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LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures suspended two advertising executives for allowing movie ads to feature accolades from a critic who didn’t exist.
The executives, who weren’t identified, were suspended 30 days without pay, according to Jeff Blake, president of distribution of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Corp. (SNE). “The company is sanctioning … one [executive] for his actions and the other for actions that occurred within the department he supervises,” he added.
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