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Question and i guess we'll be talking this time next year to see the answer to that. thank you so much. that is it for me. i'll 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. i'm ana cabrera. we'll 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 response to that cyber attack on sony. you'll remember the theater chains pulled the movie "the in...

Coming out. he knew what big star that roger would be going out the interview. and that's 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 roger's head. gene had done him in again. that's rascally rabbit. >> "life itself" airs this sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. top of the hour now i'm ana cabrera and we have new developments in the search for flight 8501. we'll get to those in just a moment. first some breaking news involving north korea. president obama now authorizing new sanctions on kim jong-un and the north...

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 cnn. we examine how weather could have played a role in the disappearance of airasia flight 8501, plus...

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. we're live in our west coast news hub. william, it was a big weekend for sony. >> here's why you have to give the studio some credit. a week ago they didn't know when or if they would even release "the interview." today, sony is sitting on 18 million in sales afte...

The revenue split is 70-30. when you consider the studio originally expected to make 20 million before the hack attack 18 million, it's 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 squad, knocked playstation out of commission. in an interview with -- over skype with our sister n...