Billionaire Boys Club has already hit VOD.
In October last year, actor Anthony Rapp alleged that Kevin Spacey had made sexual advances on him when he was 14-years-old.
In the aftermath of this, Netflix announced that Spacey would be removed from the sixth and final season of House of Cards where he played the main character, Frank Underwood. The show will continue though with Robin Wright in the lead role as President Claire Underwood.
Ridley Scott also reshot scenes for his crime thriller All The Money In The World, replacing Spacey with Christopher Plumber.
No such changes were made however to the true-life drama Billionaire Boys Club, based on the real story of a Ponzi scheme run by a group of rich kids in 1980s LA.
The film stars Ansel Elgort, Taron Egerton and Emma Roberts, with Spacey in a supporting role as a Beverly Hills high-roller.
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The film received a quiet opening in America on Friday, only ten screens across the country were screening it, and it made a minuscule $126 on its opening day. That’s only $12.60 per cinema – the average cinema ticket price is the US is around $9, suggesting some screens had only one person, or even none, watching the film. Hollywood Reporter state that Billionaire Boys Club the film could struggle to hit $1,000 across the full weekend.
Billionaire Boys Club was filmed back in 2015, before any of the allegations against Spacey were made public.
In a statement, distributors Vertical Entertainment defended their decision to release the film with Spacey’s scenes left intact.
“We hope these distressing allegations pertaining to one person’s behaviour — that were not publicly known when the film was made almost two-and-a-half years ago and from someone who has a small, supporting role in Billionaire Boys Club — does not tarnish the release of the film,” the statement said. “In the end, we hope audiences make up their own minds as to the reprehensible allegations of one person’s past, but not at the expense of the entire cast and crew present on this film.”
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