Kevin Spacey’s latest film flew under the radar

Kevin Spacey’s new movie hit theaters last weekend. So why didn’t you heard anything about it?

The two-time Oscar winner has essentially been excommunicated from Hollywood after more than a dozen men and teen boys came forward last fall with accusations of sexual harassment and assault, including “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp, who says Spacey made sexual advances on him when he was just 14.

Since then, Spacey has been fired from his hit Netflix series “House of Cards,” which will end with a sixth and final season starring Robin Wright this fall. He also was wiped entirely from “All the Money in the World” after director Ridley Scott made the decision to recast him with Christopher Plummer and reshoot scenes just seven weeks before the film’s release in December. The move paid off for Plummer, who netted an Oscar nomination for supporting actor for his portrayal of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.

Netflix similarly dropped “Gore,” a Spacey-led Gore Vidal biopic that was set for release this year, which could make the new “Billionaire Boys Club” the actor’s last big- or small-screen outing.

The movie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, co-stars Ansel Elgort (“Baby Driver”) and Taron Egerton (the “Kingsman” movies), and it has earned just 13 percent positive reviews from critics, according to Rotten Tomatoes. (Forty-two percent of moviegoers gave it a thumbs-up.)

The film was dumped on video-ondemand and digital platforms such as iTunes and Amazon in July and opened Friday in a handful of theaters.

The Hollywood Reporter says the film earned just $287 in the U.S. on Friday and Saturday, though distributor Vertical Entertainment hasn’t released weekend numbers. According to Box Office Mojo, “Billionaire Boys Club” has earned $1.5 million internationally.

“We don’t condone sexual harassment on any level and we fully support victims of it,” Vertical Entertainment said in a statement.

“At the same time, this is neither an easy nor insensitive decision to release this film in theaters . ... 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.”

So is “Billionaire” really as bad as its reviews and cagey release suggest? Short answer: no, but it may be something even worse – forgettable. The movie is based on the real Billionaire Boys Club, a group of wealthy young men in 1980s Los Angeles who ran a Ponzi scheme and wound up involved with investor Ron Levin (Spacey).

As played by Spacey, Ron is smoothtalking and flamboyant, splurging money he doesn’t have on tailored suits and a Rolls-Royce. He is a mentor to burgeoning scammers Joe Hunt (Elgort) and Dean Karny (Egerton).

There are occasional uncomfortable moments, given the allegations against Spacey. Levin, who was gay, surrounds himself with handsome young men and leeringly gazes at Joe throughout their first meeting at his mansion.

Still, Spacey makes for a convincing, charismatic bad guy, and the film suffers when he’s not onscreen, as his co-stars spout cliches about money, women and how to get them both.

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