Rebel Wilson’s ‘The Deb’ Set As TIFF Closing-Night Pic Despite Filmmaker Uproar; ‘Nutcrackers’ With Ben Stiller Opening Fest
deadline.comRebel Wilson‘s The Deb will close the Toronto Film Festival on September 15 after all. This is after the actress claimed on social media that the pic’s EPs blocked her feature directorial debut from making its world premiere as the closing-night title at TIFF.
Meanwhile, David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers with Ben Stiller is set to open the fest on September 5. Wilson on July 10 took to social to bash her backers for getting in the way of her feature musical’s debut at TIFF, saying for them to “turn around and say that no, the movie can’t premiere, is just beyond devastating.” She claimed in her post that the business partners Amanda Ghost and Gregory Cameron had “bad behavior.” “And so I said, reported, I guess you would say, their bad behavior when I found out not minor things, big things, you know, inappropriate behavior towards the lead actress of the film, embezzling funds from the film’s budget, which we really needed because we’re a small movie, you know?
So kind of really important things,” she continued in her post back then. “Since I reported that behavior, I have been met with absolute viciousness and retaliatory behavior,” the actress filmmaker summed up.
A spokesperson for the producers retorted after Wilson’s soap box that her “allegations are false, defamatory, and disappointing” adding “For her to promote a false narrative to advance her own agenda undermines the film and all the people who worked on this project.” All of this makes many wonder if Wilson and EPs will all show up and hug it out.
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