The release of Woody Allen's next movie A Rainy Day in New York is reportedly up in the air amid renewed sexual abuse allegations.
The Academy Award-winning filmmaker's adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has recently come forward once again with claims that she was molested at age 7 by Allen amid the growing #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
Those allegations were first made by Allen's former partner Mia Farrow back in the early 1990s and several times since then, with the director always strongly denying their validity and carrying on his successful career.
However, public sentiment has seemingly started shifting in the current climate. In the last month, A Rainy Day in New York stars Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Hall have both promised to donate their fees to #MeToo-related charities.
Their co-star Selena Gomez's mother has claimed that she tried (and failed) to dissuade the actress from working with Allen on A Rainy Day in New York as well.
Now, the New York Post quotes one unnamed Hollywood executive in claiming that A Rainy Day in New York will either be shelved entirely, or be released online by producer Amazon with no promotion. Amazon isn't commenting.
When Dylan Farrow came forward earlier this month with her first-ever interview, Allen responded: "When this claim was first made more than 25 years ago, it was thoroughly investigated by both the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of the Yale-New Haven Hospital and New York State child welfare.
"They both did so for many months and independently concluded that no molestation had ever taken place. Instead, they found it likely a vulnerable child had been coached to tell the story by her angry mother during a contentious breakup.
"Dylan's older brother Moses has said that he witnessed their mother doing exactly that – relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator. It seems to have worked – and, sadly, I'm sure Dylan truly believes what she says.
"But even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time's Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn't make it any more true today than it was in the past. I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago."
A Rainy Day in New York had caused controversy even before Hollywood announced its #TimesUp movement to curb sexual misconduct in the industry because of its plot depicting a romance between a married 44-year-old man (Jude Law) and a 15-year-old girl (Elle Fanning).
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