Not another Sony marketing flub!

Sony Pictures Corporation, still reeling from the pasting it took for
printing phony raves in its ads from a non-existent critic, has been forced
to pull an R-rated trailer from the Internet because it violated rules of
the Motion Picture Association of America. The trailer, for the upcoming
Not Another Teen Movie, reportedly contains partial nudity and
verboten language. Moreover, the MPAA prohibits trailers for all R-rated
films on the Internet without specific authorization. (They can only be
shown in theaters exhibiting R-rated features.) The Los Angeles Times
quoted a Sony spokesman as saying that the studio wasn’t aware of the
MPAA regulations. MPAA chief Jack Valenti told today’s Wall Street
Journal that he thought the incident represented an honest mistake by
“someone deep in the bowels of the marketing department at Sony.”