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Coming to a theater near you: Al Sharpton.

Hollywood came to the Rev. Al Thursday as embattled Sony exec Amy Pascal met privately with the black leader for 90 minutes in a bid to fix the fallout from the cyberhacking leak of embarrassing, racially charged emails.

Pascal agreed to let Sharpton have a say in how Sony makes motion pictures, in an effort to combat what he called inflexible and immovable racial exclusion in Hollywood.

We have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in Hollywood, said Sharpton.

He said Sony would work closely with his National Action Network,the National Urban League, the NAACP and the Black Womens Round Table to see if we can come up with an immediate plan to deal with it.

The meeting, held behind closed doors at the Greenwich Hotel, also included National Urban League president Marc Morial.

Our interest is seeing to it that Sony is on the right side of changing Hollywood, Morial said.

Sharpton called the conversation candid but stopped short of calling for Pascals head after she was exposed making racist remarks about President Obama with Hollywood producer Scott Rudin.

So the jury is still out on where we go with Amy, Sharpton said. We clearly are willing to deal with an immediate formula to see where we deal with breaking down the walls of inflexible and so far immovable racial exclusion in Hollywood.

He was mum on the exact details of the plan to work with Sony but added, We are not going to be satisfied until we see something concrete done.

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Sharpton to have say over how Sony makes movies