
Daniel Velásquez
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Ex-Sony Pictures boss Michael Lynton says Barack Obama told him after the Sony hack: “What were you thinking when you made killing the leader of a hostile foreign nation a plot point? Of course that was a mistake.” Lynton says he greenlit Seth Rogen's "The Interview" partly out of a desire to be accepted and “hang as an equal with the actors.” “Just for a moment, I wanted to join the badass gang that made subversive movies. For a moment, I wanted to hang — as an equal — with the actors. I had grown tired of playing the responsible adult, of watching the party from the outside while I played Risk….The party got out of hand, and the company, its employees, my family and I all paid dearly.” The former Sony boss also writes that “two other factors complicated the situation. First, Amy Pascal, my co-chairperson at Sony, and Stacey Snider, the chairwoman at Universal Studios, while friends, had a 20-year rivalry. Second, Rogen felt that he had to make each movie more and more outrageous to keep his audience engaged. So when either Stacey or Amy refused to greenlight a film because it was too offensive, the other agreed to make it. And guess what? It was inevitably a hit. Sony found itself in the difficult position of not being able to say no, and Rogen found himself in the enviable position of getting approval for almost anything that he chose to present.” variety.com/2026/film/news…



One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson hadn't set a movie in the present since Punch-Drunk Love, but he makes up for lost time by delivering one of the defining blockbusters of the 21st century. an absolutely generational home run. my review: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…




