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Paul Linfesty
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From: Bakersfield, CA, USA
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posted 01-24-2006 09:04 AM
And it even happens at Sundance...
From the Los Angeles Times.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Satire turns mystery: Where's the sex scene?
A 12-second hookup scene starring Katie Holmes was missing from the satirical political comedy "Thank You for Smoking" at a weekend screening.
By John Horn
Times Staff Writer
January 24, 2006
PARK CITY, Utah -- The Sundance Film Festival is all about discovery, but what filmmaker Jason Reitman found out during a screening of "Thank You for Smoking" was unusual even by Sundance standards: The Katie Holmes sex scene in his movie had vanished.
During a packed screening of his satirical political comedy on Saturday night, Reitman and his team were stunned to see that the 12-second hookup between a journalist played by Holmes and a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart had been snipped from the print.
"We were sitting there in shock," Reitman said Monday. "And I turned to other people who had worked on the film, and we were completely confused. But the audience didn't seem to notice or care." When the film was shown the next morning, the encounter was still missing.
Reitman was quick to tell the audiences what they had missed. The news solicited loud moans, but Reitman stopped short of acting out the racy, but hardly explicit, scene.
A couple of theories seemed possible. Had an enterprising operative from US Weekly sneaked into the Eccles Center projection booth and stolen the footage for an exclusive? Did Tom Cruise exert all of his Hollywood muscle to preserve the honor of his pregnant girlfriend? Or maybe conservative Utah activists felt Sundance's decadence had sunk so low, they took matters into their own hands.
The correct answer was not quite as provocative.
Reitman says that when the "Thank You for Smoking" print was assembled in Los Angeles, the scene — which comes at the end of the second reel but is preceded by a brief blackout — had been accidentally sliced off when the reels were spliced together.
The film, which is adapted from Christopher Buckley's novel, premiered at last year's Toronto International Film Festival and was sold to Fox Searchlight in a bidding war and is showing as a Sundance premiere; the movie opens in theaters March 17.
Still, Reitman found some humor — and potential box-office business — in the deletion.
"There were a couple of thousand people who saw the film at Sundance without the Katie Holmes sex scene," Reitman said. "I implore all of them to now go back and see the movie with the Katie Holmes sex scene."
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Rick Hunter
Master Film Handler
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 02-28-2006 07:25 PM
Now is seems 'The projector did it"...
'New news' today
AFP article dated 1/3/2006
quote:
'Smoking' sex scene not cut by Cruise
9:59 AM March 1
Director Jason Reitman says a projection error - not Tom Cruise - was responsible for a missing Katie Holmes sex scene during a screening of her upcoming movie, Thank You for Smoking, at the Sundance Film Festival.
"I was sitting there in the theatre, the scene was missing, and my immediate thought was, 'Oh my God, Fox cut the scene out of my movie,"' Reitman told AP Radio in an interview.
"And then I realised, 'No, if it's at the end of the reel, the projector probably just accidentally cut it out."'
Some blamed Cruise, Holmes' fiance, speculating that he had pressured Reitman, son of Ghost Busters director Ivan Reitman, to remove the scene.
"That's a fun story. I'd read that story. The problem is that it's not true," Reitman said.
"The problem with 'projection error' is that it's the truth but it sounds like a lie. It sounds an awful lot like 'wardrobe malfunction."'
"Wardrobe malfunction" was the term used to explain what happened when Justin Timberlake revealed Janet Jackson's right breast during the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl.
Holmes, 27, and Cruise, 43, have been engaged since June. They announced her pregnancy in October.
Aaron Eckhart stars with Holmes, Maria Bello, William H Macy and Sam Elliott in Thank You for Smoking, adapted from Christopher Buckley's satiric novel about a tobacco-industry spin doctor.
Reitman said more people probably know about his movie because the scene went missing.
"The most likely reason that they would have heard of it is because of the sex scene," he said.
The filmmaker also said Holmes' sex scene is as tame as anything you'd see on the Disney Channel.
Thank You for Smoking - with the sex scene - is slated for limited release in the US on March 17
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