Crackle to find out if anyone still cares about The Interview in 2016
Unless that Indiegogo campaign to topple his regime succeeds, Kim Jong-Un will presumably still be the Dear Leader of North Korea in 2016. That’s the good news for Sony, which announced today that it will release The Interview on Crackle, its first time on an ad-supported free streaming platform (as opposed to an ad-free subscription streaming platform, or a VOD platform, or on DVD), some time next year. “We are proud to be the first to distribute the film directly to consumers in the ad-supported window,” Crackle general manager Eric Berger tells Variety in a remarkable display of hair splitting.