Fox Searchlight has cancelled a planned screening of Oscar contender Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri at a Texas-based festival following a sexual assault controversy.
“In light of recent events, the makers of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri have decided not to participate in Fantastic Fest,” a rep for Fox Searchlight said in a statement.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which has screened at film festivals in Venice and Toronto in the past fortnight, follows Frances McDormand’s Mildred Hayes, a woman seeking justice for her raped and murdered daughter after months go by without an arrest.
Other awards contenders set to be screened at Fantastic Fest include The Killing of a Sacred Deer (A24), Downsizing (Paramount) and Palme d’Or-winner The Square (Magnolia).