'The Interview' coming to Netflix even as digital sales pass $40 million

The Interview will hit Netflix on January 24, just 30 days after the film began playing in a limited theatre run and was made available for purchase or rental through online services such as YouTube, Google Play and Xbox Video and achieved over $40 million in digital sales.

Sony Pictures originally pulled the movie's Christmas Day 2014 release, after a massive hack of the company was blamed on North Korea, causing most of the major national movie theatre chains to drop the film, Deadline.com reported.

The movie was still released in theatres that agreed to carry it beginning December 25, and was released digitally on December 24. 

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