Disney, Paltrow Compromise
Huey to Sing on Big Screen After All
The Hollywood Reporter
The Walt Disney Co. has decided to release Bruce Paltrow's Duets, which stars his daughter Gwyneth, after the filmmaker agreed to cut 10 minutes from it.
Disney execs, who pulled the film from its original May 5 release because it disapproved of two violent scenes they felt took the audience out of the movie, plans to debut the film at the Toronto film festival in September. It will subsequently give "Duets" a limited release under its Hollywood Pictures banner, opening the film in New York and Los Angeles.
One insider who had seen the new cut of the film said the two scenes in question are still in the film, "but there are no squib hits. There is no blood. You see him get hit, but that's all. The only blood you see now is at the end of the film."
One of the scenes that disturbed Disney executives was about halfway through the movie, when a convenience store clerk is shot. Instead of showing the bleeding wound, the scene now fades out. The second scene was near the end of the film, when one of the characters is shot multiple times while performing karaoke on stage. With the current cut, the audience doesn't see the squib hits in the second scene, but there is blood.
Thanks to Stephen Clark of www.bttf.com (Back to the Future).
