Steamy sex scene with Katie Holmes mystically disappeared from her new movie presented at Sundance Film Festival.

At a screening for his new comedy, Thank You for Smoking, director Jason Reitman was shocked to discover that a 12-second sex scene Katie Holmes' journalist character and a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart had disappeared from the movie.

"We were sitting there in shock," the movie's writer-director told the Los Angeles Times quoted by E! Online.

"And I turned to other people who had worked on the film, and were completely confused. But the audience didn't seem to notice or care."

The steamy sex scene between Katie Holmes and Aaron Eckhart's characters were in the version screened at last fall's Toronto Film Festival.

Following the screening, Ivan Reitman immediately addressed the audience, which included Katie Holmes and Aaron Eckhart, explaining that the scene was missing and "something went wrong with the reel."

Several publications claimed that the missing scene disappeared because of Katie Holmes' fiance, Tom Cruise.

Us Weekly quoted an insider as saying "industry people started whispering that Tom Cruise didn't want the scene in there because it was dirtier than he was comfortable with."

Tom Cruise himself was said to have skipped the screening and enjoyed some skiing instead, according to TMZ.com. His camp denied that Tom Cruise has anything with the edit.

Anyway, Ivan Reitman said he plans to restore the sex scene with katie Holmes when Thank You for Smoking hits the theaters in March. 

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