TWC finally puts 'Three Generations' back on schedule
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Elle Fanning
pmfg_pan — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 12:24 PM)
Weinstein Co. Finally Puts Transgender Teen Drama 'Three Generations' Back on Schedule
Nearly 18 months after abruptly pulling
Three Generations
from its release schedule, The Weinstein Co. has put the Elle Fanning-led transgender drama back on the calendar.
TWC will release the Gaby Dellal-helmed film, which also stars Naomi Watts and Susan Sarandon, on May 19, where it will open against such wide releases as
Alien: Covenant
,
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
and
Everything, Everything
.
In September 2015, TWC pulled the film, then titled
About Ray
, from its schedule just days before it was set to open in select theaters. The move raised eyebrows given that the company had aggressively pursued the film and bought it for $6 million at the Cannes market in May 2015.
About Ray
was scheduled to begin rolling out Sept. 18, 2015, following its bow at the Toronto Film Festival, but Harvey Weinstein's company decided to shift course. At the time, TWC sources said the film would be bumped to later that year for an Oscar-qualifying run. But that never materialized, leaving the film in limbo.
About Ray
centers on a New York teenager (Fanning) who decides to transition from female to male, and how he copes with the reaction of his mother (Watts) and gay grandmother (Sarandon).
Big Beach's Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf produced alongside Dorothy Berwin.
CAA and ICM repped the Cannes sale and have been working to get the film its contractually obligated theatrical release over the past year and a half.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/weinstein-finally-puts-transgender-teen-drama-three-generations-back-schedule-973463 -
StarSassy — 9 years ago(February 14, 2017 09:18 AM)
Is there a reason it was never released? Is it because of the topic of the film because or the fact it got mixed reviews?
Opening at the same time as Alien: Covenant? Perhaps not the best time for this film to be released. -
pmfg_pan — 9 years ago(February 14, 2017 10:58 AM)
Is there a reason it was never released? Is it because of the topic of the film because or the fact it got mixed reviews?
I think it's because of the mixed reviews. They probably realized that this is not an Oscar contender and therefore were pondering as to when to realize it.
It's interesting that when
About Ray
premiered at TIFF, a lot of people complained that the movie is not really about Ray. I think they corrected this problem when they re-edited the movie. At least I got that impression after watching the film, because I thought that it was clearly about Ray. So it's really funny that they now are back to calling it
Three Generations
. They really don't seem to know what to do with this movie.
Opening at the same time as Alien: Covenant? Perhaps not the best time for this film to be released.
Alien: Covenant
has a completely different target audience than
Three Generations
. So I don't think this will be a problem.