Presumed Oscar front-runner 'Birth of a Nation' runs into problems

Eight months ago, director Nate Parker's movie "The Birth of a Nation" was already being acclaimed as a 2017 Oscar front-runner with its powerful story of a 19th century slave rebellion. Movie studio Fox Searchlight says it is standing by the movie, which will get its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month, despite speculation in Hollywood that the re-surfacing of the case could impact the film's marketing, and its Oscar chances. The victim has not been named but her brother told Hollywood trade paper Variety this week that his sister was haunted by the incident that took place while she and Parker were at Penn State university in 1999 and subsequently took her own life.

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