{"id":1406,"date":"2015-01-20T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2015-01-20T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:29:53","slug":"the-interview-will-hit-netflix-in-just-a-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Interview\u2019 Will Hit Netflix In Just A Few Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u2019s controversial comedy, <em>The Interview<\/em>, will be available to watch on Netflix on Jan. 24. That\u2019s\u2014<em>one, two, three, four<\/em>\u2014four days away. On a Saturday, no less, which means you can spend this weekend eating pizza and seeing what all the fuss is about.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although there are many VOD services (and even theaters) offering up opportunities to watch\u00a0<em>The Interview<\/em>, Netflix says it\u2019s offering the film \u201cexclusively,\u201d suggesting competing subscription services (Amazon Prime Instant Video comes to mind) won\u2019t offer the movie to stream.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Interview<\/em> has reportedly earned Sony $40 million since the firm adopted a VOD method of distribution, which is pretty impressive for such a mediocre comedy. (It\u2019s the kind of fart-joke movie you can quote with friends (as I have been doing), but there\u2019s nothing particularly extraordinary about it.) I wonder if the constant focus on the Sony hack helped contribute to the movie\u2019s unexpected \u201csuccess.\u201d Who knows how much money was lost as a result of Sony\u2019s unfortunate situation.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t seen the movie by now, you\u2019ll have a chance to very soon. <em>The Interview<\/em>will initially be available to subscribers in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/1\/20\/7862175\/the-interview-coming-to-netflix-january-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THEVERGE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u2019s controversial comedy, The Interview, will be available to watch on Netflix on Jan. 24. That\u2019s\u2014one, two, three, four\u2014four days away. On a Saturday, no less, which means you can spend this weekend eating pizza and seeing what all the fuss is about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies-tv-shows","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}