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Sony sued for having stupid movies

08-06-2001 8:08pm

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Updated 1:52pm ET on 8-June-2001

12:00pm ET, 8-June-01

Animal Viewers Sue Sony

Two moviegoers who bought tickets to Rob Schneider's SF comedy film The Animal have sued Sony Pictures, alleging that the studio engaged in deceptive advertising by inventing a movie critic in ads for the movie, the Inside.com Web site reported. Sony has suspended two marketing executives responsible for concocting a film critic and using fictitious favorable quotes in ads for The Animal, A Knight's Tale, Hollow Man and other Sony films. Newsweek first uncovered the fake critic.

La Jolla, Calif., lawyer Norman Blumenthal is representing plaintiffs Omar Rezec and Ann Belknap in a class-action suit seeking disgorgement of all profits from the movies, Inside.com reported.

Meanwhile, Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has announced that his office is investigating the use of the fake critic, David Manning, who supposedly worked for the real weekly Connecticut newspaper, the Ridgefield Press, Inside.com reported.
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