Kevin Spacey film ‘Billionaire Boys Club’ to be released in August; was shot before actor accused of sexual misconduct.<\/b>
\nKevin Spacey was erased from \u00ab\u00a0All the Money in the World\u00a0\u00bb and booted from \u00ab\u00a0House of Cards,\u00a0\u00bb but a movie starring the disgraced actor is going forward with a summer release.
Vertical Entertainment announced that it will release \u00ab\u00a0Billionaire Boys Club\u00a0\u00bb on video-on-demand on July 17 and in theaters August 17. The film is about young wealthy men in Los Angeles who run a Ponzi scheme. It stars Ansel Elgort, Taron Egerton and Spacey.
\u00ab\u00a0Billionaire Boys Club\u00a0\u00bb was shot in 2015, before Spacey was accused last fall of sexual assault and inappropriate behavior by numerous people. Spacey apologized to one accuser, \u00ab\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0\u00bb actor Anthony Rapp, who said Spacey tried to force himself on Rapp in the 1980s. At the time, Rapp was 14.
\u00ab\u00a0We don’t condone sexual harassment on any level and we fully support victims of it,\u00a0\u00bb the film distributor said in a statement. \u00ab\u00a0At the same time, this is neither an easy nor insensitive decision to release this film in theaters, but we believe in giving the cast, as well as hundreds of crew members who worked hard on the film, the chance to see their final product reach audiences.\u00a0\u00bb
Other companies have elected to remove Spacey entirely from their productions.
After shooting was completed but before the film was released, Sony Pictures and director Ridley Scott chose to reshoot large parts of \u00ab\u00a0All the Money in the World\u00a0\u00bb with Christopher Plummer in Spacey’s role. \u00ab\u00a0House of Cards\u00a0\u00bb producer Media Rights Capital, opted to move forward with a sixth and final season of \u00ab\u00a0House of Cards,\u00a0\u00bb but without Spacey. Netflix scrapped a Gore Vidal biopic starring Spacey.<\/p>\n

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