While the US and North Korean governments continue to thrash out diplomatic negotiations over the implications of the Sony hack, film fans have taken matters into their own hands following the pulling of The Interview from cinemas.
The film, which stars Seth Rogan and James Franco in a comedic plot to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, has been given a perfect score on movie websites IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, despite the fact it wasn't due for release until Christmas Day.
32,376 IMDB users have given the film 10/10, while 96 per cent of the 28,833 users on Rotten Tomatoes have said they "want to see" the film and have given it an average score of 4.3 out of five.
These are impressive scores within the critical online arena. Of the top 100 films on Rotten Tomatoes, only three in the top 10 have a comparable audience score: 1949 film The Third Man and Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film, Modern Times have both scored 4.3 out of five from thousands of user reviews. The average score of 722,917 users rating The Godfather is 4.4.
Meanwhile, so many people have been buying copies of Team America: World Police that the DVD has sold out on Amazon. The 2004 film has had a resurgence in popularity after a cinema in Texas, the Alamo Drafthouse, planned to screen the film on December 27 in place of The Interview after Sony pulled distribution.
Team America: World Police follows a similar spoof political plot to The Interview, in which a team of marionettes attempt to save the world from a violent terrorist plot by former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
According to The Daily Caller, Team America: World Police is now the fifth best selling comedy on Amazon, and the 53rd best-selling DVD. A few days ago it was ranked 1,389th.