Well SOMEBODY sure had a great Christmas.

Courtesy of USA Today: 

For a movie that wasn't even coming out at the beginning of the week, The Interview is ending it in style. 

 The Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy at the heart of the controversy involving Sony hackers racked up nearly $1 million on Christmas Day in 300 independent movie theaters around the country, according to Variety. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain, one of the staunchest supporters of screening the film, sold out all of its Christmas screenings in its 17 locations. 

It's a decent haul for a movie that, due to threats of terrorism, was pulled by major theater chains such as AMC and Regal. 

The Interview has also done well on video-on-demand platforms since its Wednesday release. While none of the sites has disclosed download or streaming numbers, Variety reports The Interview is the best-selling film on Google Play and YouTube Movies. And according to CNN, there were also 750,000 illegal downloads of the film on Thursday. 

"The audience reaction was fantastic — the limited release, in under 10% of the amount of theaters originally planned, featured numerous sell-outs and a first-day gross over $1 million," said Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony, in a statement to CNN.

You know every once in awhile you recognize that you are in the middle of a pivotal moment in history. 

And we have had a lot of them recently. The first black president. The Affordable Care Act. The Climate Change agreement with China. The reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba. The newly released Senate torture report. I could go on.

And this is another one.

It is the first time that we have seen hackers impact a major studio, or ANY large corporation, in such a dramatic fashion.

Even yesterday there was still disagreement over who exactly hacked Sony, and there was yet another hack on online gaming platforms yesterday as well.

So while The Interview may have ultimately benefited from all of the attention and goodwill that resulted from the Sony hack, it is unlikely that this is the last time this is going to happen.

I have no idea what this ultimately means going forward, but I am willing to bet that it will result in increased security and less internet freedom down the road.

Investors Carousel Ready Support SEA Games

The investors from South Korea is ready to participate in support of the Government declared the city of Palembang in the successful implementation of the SEA Games XXVI on 11-November 25, 2011. Statement of support was raised one of an investor of Carousel when received the Mayor of Palembang H Eddy Santana's son, in Palembang, Monday (4/4/11).

In that occasion, several investors Carousel come to the Office of the Government of the city of Palembang to exploitation of possible opportunities to invest in the city. Foreign guests were recorded in the name of Kim Yung Tae, Kim Gung Woo, Cho Young Tae Kim Li Chei, and Lee Jae Sook.

In the presence of his guest, Mayor Eddy Santana's son briefly alluded to that area is believed to host the SEA Games XXVI. Responding to this, Kim Yung Woo and Cho Young Chei, harmonious State is willing to provide support to the party symbol se-Southeast Asia's upcoming really can last titles.

However in that meeting, the investors from countries that do not mention the forms of support. Apart from that, the statement of support came from the investor Gets a warm welcome from the Mayor and officials of the Office and agencies in the Government of the city of Palembang.

In sepontan the Mayor Eddy Santana convey a thank you for their desire to participate in successful sporting akbar antarutusan country se-South-East Asia.

In the presence of the guests of the Carousel, the Mayor also deliver a glimpse of the issue of implementation of the SEA Games, that the city of Palembang, not only as a place to match some of the sport, but also believed the Central Government to host the opening and closing of the biennial Sports Festival.

He added, to facilitate SEA Games, surely the city Palembang has built a wide range of infrastructure required.

Facing the SEA Games, many of the infrastructure is built and repaired, among other highways, bridges, shopping centres, hotels and other entertainment facilities, including facilities of transport with public bus dioperasikannya transmusi a cheap, safe, comfortable and free of pollution, he said.

He added, approached the implementation of the SEA Games is of course the volume increasing infrastructure development activities, so that in such situations is expected the participation of the investors from abroad, including from the Carousel.

Meanwhile, the implementation of the SEA Games in the city of Palembang is believed to be established in accordance with the expected target, so that the Government of South Sumatra Province will expose about the pesiapan kegaiatan it in the Ministry of welfare of People in Jakarta on Tuesday (5/4/11).

"Exposure to assure that the South Sumatra have actually been ready to host the SEA Games," said the head of the Office of the copyright work of Palembang PU Rizal Abdullah after facing Governor Direktori H Alex Noerdin in Palembang, Monday. Source: ANT Share Tweet