Madonna: Material Girl, mother of terrifying biceps, Kabbalah enthusiast, and now...potential Oscar-winning director? It's a possibility, after reports that The Weinstein Company, which recently acquired Madonna's new movie, W.E., plans to release it "smack in the middle of Oscar season."
The movie stars Abbie Cornish as a modern-day New Yorker who becomes obsessed with the scandalous love affair of King Edward VII and American divorcee Wallis Simpson circa 1937. The Weinsteins plan to release it on December 9, a prime Oscar-baiting date. “Madonna has really come into her own as a filmmaker with W.E.," said Harvey Weinstein. "It’s a terrific addition to our US release slate." Or is it?
Madonna's first directorial attempt, Filth & Wisdom, was almost universally panned, ("This is a terrible, terrible worthless movie that you shouldn't give any time to."). Early word on W.E. has been similar: "Madonna has been a terrible actor in many, many films and now, fiercely aspirational as ever, she has graduated to being a terrible director," wrote one critic. So maybe an Oscar isn't looking likely...but it sounds like W.E. could have a long and prosperous future as a midnight cult classic in years to come.
