You’d have thought that streaming services would be immune from the wide-ranging release date shuffles that have afflicted virtually every major studio at least once since the onset of the pandemic era, but Netflix has added A Family Affair to its list of high-profile originals being taken off the board.
The star-studded romantically-tinged drama boasts Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King, and Kathy Bates among its supremely talented ensemble, with genre veteran Richard LaGravenese returning to an arena he knows all too well. When Netflix announced its schedule of in-house features for 2023, it was revealed that A Family Affair would debut on November 17, but that’s no longer the case.
What’s on Netflix reached out to the company and was told that the film was in fact no longer arriving on the date earmarked previously, with its current bow deemed as being “in flux.” Of course, that’s not the first time such a fate has befallen a buzzy title, with Millie Bobby Brown’s dragon-slaying fantasy epic Damsel and Kevin Hart’s heist caper Lift also being taken off the 2023 calendar and pushed into next year.
There’s no word as to how or why A Family Affair has followed suit, but seeing as it’s a Netflix-backed production with a glitzy and glamorous cast to complement a story that has the potential to steam up screens everywhere as Efron’s movie star falls for the mother of his young assistant, it’ll be guaranteed success from the second it’s finally made available to subscribers anyway.
