Over the past decade, the AFI Film Festival has grown into something of an x-factor in the thick of award season. Similar to the earlier New York Film Festival, the Hollywood event has hosted late-breaking world premieres of films that have gone on to awards berths or major box office success, from “Selma” to “The Big Short,” “American Sniper,” “Moana,” “The Fighter” and “Lincoln.” This year the festival, which runs from Nov. 9-16 at the Tcl Chinese Theatre, initially planned to close with a first screening of Ridley Scott’s “All the Money in the World.”
After a flood of sexual assault allegations surfaced involving Kevin Spacey — who portrayed J. Paul Getty in the film — Scott and Sony Pictures pulled the film, and now plan to reshoot it with Christopher Plummer in Spacey’s place. Yet even before this shocking sequence of events, AFI was already embracing a different approach.
“By not really focusing on premieres,...
After a flood of sexual assault allegations surfaced involving Kevin Spacey — who portrayed J. Paul Getty in the film — Scott and Sony Pictures pulled the film, and now plan to reshoot it with Christopher Plummer in Spacey’s place. Yet even before this shocking sequence of events, AFI was already embracing a different approach.
“By not really focusing on premieres,...
- 11/9/2017
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety - Film News
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