The latter end of 2014 saw Sony Pictures Entertainment making headlines for all the wrong reasons, as Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen’s comedy action film The Interview made the studio a target for a group of hackers who quickly obtained millions of documents – from private e-mails to scripts for major upcoming films – and disseminated many of them on the internet for anyone to read. The attack later escalated into terror threats against theaters preparing to screen The Interview, and the film was eventually released online.
Among the many facets of the scandal was a controversy over e-mails sent between Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin, in ...
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