Canadians won’t see the North Korea satire ‘The Interview’ in theatres this holiday season, but they can to watch the controversial comedy on-demand through a number of online streaming services.

Late Wednesday evening, Vancouver-born Seth Rogen, one of the film’s stars, tweeted that the full-length movie can be viewed in Canada.

The news came hours after Sony Pictures Entertainment released ‘The Interview’ on a number of streaming services Wednesday in the U.S., and one day before the film’s limited theatrical release south of the border.

Sony says ‘The Interview’ will be available to stream for $5.99 on Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and a separate Sony website.

Sony has no plans at this time to release the film in Canadian theatres.

It’s an unprecedented release strategy for a film that’s caused much international intrigue.

“It has always been Sony’s intention to have a national platform on which to release this film,” Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton said in a statement Wednesday. He goes on to say that Sony reached out to a number of streaming services last Wednesday to arrange the film’s online release.

“We never stopped pursuing as wide a release as possible for ‘The Interview,’” Lynton said. “We chose the path of digital distribution first so as to reach as many people as possible on opening day, and we continue to seek other partners and platforms to further expand its release.”

Sony Pictures recently reversed its decision to pull the film from U.S. theatres in the face of widespread criticism after it bowed to threats of terrorism. ‘The Interview’ will now be screened in about 200 U.S. theatres, down from the original 3,000-theatre release schedule.

The satirical film stars James Franco and Rogen as journalists who become embroiled in a CIA plot to assassinate a fictional version of Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea.

Sony scrapped its plans to release ‘The Interview’ earlier this month after hackers threatened large-scale terrorist attacks against the United States if the film went public.

The same hacker group leaked a slew of sensitive Sony emails obtained in a cyberattack earlier in November. Those leaks included damning emails written by top Sony executives, early digital copies of Sony theatrical films, secret franchise plans for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and an early script for the upcoming James Bond film ‘SPECTRE.’

Sony reversed its decision on Tuesday after a number of independent theatres said they would screen the film regardless of consequences.

Americans are trumpeting the film’s release as a victory for free speech. Tickets reportedly sold out within hours at several independent theatres slated to screen the movie Christmas Day.

Franco and Rogen took to Twitter on Tuesday to hail the film’s release in the U.S.

North Korea has not claimed responsibility for the hacks, but the country did say earlier that it will consider the movie’s release an “act of war.”

U.S. President Barack Obama vowed last week that his country would respond to what he called North Korea’s “cyber vandalism” of Sony.

North Korea has been struck by Internet outages since Tuesday, but the U.S. has been coy about its involvement.

Lynton hailed Wednesday’s digital release of the film as a triumph for free speech. “While we couldn’t have predicted the road this movie travelled to get to this moment, I’m proud our fight was not for nothing and that cyber criminals were not able to silence us,” he said.

With files from the Canadian Press