14 Jan 2014 11:28 PM PT
By Anita Bennett on December 14, 2014 @ 9:41 am
Josh Gad and Kevin Hart in The Wedding Ringer Image: Screen Gems
Interviews with the comedian were set to take place this weekend in Los Angeles.
Kevin Hart‘s upcoming comedy “The Wedding Ringer” is the latest casualty of the Sony hacking scandal.
The press junket for the film was set to take place this weekend in Los Angeles but Sony’s Screen Gems decided to pull the plug at the last minute.
A broadcast journalist who was slated to attend the junket told TheWrap he learned about the cancellation just one day in advance. “We all got emails,” he said. “We were told that the junket would be in January at some time. No date was given.”
Meanwhile, the New York Daily News reported that it was scheduled to interview Hart Sunday but was told by Sony reps that the studio was pushing the junket because it wanted to “focus on the movie,” not the email hacking scandal.
This latest development comes after documents obtained by Defamer revealed a March email thread between Sony executives Amy Pascal, Michael Lynton and Screen Gems President Clint Culpepper, in which Hart was called a “Whore.”
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“The Wedding Ringer,” which co-stars Josh Gad and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, is set to open on January 16. Despite the press junket being canceled, Hart took to Twitter Sunday to assure fans that the promotional campaign is shifting into high gear.