Michael Winterbottom was forced to cut “potentially damaging” references to Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez in his new film to protect Sony’s “corporate relations”.
Winterbottom added that he hoped Sony might reconsider their stance on the captions before the film’s official release.
Winterbottom’s new film Greed is a comic satire starring Steve Coogan as a billionaire inspired by Arcadia Group chairman Sir Philip Green.
However, Winterbottom has now claimed that Laine Kline, head of Sony Pictures International, which co-financed the film and is distributing it worldwide, ordered that the references be removed.