The highly controversial release from Sony Pictures, 'The Interview', made more than $31 billion via online and video-on-demand sales in the United States since its release on Christmas Eve, reported Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Sony has also announced that it has made $5 million from its theatrical release apart from the $15 million it made from the first release in the first four days of its debut.

The film, which is co-written and co-directed by its star Seth Rogen, is based on the fictional assassination of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and was initially withdrawn by Sony Pictures in the face of the hacking threats.

Sony Pictures computer systems were breached and hacked early in November, 2014, by a group called Guardians of the Peace which are believed to be a front for North Korean cyber warfare experts, according to the Daily Mail.

The United States government believes North Korea is behind the attack, although the state has denied any such activity. "We do not know where in America the Sony Pictures is situated and for what wrong doings it became the target of the attack," a spokesperson for the National Defense Commission was quoted saying to the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

Currently, the movie is showing at about 580 venues in North America alone and has managed to gross a total of $36 million so far, according to Variety Magazine.

With the threat of the cyber attack dying down, Sony Pictures has planned to release the movie to a wider audience. Moviegoers in the U.K and Ireland will get to watch 'The Interview' as it is set to release on February 6.

While all seems to be well at the financial front, Sony Pictures seems to be having a crisis of its own. Several employees having been filing law suits against Sony Pictures, claiming that the studio was negligent in protecting personal information, after the cyber attack in November.