So Factory Girl REALLY does suck.
“FACTORY Girl” – the hotly anticipated movie about 1960s “It Girl” Edie Sedgwick and the Andy Warhol scene – is having such a hard time getting off the assembly line, it won’t even be released in New York until sometime next year.
The Weinstein Company had invited New York critics to a screening of the unfinished movie this week, but then disinvited them when the producers learned they wouldn’t be eligible for awards from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Only pictures released in New York are eligible for the local honors, and Weinstein is rushing to open “Factory Girl” in Los Angeles before the end of the year to qualify for the ultimate goal – the Academy Awards.
“I feel somewhere between angered and dis-invested,” movie industry blogger Jeffrey Wells said. “I’ve been feeling something genuine for this film for the last four months, but the handling of it over the last 24 to 36 hours has been erratic and close to embarrassing.”
The movie, which stars Sienna Miller as the drug-doomed Edie and Guy Pearce as the platinum-wigged Warhol, has been vexed by so many problems and delays that director George Hickenlooper has been pushed aside, sources say.
Page Six previously reported that the crew was forced to reshoot some of the Pittsburgh scenes (or as Miller fondly called it, “S – - – sburgh”) in New York.
One New Yorker who was asked to appear in the film said he was shocked it’s already being screened because shooting hasn’t even wrapped: “They’ve got me on hold for more scenes next week.”
Scott Pellegrino, who promotes events through Popdebate.com, attended a “Factory Girl” screening on Thursday and said it was “well-received.” Another viewer said Miller’s performance is “brilliant.” Pellegrino’s one complaint was that “uber-WASP” Hayden Christensen was cast instead of a Jewish actor as the Bob Dylan-based character.
Weinstein Company rep Sarah Rothman told us New Yorkers will finally get to see the movie in February when it opens nationwide – unless it gets delayed.
