http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/01/06/the-interview-online-sales-totals/21354589/
Is ‘The Interview’ The Future Of Movies? YouTube Premiere Of Sony Comedy Offers Distribution Case Study For Hollywood
The article explores if the recently released controversial comedy 'The Interview' could represent the future of big budget Hollywood films. The interview was released online on various streaming websites such as YouTube in some areas and made available for download for $5.99. To make back the reported $80 million the studio spent on producing and marketing the North Korean-set comedy, the movie would have to be downloaded more than 13 million times.
However as we can see in the second article, through downloads the film has made over $31 million already and looks set to possibly reach the cost price after DVD release, if not make up most of the money back. The relative success of this film online suggests that perhaps there is a future for Hollywood films online, considering channels such as BBC Three are becoming completely digital far more film and programming looks set to be online in the future.
I however highly doubt that Hollywood films will completely move online, because it would eventually mean the end of the cinema. I feel that to completely abolish the cinema takes away from the movie experience, and paying for the cinema makes far more money for films than online download, for example if the Interview was released in cinemas I am sure it would have exceeded it's production cost in profit. I do however think television programming online is far more likely and already looks set to be taking place with the previously mentioned BBC Three going completely online.
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