UPDATED: Never mind, Sony is releasing The Interview on Christmas after all, maybe on VOD
In a move that will definitely not backfire when all those people who rated The Interview a 10 on IMDB because of patriotism or whatever come to the (unfair, but inevitable, given the nature of the Internet) conclusion that they’ve been had, Sony is apparently going to release The Interview to select theaters on Christmas Day after all. The revelation comes after the Plaza Theater in Atlanta tweeted that the movie would open on two screens Thursday, followed quickly by Alamo Drafthouse owner Tim League, whose theaters attempted to screen Team America: World Police instead of The Interview, only to have that shut down too.
To be clear, the major theatrical chains whose refusal to screen the movie set this whole thing into motion are still not going to show The Interview—at least for now. This affects mostly independently owned theaters, whose trade association released a petition yesterday which read,