Is Sony’s ‘The Interview’ about to break even? It’s made $40 million on-demand and $6 million in theaters

Significant is right.

This time last month, both the film and Sony were under attack from cyber-criminals who threatened violence against movie-goers if “The Interview” — a comedy about an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un — ever came out.

Movie theaters pulled out of their plans to screen the movie; Sony then cancelled the film outright; President Obama and some in Hollywood publicly criticized the cancellation; and Sony reversed course a week later, releasing the film to a small number of theaters and a big number of digital distributors.

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