DHAKA: Sony Pictures says it is looking at different ways to release the film satire the Interview, after scrapping its opening following a cyber-attack blamed on North Korea.

It said it had only cancelled the film's Christmas Day release after cinemas pulled out, reports BBC.

The company said it was "surveying alternatives to enable us to release the movie on a different platform".

US President Barack Obama said it "made a mistake" cancelling the release.

"We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship in the United States," he said.

He also vowed to "respond" to the cyber-attack in a "manner that we choose".

The FBI has said that North Korea was responsible for the hack, but Pyongyang denies this. The Interview depicts the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

BDST: 1010 HRS, DEC 20, 2014