‘The Interview’ Makes $15 Million in Online Sales Alone

"The Interview" released on Christmas Day 2014 amid much controversy and over the weekend the movie has managed to rake in $18 million of which $15 million came from online sales.

Sony Pictures released "The Interview" in 331 theaters in the United States and also put the movie out for download online on Google Play and YouTube. The studio confirmed that till date the movie has been rented or downloaded more than 2 million times.

"That is a huge number," Jeff Bock, a box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations told Reuters.

"This is almost what it was going to do theatrically before it was pulled. It made about what people expected, but in a completely different way," he added.

The Seth Rogen-James Franco starring political satire which portrays an attempted assassination at North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, made about $2.8 million from the theaters.

Sony decided to cancel the movie after the hacker group, which has been exposing Sony's crucial confidential data to the public, sent an anonymous letter to the studio warning that they would launch 9/11-like attacks on the theaters that screened the film.

However, after the world expressed its outrage over the cancellation and President Obama also spoke up about it, Sony finally decided to release it.

''We have never given up on releasing 'The Interview". While we hope this is only the first step of the film's release, we are proud to make it available to the public and to have stood up to those who attempted to suppress free speech," Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton said in a statement.

While the movie will be shown in several states, California will be screening the movie in most of its theaters.

Here is the full list of theaters where you can watch the movie this holiday season.