Sony Pictures Digital Productions president Bob Osher was fired today, Variety reported. In his role, for which he earned $1.25 million per year, Osher oversaw Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI). He had held the position for seven years.
“I want to thank Bob for his 11 years of service and acknowledge the important role he played in strengthening the financial and operational foundation of SPDP,” Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton wrote in an internal email to staffers. The conciliatory tone was quite different from Lynton’s personal emails, which were leaked last December, when he hinted to then-Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal that Osher was incompetent and should be fired:
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