Paramount Removes Lee Daniels’ ‘Billie Holiday’ From Schedule As Pic Heads To Hulu; Dates Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’
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deadline.comParamount made it official tonight that Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday is off their theatrical release schedule.
We first told you on Christmas Eve that the movie was headed over to Hulu, however, it wasn’t clear at that time whether Paramount would still wind up handling theatrical.
Doesn’t look that way, and I hear the studio was far down the road in cutting trailers and printing marketing materials. Earlier today, notes to journalists were sent around about the pic being officially pushed by Hulu for the current awards season.
Paramount was planning a Feb. 26 release.New Slate Ventures, the financier of Billie Holiday, was in need of monetizing the film, and a Hulu sale was the better option for them versus a
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