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‘The Interview’ Is Top-Selling Film This Year on Google Play
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Sony Pictures’ “The Interview” is the top-grossing movie of the year for Google Inc., after earning $15 million in online sales and rentals from all sources through Saturday.
The tally on Google’s Play and YouTube outlets, Xbox and other Web sources, dwarfs the $2.84 million the Seth Rogen comedy took in this past weekend from movie theaters. “This Is the End,” Rogen’s directorial debut, generated $20.7 million in its opening weekend in 2013. Google spokeswoman Michelle Slavich declined to provide a figure for how much the movie generated on the company’s sites.