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Question and i guess well be talking this time next year to see the answer to that. thank you so much. that is it for me. ill be back at 5:00 eastern on "the situation room". for our international viewers christiane amanpour is next for our viewers in north america "newsroom" with ana cabrera starts right now. hello on this friday. im ana cabrera. well get to new developments in the search for flight 8501. president obama just authorizing new sanctions on kim jong-un and the north partly in re...

Coming out. he knew what big star that roger would be going out the interview. and thats all it took for him to make sure that he got the interview before roger got it. fumes. you could almost see coming out of rogers head. gene had done him in again. thats rascally rabbit. >> "life itself" airs this sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. top of the hour now im ana cabrera and we have new developments in the search for flight 8501. well get to those in just a moment. first some breaking news in...

Plane was removed from the runway. and the controversial comedy "the interview" has been raking in millions of dollars. sony decided last week to release the film depicting an assassination attempt on kim jong-un. major theater chains stayed away from it. it was also released online. after being streamed over 2 million times in four days, the movie made more than $15 million. it was expected to have made nearly $3 million at more than 300 u.s. theaters since christmas day. up next here at cn...

Aaa reports it is now less than $2.30 a gallon. the film "the interview" almost did not get a release. now it has reportedly made more than $15 million just in online sales over the weekend and to that, more than $2.5 million from box office sales. comes after hacker as i tacked soby pictures, threatening september -- 9/11 attacks. were live in our west coast news hub. william, it was a big weekend for sony. >> heres why you have to give the studio some credit. a week ago they didnt know when ...

The revenue split is 70-30. when you consider the studio originally expected to make 20 million before the hack attack 18 million, its not bad. it challenged the existing distribution model breaking the monopoly of the big theater chains. so aside from the scandal, that could be the biggest takeaway of the entire episode. >> sony got some other good news. the playstation network is back up and running. tell us about that. >> they got hacked on christmas morning, a group calling itself the lizard...

Rockefeller tree. i dont know what that means. i am here with imus in the morning associate producer. she is going home for the holidays, home is what she calls the nearest liquor store that takes food stamps. it is joanne nosuchunsky. and he will be spending christmas at the movies because he is a lonely, stupid freak. it is tvs andy levey. i asked for a chee yaw pet, but this is close enough. sam morrell. a block. thats the first story. >> it will play and a victory for freedom and fart jokes ...

The independent films down with doing the big releases, too, and i feel like they are trying to avoid the bigger theater chains. what do you think? >> i think their hand was forced when president obama criticized them at the press conference. >> you should have called me and let me in on this kind of stuff. >> that was the moment. i think thats when their rhetoric changed. >> and they were saying, hey, the a-list celebs -- >> people can say what they want on the internet or twitter but when the ...

Brian stelter has all the details. >> now that "the interview" is out, the big question is how many people are paying money to see it? today were getting the answers to that. it premiered in about 331 theaters on christmas day in the united states and made a bit more than $1 million at the box office. thats according to sony, which put out a statement on friday morning celebrating the news. heres part of what it said -- the audience reaction was fantastic. the limited release in under 10% amount...

"the interview" night might be a preview of the day when maybe you can see movies at home the same day in the theater. >> it wasnt without missteps, right? >> reporter: on youtube it worked well but one of the other websites hosting the movie a brand new startup called kernel, there were some problems in the beginning, too much traffic going to the website. they got it sorted out after a couple of hours. but it does go to show that this is new. this is new terrain for hollywood for the movie ind...

Dont worry, you shouldnt get in any legal trouble, but just in case, texas has passed a law, to make sure that you can use your greeting of cois without fear without any legal retribution. doesnt free speech cover that? come on, its christmas. lay off, already. hello, everyone. welcome to. im ashleigh banfield. merry christmas, welcome to "legal view". wonderful to have you with us this morning. despite threats of violence and cyber attacks, despite almost all the major theater chains in america...