=76743"},"modified":"2015-01-07T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T06:03:28","slug":"the-movie-north-korea-wanted-banned-made-millions-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/76743\/the-movie-north-korea-wanted-banned-made-millions-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The movie North Korea wanted banned made millions online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures Entertainment says that &#8220;The Interview&#8221; has made more than $31 million from its online and on-demand release.<\/p>\n<p>The studio Tuesday announced digital figures for the film spanning its first 11 days of release since opening Dec. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Sony had previously said the film made $15 million in its first four days online, so demand for the Seth Rogen comedy has slightly declined as Sony has added more platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Initial plans to release the comedy, about an assassination attempt on the leader of North Korea, were thwarted when threats aimed at theaters were made.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has steadily increased digital operators. While $31 million constitutes the most lucrative digital release for a Hollywood film, &#8220;The Interview&#8221; stood to make more in a wide theatrical release.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the Sony hack<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony film pushed all of North Korea\u2019s buttons\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/76344\/sony-film-pushed-all-of-north-koreas-buttons\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony film pushed all of North Korea\u2019s buttons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Stolen emails and Sony security\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/76278\/stolen-emails-and-sony-security\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Stolen emails and Sony security<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Stop leaked documents reporting: Sony\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/76100\/stop-reporting-from-leaked-documents-says-sony\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Stop leaked documents reporting: Sony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony left spinning after massive hack\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/75922\/sony-left-spinning-after-massive-hack\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony left spinning after massive hack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures Entertainment says that &#8220;The Interview&#8221; has made more than $31 million from its online and on-demand release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,847,385,9343],"class_list":["post-76743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-hack","tag-sony","tag-the-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76753,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76743\/revisions\/76753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}