UPDATE Westporters keen to see the controversial film “The Interview” in a movie theater Thursday or New Year’s Day will have to travel to Waterbury or Hartford in state or Yonkers, N.Y. or New York City.
Sony’s list of participating theaters includes about 300 that will start showing it on Christmas and dozens of others that will start showing it on Jan. 1 or 2. Some of the Christmas Day screenings are already sold out.
In Connecticut, the controversial comedy surrounding the assassination of Kim Jong-Un is scheduled to be shown in Hartford at the Spotlight Theatres Front Street Stadium and in Waterbury at Apple Cinemas Waterbury 10, the studio said.
Westporters and others also will get a chance to see the movie at home. Sony made the film available beginning at 1 p.m. today on Google Play, YouTube Movies and Microsoft’s Xbox Video as well as on a website of its own.
