The movie was originally made by The Weinstein Company, but plans for its theatrical distribution were put on hold following the exposure of the crimes committed by company co-founder Harvey Weinstein.
For The War With Grandpa, these numbers can probably be considered a win both because of the extreme circumstances under which its been released and the project’s long history.
101 Studios picked up both it and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War in the aftermath, and while the latter was released last October, the Home Alone-esque comedy was kept on the shelf until 2020.
If you watched the film and felt like Robert De Niro perhaps looked a bit younger than he did in, say, Todd Phillips’ Joker, it’s because the movie was filmed back in 2017.