Screen Gems And Miramax Round Out Cast For Comedy "the Wedding Ringer"

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Screen Gems and Miramax are in production in Los Angeles on the comedy "The Wedding Ringer" starring Kevin Hart, Josh Gad and Kaley Cuoco.

Joining Hart, Gad and Cuoco in supporting roles are Affion Crockett ("A Haunted House"), Jorge Garcia ("Lost"), Dan Gill ("The Great Gatsby"), Corey Holcomb ("Who's Watching the Kids"), Ken Howard ("Michael Clayton"), Colin Kane ("Lift"), Cloris Leachman ("Raising Hope"), Jenifer Lewis ("Think Like a Man"), Alan Ritchson ("The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"), Mimi Rogers ("Two and a Half Men"), Ignacio Serricchio ("The Young and the Restless"), Aaron Takahashi ("Yes Man"), Olivia Thirlby ("Juno"), and Nicky Whelan ("Hall Pass").

Jeremy Garelick (writer of "The Break-Up") is directing "The Wedding Ringer" from a screenplay he wrote with Jay Lavender ("The Break-Up"), which was developed at Miramax.

Miramax's Adam Fields ("Limitless") and Will Packer ("Think Like a Man") are producing the film. Screen Gems' President, Clint Culpepper, is overseeing the production on behalf of Screen Gems.

In "The Wedding Ringer," Jimmy (Hart) provides best man services for socially challenged guys, who – for whatever reason – have no one close enough to agree to stand by them on the day of their wedding.  Doug (Gad) a groom-to-be, has found himself in just such a situation, but, to make matters worse, he fabricates the names of not only a best man but nine groomsmen as well.  When all else fails, Doug seeks out Jimmy's services to carry out a charade designed to make Doug look his best, but threatens to destroy everything if it fails.

ABOUT SCREEN GEMS
Screen Gems is the specialty production division at Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was created to finance and produce moderately budgeted films that are marketed to targeted audiences.

ABOUT MIRAMAX
Miramax is a leading worldwide film and television studio with a library of more than 700 motion pictures. The Miramax library holds some of the world's most original and acclaimed independent films including Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, The English Patient, No Country for Old Men, Kill Bill Volumes I and II, Life is Beautiful, Reservoir Dogs, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Cinema Paradiso and My Left Foot – as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, Bad Santa, and the Scream, Hellraiser, Scary Movie and Spy Kids franchises. Collectively, the Miramax library has received 284 Academy Award® nominations and 68 Oscars®, including four Best Picture awards.

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SOURCE Screen Gems