CULVER CITY, Calif., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Amy Pascal will leave her position as co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment for a new production venture at the film studio.
Her departure was widely expected after an embarrassing hacking scandal in November in which thousands of Sony executives' emails, including hers, were released. Emails between Pascal and producer Scott Rudin revealed opinions of President Barack Obama for which both publicly apologized. The hackers were attempting to stop the company, a division of Tokyo-based Sony Corp., from releasing the film "The Interview," a comedy about the attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.