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'Concussion' football movie altered to avoid angering NFL: NYT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Pictures Entertainment executives altered the script of its forthcoming movie "Concussion," about football-related brain trauma, to avoid antagonizing the National Football League, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Citing emails between Sony studio executives that were leaked by hackers in a massive cyber attack last year, the Times said marketing plans for the movie were positioned to focus on the story of a whistle-blower, rather than a condemnation of the sport.

The movie, starring Will Smith as a pathologist who diagnosed a degenerative brain disease in U.S. football players that is linked to repeated blows to the head, is due in movie theaters in December.