The Wedding Ringer (2015) Movie

Plot: Jimmy [Hart] owns a wedding company and provides best man services for socially awkward guys who don't have anyone close enough to be their best man. Doug (Gad) a groom-to-be, finds himself in that situation, but he also fabricates the names of nine other groomsmen as well. When all else fails, Doug seeks out Jimmy’s help to plan a charade designed to make Doug look his best, but threatens to destroy everything if it doesn't work.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. - With its flickering New York skyline, the nearly extinct Miramax Films logo will appear again in theaters next month on “The Wedding Ringer” - a comedy that actually belongs to Screen Gems, the ambitious genre films unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

It is the kind of tale that movie producers like to tell over

chopped salad and iced tea on the balcony of Soho House, a members-only hangout on the edge of the Sunset Strip. But unlike most of Hollywood’s insider yarns, this one ends on a high note. That is because “The Wedding Ringer,” which seemed to die with the collapse of production at Miramax in 2009, is set for release Jan. 16, in time for the film-friendly Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, with Kevin Hart and Josh Gad in lead roles.

The movie is produced by Will Packer and Adam Fields. Mr. Packer has often worked with Mr. Hart. But it is Mr. Fields who managed to wring a broad Sony comedy — think “Wedding Crashers” meets “Bridesmaids,” if Kristen Wiig and pals were guys — from a script that was buried in a New Jersey warehouse with 18,000 boxes of paperwork that accompanied Miramax when Walt Disney sold it to a consortium of financiers in 2010.