Never mind the Weinsteins’ wacky plans to release a PG-13 version of “The King’s Speech” minus the F-bombs — what I want to know is if they’re secretly warehousing another, more embarassing Colin Firth film until after the Oscars.
I’m taking about “St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold,” a sequel to the lowbrow 2007 comedy remake that reunited a stammering Firth with a cross-dressing Rupert Everett.
The first film had a limited release in the U.S. in October 2009, two months before the sequel opened in the U.K. The latter date — December 2009 — was around the same the Weinsteins opened their last Firth film, “A Single Man” in the U.S.
Are those wily Weinsteins — remembering what happened to Eddie Murphy’s Oscar campaign for “Dreamgirls” after the egregious “Norbit” hit theaters — secretly holding “St. Trinian’s 2” out of the U.S. until the Oscars are safely over? For the morbidly curious, the film, which got a scathing 10 percent positive rating from British critics at Rotten Tomatoes, is available as a Region 2 import on DVD at Amazon.