Fox Confronts Sex Case Before Releasing ‘Birth of Nation’

Deadline: Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” has been considered a front-runner film in the Oscar race. But memories of 17-year-old rape charges against both Parker and Jean McGianni Celestin (who shares co-story credit) while they were roommates at Penn State in 1999 left Fox Searchlight in full crisis mode these past weeks.