Sony restricted Jonah Hill's character in Superbad from using a PS2 in one scene, as per director Seth Rogen. The company was apparently concerned about PlayStation's brand image being negatively ...

Seth Rogen took a studio note personally on "Superbad," when Sony objected to Jonah Hill's character using a PlayStation 2 in ...

Superbad writer and star Seth Rogen reveals that Sony intervened and banned one character from even laying a finger on a PlayStation controller during the events of the 2008 movie. The coming-of ...

Seth Rogen has revealed the surprising reason why Jonah Hill's character was banned from using a PlayStation in Superbad. Released back in 2007, the coming-of-age film follows school friends Seth ...

Superbad, perhaps the greatest teen coming-of-age film of our modern era, was co-financed by Sony. As it goes, one of the PlayStation platform holders' key stipulations was that Jonah Hill's "vile ...

Go figure. Sony wouldn't let Jonah Hill's Superbad character go near a PlayStation. Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images. Rogen was at SXSW to promote his new Apple TV+ series The Studio, which had ...

and to that end during production of 2007's hit comedy Superbad, Sony insisted that their PlayStation 2 console couldn't be touched by Jonah Hill's character Seth. Though we see Michael Cera's ...

More from Variety Seth Rogen's Star-Studded Showbiz Satire 'The Studio' Is a Shrewd Send-Up of Modern Hollywood: TV Review Seth Rogen Says Sony Wouldn't Allow Jonah Hill to Use a PlayStation in ...