Kim Jong Un flick earnings surpass $15 mil. for 4 days

The comedy film “The Interview,” depicting the assassination of Kim Jong-un, First Secretary of the Workers` Party of [North] Korea, has earned 15 million dollars on online showings alone, just four days after the release.

The studio Sony Pictures, which produced the raunchy comedy, said in a statement on Monday that the movie was "rented or purchased online more than 2 million times from December 24 through December 27, and earned more than 15 million dollars in online sales.” “The Interview” already ranks as its top online film ever.

Box office analyst Jeff Bock said that it is a huge number and the amount is the similar one to what it was expected to earn in theater before the showing of the film was canceled, adding that It’ll be interesting to see how quickly industry moves forward to these kinds of internet services, and it could shake a lot of things up.

The film "Interview" is also available in Apple’s iTunes from Monday, so the revenue is expected to increase more.

Although large movie theater chains did not carry this film citing terrorism threats, Sony Pictures released the movie online via Google’s Play, YouTube Movies and Microsoft’s Xbox video console as well as www.seetheinterview.com, a Sony-sponsored website. In the U.S. and Canada, the film is available at the cost of 5.99 dollars for 48 hours, and can be downloaded at 14.99 dollars.

The film also opened from December 25 in independent theaters throughout the U.S. citing the upholding of free speech, and raked in some 2.9 million dollars four days after opening.