Woody Allen is again, even when few in Hollywood are completely happy about it.

The legendary director’s fiftieth movie, “Coup de Chance,” debuted on the Venice Movie Competition. The drama is incomes strong opinions thus far, but it surely received’t play in any U.S.-based pageant and will battle to succeed in a single stateside theater.

And everyone knows why.

Hollywood, which as soon as ignored allegations that Allen sexually molested daughter Dylan Farrow. turned on the auteur throughout the MeToo motion’s peak. No new proof modified their minds. The cultural movement modified, and the business went together with it.

The identical actors who flocked to his film units for many years, typically incomes Oscars for his or her hassle, all of the sudden turned on Allen. Some apologized for showing in his movies. Others donated their salaries to assuage their guilt.

Allen, 87, stored on making movies, besides he largely works exterior the U.S. and casts from a smaller pool of recognizable expertise.

You would say he’s been “canceled,” besides Allen dismisses the notion.

I don’t know what it means to be canceled. I do know that over time all the pieces has been the identical for me. I make my films. What has modified is the presentation of the movies. You already know, I work and it’s the identical routine for me. I write the script, elevate the cash, make the movie, shoot it, edit it, it comes out. The distinction isn’t from cancel tradition. The distinction is the way in which they current the movies.

Name it what you want, it’s clear Allen’s iconic profession is over by no fault of his abilities or age. Doubts stay in regards to the prices in query, however he’s gone by the authorized course of and are available out clear.

It’s simply not “hip” to embrace Allen at this time – very like Hollywood lastly turned on Roman Polanski regardless of giving the admitted youngster rapist a standing ovation on the 2003 Oscars ceremony.

But Hollywood is completely happy to do enterprise with Ezra Miller, the “Flash” star accused in two separate grooming episodes together with different violent confrontations.

Had the summer time movie made a fortune Warner Bros. Discovery appeared desirous to work with Miller once more.

Alec Baldwin by accident shot and killed a cinematographer on the 2021 set of “Rust” and stored on working. That’s regardless of fears his actions as a producer on the movie performed an element within the tragedy, to not point out his accountability in dealing with a firearm within the most secure means potential.

That doesn’t embody his previous habits, involving harassment, accusations of homosexual and racist feedback and his potential #MeToo misbehavior.

“I certainly have treated women in a very sexist way. I’ve bullied women. I’ve overlooked women. I’ve underestimated women. Not as a rule,” he mentioned. “From time to time, I’ve done what a lot of men do, which is … when you don’t treat women the same way you treat men. You don’t. I’m from a generation where you really don’t and I’d like that to change. I really would like that to change.”

If that’s what he admitted with out being pressured or accused, his actions may need been worse.

Baldwin even resumed manufacturing on “Rust” after the deadly accident.

Let’s not overlook Roseanne Barr.

The caustic comedian fired off one ugly, racially-charged Tweet and watched her Hollywood profession come crashing down round her.

Hollywood morality is a humorous factor, however few are laughing about it. Polanski’s monstrous actions had been ignored till it wasn’t hip to maintain doing so. The accusations towards Allen didn’t give Hollywood, Inc. pause till #MeToo woke many artists as much as the monstrous actions of some business predators.

Barr bought canceled as a result of she crossed the tradition’s third rail – race – and embraced President Donald Trump.

Mockingly, it was the person who inadvertently kick-started the MeToo motion who might have summed it up finest.

“Hollywood has the best moral compass because it has compassion,” mentioned Harvey Weinstein in 2009, a part of his effort to free Polanski from being ostracized by his business for the director’s “so-called crime.”