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by McCrutchy » Thu Nov 30, 2017 1:32 am
I think for me, it's going to be very interesting to see what happens between now and the Oscar nominations and ceremony in March 2018. I think if the abuse cases had stopped at Weinstein and Spacey, we would be looking at this film getting some attention, but as the Hollywood sexual harassment scandals have dragged on, and continued to implicate very powerful people in entertainment (like Matt Lauer, who was fired from NBC News yesterday), I think this movie, destined as it is to be forever linked with these scandals, is pretty much dead in the water.
Maybe the HFPA will give it some love at the Globes, and maybe there will be one or two nominations at the Oscars or BAFTAs if some aspect turns out to be really amazingly well done. But after what we have seen this fall, I wonder if there aren't many people in the industry who now just want this film to go away.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it is quietly shuffled in and out of theaters, and then dropped onto UHD/Blu-ray (or maybe even just Blu-ray) in a stuffed release week.
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McCrutchy on Thu Nov 30, 2017 1:35 am, edited 1 time in total.