A happier moment ... Angelina Jolie premieres her film Unbroken in Germany. Source: AP

She came face-to-face with Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal at a Hollywood event this week, the same day as an embarrassing leak of emails between Pascal and producer Scott Rudin, in which Jolie is described as a “minimally talented spoiled brat”.

Thankfully for those of us following the Sony hacking scandal as though it was Wikileaks, a camera was on hand to capture the incredibly cringe-worthy embrace.

Death stare ... Amy Pascal, right, embraces minimally talented spoiled brat (not to mention Oscar winner, Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner and honorary dame of the British Empire) Angelina Jolie. Source: AP

In the leaked emails, Pascal and Rudin go back and forth about a scheduling conflict involving Jolie’s proposed next project — a Cleopatra reboot — and a planned Steve Jobs biopic to be directed by David Fincher.

The barbs start flying, mainly from Rudin, who writes:

“I’m not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie.

“She’s a camp event and a celebrity and that’s all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming.”

Jolie ... ‘A celebrity and that’s all’ according to Scott Rudin. Source: AP

Rudin ... Not interested in making Jolie’s Cleopatra movie. Source: AP

The awkward encounter between Jolie and Pascal was photographed at the Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Power 100 Breakfast on Wednesday.

Since then, the high-powered executive has been further embarrassed by the Sony cyber hack, which has been a non-stop headache for the massive studio.

After the Angelina Jolie emails leaked, Pascal and Rudin were slammed for another email exchange in which they traded racist jokes about Barack Obama.

The Sony cyber hacks so far:

Racist jokes about Barack Obama revealed in emails

Princess Beatrice’s shockingly low salary

The fake names celebs use at hotels

New release movies leaked online before hitting cinemas

Calling for a boycott ... Some in Japan are not satisfied with Jolie’s portrayal of WWII POW camps. Source: AP

Unbroken strikes a nerve:

Meanwhile, Jolie’s new movie Unbroken has not been released in Japan yet, but it has already struck a nerve in a country still wrestling over its wartime past.

The buzz on social networks and in online chatter is decidedly negative over the film, which depicts a US Olympic runner who endures torture at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.

Some people are calling for a boycott of the movie, although there is no release date in Japan yet. It hits theatres in the US on December 25.

Others want the ban extended to Jolie, the director — unusual in a nation enamoured with Hollywood, and especially Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt, who have reputations as Japan lovers.

Much-loved in Japan ... But not for this film. Source: AP

The movie follows the real-life story of Louis Zamperini as told in a 2010 book by Laura Hillenbrand. The book has not been translated into Japanese, but online trailers have provoked outrage. Zamperini, played by Jack O’Connell, survived in a raft for 47 days with two other crewmen after their B-24 bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, only to be captured by the Japanese and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Especially provocative is a passage in the book that accuses the Japanese of engaging in cannibalism of POWs. It is not clear how much of that will be in the movie, but in Japan that is too much for some.

‘There was no cannibalism’ . Matsuhiro Takeuchi urges Jolie to study history. Source: AP

“There was absolutely no cannibalism,” said Mutsuhiro Takeuchi, a nationalist-leaning educator and a priest in the traditional Shinto religion. “That is not our custom.”

Takeuchi acknowledged Jolie is free to make whatever movie she wants, stressing that Shinto believes in forgive-and-forget.

But he urged Jolie to study history, saying executed war criminals were charged with political crimes, not torture.