Projector to blame for missing Katie Holmes sex scene

Director Jason Reitmansays 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.

"I was sitting in the theatre, the scene was missing, and my immediate thought was, 'Oh my God, Fox cut the scene out of my movie,"' Reitman said. "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 he had pressured Reitman to remove the scene.

"That's a fun 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 like 'wardrobe malfunction."'

Reitman said more people probably know about his movie because of the missing scene.