Olivier Dahan’s (La Vie en Rose) Grace of Monaco biopic, starring Nicole Kidman will no longer be released this March, and it’s unclear when will it be put back on the release map. This decision doesn’t come as a total surprise, as the film was originally supposed to be release by Oscar season, but was pushed away because it wasn’t finished, or so does The Weinstein Company say but this opinion isn’t shared by Dahan and here lies the issue.
Dahan says that the film is more
then finished and that there are currently two films, his and the Weinstein’s,
which according to the director is “catastrophic”. But the problems are much
deeper than this and perhaps this is why the film has been pulled from the 2014
calendar.
"It's right to struggle, but
when you confront an American distributor like Weinstein, not to name names,
there is not much you can do, either you say 'Go figure it out with your pile
of shit' or you brace yourself so the blackmail isn't as violent … If I don't
sign, that's where the out-and-out blackmail starts, but I could go that far.
There are two versions of the film for now: mine and his … which I find
catastrophic." Said the director in an interview back in October of last
year.
This isn’t unheard of, as you may
recall there is also the current “battle” between the Weinstein’s and director Bong
Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which rumor as it needs to have cut 20 minutes or so for
the American audiences. Joon-ho already has come forward and said he wasn’t
pleased with the idea or the experience he was having with the company.
Regardless of any harsh words, no
official reason has been given as to why the film was suddenly dropped from the
scheduled.
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