The Sony Pictures hack was already bad, but it’s getting much worse.
The Nov. 24 hack has evolved into an international crisis, filled with extortion attempts and embarrassing leaks that include details about the lives of Hollywood celebrities.
And everyone’s guessing this is all because of the Hollywood studio’s upcoming release of “The Interview,” a comedy about a plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Here’s what you need to know about the mega-hack of Sony (SNE).
Embarrassing emails exposed. Sony executives are a rude group. In emails to Sony Pictures Chairwoman Amy Pascal, producer Scott Rudin called Angelina Jolie “minimally talented” and a “spoiled brat” with a “rampaging … ego” by producer Scott Rudin. Pascal emailed Rudin about asking President Obama whether he liked “Django Unchained” or other movies about blacks.
Jolie was photographed giving Pascal a nasty look on Wednesday at the Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment breakfast.
Other emails show that Sony employees are fed up with the boring, unimaginative movies the company keeps producing — like “mundane, formulaic Adam Sandler films,” according to Gawker.
Meanwhile, movie scripts and even entire films were made public. Leaked emails reveal that the next James Bond movie, “Spectre,” is massively over budget and on track to be one of the most expensive films ever made, costing more than $300 million.