Ex-Sony Pictures Boss Regrets Seth Rogen’s ‘The Interview’ and Says Obama Told Him After the Sony Hack: ‘What Were You Thinking? Of Course That Was a Mistake’

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Michael Lynton , the former CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, now wishes he had thought a little more carefully before greenlighting “ The Interview ,” Seth Rogen ‘s dark comedy about a plan to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Lynton’s new memoir “From Mistakes to Meaning: Owning Your Past So It Doesn’t Own You,” co-written with Joshua L. Steiner, was excerpted in the Wall St. Journal Thursday, and in the book that publishes next week, the executive admits he may have made the