I see that as I predicted Amy Pascal’s tenure as co-chairman of Sony Pictures has come to an end:
Amy Pascal is leaving her position as co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment to start a new production venture within the company, the company announced Thursday. Pascal’s job has been the source of speculation since hackers released a trove of internal Sony email in which she made racially insensitive jokes about U.S. President Barack Obama.
Pascal, 56, was highly regarded in Hollywood before the Nov. 24 Sony hack shed light on her acerbic private conversations with producer Scott Rudin. In the messages the pair joke that Obama’s favorite movies include “Django Unchained,†“12 Years a Slave†and others that focus on race.
Pascal will launch her operation within Sony starting in May. She explained in a press release from Sony Pictures that she and Sony CEO Michael Lynton have long discussed moving her into a producer role. They have worked together for the past decade, with Lynton handling the business and financial decisions at the studio and Pascal keeping tabs on the creative side.
The emphasis in the IBT article is on the personal but I’d bet a shiny new dime that if the problems at Sony Pictures had been limited to a few racist emails she’d still have her job. The problems are manifest and include a culture that ignored data security, puzzling when so much of the company’s property is online.
I expect she won’t be the last.
