{"id":37840,"date":"2025-07-31T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37840\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:00:11","slug":"eddie-huang-says-mubi-has-shelved-his-vice-is-broke-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37840\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Huang Says Mubi Has \u201cShelved\u201d His \u2018Vice Is Broke\u2019 Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFilmmaker Eddie Huang<\/a> said Thursday that his latest project, the documentary Vice Is Broke<\/a>, has been \u201cshelved\u201d by its distributor Mubi<\/a> because he publicly backed criticism of the company\u2019s ties to the private equity firm Sequoia Capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a post shared today on Instagram, Huang said he received a call from the distributor\/streamer and was told the company had \u201cceased all promotion\u201d and \u201cshelved the film.\u201d Huang said he was told he and the film\u2019s producers \u201ccan buy it back from us if you want. Otherwise, no one\u2019s gonna see the film.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHuang said the decision was made to make an \u201cexample\u201d of him after he publicly supported an open letter published Wednesday by a group of Mubi-affiliated filmmakers calling on the company to reconsider its investment from Sequoia<\/a>, which has close ties to an Israeli defense-tech start-up. In today\u2019s post, Huang said that prior to the call from Mubi, he had already told the distributor he would not participate in the promotion of the film in protest of the company\u2019s deal with Sequoia.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know I did the right thing. I\u2019m not gonna be gaslit into thinking I didn\u2019t. Sometimes in life, you just gotta say no,\u201d Huang added, before asking his followers, and any political organizers, for support.\u00a0You can watch the full video below.<\/p>\n

\n\tMubi denied Huang\u2019s claims in a short statement sent to Deadline, and reinforced its commitment to bringing the title to audiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMubi has not shelved Vice Is Broke. We are in constructive discussions with the filmmaker and producers about the film\u2019s release on Mubi, and will share further updates as those conversations progress,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

\n\tMubi, a longtime favorite of auteurs and young cinephiles, has received substantial public criticism since it was announced in May that Sequoia had invested $100 million in the company. The Silicon Valley-based private equity firm has investments in a wide range of companies, from Apple to ByteDance, and has close ties to defense-tech startup Kela, founded in 2024 by a group of Israeli intelligence veterans in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. Reports have said Kela is currently developing a battlefield operating system that will enable military units to integrate AI and commercial tech.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen controversy over the Sequoia Capital investment first broke in June, Mubi said in a statement <\/a>posted on Instagram that it had entered into the partnership \u201cto accelerate\u201d its \u201cmission of delivering bold and visionary films to global audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt added that Sequoia\u2019s investments did \u201cnot reflect the views of Mubi.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe take the feedback from our community very seriously, and are steadfast in remaining an independent founder-led company,\u201d the company said at the time.<\/p>\n

Mubi picked up Vice Is Broke in February in a multi-territory deal that included North America, Latin America, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Benelux, Turkey and India. The film examines the rise and fall of Vice Media, which filed for bankruptcy in June 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Eddie Huang said Thursday that his latest project, the documentary Vice Is Broke, has been \u201cshelved\u201d by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,27668,75,337,27669,27670],"class_list":["post-37840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eddie-huang","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-mubi","tag-vice-is-broke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}